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 27 officers of the Herefordshire 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 above and below.   Research is continuing for further information which will be posted on to the site as soon as it is checked and verified.

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.   All of the officers listed in these Regimental Rolls of Honour are those registered and commemorated by the CWGC.  

The Herefordshire Regiment During the Great War

Project Development

In addition to the basic sources of information outlined on the main Project Home Page, an enormous amount regarding officers of the Herefordshire Regiment is available through the following organisations and publications:

•  Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)

•  Officers Died in the Great War" (ODGW)

•  Manu Forti: History of the Herefordshire Regiment - 1860-1967 by J T B Hill

•  British Regiments 1914 - 1918:   by Brigadier E A James

•  Herefordshire Light Infantry Museum

•  General Register Office (GRO) Index To War Deaths 1914 - 1921, Army Officers

•  Army Lists (1914 - 1921) (from the National Library of Scotland)

•  Cross of Sacrifice - Officers Who Died 1914 1918

•  Bond of Sacrifice (Volumes 1 and 2)

•  De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914 - 1918

•  War Office officer personal files held in Catalogues WO339 and WO374 at The National Archives

•  Medal Index Cards held in Catalogue WO 372 at The National Archives

•  Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914 - 1918 held in Catalogue WO 329 at The National Archives

•  Battalion War Diaries and Histories (available in Catalogue WO95 at the National Archives)

•  British First World War Trench Maps, 1915 - 1918 (from National Library of Scotland)

•  National and Local contemporary press.

•  The Times Digital Archive 1785 - 1985

•  The London Gazette

•  War Memorials and commemorative plaques

•   The RAF Museum Archive (for RFC/RAF Casualty cards)

•  Royal Flying Corps Reserach Data Website

•  Fatal Air Accidents ibn Britain Website (Period 1914 - 1920) 

•  The Great War Forum

•  The Imperial War Museum Register of War Memorials

•  The National Army Museum

•  The Long, Long Trail - Discovering the British Army and its Soldiers in the Great War

•  The Wartime Memories Project

•  Ancestry.co.uk  Military Records

These sources, with others, together form the basis of the Roll of Honour of Officers of the Herefordshire 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 inclusive and any member of the UK 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.

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.

In December 2020, the Commission reviewed its 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.  

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:

• Cheshire Yeomanry

• Denbighshire Yeomanry

• Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry

• Royal North Devon Yeomanry

• Dorset Yeomanry

• Glamorgan Yeomanry

• Gloucestershire Yeomanry (Royal Gloucestershire Hussars)

• Montgomeryshire Yeomanry

• Pembroke Yeomanry

• Shropshire Yeomanry

• North Somerset Yeomanry

• West Somerset Yeomanry

• Welsh Horse Yeomanry

• Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers

• Devonshire Regiment

• Dorsetshire Regiment

• Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

• Gloucestershire Regiment

• Herefordshire Regiment

• The King's (Shropshire Light Infantry)

• Monmouthshire Regiment

• Royal Welsh Fusiliers

• Somerset Light Infantry

• South Wales Borderers

• Welsh Guards

• Welsh Regiment

Site Author and Web Master

The site author/web master can be contacted here:   fallenofficersofthegreatwar@gmail.com