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Roll of Honour of Officers of the Devonshire Regiment

Who Died in the Great War

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Roll of Honour of Officers of Other Regiments Who Died in the Great War

Whilst Attached to the Devonshire Regiment

(20 officers)

 

 

ACOMB, Horace

Second Lieutenant.  Yorkshire Regiment.   Attached to 2nd Battalion.  Killed in action in France on 21st August 1916.   Aged 23.

 

 

ADAMS, Philip Rockey

 

Second Lieutenant.  Somerset Light Infantry.   Attached to 2nd Battalion.  Killed in action in France on 27th May 1918.  Aged 21.

 

 

BROCKS, Archibald William

Second Lieutenant.   Cheshire Regiment.   Attached to 16th Battalion.   Died of wounds as a POW in Turkey on 10th March 1918.   Aged 24.

 

COHEN, John Icely

Captain.   East Lancashire Regiment.   Attached to 12th (Labour) Battalion.   Died of wounds in Belgium on 11th August 1917.   Aged 25.

 

CLIFT, Maurice Richard

Second Lieutenant.  Dorsetshire Regiment.   Attached to 9th Battalion.  Died of wounds in France on 4th August 1916.  Aged 19.

 

 

CRIMMIN, Florence

Lieutenant.  Royal North Devon Hussars.   Attached to 10th Battalion.  Killed in action in Salonika on 24th April 1917.  Aged 30.

 

 

CUSSELL, Stanley James

Second Lieutenant.  Army Service Corps.   Attached to 2nd Battalion.  Killed in action in France on 29th May 1918.  Aged 28.

 

 

EVANS, Hugh George

Second Lieutenant.  The King's (Liverpool Regiment).   Attached to 16th Battalion.  Killed in action in France on 4th September 1918.  Aged 31.

 

 

GRANT, Alexander George William

Lieutenant Colonel, MiD.   West African Regiment (ex DCLI).   Attached as CO to 8th Battalion.  Killed in action in France on 25th September 1915.  Aged 47.

 

 

HAMMOND, John Maximilian

Lieutenant, DSO, MiD.  Royal Army Medical Corps.   Attached to 10th Battalion.  Died of wounds in Salonika on 15th March 1917.  Aged 41.

 

HEYWARD, Maurice

Second Lieutenant.  Dorsetshire Regiment.   Attached to 8th Battalion.  Killed in action in France on 20th July 1916.  Aged 25.

 

HIRSCHHORN, Cecil

Second Lieutenant.  Wiltshire Regiment.  Attached to 9th Battalion.  Died of illness in Italy on 21st February 1918.  Aged 20.

 

HYATT, William Joseph

Lieutenant.  Labour Corps.   Attached to 9th Battalion.  Killed in action in France on 24th October 1918.  Aged 31.

 

LOOK, John Leopold

Second Lieutenant.  Gloucestershire Regiment.   Attached to 1/5th Battalion.  Died of wounds in France on 1st September 1918.  Aged 31.

 

 

MORRISON, Robert

Second Lieutenant.  Lancashire Fusiliers.   Attached to 1/5th Battalion.  Killed in action in France on 30th August 1918.  Aged 23.

 

ROGERS, Alfred Morris

Second Lieutenant.  Gloucestershire Regiment.   Attached to 2nd Battalion.  Killed in action in France on 18th July 1916.  Aged 23.

 

 

SMITH, John

Second Lieutenant.  The King's (Liverpool Regiment).   Attached to 1/5th Battalion.  Killed in action in France on 20th July 1918.  Aged 30.

 

STOCKEN, Kenneth Edgar

Second Lieutenant.  Somerset Light Infantry.   Attached to 1st Battalion.  Killed in action in France on 30th August 1918.  Aged 19.

 

 

TENNANT, Charles Alan Ramsay

Second Lieutenant.  Dorsetshire Regiment.   Attached to 2nd Battalion.  Killed in action in France on 9th May 1915.  Aged 26.

 

 

VIVIAN, Richard Trevor

Captain, MiD.   Royal Army Medical Corps.   Attached to 1/6th Battalion.  Killed in action in Mesopotamia (Iraq) on 8th March 1916.  Aged 27.

 

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