Cheshire Regiment - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Cheshire Regiment Serving On Non-Active Lists Who Died In The Great War

Ref	Date	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location	Status/Former Unit	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1915
1	7th April	EARLE	Walter Colby	Capt	-	54	DOI	UK	Chester	3rd (Res) Bn	Chester (Overleigh) Cemetery (Old 6364)	(1)
Died in 1917
2	11th August	EARLE	Charles Edward	Lt Col	-	48	DOI	UK	London	16th Battalion	Highgate Cemetery, London (79.4733)	(2)
Died in 1918
3	13th April	VASSIE	Richard	Lt	-	23	DOI	UK	Lanark	12th Battalion	Lanark Cemetery (Plot 4, West Wall 43)	(3
4	23rd April	FIELD	John Alan Francis	Lt Col	-	42	DOI	UK	Hospital in Folkestone	13th Battalaion	Cheriton (St Martin) Churcyard (1602)	(4)
5	23rd April	FITZSIMMONS	Edward	2Lt	-	30	DOI	UK	Marylebone	11th Battalion	Kensal Green (St Mary's) RC Cemetery (11871)	(5)
6	27th May	DALE	Frank Cotterill	2Lt	-	26	DOW	UK	Hospital at Altrincham	1/4th Battalion	Prestbury (St Peter) Churchyard (4.9)	(6)
7	17th September	WALKER	Arnold Henry	Lt	-	31	DOW	UK	Hospital at Fazakereley	8th Battalion	Liverpool (Toxteth Park) Cemetery (K.CE.739)	(7)
8	16th October	TOMKINSON	Charles Wilson	Lt	-	25	DOI	UK	Whitechapel, London	2nd (Gar) Battalion	Crewe Cemetery (A.511)	(8)
Died in 1919
9	23rd March	HAYES	Marshall	Lt	-	35	DOI	UK	Farnham, Surrey	16th Battalion	Nuthurst (St Andrew's Churchyard)	(9
10	9th September	NEWTON	John Edmund	Lt	-	23	DOI	UK	Woolwich	12th Battalion	Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin (355.B8)	(10)
Died in 1920
11	16th March	MUSGRAVE	Joseph Baxter	Capt	MC	23	DOW	UK	Chester	att 1/6th Bn R Warks	Chester (Overleigh) Cemetery (3319)	(11)
Notes: 1. EARLE W C died of cerebral haemorrhage. Previously served in ?? 3rd (Reserve) Battalion. 2. EARLE C E died of ? Reserve of Officers. Commanded 16th Battalion and granted temporary rank of Lt Col between 5th December 1914 and 17th July 1915. 3. VASSIE relinquished his commission due to ill health on 27th May 1917. It is believed he was wounded by a shell on 16th October 1915 at Foucaucourt, near Harbonnieres, serving with 12th Battalion just prior to its deployment to Salonika. 4. FIELD was appointed to the Special List (Late Indian Staff Corps) on 7th September 1914 as the 13th Battalion's first Commanding Officer and deployed with the Battalion to the BEF on 25th September 1915. Due to illness he returned to the UK on 24th November 1915 and then became CO of 13th (Reserve) Battalion South Wales Borderers (which became 59th Training Reserve Battalion on 1st September 1916). On 9th August 1917 he was appointed Commanding Officer of 213th Infantry Battalion, which became 52nd (Young Soldier) Battalion Cheshire Regiment on 27th October 1917. He relinquished his commission due to ill health on 4th November 1917 and was awarded a Silver War Badge. 5. FITZSIMMONS. Surname may well be FITZSIMONS. Commissioned into Cheshire Regiment as 2Lt on 18th December 1914. Relinquished commission due to ill health on 7th December 1916. 6. DALE died at the John Leigh Memorial Hospital Altrincham due to ?. He is listed in the May 1918 Army List under the 4th Battalion TF. 7. WALKER was severely wounded in Mespotamia and evacuated to UK. He had relinquished his commission in ? 1917 due to ill health. 8. TOMKINSON died of influenza/pneumonia. He had relinquished his commission on 21st October 1917 to resume medical studies. 9. HAYES died of ? He was commissioned into the Cheshire Regiment on 15th September 1915 and promoted to Lieutenant on 1st July 1917. He relinquished commission due to ill health on 12th June 1918 and awarded a Silver War Badge (No. 384112) dated 4th July 1918. 10. NEWTON died of ? He relinquished his commission due to ill health on 5th February 1919. He saw active service with a Trench Mortar Battery. 11. MUSGRAVE was severely wounded on 4th October 1917 south of Poelcapelle serving with 1/6th Bn R Warks Regt. He relinquished commision due to ill health 10th October 1918.

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.

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