Devonshire Regiment - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Devonshire Regiment Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 1/6th Battalion Devonshire Regiment

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1916
1	8th March	FOX	Reginald Wilson	Lt Col	MiD	49	KIA	Mespot	Dujailah Redoubt, east of Kut al Amara	Basra Memorial (Panel11)	(p123)
2	8th March	BOWHAY	Eustace Gilbert	Capt	-	26	KIA	Mespot	Dujailah Redoubt, east of Kut al Amara	Basra Memorial (Panel11)	(p123)
3	8th March	DUNN-PATTISON	Richard Phillipson	Capt	MiD	42	KIA	Mespot	Dujailah Redoubt, east of Kut al Amara	Basra Memorial (Panel11)	(p123)
4	8th March	HERIZ-SMITH	Ambrose Joseph Cocks	Lt	-	38	KIA	Mespot	Dujailah Redoubt, east of Kut al Amara	Basra Memorial (Panel11)	(p123)
5	8th March	STRANGER	John Sercombe	Capt	-	29	KIA	Mespot	Dujailah Redoubt, east of Kut al Amara	Basra Memorial (Panel11)	(p123)
6	8th March	TIZZARD	George	2Lt	-	27	KIA	Mespot	Dujailah Redoubt, east of Kut al Amara	Basra Memorial (Panel11)	(p123)
7	8th March	VICARY	William Dallin	Lt	-	29	KIA	Mespot	Dujailah Redoubt, east of Kut al Amara	Basra Memorial (Panel11)	(p123)
8	8th March	WATSON	George Carr	Capt	-	30	KIA	Mespot	Dujailah Redoubt, east of Kut al Amara	Basra Memorial (Panel11)	(p123)
9	16th March	GERMAN	William Henry	Capt	-	29	DOW	Mespot	Hospital at Amara	Amara War Cemetery (I.D.2)	(p123) (1)
10	20th March	FINLAY	Eric Lionel	2Lt	-	24	DOW	Mespot	Hospital at Basra	Basra War Cemetery (V.F.8)	(p123) (2)
11	30th December	WISE	Henry Lupton	Lt	-	39	LAS	At Sea	Mediterranean Sea off Alexandria	Chatby Memorial, Alexandria	(3)
Died in 1918
12	29th November	REEVE	Walter James	Lt	-	29	DOI	India	Hospital at Kanpur, ES of New Delhi	Cawnpore Cantonment New Cemetery (18.15)	(4)
Notes: (The numbers marked with a "p" in the Notes column refers to the page in "Devonshire Regiment 1914-1919, Volumes 1 and 2", by C T Atkinson, where the death of the officer is mentioned or indicated). 1. GERMAN was wounded at Dujailah Redoubt, east of Kut, on 6th March 1916. 2. FINLAY was wounded at Dujailah Redoubt, east of Kut on 6th March 1916. 3. WISE was one of 610 who were lost when HMT "Aragon" was torpedoed in the Mediterranean Sea off Alexandria. 4. REEVE died of smallpox.

Those Officers of Other Regiments

Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 1/6th Battalion Devonshire Regiment TF

Date Died

Surname

Forenames

Rank

Decs

Age

Cause

Country

Location/Sector

Cemetery/Memorial

Notes

8th March 1916

VIVIAN

Richard Thomas

Capt

MiD

KIA

Mespot

Dujailah Redoubt, east of Kut al Amara

Basra Memorial (Panel 42)

(p123) (1)

Notes: (The numbers marked with a "p" in the Notes column refers to the page in "Devonshire Regiment 1914-1919, Volumes 1 and 2", by C T Atkinson, where the death of the officer is mentioned or indicated).

1. VIVIAN was detached from the Royal Army Medical Corps and was the Regimental Medical Officer.

Battalion History

6th Battalion TF. The Battalion was formed in 1908, based at Barnstaple, part of the newly constituted Territorial Force (TF). At the outbreak of war on 4th August 1914 the Battalion was at Annual Camp on Woodbury Common, Exeter. Training for deployment for war operations commenced at Salisbury Plain and during this period a second-line of the Battalion was formed from regimental Territorial Force personnel who did not volunteer for overseas service together with the huge number of untrained recruits. The second-line was named the 2/6th Battalion TF.

1/6th Battalion TF

After the second-line was formed the Battalion was renamed as the 1/6th Battalion, and was deployed to India in October 1914 for Garrison and Internal Security duties in the Lahore area. In February 1916 the Battalion was transferred to the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force (MEF) for operations there, fighting during the attempted relief at Kut al Amara, and later at Sannaiyat and the Dujailah Redoubt. In April 1916, the Battalion was placed in the Tigris Lines of Communication area where it garrisoned and secured the Sheik Saad, Amara, Shatt al Hai and Basra areas. In November 1918 a draft of over 200 men were sent to the British Salonika Force, prior to an initial demobilisation in December 1918 with schoolmasters and students being returned to the UK, followed in February 1919 by married men with over four years service, coal miners and men over 41. By 30th March 1919 the Battalion had been reduced to cadre strength and was then moved for Karachi, along with the cadre of 2/6th Battalion TF. These two cadre unit were eventually embarked for passage to UK on 27th July 1919, arriving at Plymouth 16th August 1919. Both units arrived in Barnstaple on on 19th August 1919 and the men were demobilised and the unit disbanded.

Regimental History

The Devonshire Regiment was formed on 1st July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms, which saw the two Battalions of the 11th (North Devon) Regiment of Foot being renamed and reconstituted as the Regular 1st and 2nd Battalions of the new Regiment, with the Regimental Depot based at Topsham Barracks, Exeter. The 1881 reforms also redesignated the Militia and Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVC) units within the Regimental District of Devon as Battalions of the new Regiment - the East Devon Militia forming the 1st (Militia) Battalion and the South Devon Militia forming the 2nd (Militia) Battalion. Five Volunteer Battalions of the new Regiment were formed from the county Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVC) units: 1st Devonshire (Exeter and South Devon) RVC , the 2nd Devonshire (Prince of Wales's) RVC, the 3rd Devonshire RVC, the 4th Devonshire RVC and the 5th Devonshire RVC. In 1908, as part of the Haldane Reforms, the two Militia Battalions were amalgamated, reorganised and restructured forming the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion and the five Volunteer Battalions were reorganised and formed the 4th Battalion, 5th Battalion, 6th Battalion and 7th 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 Devonshire Regiment was made up of 30 Regular, Territorial Force, Service, Labour, Works, Garrison, Reserve and Graduated Battalions.

A detailed history of the Devonshire Regiment can also be viewed here, here and here.

The "Devonshire Regiment 1914 - 1918" (by C T Atkinson - ISBN 13: 978-184342150 ) provides a detailed account of the operations of the Battalions of the Regiment which took an active part in the Great War.

Page last updated: 13th September 2023

| Regimental Rolls of Honour |

| Fallen Officers of WW1 of Other Corps and Regiments |