Gloucestershire Regiment - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Gloucestershire Regiment Who Died In The Great War Whilst Serving With 2/4th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment TF

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Roll of Honour of Officers of the Gloucestershire Regiment

Who Died in the Great War

Those Officers of The Gloucestershire Regiment Who Died in the Great War

Whilst Serving With 2/4th Battalion (TF)

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1916 (6 officers)
1	26th June	HADINGHAM	Roy Matthew	Lt	-	21	KIA	France	Colvin Trench, near Mauquissart	Loos Memorial (Panel 60 to 64)	(1)
2	4th July	MOORE	Ernest Leonard	2Lt	-	26	DOAW	France	CCS at Merville	Merville Communal Cemetery (VII.A.21)	(2)
3	5th July	HANNAM	Francis John	Capt	-	36	DOW	France	Near Fauquissart, south east of Laventie	Laventie Military Cemetery, La Gorgue (II.A.15)	(3)
4	19th July	JAMES	Donald Croft	2Lt	-	19	KIA	France	Near "Wick Salient", north west of Fromelles	Thiepval Memorial (should be Loos Memorial)	(4)
5	19th July	SCRASE	Reginald George	Lt	-	34	KIA	France	Near "Wick Salient", north west of Fromelles	Thiepval Memorial (should be Loos Memorial)	(5)
6	18th October	PRATT	Ralph Lewis	Capt	-	41	KIA	France	Near Neuve Chapelle	Pont-Du-Hem Military Cemetery, La Gorgue (II.B.18)	-
Died in 1917 (4 officers)
7	18th May	COX	Walter Ewart	2Lt	-	27	KIA	France	Fresnoy le Petit, north of Holnon	Chapelle British Cemetery, Holnon (I.D.6)	-
8	27th August	BEAVON	Donald James	2Lt	-	28	KIA	Belgium	"Pond Farm", near Gravenstafel	Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 72 to 75)	-
9	27th August	HADLEY	Ernest Sidney	2Lt	-	?	KIA	Belgium	"Pond Farm", near Gravenstafel	Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 72 to 75)	-
10	27th August	HALL	Frank Leslie	Lt	-	20	KIA	Belgium	"Pond Farm", near Gravenstafel	Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 72 to 75)	-
Officers of Other Regiments Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 2/4th Battalion (4 officers)
1	30th July 1916	FOOT	James Stanley	Capt	-	35	KIA	France	Near Fauquissart, south east of Laventie	Laventie Military Cemetery, La Gorgue (II.D.12)	Welsh Regt
2	18th October 1916	OWEN	Arthur Edmund	Lt	-	20	DOW	France	CCS at Merville	Merville Communal Cemetery (VII.A.29)	N'Hants Regt (6)
3	19th August 1917	DUDDLE	William Kearsley	2Lt	-	29	KIA	Belgium	"Pond Farm", near Gravenstafel	Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 54 to 60)	Lancs Fusiliers
4	1st December 1917	ROBSON	Charles Henry	Capt	-	30	KIA	France	La Vacquerie, south west of Cambrai	Cambrai Memorial (Panel 13)	RAMC
Notes: 1. HADINGHAM initially reported missing on 22nd June 1916. 2. MOORE was accidentally wounded during a training exercise at Riez Bailleul near Laventie on 29th June 1916. 3. HANNAM was wounded during a raid on the German trenches opposite Fauquissart, south east of Laventie on 5th July 1916. 4. JAMES should properly be commemorated on the Loos Memorial. 5. SCRASE should properly be commemorated on the Loos Memorial. 6. OWEN was wounded at Neuve Chapelle, south of Laventie on 17th October 1916.

Battalion History

Formed at Bristol as the Second Line of the 4th Battalion in September 1914. Full Title - 2/4th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment (Territorial Force). Assigned to 183rd Infantry Brigade, 61st (2nd South Midland) Division in January 1915. Arrived with the BEF in France on 25th May 1916.

Served in France and Flanders throughout the war (Fauquissart, Somme, Peronne, St Quentin, Ypres, Arras, Cambrai).

4 Battle Honours, earned at: France and Flanders 1915 - 1918, Ypres 1917, Langemarck 1917, Cambrai 1917.

The Battalion disbanded on 20th February 1918, personnel beinmg transferred to 2/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment and the 24th Entrenching Battalion.

Regimental History

Detailed regimental history of the Gloucestershire Regiment can be viewed here, here and here.