Cheshire Regiment - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Cheshire Regiment Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 15th Battalion Cheshire Regiment

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1916
1	19th July	AUSTIN	George Frederick	2Lt	-	22	KIA	France	Near Trones Wood, Somme	Thiepval Memorial (Pier/Face 3C/4A)	-
2	28th July	DICKINSON	Colin James Henry	2Lt	-	19	KIA	France	Near Trones Wood, Somme	Flatiron Copse Cemetery (I.I.9)	(1)
3	4th October	CHAMBERLAIN	George Herbert	2Lt	-	29	KIA	France	Near "Cannon Trench", east of Arras	Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery, Arras (I.G.31)	-
4	28th November	WOLSTENHOLME	Richard Francis	Capt	-	22	KIA	France	Near Arras	Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery, Arras (I.J.36)	-
Died in 1917
5	13th July	GLEDSDALE	Irving	Lt	-	24	KIA	France	"Bird Cage", east of Epehy	Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery (A.20)	-
6	19th August	SCHULTZ	George Edward	Capt	-	30	DOW	France	DS near "The Knoll", east of Lempire	Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery (A.19)	(2)
7	19th August	GRACE	Joseph	2Lt	-	19	KIA	France	"The Knoll", east of Lempire	Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery (A.17)	-
Died in 1918
8	24th March	HODSON	Edward Hutchinson	Lt	-	27	KIA	France	Near Maricourt, Somme	Pozieres Memorial (Panels 35/36)	-
9	24th March	KIDD	Claude Bernard	Capt	MC	21	KIA	France	Near Maricourt, Somme	Pozieres Memorial (Panels 35/36)	-
10	24th March	SMALL	Dudley Francis	Capt	-	31	KIA	France	Near Maricourt, Somme	Pozieres Memorial (Panels 35/36)	-
11	22nd April	HANFORD	Albert William	Lt	-	31	KIA	France	Aveluy Wood, Somme	Varennes Military Cemetery (II.C.2)	-
12	22nd April	MILN	George Gordon	Capt	MC	27	KIA	France	Aveluy Wood, Somme	Varennes Military Cemetery (II.C.1)	-
13	2nd June	DRESSER	Harry Jex	Major	-	33	KIA	France	Aveluy Ridge, Somme	Harponville Communal Cemetery (A.15)	-
14	16th July	WAINWRIGHT	Harry Arnold	Lt	-	29	KIA	Belgium	Mont Rouge, northwest of Locre	Abeele Aerodrome Airfield Cemetery (II.A.5)	-
15	29th September	TYSON	William Noel Dawson	Lt	-	21	KIA	Belgium	East of Zandvoorde	Zandvoorde British Cemetery (II.H.9)	(3)
16	13th October	DONE	Robert	Lt	-	27	KIA	Belgium	Near Artoishoek, south of Dadizeele	Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 61/63)	-
17	14th October	MILLER	James	Lt	-	26	KIA	Belgium	East of "Goldflake Farm", south of Dadizeele	Dadizeele New British Cemetery (IV.D.29A)	-
Died in 1919
18	2nd March	HODGES	Arthur Thomas	2Lt	-	28	DOI	UK	Gloucester	Gloucester Old Cemetery (NG.33.4804)	(4)
Notes: 1. DICKINSON was originally buried in a battlefield grave north of Favieres Wood, southwest of Guillemont and reburied in Flatiron Copse Cemetery in July 1919. 2. SCHULTZ was wounded at "The Knoll", east of Lempire on 19th August 1917. 3. TYSON was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the east of Zandvoorde and reburied in the British Cemetery there in January 1920. 4. HODGES died of influenza/pneumonia. It is believed he was on leave in UK in the process of demobilisation.

Those Officers of Other Regiments Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 15th (Service) Battalion (1st Birkenhead) Cheshire Regiment
Ref	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
1	28th February 1918	HOWELLS	George Davey	2Lt	-	22	KIA	Belgium	Near Langemarck	Cement House Cemetery (I.N.3)	(1)
2	24th March 1918	COCHRAN	Herbert Philip Gordon	Lt Col	DSO	40	KIA	France	Clery-sur-Somme, northwest of Peronne	Delville Wood Cemetery (XXIII.O.1)	(2)
3	10th April 1918	BULKELEY	Llewellyn Alfred Henry	Capt	-	38	KIA	France	Near Bouzincourt	Varennes Military Cemetery (I.M.40)	(3)
4	18th September 1918	STOTT	Walter Goodwin	Lt	-	31	KIA	Belgium	"The Mound", southeast of St Eloi	Hagle Dump Cemetery (VI.B.9)	(4)
5	20th October 1918	BROWN	James Sydney	2Lt	-	29	KIA	Belgium	Near Beekstraat, east of Courtrai	Bissegem Communal Cemetery (I.B.20)	(5)
Notes: 1. HOWELLS was detached from the Monmouthshire Regiment. 2. COCHRAN was detached from the Middlesex Regiment as Commanding Officer. He was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the west of Clery-sur-Somme and reburied in Delville Wood Cemetery in August 1921. 3. BULKELEY was detached from the Royal Army Medical Corps as Battalion Medical Officer. The Battalion War Diary states that Capt Bulkeley was killed on 9th April 1918 by a shell hitting the Battalion Aid Post. 4. STOTT was detached from the Manchester Regiment. 5. BROWN was detached from the Manchester Regiment.

Battalion History

15th (Service) Battalion (1st Birkenhead). The Battalion was formed at Birkenhead on 18th November 1914 by Alfred Bigland MP, as a "Bantam" Battalion, and assembled and concentrated at Hoylake, in the Wirral, to commence training for combat operations. The Battalion was moved to Masham, near Ripon, in June 1915 and placed under command of 105th Brigade of the 35th Division. To complete the intensive individual and collective training required for service with the BEF the Battalion was moved to the Salisbury Plain area in August 1915 and formally taken over by the War Office on 15th August 1915. On 29th January 1916 the Battalion departed Tidworth for Southampton Docks and embarked for Le Havre, arriving there the next day. The Battalion concentrated there at Sanvic Camp and then entrained on 31st January through several staging areas for a final destination at Locon, northeast of Bethune, arriving at billets there on 21st February 1916. On 27th February, the Battalion departed for Gorre and was attached to 113rd Brigade of the 38th (Welsh) Division, for initial instruction in trench warfare near Givenchy

The Battalion remained with the Division on the Western Front for duration of the war and a detailed list of 35th Division battles and engagements can be viewed here.

Regimental History

The Cheshire Regiment was formed on 1st July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms, which saw the 2 separate Battalions of the 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot re-titled to become the regular 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Regiment, with the Regimental Depot based at Chester Castle.

The 1881 reforms also added the Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVC) and Militia units within the Regimental District of the County of Cheshire to the Regimental Establishment as numbered Battalions of the Regiment. The Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVC) units were the 1st Cheshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, the 2nd (Earl of Chester's) Cheshire RVC, the 3rd Cheshire RVC, the 4th Cheshire (Cheshire and Derbyshire) RVC and the 5th Cheshire RVC. The Militia units of the Regiment were the 1st Royal Cheshire Light Infantry Militia and the 2nd Royal Cheshire Militia.

In 1908, as part of the Haldane Reforms, the Militia Battalions were reorganised and restructured forming the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion and the RVC Battalions were retitled as Battalions of the Regimental Territorial Force. The 1st Cheshire RVC became the 4th Battalion TF, the 2nd (Earl of Chester's) Cheshire RVC and the 3rd Cheshire RVC amalgamated and became the 5th (Earl of Chester's) Battalion TF, the 4th Cheshire RVC became the 6th Battalion TF and the 5th Cheshire RVC became the 7th Battalion TF.

After the Declaration of War on 4th August 1914 and up to 1st June 1918, the Cheshire Regiment had formed, disbanded or reconstituted 35 Territorial Force, Service, Garrison, Labour, Reserve, Graduated and Young Soldier Battalions.

Analysis of 15th Battalion Regimental Officer Casualties

Year	BE	FR	UK	TOTAL
1916		4		4
1917		3		3
1918	4	6		10
1919			1	1
TOTALS	4	13	1	18

Page last updated: 14th January 2026

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