No

Date Died

Surname

Forenames

Rank

Decs

Age

Cause

Country

Location/Sector

Cemetery/Memorial

Notes

1918

1

13th July

BRANDON

William George

2Lt

-

29

DOI

UK

Buncrana, near Londonderry

Lower Fahan (Christ Church) (SE Part)

(1)

2

27th November

LORIMER

Hugh Cowan

Lt

-

32

DOI

UK

Hospital at Eastbourne

Paignton Cemetery (1920)

(2)

Notes:

1.   BRANDON died of ?

2.   LORIMER died of influenza/pneumonia.

The Battalion was formed as the 3/4th Battalion TF at Bodmin in 1915, as the depot/training/reserve and reinforcement unit for the 1/4 and 2/4th Battalions.   The Battalion was moved to the Bournemouth area in October 1915 for Home and Coastal defence duties and then in the spring of 1916 to Hursley Park, near Winchester.   On 8th April 1916 the Battalion was re-titled as 4th (Reserve) Battalion TF and then absorbed the 5th (Reserve) Battalion TF on 1st September 1916.   The Battalion was moved again to Bournemouth in October 1916 and then to Sutton Veny, near Warminster in March 1917.   The Battalion moved to Larkhill, on Salisbury Plain, in October 1917 before moving finally to the Londonderry area in April 1918, where it remained until the end of the war.   The Battalion was demobilised on 11th July 1919.

Fatal casualties of DCLI personnel of the 4th (Reserve) Battalion :   Officers 2 - men 10.

The DCLI was formed on 1 July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms which saw the amalgamation of the 32nd (Cornwall Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot and the 46th (South Devonshire) Regiment of Foot.   These two units became respectively the Regular 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Regiment, with the Regimental Depot based at Victoria Barracks, Bodmin. 

The 1881 reforms also redesignated the Militia and Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVC) units within the Regimental District of Cornwall as Battalions of the DCLI  - the Royal Cornwall Rangers forming the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, the 1st Cornwall Battalion RVC forming the 1st Volunteer Battalion and the 2nd Cornwall Battalion RVC forming the 2nd Volunteer Battalion. 

In 1908, as part of the Haldane Reforms, the Militia Battalion was reorganised and restructured forming the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion and the two Volunteer Battalions formed the 4th Battalion and 5th Battalion of the Regimental Territorial Force (TF).   After the Declaration of War on 4th August 1914 and at various stages up to 1st June 1918, the order of battle of the DCLI was made up of 16 Regular, Territorial Force, Service, Labour and Reserve Battalions.   The two Volunteer Battalions, raised in 1916 for Local Home and Coastal Defence duties, were later transferred to the Royal Defence Corps.

A detailed history of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry can be viewed here.