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Aim of the Website/Project
The aim of this part of the website is simple.
It is to collate into one place an accurate record of the
service and death of the 435 officers of the Gloucestershire
Regiment who died in the Great War and to make a permanent
record of their sacrifice. These officers
served and died for their country on land, sea and in the air
and are listed here in a
Regimental Roll of Honour.
Accuracy and Research
The author has taken every reasonable care to
ensure that the information on this website is as accurate as
possible. Please contact the author should errors or omissions be discovered by
visitors to the site in order that corrective action can be
taken. Contact details are shown below. Research is continuing
for further information which will be posted on the site as soon as it is checked and confirmed.
First World War Casualties
The formal dates of the First World War as
recognised by the UK Government are between 4th August 1914 and 31st August
1921 inclusive, and any member of the UK Armed Services who died
in this period, or as a result of their service during this
period, are officially registered and commemorated by the
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) either by an approved
headstone on the grave or if this is not possible or practical,
the name being inscribed on a relevant Memorial to the Missing.
The
Gloucestershire Regiment During the Great war
During the Great War the Gloucestershire Regiment was organised
into Regular, Territorial Force, Service and Reserve Battalions as
described
here.
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.
These Battalions earned a total of 87 Battle
Honours during the war and a list of these Honours can be
found here.
Facts and Figures
A total of 435 officers of the
Gloucestershire Regiment lost their lives in the Great War and a detailed
analysis of these casualties can be
viewed here.
433 are buried as war casualties or commemorated on
Memorials To The Missing throughout the world. The remaining 2 officers
(Pollock and Lane) have
not been classified as official war casualties and are buried in
private graves.
174 officers are buried in 119 cemeteries in France and
40 are buried in
28 cemeteries in Belgium. Officers
who were killed in battle and have no known grave are commemorated on Memorials To The Missing. There
are
90 officers who are commemorated on 9 memorials in
France
with 56 being listed on the Thiepval Memorial in the Somme area and 2 officers
who are currently incorrectly commemorated on memorials in
Belgium who should properly be commemorated in France - one on Thiepval
and the other on Pozieres A
further 32 officers are commemorated on 2 memorials in Belgium. 2 officers were lost at sea and are commemorated on special memorials.
There are 32 officers buried in the UK.
No officers were killed whilst serving with 18th (Service)
Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, which was formed in the UK
on 20th June 1918 and involved on active service in France
between August and November 1918.
80 officers of the Regiment
were killed or died whilst detached to other
Headquarters, Services, Units and fighting Battalions of other Regiments
and a list of these officers can be
viewed here.
A total of 60 officers of other Regiments lost their
lives in the Great War whilst serving with fighting Battalions of the
Gloucestershire Regiment. A list of their names and
details of their death can be viewed
here.
Project
Development
In addition to the basic sources of
information outlined on the main Home Page here, an enormous
amount regarding the Gloucestershire Regiment is available through the following organisations and
publications:
-
Commonwealth War Graves
Commission (CWGC)
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"Officers Died in the Great War" (ODGW)
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"Gallantry
Awards To The Gloucestershire Regiment" by Peter
Littlewood, MBE
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"The
Gloucestershire Regiment In The Great War 1914 - 1918"
by Everard Wyrall
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"2/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment 1914 - 1918"
by A F Barnes, MC
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"Bristol's Own" - The 12th Battalion
Gloucestershire Regiment 1914 - 1918 by Dean Marks
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"British
Regiments 1914 - 1918" by Brigadier E A
James
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Soldiers
of Gloucestershire Museum
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General Register Office (GRO) Index
To War Deaths 1914 - 1921, Army Officers
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Army Lists (1914
- 1921) (from the National Library of Scotland)
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Cross of Sacrifice - Officers Who Died 1914 - 1918
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Bond of Sacrifice
(Volumes 1 and 2)
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De Ruvigny's Roll
of Honour 1914 - 1918.
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War Office
officers personal files held in Catalogues WO339 and WO374 at The
National Archives
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Medal Index
Cards held in Catalogue WO 372 at The National Archives
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Service Medal and Award Rolls
1914 - 1918 held in Catalogue WO 329 at The National
Archives
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Battalion War
Diaries and Histories (available in Catalogue WO95 at the
National Archives)
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British First World War Trench Maps,
1915 - 1918 (from National Library of Scotland)
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National and Local
contemporary press.
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The Times Digital
Archive 1785 - 1985
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The
London Gazette.
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War Memorials and
commemorative plaques.
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The RAF Museum Archive (for RAF/RFC Casualty
Cards)
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Royal Flying Corps Research Data Website
-
Fatal Air Accidents in Britain Website (Period 1914 -
1920)
-
The
Great War Forum
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The
Imperial War Museum National War Memorial Register
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The
National Army Museum
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Ancestry.co.uk
- Military Records
-
The Long, Long Trail -
Discovering the British Army and its Soldiers in the Great
War
These sources
together form the basis of the
Roll of
Honour of Officers of the Gloucestershire Regiment who died in
the Great War.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
The CWGC commemorates those official
casualties who died in service, or died due to service, during
the First World War. The formal inclusive dates of the war are
between 4th August 1914 and 31st August 1921 and any member of
the UK and Commonwealth/Empire Armed Services who died during
this period are officially registered and commemorated by the
CWGC either by an approved headstone on the grave, or if this is
not possible or practical, the name being inscribed on a
Memorial to the Missing.
On 7th
February 2008, the MoD and CWGC accepted a case
submitted by the site author/webmaster on 17th November 2007 for 2Lt Hugh Dayrell McArthur,
9th (Service) Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, who was killed in an accident at
Bristol Temple Meads Railway Station on 3rd November 1914, to be
accepted as an official war casualty and to be included in the Debt of Honour
Register. It was not until late in 2019 that his place of burial was
found and published by the CWGC.
In December 2020, the Commission reviewed their
policy on amendments to the Casualty Database. One of the
outcomes of the review was that they would no longer add awards to the
database where there is no entitlement to post-nominal letters.
Therefore the recording of "Mentioned in Despatches", for
instance, would no longer be carried out.
There are some apparent
anomalies in the individual records in the Debt of Honour Register
maintained by the CWGC and these are
listed here with
the suggested corrective action taken, and the long term aim is to correct all of these
inaccuracies.
Roll of Honour of
Officers of the Gloucestershire Regiment Who Died In WW2
An
alphabetical roll of the 62 officers of the Gloucestershire Regiment who were killed
or died during the Second World War can be
viewed here.
Officers of
Other Corps and Regiments Honoured and Remembered in this Website/Project
Also
recorded and honoured in this website/project are the names of
fallen officers
of the following Yeomanry, Royal Engineer and Infantry Regiments:
Site Author and Webmaster
The site author/webmaster can be contacted here:
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