Cheshire Regiment - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Cheshire Regiment Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 8th Battalion Cheshire Regiment

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1916
1	4th April	BOOTE	Charles William	Capt	-	27	KIA	Mespot	Near Um El Hannah, east of Kut	Basra Memorial (Panel 14/62)	-
2	4th April	BROUGHTON	Hugo Delves	Capt	MiD	37	KIA	Mespot	Near Um El Hannah, east of Kut	Basra Memorial (Panel 14/62)	-
3	4th April	NEWELL	Matthew Banks	2Lt	-	26	KIA	Mespot	Near Um El Hannah, east of Kut	Basra Memorial (Panel 14/62)	-
4	9th April	KING	Gordon Ulick	2Lt	-	22	KIA	Mespot	East of Kut	Basra Memorial (Panel 14/62)	-
5	9th April	SIMCOCK	Gilbert Alexander	2Lt	-	25	KIA	Mespot	East of Kut	Basra Memorial (Panel 14/62)	-
6	9th April	TIERNEY	Herbert Stanislaus	2Lt	-	28	KIA	Mespot	East of Kut	Basra Memorial (Panel 14/62)	-
7	9th April	TURNER	Roger Bingham	Lt	-	21	KIA	Mespot	East of Kut	Basra Memorial (Panel 14/62)	-
8	14th April	MATHEWS	Arnold	Lt	MiD	21	DOW	Mespot	CCS at Orah, River Tigris	Basra Memorial (Panel 14/62)	(1)
9	16th April	CULLIMORE	John	2Lt	MiD*	21	KIA	Mespot	East of Kut	Amara War Cemetery (VI.H.7)	-
10	25th April	PARKER	William Brabazon Hallowes	Lt	-	34	DOW	Mespot	CCS north of Kut	Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery (VI.J.2)	(2)
11	22nd April	BARRETT	Frederick Alan	Capt	-	22	KIA	Mespot	East of Kut	Basra Memorial (Panel 14/62)	-
12	5th June	BURROWS	Arthur Cecil	2Lt	-	24	DOW	India	Hospital at Karachi	Delhi Memorial (India Gate) (Face 1)	(3)
Died in 1917
13	26th January	WATSON	Charles John	Lt	-	24	DOW	Mespot	Hospital at Amara	Amara War Cemetery (XII.L.8)	(4)
14	15th February	CLARK	Egbert Douglas	Lt	-	24	DOW	Mespot	Hospital at Amara	Amara War Cemetery (XXVII.B.2)	(5)
15	30th April	WELSBY	Sydney Walter Humfrey	Lt	-	26	KIA	Mespot	Jabal Hamrin	Basra Memorial (Panel 14/62)	-
Notes: 1. MATHEWS was wounded near Sannaiyat on 9th April 1916. His grave was subsequently lost. 2. PARKER was wounded at ?on ? 3. BURROWS was wounded at ? on ? and evacuated to India. 4. WATSON was wounded at ? on ? 5. CLARK was wounded at ? on ?.

Those Officers of Other Regiments Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With

8th (Service) Battalion Cheshire Regiment

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
1	14th January 1917	WILCOX	Frederick Herbert Cumberland	Capt	-	28	KIA	Mespot	Hai Salient	Basra Memorial (Panel 14)	(1)
2	12th April 1917	MITCHELL	Thomas	Major	-	35	DOW	Mespot	CCS at Baghdad	Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery (X.H.9)	(2)
3	7th October 1918	WIDDOWS	Archibald	Lt	-	25	DOI	India	Hospital at Lahore	Lahore Cantonment North Cemetery (W.A.91)	(3)
Notes: 1. WILCOX was detached from the Lancashire Fusiliers. 2. MITCHELL was detached from the Royal Sussex Regiment. He was wounded at ? on ? 3. WIDDOWS was detached from the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in January 1917. He was appointed to Railway Transport Officer duties in ? He died of ?

Battalion History

8th (Service) Battalion. The Battalion was formed at Chester on 12th August 1914, part of K1. The Battalion assembled and concentrated at Tidworth in September 1914 and placed under command of 40th Brigade, 13th Division., before moving to Chiseldon in October 1914. In February 1915 the Battalion was moved to the Pirbright area to continue intensive individual and collective training.

On 7th June 1915 the Division received orders to prepare to move to the Mediterranean. By 13th June 1915 the first transports left UK ports, and sailed to Alexandria and by 4th July 1915 all units had moved to Mudros in preparation for landing at Gallipoli. Between 6th-16th July 1915 the Divisional infantry landed on Cape Helles and relieved 29th Division. They were embarked and returned to Mudros at the end of the month, and the entire Division landed at ANZAC Cove between 3rd and 5th August 1915. The Division took part in the following actions on Gallipoli:

The Battle of Sari Bair, 6-10 August 1915
The Battle of Russell’s Top, 7 August
The Battle of Hill 60, ANZAC, 27-28 August

Soon after the Battle of Hill 60, the Division was transferred from ANZAC to the Suvla Bay area and was evacuated from Suvla on 19th-20th December 1915, whereupon the infantry Battalions were moved after a weeks rest to the Helles bridgehead. After he last Turkish attacks at Helles on 7th January 1916 the Division was evacuated from Helles and by 31st January was concentrated at Port Said. The Division was then deployed to hold forward posts in the Suez Canal Defences.

On 12th February 1916 the Division began to move to Mesopotamia, to strengthen the force being assembled there for the relief of the besieged garrison at Kut al Amara. By 27th March 1916, the Division had assembled near Sheikh Sa’ad and came under orders of the Tigris Corps. It then took part in the attempts to relieve Kut. After these efforts failed and Kut fell, the British force in the theatre was built up and reorganised. The Division took part in operations and battles in 1917 and 1918 which 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 8th Battalion Regimental Officer Casualties

Year	IND	MES	TOTAL
1915
1916	1	11	12
1917		3	3
1918
TOTALS	1	14	15

Page last updated: 21st January 2026

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