Cheshire Regiment - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Cheshire Regiment Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 16th Battalion Cheshire Regiment

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1915
1	8th March	PHILIPPS	Ivor John Douglas	Capt	-	32	DOI	UK	Prenton, Birkenhead	Edinburgh (Dean or Western) Cemetery (N.N.169)	(1)
Died in 1916
2	17th July	McLAREN	Royal	2Lt	-	35	DOW	France	CCS at Sailly-le-Sec	Dive Copse British Cemetery (II.C.18)	(2)
3	19th July	STYLES	Alfred Cornwall	Lt	-	26	KIA	France	Near Waterlot Farm, Somme	Peronne Road Cemetery, Maricourt (I.F.22)	-
4	25th July	SCHOLEFIELD	Richard Powell	2Lt	-	31	DOW	France	21st CCS at Corbie	La Neuville British Cemetery (I.D.63)	(3)
5	14th November	BASKETT	Roger Mortimer	2Lt	-	21	DOW	France	CCS near Arras	Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery (I.H.60)	(4)
Died in 1917
6	17th May	WORTHINGTON	Ralph	Major	-	30	KIA	France	Pontruet, northwest of St Quentin	Chapelle British Cemetery, Holnon (III.E.4)	(5)
7	3rd June	HAMILTON	Ronald Millie	2Lt	-	25	A	France	Near Templeux la Fosse	Heudicourt Communal Cemetery Extn (A.11)	(6)
8	26th June	WOOD	Thomas Leonard	2Lt	-	32	DOW	France	Hospital in Rouen	St Sever Cemetery (Offrs.B.8.2)	(7)
9	5th September	LAWRENSON	Raymond Fitzmaurice	Lt	-	27	DOW	France	CCS at Tincourt	Tincourt New British Cemetery (I.F.1)	(8)
10	22nd October	ELLIOTT	John Dunsmoor	2Lt	MiD	25	KIA	Belgium	South of Houlthulst Forest	Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 61/63)	-
11	22nd October	McCULLOUGH	Robert James	2Lt	-	21	KIA	Belgium	South of Houlthulst Forest	Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 61/63)	-
12	1st December	JOICE	Philip Stanley	2Lt	-	30	DOW	Belgium	CCS near Proven	Dozinghem Military Cemetery (XIV.F.23)	(9)
The Battalion was disbanded in France on 6th February 1918
Notes: 1. PHILIPPS was the Assistant Recruiting Officer for the Battalion based at Birkenhead. He died of pneumonia. 2. McLAREN was wounded near Trones Wood on 16th July 1916. 3. SCHOLEFIELD was wounded near Waterlot Farm on 19th April 1916. 4. BASKETT was wounded to the northeast of Arras on 14th November 1916. 5. WORTHINGTON was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the southeast of Pontruet and reburied at Chapelle British Cemetery in August 1919. 6. HAMILTON accidentally shot himself with his revolver. 7. WOOD was wounded at ? on ? 8. LAWRENSON was wounded near St Emilie, north of Villers-Faucon on 2nd September 1917. 9. JOICE was wounded near Poelcapelle on 25th November 19117.

Battalion History

16th (Service) Battalion (2nd Birkenhead). The Battalion was formed at Birkenhead on 3rd December 1914 by Alfred Bigland MP, as a "Bantam" Battalion, and assembled and concentrated at Bebington, 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 30th January 1916 the Battalion departed Tidworth for Southampton Docks and embarked for Le Havre, arriving there the next day. The Battalion concentrated there and then entrained on 2nd February through several staging areas for a final destination at Les Choquaux near Locon, northeast of Bethune, arriving at billets there on 20th February 1916. On 7th March 1916 the Battalion 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 until 6th February 1918 when it was disbanded. A detailed list of 35th Division battles and engagement 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 16th Battalion Regimental Officer Casualties

Year	BE	FR	UK	TOTAL
1915			1	1
1916	2	4		6
1917	4	4		8
TOTALS	6	8	1	15

Page last updated: 14th January 2026

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