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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 9th (Service) Battalion

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1914 (1 officer)
1	3rd November	McARTHUR	Hugh Dayrell	2Lt	-	26	A	UK	Temple Meads Railway Station, Bristol	Brompton Cemetery (W1.172677)	(1)
Died in 1917 (3 officers)
2	6th March	IRWIN	Richard Nynian	Lt	-	19	KIA	Salonika	Near Doljeli, south west of Lake Doiran	Karasouli Military Cemetery (C.565)	-
3	26th April	GRIFFITHS	Walter Edward Lambourn	Capt	-	22	KIA	Salonika	Jumeaux Ravine, south of Doiran	Karasouli Military Cemetery (A.109)	-
4	18th May	BARRATT	Harold Charles Edward	2Lt	-	21	DOW	Salonika	Military Hospital at Salonika	Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery (O.35)	(2)
Died in 1918 (2 officers)
5	29th October	HOWARD	Gilbert Gordon	Lt	-	21	DOW	France	41st CCS at Roisel	Roisel Communal Cemetery Extension (I.E.15)	(3)
6	23rd December	HAWKER	Albert Victor	Lt	-	26	DOI	France	Hospital at Marseilles	Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles (III.B.51)	-
Notes: 1. McARTHUR was killed in an accident at Bristol (Temple Meads) Railway Station. 2. BARRATT was wounded near "Hampshire Ridge", Lake Doiran on 8th May 1917. 3. HOWARD was wounded near Le Cateau on 27th October 1918.

Battalion History

The Battalion was formed at Horfield Barracks, Bristol as a Service Battalion in September 1914, as part of "K3", under Lt Col H R Tufnell. Full Title - 9th (Service) Battalion. The Battalion assembled and concentrated at Coford St Mary, near warminster, and was placed under command of 78th Infantry Brigade, part of 26th Division. In the winter of 1914 the 78th Brigade Group were moved and billeted in the Cheltenham area before returning to Sandhill Camp in the Warminster area in April 1915. In September 1915 the Division was ordered to proceed to France to reinforce the BEF. The Battalion departed Sandhill Camp on 21st September 1915 for Folkestone Docks and embarked for Boulogne, arriving there on 22nd September. On 25th September the Battalion began its long march to the area northeast of Villers-Bretonneux arriving on 29th September when it was attached to the 5th Division for instruction in trench warfare. In late October 1915 the 26th Division received orderes to proceed to Salonika to join the XII Corps of the British Salonika Force, concentrating at Flesselles before moving to Marseilles for embarkation for Salonika, arriving there on 25th November. The Battalion fought in Salonika until July 1918 when it was returned to the BEF in France serving with 198th Brigade of the 66th (2nd East Lancashire) Division, later in September 1918 becomming the Pioneer Battalion of that Division.

The Battalion was disbanded on the Rhine in November 1919.

6 Battle Honours - earned at: France and Flanders 1915-1918, Macedonia 1915-1918, Doiran 1917, Cambrai 1918, Hindenburg Line, Selle.

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.