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Roll of Honour of Officers of the Dorsetshire Regiment

Who Died in the Great War

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Analysis of Regimental Officer Casualties By Unit, Year and Location

Year Country Active Service Battalions of Dorsetshire Regiment

Former

Service (1)

Staff

Inf Bns MGC TMB Colonial

RFC/

RAF

Misc Totals

Annual

Totals

1st 2nd 3rd (Res) 1/4th 2/4th 5th 6th

1914

France 9                 1           10 14
Mespot   3                           3
UK     1                         1
1915 Belgium 5           1                 6 40
France 4                 12           16
Gallipoli           8                   8
Mespot   7                           7
UK 1   1         1               3
1916 Belgium             3         1       4 68
France 12         10 9   1 17 1     3 1 54
Gallipoli                           1   1
Mespot   5                       1   6
UK     1     1               1   3
1917 Belgium 2         4 2     1 1         10 49
France 5         2 10     2       1   20
GEA                         1     1
India       1                       1
Mespot   6   2                       8
Palestine                 1 1           2
UK               3   1       2 1 7
1918 Belgium 2                             2 53
Egypt   1             1        

1

  3
France 15       1 1 14   1 4      

1

  37
Mozambique                        

1

    1
Nyasaland                        

1

    1
Palestine         3         1           4
UK 1             1   1      

2

  5
1919 Egypt                   1           1 7
Germany 1                             1
UK 1   1         2           1   5
1920 UK   1           1               2 2
1921 UK               2               2 2
TOTALS   58 23 4 3 4 26 39 10 42 2 1 3 14 2 235 235

Notes:

1.   Former Service Officers include those who died whilst placed on the Reserve of Officers, Retired List, Half-Pay List, Sick List and other Non-Active Lists.

 

Analysis of Regimental Officer Casualties By Year and Country

Year

Belgium

Egypt

France

Gallipoli

Germany

GEA (1)

India

Mespot

Mozambique

Nyasaland (2)

Palestine

UK

TOTALS

1914

10

3

1

14

1915

7

16

8

7

3

41

1916

3

54

1

6

3

67

1917

10

20

1

1

8

2

7

49

1918

2

3

37

1

1

4

5

53

1919

1

1

5

5

1920

2

2

1921

2

2

TOTALS

22

4

137

9

1

1

1

24

1

1

6

28

235

Notes:
1.   GEA is German East Africa. 
This was a German colony which included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, the Tanzania mainland, and the Kionga Triangle, a small region later incorporated into Mozambique.
2.   Now Malawi.

 

Page last updated:  5th May 2024

 

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