Gloucestershire Regiment - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Gloucestershire Regiment Who Died In The Great War Whilst Serving With 3rd (Reserve) Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment

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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 3rd (Reserve) Battalion

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1915
1	20th March	BAYNES	Nigel William Francis	Major	-	37	DOI	UK	Westminster, London	Marlow (St Peter's) RC Churchyard (NW Corner)	(1)
Died in 1917
2	17th January	BUSH	Hugh Godfrey De Lisle	Lt	MiD	24	DOW	UK	Torquay, Devon	Eastington (St Michael's and All Angels) NW Part	(2)
Died in 1918
3	22nd September	BLOCK	Frederick James	Major	-	63	DOI	UK	Hove, Sussex	Hove Old Cemetery (B.J.29)	-
Died in 1919
4	6th March	DENNY	Thomas David William	Lt	MM	28	DOI	UK	Maidstone, Kent	Bearsted (Holy Cross) Churchyard (NW part)	(3)
5	6th August	BURGES	George Herbert	Col	CB, CBE, MiD	54	DOI	UK	Axbridge, Somerset	Warfield (St Michael's) Churchyard Ext (NE part)	(4)
Notes: 1. BAYNES was seriously wounded in action whilst serving with 1st Battalion at Festubert on 21st December 1914. He was evacuated to UK and placed on the Sick List. Died of pneumonia and complications from these wounds. Posthumously promoted to Major from 2nd February 1915. 2. BUSH was seriously wounded in action whilst serving with 1st Battalion at Chalk Pit Wood, Loos on 6th October 1915. 3. DENNY had soldier service with 2nd Battalion in France and Flanders and then Salonika. 4. BURGES commanded the Battalion during the war years.

Battalion History

The Battalion was formed in 1908, under the Haldane Reforms of 1908, from the 3rd (Militia) Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, as the Regular Reserve Battalion of the Regiment. Full Title - 3rd (Reserve) Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment.

On declaration of war on 4th August 1914, the Battalion was stationed at Horfield Barracks, Bristol, assigned to Home Defence duties and to providing trained reinforcements to fighting Battalions. On mobilisation the Battalion was moved to Abbey Wood, London, to guard the Woolwich Arsenal. The 11th (Service) Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment was formed alongside the 3rd Battalion at Abbey Wood in October 1914 part of "K4". In April 1915 this Battalion was moved to Cheltenham and became a Second Line Reserve Battalion to train and provide reinforcements for the Kitchener Battalions of the Regiment. The 3rd Battalion was moved to Gravesend in the Thames Approaches in May 1915. The Battalion moved to the Sittingbourne-Maidstone area in May 1916 for duty with Thames and Medway Garrison where it remained for the rest of the war.

After the war the Battalion returned to Bristol and was disbanded there on 9th August 1919, with personnel being transferred to the 1st Battalion.

A detailed history of 3rd (Reserve) Battalion can be viewed here.

Regimental History

The Gloucestershire Regiment was formed on 1st July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms which saw the amalgamation of the 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot and the 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot. These two units became respectively the regular 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Regiment, with the Regimental Depot based at Horfield Barracks, Bristol. The 1881 reforms also redesignated the Militia and Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVC) units within the Regimental District of Gloucestershire as Battalions of the Regiment - the Royal South Gloucestershire Militia forming the 3rd (Militia) Battalion and the Royal North Gloucestershire Militia forming the 4th Militia Battalion. The 1st (City of Bristol) Gloucestershire Rifle Volunteers formed the 1st (City of Bristol) Volunteer Battalion and the 2nd Gloucestershire Rifle Volunteers forming the 2nd Volunteer Battalion.

In 1908, as part of the Haldane Reforms, the two Militia Battalions were reorganised and restructured forming the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion and the three Volunteer Battalions (the 3rd Volunteer Battalion had been formed in 1900) were reformed as the 4th, 5th and 6th Battalions of the Regimental Territorial Force (TF). After the Declaration of War on 4th August 1914 and at various stages up to 1st July 1918, the Gloucestershire Regiment had formed, disbanded or reconstituted up to 27 Regular, Territorial Force, Service and Reserve Battalions.

A detailed history of the Gloucestershire Regiment can be viewed here, here and here.