Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry Who Died in the Great War

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1914
1	20th October	DIGBY	George Hugh	Major	-	47	A	UK	GWR railway line near Dorchester	Cattistock (SS Peter & Paul) Churchyard (SW)	(1)
Died in 1915
2	21st August	GRAY	Frederick William	2Lt	MC	43	KIA	Gallipoli	"Green Hill", Suvla	Green Hill Cemetery (Sp Mem C3)	-
3	21st August	KENNAWAY	Arthur Lewis	Lt	-	34	KIA	Gallipoli	"Green Hill", Suvla	Green Hill Cemetery (Sp Mem D7)	-
4	24th August	LEES	Sir Thomas Evans Keith	Lt	-	29	DOW	At Sea	Hospital Ship Off Dardanelles	Helles Memorial (Panel 18)	(2)
5	7th September	BROWNE	Harold Vernon	Capt	-	30	KIA	Gallipoli	"Hill 10", Suvla	Hill 10 Cemetery (II.B.12)	-
Died in 1916
6	26th September	HOPE	Charles Bateman	2Lt	-	23	KIA	Egypt	Agagia, east of Sidi Barrani	Alexandria Military Cemetery (G.32)	-
7	26th September	MIDDLETON	Ernest	2Lt	-	28	KIA	Egypt	Agagia, east of Sidi Barrani	Alexandria Military Cemetery (G.33)	-
8	26th February	REEVES	Victor Charles Methuen	Major	MiD	28	KIA	Egypt	Agagia, east of Sidi Barrani	Alexandria Military Cemetery (G.36)	-
9	26th February	PAULET	Cecil Henry	2Lt	MiD	40	KIA	Egypt	Agagia, east of Sidi Barrani	Alexandria Military Cemetery (G.34)	-
10	5th September	RYAN	Warwick John Norwood	2Lt	-	26	KIA	Egypt	Minia, south of Cairo, Upper Nile	Cairo War Memorial Cemetery (H.115)	(3)
Died in 1917
11	21st November	YEATMAN	Harry Farr	Capt	-	37	KIA	Palestine	Nabi Samweil, near Jerusalem	Jerusalem War Cemetery (E.56)	-
12	20th December	HOARE	Henry Colt Arthur	Capt	-	29	DOW	Egypt	Hospital at Alexandria	Alexandria Military Cemetery (B.34)	(4)
Died in 1918
13	7th June	CROSS	Reginald Carlton	Lt	-	26	KIA	France	South of Souastre	Couin New British Cemetery (G.15)	(5)
14	17th June	KNIGHT	George Gordon	Lt	-	26	DOW	Palestine	CCS at Jerusalem	Jersusalem War Cemetery (N.92)	(6)
15	31st August	ROBERTS	Edgar	2Lt	-	21	KIA	Belgium	"La Polka", E of Kemmel	Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Mil Cemetery (II.B.22)	(7)
16	13th October	MASON	John Norman	Lt	MC	32	DOW	Egypt	CCS at Alexandria	Alexandra War Cemetery (B.89)	(8)
Died in 1919
17	2nd January	WAKEFIELD	Frank Mahan	Lt	-	38	DOW	UK	Military Hospital at Netley	Netley Military Cemetery (Offrs Sect 1999)	(9)
Died in 1920
18	2nd April	SELLIER	Anthony Lewis	Lt	-	?	DOI	Trinidad	Hospital at Trinidad	Unknown	(10)
Died in 1921
19	21st February	MORTIMER	William Henry	Major	MiD	46	DOI	Palestine	Hospital at Ramleh	Ramleh War Cemetery (V.26)	(11)
Officers Of Other Regiments Who Died in the Great War Whilst Attached to the Dorset Yeomanry (Queen's Own)
1	21st August 1915	LIVINGSTONE-LEARMONTH	Nigel James Christian	Capt	-	37	KIA	Gallipoli	"Chocolate Hill", Suvla	Green Hill Cemetery (VI.N.14)	(12)
Notes: 1. DIGBY was a member of the Reserve of Officers and had been recalled to the Regiment at the time of his death. He was struck by a train. 2. LEES was wounded at "Green Hill", Suvla on 21st August 1915. 3. RYAN was serving with the Imperial Camel Corps at the time of his death and was initially buried at Minia War Memorial Cemetery. His remains, with others of the ICC, were re-interred at Cairo on 30th April 1960. 4. HOARE was wounded in the Sinai Peninsula on ? 5. CROSS was attached to 2/4th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment at the time of his death. 6. KNIGHT was wounded near Jerusalem on ? 7. ROBERTS was attached to XIV Corps Cyclist Battalion, and was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the East of Kemmel and was re-buried in Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery on 5th November 1919. 8. MASON was wounded at ? on ? 9. WAKEFIELD died, after evacuation to UK, of wounds sustained near Deraa, Palestine on 28th September 1918 whilst attached to 17th (Cavalry) Squadron Machine Gun Corps. 10. SELLIER relinquished his commission on 9th March 1920 after completion of service and he returned to Trinidad. He is not commemorated by CWGC. He was detached from 2nd Reserve Regiment of Cavalry. 11. MORTIMER died of heart disease. 12. LIVINGSTONE-LEARMONTH was killed at Chocolate Hill and was buried there until his remains were re-interred at Green Hill Cemetery in July 1920. At the time of his death he was detached from 15th (The King's) Hussars.

Regimental History and Great War Battle Honours

A detailed history of the Dorset Yeomanry (Queen's Own) can be viewed here.

During the Great War the Dorset Yeomanry (Queen's Own) was organised into three separate units as described below:

1/1st Dorset Yeomanry (Queen's Own). The 1st Line of the Regiment was mobilised in August 1914 and attached to the 1st South Western Mounted Brigade. In September 1914 the Regiment was transferred to the 2nd South Midland Mounted Brigade of the 2nd Mounted Division. In 1915, the Regiment was dismounted and was deployed to Egypt, then onwards to participate in the Gallipoli campaign where it served as dismounted troops and was involved in the Battle of Gallipoli, the Battle of Sari Bair and the Battle of Scimitar Hill. After the evacuation of Gallipoli, the Regiment was returned to Egypt in January 1916 and became part of the 6th Mounted Brigade, an independent brigade that was involved in the Action of Agagia in February 1916. In February 1917, 6th Mounted Brigade joined the Imperial Mounted Division and took part in the First and Second Battles of Gaza. In June 1917 the Regiment with the 6th Mounted Brigade was transferred to the Yeomanry Mounted Division for the Third Battle of Gaza and the Battle of Beersheba. In July 1918, the Brigade was re-designated the 10th Cavalry Brigade and the Division re-designated the 4th Cavalry Division. The Regiment remained with the Division in Palestine until the end of the war.

2/1st Dorset Yeomanry (Queen's Own). The 2nd Line Regiment was formed at Sherborne in September 1914. In May 1915, it was moved to Chippenham, where it joined the 2/1st South Western Mounted Brigade, then it moved to Maresfield in September. In October 1915, the Regiment joined the 1/1st South Western Mounted Brigade and the Brigade was redesignated as 2/1st Southern Mounted Brigade. On 31st March 1916, the remaining Mounted Brigades were re-numbered in a single sequence: the Brigade became the 16th Mounted Brigade and joined 4th Mounted Division at Manningtree. In July 1916, there was a major reorganization of 2nd Line Yeomanry Regiments in the United Kingdom. All but 12 regiments were converted to cyclists and as a consequence the Regiment was dismounted and joined the 7th Cyclist Brigade (and the Division became 2nd Cyclist Division) at Woodbridge. Further reorganization took place in November 1916 which saw the 2nd Cyclist Division broken up and the Regiment was re-mounted at Maidstone, taking over the horses of the 2/1st Queen's Own West Kent Yeomanry and replacing this Regiment in 3rd Mounted Brigade in the new 1st Mounted Division (3rd Mounted Division redesignated). In March 1917, the Regiment was moved to Sevenoaks. In September 1917 the Regiment was converted back to cyclists, this time in 13th Cyclist Brigade in The Cyclist Division, still at Sevenoaks. In December 1917, the 13th Cyclist Brigade was broken up and in early 1918 the Regiment moved to Ireland, joining the 6th Cyclist Brigade at The Curragh, where it remained to the end of the war.

3/1st Dorset Yeomanry (Queen's Own). The 3rd Line Regiment was formed in 1915 and in that summer was affiliated to a Reserve Cavalry Regiment at Tidworth. In July 1916, the Regiment was affiliated to the 8th Reserve Cavalry Regiment at The Curragh and in early 1917 it was absorbed into the 2nd Reserve Cavalry Regiment, also at The Curragh.

Battle Honours Earned During The Great War. The sheer scale of the Great War led to a previously unheard of number of Honours being awarded and it was simply impractical to emblazon every one of them on the Regimental Colour. In September 1922 it was ordered that Regiments should select up to 10 Honours to be emblazoned on their Regimental Colours along with previous awards, up to a total of 24. This led to a storm of protest, since many Regiments would have had to remove previous Honours. The order was therefore amended the following December, to allow each Regiment to select up to 10 Honours to be emblazoned on its King's/Queen's Colour, Honours from other conflicts continuing to be displayed on the Regimental Colour.

The Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry was awarded the following Battle Honours of the Great War (honours in bold are emblazoned on the Regimental Colours):

Suvla, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Agagiya, Egypt 1915–17, Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Megiddo, Sharon, Damascus, Palestine 1917–18

The Debt Of Honour Register

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) was established by Royal Charter in 1917 as the Imperial War Graves Commission), and pays tribute to the 1,700,000 men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the two World Wars. It is a non-profit-making organisation founded by Sir Fabian Ware.

The CWGC's principles are:

Each of the dead should be commemorated by name on the headstone or memorial.
Headstones and memorials should be permanent.
Headstones should be uniform.
There should be no distinction made of account of military or civil rank, race or creed.

Since its inception, the Commission has constructed 2,500 war cemeteries and plots, erecting headstones over graves and, in instances where the remains are missing, inscribing the names of the dead on permanent memorials. Over one million casualties are now commemorated at military and civil sites in some 150 countries.

Together with the tasks of structural and horticultural maintenance, the CWGC is charged with keeping records of the 1.75 million Commonwealth war dead. At each cemetery and memorial you will find a register showing the service details and, in some cases, family details, of the men and women buried or commemorated there. Much of the Commission’s day-to-day work is concerned with maintaining the integrity of the casualty database, the electronic version of the records, which can be accessed via the Debt of Honour Register (DoHR).

It should be noted that in December 2020, the Commission reviewed their policy on amendments to the Casualty Database. One of the outcomes of the review was that they would no longer add Honours and Awards to the database where there is no entitlement to post-nominal letters. Therefore the recording of "Mentioned in Despatches", for instance, would no longer be carried out.

Some apparent inaccuracies in the records of Officers of the Dorset Yeomanry may have been found in the DoHR. The Webmaster will investigate and report these errors to the CWGC as the project/website is progressed.

Below is a brief summary of apparent inaccuracies discovered so far and action taken or planned to take.

Name	Apparent Inaccuracy	Date Reported to CWGC	Agreed by CWGC
CROSS, Lt Reginald Carlton	Attached to 2/4th Battalion South Lancs Regt at time of death.
RYAN, 2Lt Warwick John Norwood	Attached to Imperial Camel Corps at time of death.
SELLIER, Lt Anthony Lewis	Not commemorated by CWGC.
WAKEFIELD, Lt Frank Mahan	Attached to 17th (Cavalry) Sqn MGC at time of death.

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