Fallen Officers of the Great War   |   Gloucestershire Regiment

No

Date Died

Surname

Forenames

Rank

Decs

Age

Cause

Country

Location

Cemetery/Memorial (Plot/Panel)

Note

Died in 1915 (12 officers)

1

7th August

JOHNSON

Geoffrey Robert

2Lt

-

22

DOW

Gallipoli, Turkey

Anzac Cove

Helles Memorial (101/104)

(1)

2

7th August

VASSALL

Phillips Saumarez

Capt

MiD*

39

KIA

Gallipoli, Turkey

Rhododendron Spur, west of Chunuk Bair

Helles Memorial (101/104)

-

3

8th August

BURNABY

Eustace Hotham

Capt

-

35

KIA

Gallipoli, Turkey

Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli

Helles Memorial (101/104)

-

4

8th August

RUCK

John Egerton

Major

-

31

KIA

Gallipoli, Turkey

Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli

Helles Memorial (101/104)

-

5

8th August

TOMKINS

Frank Savill

Lt

-

28

KIA

Gallipoli, Turkey

Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli

Helles Memorial (101/104)

-

6

8th August

VENABLES

Charles John

Major

DSO, MiD

50

KIA

Gallipoli, Turkey

Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli

Helles Memorial (101/104)

-

7

8th August

WILLOUGHBY

Edwin Charles

Capt

-

34

DOW

Gallipoli, Turkey

DS near Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli

Helles Memorial (101/104)

(2)

8

9th August

PHILLPOTTS

Fitzroy Charles

Lt

-

20

DOW

Gallipoli, Turkey

DS near Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli

Helles Memorial (101/104)

(3)

9

9th August

SQUIRE

Stanley Charles

Lt

-

22

KIA

Gallipoli, Turkey

West of Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli

Helles Memorial (101/104)

-

10

1st November

PICKERING

Thomas

2Lt

-

22

DOI

Egypt

Hospital at Alexandria

Alexandra (Chatby) Mem Cemetery (Q.540)

-

11

2nd November

HASLOCK

John Charles Simeon

2Lt

-

29

DOW

Gallipoli, Turkey

CCS at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli

Helles Memorial (101/104)

(4)

12

9th December

FORREST

Evelyn Arthur Atherley

Lt

-

23

DOI

Malta

Hospital at Pieta

Pieta Military Cemetery (D.XII.6)

-

Died in 1916 (8 officers)

13

20th April

BOULTON

Wallace Dawson

2Lt

-

21

KIA

Mesopotamia (Iraq)

Sannaiyat, near Kut, River Tigris

Basra Memorial (17)

-

14

20th April

BROWNING

Edwin Ormonde

2Lt

-

23

KIA

Mesopotamia (Iraq)

Sannaiyat, near Kut, River Tigris

Basra Memorial (17)

-

15

20th April

FYSON

George Du Milo

2Lt

-

21

KIA

Mesopotamia (Iraq)

Sannaiyat, near Kut, River Tigris

Basra Memorial (17)

-

16

21st April

RATHBONE

Guy Benson

Capt

MiD

32

KIA

Mesopotamia (Iraq)

Sannaiyat, near Kut, River Tigris

Basra Memorial (17)

-

17

21st April

SCAMELL

Reginald Frank

Capt

MiD

32

KIA

Mesopotamia (Iraq)

Sannaiyat, near Kut, River Tigris

Basra Memorial (17)

-

18

22nd April

TRESSIDER

Charles Tolmie

Capt

-

28

KIA

Mesopotamia (Iraq)

Sannaiyat, near Kut, River Tigris

Basra Memorial (17)

-

19

18th December

CAUNTER

Richard Lawrence Luscombe

2Lt

-

25

DOW

Mesopotamia (Iraq)

Hospital at Amara

Amara War Cemetery (XV.D.7)

(5)

20

29th December

STONE

Frederick James

Capt

-

24

DOW

Mesopotamia (Iraq)

Hospital at Amara

Amara War Cemetery (XIV.J.15)

(6)

Died in 1917 (6 officers)

21

3rd February

BAINES

Henry Parkyn Bridge

2Lt

-

35

KIA

Mesopotamia (Iraq)

Near Kala-Hafi-Fahan, south of Kut-el-Amara

Basra Memorial (Panel 17)

-

22

3rd February

BARNES

John Edward Templeman

Capt

-

21

KIA

Mesopotamia (Iraq)

Near Kala-Hafi-Fahan, south of Kut-el-Amara

Basra Memorial (Panel 17)

-

23

3rd February

HARRIS

William Gregory

2Lt

-

27

KIA

Mesopotamia (Iraq)

Near Kala-Hafi-Fahan, south of Kut-el-Amara

Basra Memorial (Panel 17)

-

24

25th February

CROSS

Frank Alan

2Lt

-

21

KIA

Mesopotamia (Iraq)

West of Nahr al Massag, RiverTigris

Basra Memorial (Panel 17)

-

25

2nd March

ROBERTSON

Eustace James

Capt

-

26

DOW

Mesopotamia (Iraq)

Hospital at Amara

Amara War Cemetery (Shaik Saad Old Cem)

(7)

26

29th March

STANWAY

Frank

2Lt

-

25

KIA

Mesopotamia (Iraq)

Near Mara, north of Baghdad

Baghdad (North Gate) Cemetery (XIX.E.8)

-

Officers of Other Regiments Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 7th Battalion    (3 officers)

1

20th April 1916

CLARK

Arthur Vivian

2Lt

MiD

24

KIA

Mesopotamia (Iraq)

Sannaiyat, near Kut, River Tigris

Amara War Cemetery (XXI.D.2)

General List

2

21st April 1916

YOUNGHUSBAND

Harold

Lt Col

DSO, MiD

39

KIA

Mesopotamia (Iraq)

Sannaiyat, near Kut, River Tigris

Basra Memorial (Panel 12)

Beds Regt

3

16th June 1916

NORRIS

Kenneth Arthur Annesley

2Lt

-

19

DOW

Mesopotamia (Iraq)

Hospital at Basra

Basra War Cemetery (VI.M.15)

(8)  R W Kent R

Notes:

1.   JOHNSON was wounded near Aghyl Dere on 7th August 1915.

2.   WILLOUGHBY was wounded at Chunuk Bair on 8th August 1915.

3.   PHILLPOTTS  was wounded at Chunuk Bair on 9th August 1915.

4.   HASLOCK was wounded at the "B68, B69" area in the Sulajik Sector on 28th October 1915.

5.   CAUNTER was wounded at "Pointed Ruin", south of Kut, on 14th December 1916.

6.   STONE was wounded at  "Pointed Ruin", south of Kut, on 14th December 1916.

7.   ROBERTSON was wounded west of Nahr al Massag, Shumran bend on the River Tigris on 25th February 1917.

8.   NORRIS died of wounds previously received in a bomb accident in the UK in early 1916.   He had only joined the unit on 15th May 1916.

The Battalion was formed at Horfield Barracks Bristol as a Service Battalion on 19th August 1914, part of "K1", under Lt Col R P Jordan, DSO.   Full Title - 7th (Service) Battalion.   The Battalion assembled and concentrated at Tidworth and was placed under command of 39th Infantry Brigade, part of 13th (Western) Division.   The Battalion was moved to Basingstoke in January 1915 and by the end of February the arms and equipment of the13th (Western) Division were almost complete and the Division concentrated at Blackdown Camp, near Aldershot for its final intensive combat training.   On 7th June 1915 the 13th (Western) Division received warning orders for service in the Mediterranean theatre with embarkation orders following on the 10th June.    The Battalion sailed from Avonmouth Docks on 19th June 1915 via Alexandria to Mudros, and on 11 July 1915 the Battalion landed on Y Beach at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli Peninsula   A detailed history of the Battalion's history and involvement at Gallipoli, Egypt, Mesopotamia and in the North Persia Force ("Dunsterforce") can be viewed here.   

The Battalion was stationed at Constantinople in September 1919 and after many personnel had been demobilised it was disbanded with remaining personnel being transferred to  8th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry of 26th Division.

The Battalion earned 10 Battle Honours during the Great War:  Gallipoli 1915-16,  Egypt 1916,  Mesopotamia 1916 - 18,  Persia 1918,  Suvla,  Sari Bair,  Scimitar Hill,  Tigris 1916,  Kut 1917,  Baghdad.

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.