No

Date Died

Surname

Forenames

Rank

Decs

Age

Cause

Country

Attached To

Location/Sector

Cemetery/Memorial

Notes

Died in 1914

1

27th November

TOMS

Arthur Woodland

Lt

-

23

A

France

2nd Bn Cameronians

Near Laventie

Estaires Communal Cemetery Extn (I.B.4)

(1)

Died in 1915

2

22nd March

KANE

John Francis Aloysius

Capt

-

35

KWF

UK

2nd (Res) Sqn RFC

Brooklands Aerodrome

Kensal Green RC Cemetery (3.2927)

(2)

3

24th March

WYNDHAM

George Heremon

2Lt

-

21

KIA

Belgium

2nd Bn North'land Fus

"Frenchman's Farm", near Kemmel

Dranoutre Churchyard (II.B.16)

-

4

9th May

GOLDSMITH

Henry Mills

Lt

-

29

KIA

France

2nd Bn Lincs Regt

Near Fromelles

Ploegsteert Memorial (Panel 3)

-

5

24th June

ANSTEY

George Alexander

Capt

-

27

KIA

Belgium

2nd Bn Cheshire Regt

"Gordon Farm" north of Vierstraat

Ridge Wood Military Cemetery (II.B.2)

-

6

13th August

WEEKS

John

2Lt

-

25

LAS

At Sea

2nd Bn Hants Regt

Mediterranean Sea

Syra New British Cemetery (II.A.5)

(3)

7

14th October

OLIVER

Charles Gordon

Lt

-

25

DOW

France

2nd Bn Yorks Regt

1st CCS at Chocques,

Chocques Military Cemetery (I.F.11)

(4)

8

22nd November

MORTIMORE

Owen John

Capt

-

37

KIA

Mespot

2nd Bn Dorset Regt

Ctesiphon, River Tigris

Basra Memorial (Panel 22/63)

-

9

11th December

JOY

Thomas Cyril Bruce

Capt

-

29

KIA

Mespot

2nd Bn Dorset Regt

Near Kut-al-Amara

Kut War Cemetery (K.25)

-

Died in 1916

10

31st January

RADCLIFFE

Jasper Fitzgerald

Lt Col

DSO, MiD*

48

KIA

France

CO 10th Bn Essex Regt

Near Becourt, Somme

Becourt Military Cemetery (I.H.1)

-

11

19th February

CADELL

Assheton Biddulph

2Lt

-

21

DOW

Belgium

8th Bn R W Kent Regt

10th CCS at Poperinghe

Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery (II.A.36)

(5)

12

10th March

EARDLEY-WILMOT

Gerald Howard

2Lt

-

25

DOW

France

20th Coy MGC

5th CCS at Corbie

Corbie Communal Cemetery (I.E.11)

(6)

13

3rd June

GREGORY

Stephen Barnes

Lt

-

21

POW

Mespot

2nd Bn R W Kent Regt

POW Camp at Mosul

Basra Memorial (Panel 11)

(7)

14

19th June

GIBSON

John

2Lt

-

28

KWF

France

8th Sqn RFC

La Bellevue Aerodrome

Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery (I.D.16)

(8)

15

20th June

BREARLEY

Arthur Joseph

Capt

-

27

KIA

Belgium

"N" Special Coy RE

Near Ypres

Reninghelst New Military Cemetery (III.G.10)

-

16

27th June

CLOUGH

Ernest Rowan Butler

2Lt

-

22

DOW

Belgium

11th Bn Durham LI

Near Ypres

Brandhoek Military Cemetery (II.G.2)

(9)

17

10th July

BALL

Richard Anthony

Lt

-

20

KIA

France

2/8th Bn Worcs Regt

Near Fauquissart

Laventie Military Cemetery (II.B.21)

-

18

19th July

MATHEWS

Anthony Edward

2Lt

-

22

KIA

France

2/6th Bn Glos Regt

Near Fromelles

Laventie Military Cemetery (II.D.9)

-

19

19th July

MITCHELL

George James

2Lt

-

33

KIA

France

2/6th Bn Glos Regt

Near Fromelles

Loos Memorial  (Panels 35/37)

-

20

19th July

SKEWES

Arthur Courtis

2Lt

-

20

KIA

France

2/6th Bn Glos Regt

Near Fromelles

Laventie Military Cemetery (II.D.10)

-

21

23rd July

BALDERSON

Henry Leslie Paxton

2Lt

-

24

KIA

France

1/6th Bn Glos Regt

Railway line near Pozieres

Pozieres British Cemetery (IV.G.43)

(10)

22

23rd July

CORBETT

Harry

2Lt

-

24

KIA

France

1/6th Bn Glos Regt

Railway line near Pozieres

Thiepval Memorial (Pier/Face 1C)

-

23

23rd July

PARAMORE

Robert Edward Pynsent

Lt

-

19

KIA

France

1/6th Bn Glos Regt

Railway line near Pozieres

Thiepval Memorial (Pier/Face 1C)

-

24

22nd August

PRITCHARD

Richard

2Lt

-

29

DOW

UK

2/6th Bn Glos Regt

Military Hospital, London

Brompton Cemetery (0.29356)

(11)

25

12th October

PHILLIPS

Fenton Ellis Stanley

2Lt

MC

21

KIAA

France

3rd Sqn RFC

Near Longueval, Somme

Caterpillar Valley Cemetery  (XXV.G.9)

(13)

26

25th October

BOLITHO

Geoffrey Richard

2Lt

-

23

KIAA

France

4th Sqn RFC

Near Puisieux

Queen's Cemetery, Bucquoy (IV.A.5)

(14)

Died in 1917

27

1st March

PERCY-HARDMAN

William Henry

Capt

MiD

40

DOW

Mespot

187th Coy MGC

CCS at Shaikh Saad

Amara war Cemetery (Shaikh Saad Memorial)

-

28

25th March

HUSSEY

Harold Edward

2Lt

-

23

KIA

Mespot

1st Bn Manchester Regt

Jabel Hamrin, near Baghdad

Basra Memorial (Panel 31/64)

-

29

11th April

TEGLIO

Max

2Lt

-

21

KIA

Mespot

9th Bn Worcs Regt

Chaliyeh, Kuwar Reach

Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery (XIX.B.10)

-

30

23rd April

KARSLAKE

Harry Howard

2Lt

-

37

KIA

France

1st Bn DCLI

La Coulette, near Aeeas

Arras Memorial (Bay 4)

-

31

3rd May

CLARK

Henry Featherstone

Lt

-

23

KIA

France

2/6th Bn Glos Regt

Near St Quentin

Chapelle British Cemetery, Holnon (II.J.14)

(15)

32

13th May

CARTER

Alfred John

2Lt

-

29

KIA

France

172nd Coy Labour Corps

South of Arras

Bucquoy Road, Ficheux (I.G.6)

(16)

33

23rd May

TREMLETT

Elias

Lt

DSO

27

DOW

France

208th Coy MGC

CCS

Mory Abbey Military Cemetery (I.G.4)

(17)

34

6th June

BURR

George

Lt

-

45

A

UK

3rd Bn Labour Corps

Devonport

Southampton (St Mary Extra) Cem (BC..22.14)

(18)

35

28th July

CORBISHLEY

Ronald Heathcote

2Lt

-

27

KIAA

Belgium

57th Sqn RFC

Near Courtrai

Wielsbeke Communal Cemetery (North 1)

(19)

36

30th July

LEY

Geoffrey Arthur Henry

2Lt

-

37

KIA

Belgium

"B" Bn Tank Corps

Near Zillebeke

Poelcapelle British Cemetery (LVI.C.1)

(20)

37

31st July

COTTLE

Sidney Joseph

Lt

-

22

KIA

Belgium

MGC "A" Bn Tank Corps

Near Hooge

Birr Cross Roads Cemetery (II.A.24)

(21)

38

10th August

FLEMING

Wilfrid Allan

Capt

MC

27

KIAA

Belgium

56th Sqn RFC

Menin Road, Roulers

Harlebeke New British Cemetery (IX.D.11)

(22)

39

16th August

DRAKE

Wilfrid Wallace

2Lt

-

34

DOW

Belgium

23rd TMB

CCS at Brandhoek

Brandhoek New Military Cemetery No 3 (I.A.12)

(p271)   (23)

40

7th September

LEWIS

Richard Percy

Lt Col

-

43

DOW

Belgium

CO 1/10th Manchester Regt

"Kit & Kat", near Westhoek

Ypres Reservoir Cemetery (I.A.57)

-

41

19th September

HOUNSOM

George James

2Lt

-

27

DOI

UK

3rd Labour Bn

Devonport, Plymouth

Plymouth (Efford) Cemetery (Church, C.4874)

(24)

42

20th September

JEEVES

Charles Anthony Victor

2Lt

-

37

KIA

Belgium

1/9th Bn Liverpool Regt

East of Wieltje

Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 38/40)

-

43

20th September

KING

Charles Frederick

2Lt

-

34

KIA

Belgium

1/9th Bn Liverpool Regt

East of Wieltje

Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 38/40)

-

44

20th September

WALLINGTON

Charles Harold

2Lt

-

35

KIA

Belgium

1/6th Bn Liverpool Regt

Near of Frezenberg

Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 38/40)

-

45

25th September

BRAGG

Frederick John

2Lt

-

23

DOW

Belgium

1/9th Bn Liverpool Regt

CCS near Poperinghe

Nine Elms British Cemetery (II.A.9)

(25)

46

2nd November

SCARBROUGH

Reginald John

Capt

-

37

DOW

Palestine

1/8th Bn Hampshire Regt

CCS at Deir El Belah

Deir El Belah War Cemetery (D.66)

(26)

47

29th November

JACOB

Cecil Otway Reid

Capt

-

26

KIA

France

2/5th Bn Lincs Regt

Near Flesquieres

Orival Wood Cemetery, Flesquieres (II.A21)

(27)

48

30th November

PEARCY

Albert

2Lt

-

26

KIA

France

7th Bn Somerset LI

Near Gouzeaucourt

Cambrai Memorial (Panel 4)

-

49

30th November

RICE

Ernest John

2Lt

-

26

KIA

France

7th Bn Somerset LI

Near Gouzeaucourt

Cambrai Memorial (Panel 4)

-

50

6th December

WINNICOTT

Russell

Lt

MC

19

KIAA

France

41st Sqn RFC

Near Albert

Varennes Military Cemetery (I.K.32)

(28)

51

13th December

LIARDET

Frederick Charles Evelyn

Lt

-

29

DOAW

UK

Balloon Trg Wing RFC

Hospital at Newton Abbot

Highweek (All Saints) Churchyard (NE Part)

(29)

Died in 1918

52

27th March

ALLEN

Stephen Henry Hammans

Lt

-

23

KIA

France

1/6th Bn North'land Fus

Near Villers-Bretonneux

Pozieres Memorial (Panel 24/25)

-

53

9th April

CARDEW

Eric George

Capt

MC

31

KIA

France

6th Bn Durham LI

Near La Gorgue

Ploegsteert Memorial (Panel 3)

-

54

14th April

BRUTTON

Eric West

Lt

MC

22

KIA

France

25th Bn MGC

Near Bailleul

Ploegsteert Memorial (Panel 3)

-

55

17th April

ACLAND TROYTE

Hugh Leonard

Lt Col

-

48

KIA

France

HQ XI Corps

St Venant, near Merville

Berguette Churchyard (D.2)

-

56

20th July

GRIGSON

Kenneth Walton

Capt

MC

23

KIA

France

2/5th Bn W Yorks Regt

Jonchery, near Soissons

Marfaux British Cemetery (I.E.14)

(30)

57

28th August

SMITH

John Henry

2Lt

-

28

KIA

France

7th Bn Somerset LI

W of Avion

Vis-en-Artois Memorial (Panel 4)

-

58

1st September

BELLAMY

Geoffrey George

Major

-

24

DOW

France

4th Bn MGC

CCS at Ligny St Flochel

Ligny St Flochel British Cemetery (III.C.18)

(31)

59

20th September

HART

John Harcourt Welby

Lt

MiD"

31

KIA

Palestine

1st Bn Manchester Regt

Near Wadi 'Azzun, E of Qalqilye

Jersusalem Memorial (Panel 15)

-

60

6th October

JONES

Leslie Seymour Ross

2Lt

-

19

KIAA

Belgium

65th Sqn RAF

Near Blankenberge

Blankenberge Town Cemetery (B.2)

(32)

61

17th October

BROMHAM

Charles Adolphus Row

2Lt

-

44

KIA

France

1st Bn KOYLI

SE of Le Cateau

Highland Cemetery, Le Cateau (|III.C.23)

-

62

25th October

VINNICOMBE

Leslie

Lt

-

30

DOI

Italy

General Staff, HQ Genoa

Genoa

Staglieno Cemetery, Genoa (I.C.33)

(33)

63

22nd November

BARNETT

Walter

2Lt

-

24

DOW

France

1st Bn Glous Regt

Catillon, River Sambre

St Sever Cemetery Extn, Rouen (S.V.I.1)

(34)

64

4th December

COLE

Henry Munroe

Major

-

41

DOI

Egypt

1/4th Bn Wilts Regt

CCS at Kantara

Kantara War Memorial Cemetery (E.263)

(35)

Died in 1919

65

11th February

SANFORD

Walter Henry

2Lt

-

28

DOI

France

1st Bn DCLI

Hospital at Tourlaville, E of Cherbourg

Tourlaville Communal Cemetery Extension (C.8)

(36)

66

27th February

STANLEY

Edmund Talbot

Major

-

60

DOI

France

Labour Corps

Hospital at Rouen

St Sever Cemetery Extn, Rouen (S.V.M.8)

(37)

67

25th March

THORNHILL

Hubert Burrington

Capt

-

24

DOI

Mespot

2nd Bn R W Kent Regt

Hospital at Basra

Basra War Cemetery (II.A.3)

(38)

68

19th May

EDMONDS

Walter John

Capt

-

42

DOI

UK

Staff (Embarkation Officer)

Wildersmouth Villa, Ilfracombe

Ilfracombe (Holy Trinity) Churchyard (West Gate)

(39)

69

27th June

HUGHES

Norman Labrey

2Lt

-

19

KIA

Russia

1st Bn OBLI

River Dvina, S of Archangel

Archangel Memorial

(40)

70

23rd September

PINE-COFFIN

Tristram James

Lt

-

33

KIA

Russia

Intelligence Corps

Near Murmansk

Archangel Memorial (Buried at Kandalaksha)

(41)

Died in 1920

71

28th August

SALMON

Gilbert Henry

Capt

-

27

M

Iraq

Special List

Kifri, NE of Baghdad

Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery (XIII.B.11)

(42)

Died in 1921

72

23rd February

MILLS

Bernard Alfred James

Capt

-

23

M

Iraq

Special List (Political Officer)

Baghdad

Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery (XVI.E.14)

(43)

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.   TOMS was accidentally killed near Laventie.

2.   KANE was killed when he lost control of a Bleriot Parasol aircraft which crashed into the ground at Brooklands Aerodrome.

3.   WEEKS, on his way Gallipoli, was lost with the troopship HMT Royal Edward when it was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea off Kandeloussa, with the loss of 935 of the 1,596 people on board.

4.   OLIVER was wounded west of the Hohenzollern Redoubt, near Loos, on 13th October 1915.

5.   CADELL was wounded at the Belgian Chateau, south-west of Ypres on 19th February 1916.

6.   EARDLEY-WILMOT was detached from 9th Battalion.   He was wounded near Fricourt on 10th March 1916.

7.   GREGORY was taken POW at the surrender of Kut-el-Amara on 29th April 1916.   He died of enteritis on 3rd May 1917 at a Turkish POW Camp at Mosul.

8.   GIBSON was killed piloting a BE2c aircraft which crashed on take-off on a reconnaissance flight at the le Bellevue aerodrome near Warlincourt.   His observer, Lt F S Roodley survived the crash but was severely wounded.

9.   CLOUGH was killed by a shell on the St Jean road, northeast of Ypres on 27th June 1916.

10.  BALDERSON was originally buried in a battlefield grave near to the junction of the railway line and the road to the west of Pozieres and reburied in Pozieres British Cemetery in August 1920.

11.  PRITCHARD was wounded north-east of "Wick Salient", to the northwest of Fromelles on 19th July 1916 and evacuated to the UK.

13.  PHILLIPS was originally commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial until his grave was discovered in the Caterpillar Valley Cemetery in 1930.

14.  BOLITHO was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the east of Puisieux, north of Miraumont and reburied at Bucquoy in October 1920.   During a bombing expedition over the German lines his machine, a BE2c piloted by 2Lt S H Williams, was brought down and both were killed.

15.  CLARK was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the southeast of Fayet and was reburied at Holnon in July 1919.

16.  CARTER joined 7th Infantry Labour Company Devon Regt in late March 1917 which became 172nd Company Labour Corps in April 1917.   He transferred to the Labour Corps on 9th March 1917 (LG 30007 dated 2nd April 1917, page 3190).

17.  TREMLETT was wounded during the battle of Bullecourt on 23rd May 1917.

18.  BURR previously served with 13th (Works) Battalion Devonshire Regiment which became 3rd Battalion Labour Corps in February 1917.

19.  CORBISHLEY was killed in aerial action during a reconnaissance expedition over the German lines.   His machine, a DH4 piloted by 2Lt H W B Rickards, was brought down and both were killed.

20.  LEY was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the southeast of Zillebeke and was reburied at Poelcapelle British Cemetery in October 1923.

21.  COTTLE was originally buried in a battlefield grave east of "Rifle Farm" near Hooge and reburied at Birr Cross Roads Cemetery in June 1919.

22.  FLEMING was originally buried in Ledeghem German Military Cemetery and was reburied at Harlebeke in July 1924.   He was killed in aerial action during a fighting patrol over the German lines when his machine, a SE5, was brought down.

23.  DRAKE was wounded near Westhoek on16th August 1917.

24.  HOUNSOM was commissioned into 13th Labour Battalion on 27th February 1917 and died after a short illness.

25.  BRAGG was wounded to the north of Frezenberg on 20th September 1917.

26.  SCARBROUGH was wounded to the southwest of Gaza on 1st November 1917.

27.  JACOB was originally buried in Flesquieres Chateau Cemetery and reburied in Orival Wood Cemetery in April 1930.

28.  WINNICOTT transferred to the RFC in August 1916 and became an "Ace" with 15 confirmed kills before his death in aerial action near Albert in late 1917.

29.  LIARDET was seconded to the RFC as a Balloon Officer.   He died of septic infection of wounds sustained at TBC.

30.  GRIGSON was originally buried in a battlefield grave near Jonchery, southeast of Soissons, and was reburied at Marfaux British Cemetery in September 1919.

31.  BELLAMY was wounded at Remy Wood, south of Peronne on 1st September 1918.

32.  JONES was originally buried by the Germans in this Blankenberge Cemetery and was reburied here in another plot in June 1920.   He was killed when his Sopwith Camel fighter aircraft was brought down in air combat by a German aircraft.

33.  VINNICOMBE was detached from the 2nd Battalion to the General Staff Railway Transportation Staff.   He died of influenza/pneumonia.

34.  BARNETT was wounded at Catillon, River Sambre, on 4th November 1918.

25.  COLE died of TBC.

36.  SANFORD died of influenza/pneumonia and was initially buried in Plot A.1 of Tourlaville Communal Cemetery Extension, until reburied in Plot C.8 in August 1934.

37.  STANLEY died of influenza/pneumonia.

38.  THORNHILL died of diphtheria.

39.  EDMONDS was on the General Staff as an Embarkation Officer at Liverpool Docks until 22nd April 1918 when he may well have been placed on the Sick List.   He died on 19th May 1919 of disease contracted in Mesopotamia serving with 1/6th Battalion.

40.  HUGHES was a member of a rifle company of volunteers of the Devonshire Regiment to join the 1st Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in May 1919 to reinforce the Allied Expeditionary Force despatched to North Russia in 1918. 

41.  PINE-COFFIN was detached from 3rd (Reserve) Battalion Devonshire Regiment to the Intelligence Corps for duty in the North Russia Campaign.

42.  SALMON was an Assistant Political Officer serving on the Special List.   He was killed during the uprising of the Dalw tribe in Kifri, part of the Great Iraqi Revolution.

43.  MILLS was an Assistant Political Officer serving on the Special List.   He was murdered TBC.