No

Date Died

Surname

Forenames

Rank

Decs

Age

Cause

Country

Location/Sector

Cemetery/Memorial

Notes

 Died in 1915

1

24th November

KILGOUR

Henry

Lt Col

-

68

DOI

Egypt

Military Hospital at Cairo

Cairo War Memorial Cemetery (D.205)

(1)

Notes:

1.   KILGOUR died of dysentery.

5th Battalion TF

The Battalion was formed in 1908, based at Plymouth, part of the new 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 on 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 unit was named the 2/5th Battalion TF.

2/5th Battalion TF

The Battalion remained in the UK in training until September 1915 when it was deployed to Egypt, where the Battalion performed Garrison, Security and Administrative duties in the Cairo Garrison.   The Battalion was disbanded on 24th June 1916 with 26 officers and 639 men being transferred to other Devonshire Regiment Battalions (1/4th and 1/6th) in the Mesopotamia theatre (MEF) and to the 1st (Garrison) Battalion Devonshire Regiment in Cairo.

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.