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Roll of Honour of Officers of the Gloucestershire Regiment

Who Died in the Second World War

Those Officers Of The Gloucestershire Regiment Who Died During WW2

In 1944

Ref	Date	Surname	Forenames	Decs	Rank	Age	Unit	Cause	Country	Location/Area	Notes
1	9th January	PRICE	Randall Emerson Connop	-	Lt	21	Late of No 12 Commando	D	UK	Wrexham
2	9th March	HAUTING	Leslie Charles	MiD	Major	38	West African Recce Regiment	DOI	Nigeria	Kaduna
3	23rd April	JENNER-FUST	Herbert	-	Lt	21	1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment	KIA	Burma	Imphal
4	15th May	AVERY JONES	Christopher Richard	-	Lt	22	2nd Bn King's Own Royal Regiment	KIA	Burma	Hopin, S of Mogaung	(1)
5	21st May	CUMMING	John Angus	-	Capt	23	HQ 17th Indian Light Division	KIA	India	South of Imphal
6	11th June	EVANS	James Bruns	-	Lt	22	2nd Battalion	KIA	France	Tilly-sur-Seulles
7	16th June	TYLER	John Richard Michael	-	Lt	27	1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment	KIA	India	Chittagong	-
8	30th June	MACEY	Geoffrey Lionel	-	Lt	22	2nd Battalion	KIA	France	Northeast of Cheux
9	1st July	EDWARDS	William Lionel	-	Lt	25	2nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers	KIA	Italy	Assisi	-
10	4th July	MEEK	Douglas Henry	-	Lt	30	2nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers	KIA	Italy	Chiana Valley	-
11	26th July	HUGHES	Kenneth Stephen (Timothy)	-	Lt	21	2nd Battalion	KIA	France	La Roussellerie
12	29th July	ROGERS	Alan Michael	-	Capt	30	2nd Battalion	KIA	France	St Germain d'Ectot
13	10th August	HOOPER	Geoffrey Donald	-	Lt	21	2nd Battalion	DOW	France	CCS at Grand-Aunay	(2)
14	17th August	ALLEN	John	-	Capt	25	10th Battalion	KIA	Burma	Taungni
15	1st September	SMITH	Robert Alfred	-	Lt	20	13th Battalion Nigeria Regiment	LAS	At Sea	Lost at sea	(3)
16	11th September	LANCE	John Kenneth	MC	Major	35	2nd Battalion	KIA	France	Le Havre
17	4th October	THOMAS	Leslie Roy	-	Major	23	1st Battalion Dorset Regiment	KIA	Holland	North of Nijmegen
18	20th November	MOON	Arthur Anthony	-	Lt	29	1st Battalion Worcestershire Regt	KIA	Holland	Tripsrath
19	22nd November	DODSON	Gerald Lister Lindsell	-	Lt	23	10th Battalion	KIA	Burma	Pinwe
20	22nd November	SCHRYVER	Owen Michael	MC	Capt	24	10th Battalion	KIA	Burma	Pinwe
21	22nd November	STEADMAN	Anthony Clifford	MiD	Major	37	10th Battalion	KIA	Burma	Pinwe
22	22nd November	WETHERED	Guy Ernest Fitzgerald	-	Major	24	10th Battalion	KIA	Burma	Pinwe
23	24th November	ATHERTON	Giles de Vismes Bernard	-	Lt	22	10th Battalion	KIA	Burma	Pinwe
24	9th December	GRANT	Douglas Timothy	-	Lt	23	2nd Battalion	KIA	Holland	Elst
25	19th December	PARISH	Albert John Frederick	-	Lt	27	1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers	KIA	Italy	East of Bologna
26	23rd December	HAWKER	Thomas James	-	Lt	31	2nd Battalion DCLI	KIA	Greece	Athens
Officers of Other Regiments Who Died in 1944 Whilst Attached to the Gloucestershire Regiment
1	2nd July	LEVINE	John Orrell	-	Lt	23	2nd Battalion	KIA	France	Lafouru L'Eclin	R Can Inf
2	30th July	HOPPER	John Oliver	MiD	Major	32	2IC 2nd Battalion	KIA	France	Les Fouqueries	London Regt
3	17th August	WRIGHT	Royce	-	Lt	21	10th Battalion	KIA	Burma	Taungni	RA
4	5th October	SHAW	Jack	-	2Lt	27	2nd Battalion	DOW	Belgium	Lier	Devon Regt
5	31st October	WALTERS	Cyril	-	Lt	28	2nd Battalion	KIA	Belgium	Stampersgat	Devon Regt
6	3rd November	BANGS	Jack Philip Laurence	-	Lt	20	2nd Battalion	KIA	Belgium	Stampersgat	R Sussex Regt
7	6th November	BUTTERWORTH	Francis Wyndham Arthur	DSO, MBE	Lt Col	37	CO 2nd Battalion	DOW	Holland	Bergen-Op-Zoom	W Yorks Regt
8	18th November	GORDON	Henry Langston	-	Lt	?	10th Battalion	KIA	Burma	Pinwe	Gordon Hldrs
9	23rd November	GOULD	Allan Dalgleish	-	Capt	44	RMO 10th Battalion	KIA	Burma	Pinwe	RAMC
10	10th December	NICHOLAS	William Edward	-	Capt	29	2nd Battalion	KIA	Holland	Elst	R Can Inf
11	16th December	GARDINER	Thomas William	-	Lt	30	10th Battalion	KIA	Burma	CCS near Pinwe	Lancaster Regt
Notes: 1. AVERY JONES served in the 2nd CHINDIT Expedition. 2. HOOPER was wounded at Thury-Harcourt on 10th August 1944. 3. SMITH was reported to have been accidentally killed in West Africa on UK Casualty List No 1625 dated 9th December 1944 (amending Casualty List No 1543 dated 5th December 1944)