Herefordshire Regiment - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Herefordshire Regiment Who Died in the Great War

Ref	Date	SURNAME	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Unit	Cause	Country	Location/Area/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in1915
1	11th August	CROFT	Sir Herbert Archer	Capt	-	46	1/1st Battalion	KIA	Turkey	Amzak Dere, near Suvla Bay, Gallipoli	Helles Memorial (Panel 199/200)	-
2	12th August	CARLESS	Wilfrid Townshend	Major	-	39	1/1st Battalion	KIA	Turkey	Amzak Dere, near Suvla Bay, Gallipoli	Helles Memorial (Panel 199/200)	-
3	24th September	REEVE	Herbert Joseph	2Lt	-	20	1/1st Battalion	DOI	Malta	Military Hospital at Pieta, near Valletta	Pieta Military cemetery (B.XIV.1)	(1)
Died in1916
4	9th March	LLOYD	Wymond Howard	Capt	-	23	3/1st Battalion	AK	UK	Near Park Hall Camp, Oswestry	Llangadog Churchyard, Carmarthenshire	(2)
5	3rd September	DUFF-GORDON	Cosmo Lewis	Lt	-	19	att to 13th Coy MGC	KIA	France	Falfemont Farm, Guillemont, Somme	Delville Wood Cemetery (XXVI. K. 2)	-
Died in1917
6	9th January	HOLMAN	Arthur Victor	Capt	-	40	3/1st Battalion	DOI	UK	Cheltenham	Prestbury (St Mary's) Churchyard (East Part)	(3)
7	26th March	COURT	Reginald Walter Southwood	2Lt	-	35	1/1st Battalion	KIA	Palestine	Gaza	Jerusalem Memorial (Panel 52)	-
8	26th March	SALE	Richard Crawford	Capt	MiD	22	1/1st Battalion	KIA	Palestine	Gaza	Jerusalem Memorial (Panel 52)	-
9	26th March	WILSON	Alec	Capt	-	21	1/1st Battalion	KIA	Palestine	Gaza	Jerusalem Memorial (Panel 52)	-
10	27th March	LEVASON	Desmond George Grenville	Capt	-	25	1/1st Battalion	DOW	Palestine	Gaza	Gaza War Cemetery (XVI.F.7)	(4)
11	27th March	WHITTAKER	William Robert	Lt	-	23	1/1st Battalion	KIA	Palestine	Gaza	Jerusalem Memorial (Panel 52)	-
12	15th April	MARSHALL	Ambrose	2Lt	-	38	att to 4th Bn Bedford Regt	KIA	France	North east of Arras	Bailleul Road East Cemetery, St Laurent-Blangy (I.C.31)	-
13	10th May	CROSSLEY	Alan Hastings	Lt	-	39	1/1st Battalion	DOW	Egypt	Military Hospital at Cairo	Cairo War Memorial Cemetery (F.239)	(5)
14	12th August	PETTIGREW	Gilbert Thomas Richardson	Lt	-	25	att 66th Trg Sqn RFC	KWF	UK	Winterbourne Monckton, Wilts	Warwick Cemetery (52.C.34)	(6)
15	8th October	YEOMANS	Haywood William	Capt	-	25	att 112th Coy MGC	KIA	Belgium	North east of Ypres	New Irish Farm Cemetery (XXXII.B.3)	-
16	4th November	JORDAN	Leonard Owen	Capt	MC	24	att 1/4th Bn KSLI	KIA	France	Maresches, near Valenciennes	Maresches Communal Cemetery (NW Part)	-
17	6th November	BERNEY	George Norman	Capt	MiD	25	1/1st Battalion	KIA	Palestine	Tel el Khuweilfeh, near Beersheba	Beersheba War Cemetery (E.18)	-
18	6th November	CARVER	Walter Lionel	Capt	-	34	1/1st Battalion	KIA	Palestine	Tel el Khuweilfeh, near Beersheba	Beersheba War Cemetery (E.38)	-
19	6th November	MITCHELL	Percy Maschwitz	Lt	-	29	1/1st Battalion	KIA	Palestine	Tel el Khuweilfeh, near Beersheba	Beersheba War Cemetery (E.48)	-
20	6th November	RUSSELL	Edward Stanley	Capt	MC	34	1/1st Battalion	KIA	Palestine	Tel el Khuweilfeh, near Beersheba	Beersheba War Cemetery (E.21)	-
21	6th November	VAUGHAN	Charles	2Lt	DCM	26	1/1st Battalion	KIA	Palestine	Tel el Khuweilfeh, near Beersheba	Beersheba War Cemetery (E.15)	-
22	6th November	WATTS	John Howe	2Lt	-	23	1/1st Battalion	KIA	Palestine	Tel el Khuweilfeh, near Beersheba	Beersheba War Cemetery (E.17)	-
23	5th December	JONES	Frederick Thomas Averay	2Lt	-	34	att to 2nd Bn Monmouth Regt	DOW	France	Military Hospital at Rouen	St Sever cemetery, Rouen (Offrs.B.7.14)	(7)
24	29th December	WELLS	Norman Arthur	2Lt	-	27	1/1st Battalion	DOW	Palestine	Military Hospital at Jerusalem	Jerusalem War Cemetery (S.6)	(8)
Died in1918
25	16th May	PRITCHETT	Edward Guy	Lt	-	31	att to 6th Bn KSLI	KIA	France	Hirondelle Wood, near La Coulette	Arras Memorial (Bay 10)	-
26	30th May	HOWELL	Reginald	Lt	-	24	att to 2/5th Bn Glos Regt	POW	Germany	Hospital at Heilbronn, near Stuttgart	Niederzwehren Cemetery, Kassel (II.B.11)	(9)
27	1st August	WHITEHOUSE	Augustin George Richard	Major	MC	25	1/1st Battalion	KIA	France	Near Soissons	Raperie British Cemetery, Villemontoire (IX.D.4)	-
Notes: 1. REEVE died of dysentery contracted whilst serving at Gallipoli. 2. LLOYD was struck by a train on 8th March 1916. 3. HOLMAN died of pneumonia whilst on sick leave in the UK. 4. LEVASON was wounded near Gaza on 26th March 1917 during the opening phase of the First battle of Gaza. 5. CROSSLEY was wounded at Gaza on 19th April 1917. 6. PETTIGREW was killed when his aircraft, DH6 Serial No. A9619, accidentally crashed near Winterbourne Monckton, Wilts. 7. JONES was wounded near Cambrai on 2nd December 1917. 8. WELLS was wounded near Jerusalem on 27th December 1917. 9. HOWELL was attached to 2/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment and was wounded at Holnon Wood, west of St Quentin and captured by the Germans on 22nd March 1918.

Those Officers of Other Regiments Who Died in the Great War

Whilst Serving With The Herefordshire Regiment

Ref	Date	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Area/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
1	24th July	SWORDER	John Perkins	Lt	-	28	DOW	France	CCS near Vauxbuin	Vauxbuin French National Cemetery (II.B.17)	(1)
2	1st August 1918	DRUMMOND-FRASER	Haddo Reginald	Capt	MC	22	KIA	France	Bucy le Bras, near Beugneux	Rapiere British Cemetery (IX.D.3)	(2)
3	4th September 1918	BENNETT	Ralph	2Lt	-	21	KIA	Belgium	Southwest of Wytschaete	Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 75/77)	(3)
4	4th September 1918	LISTER	Herbert Dixon	2Lt	-	32	KIA	Belgium	Southwest of Wytschaete	Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 93/94)	(4)
5	10th October	WARD	Thomas Pryce	2Lt	-	21	DOW	Belgium	CCS at Lijssenthoek	Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery (XXX.B.8)	(5)
6	15th October	WILLIAMS	Daniel Llewellyn	2Lt	-	25	KIA	Belgium	West of Menin	Dadizeele New British cemetery (IV.A.18)	(6)
Notes: 1. SWORDER was wounded near Longpont, near Soissons on 23rd July 1918. He was originally buried in a battlefield grave near Longpont and reburied at Vauxbuin in July 1920. He was detached from The Royal West Surrey Regiment. 2. DRUMMOND-FRASER was detached from the Cheshire Regiment. 3. BENNETT was detached from the Worcestershire Regiment. 4. LISTER was detached from the Welsh Regiment. 5. WARD was wounded on 3rd October 1918 southwest of Wytschaete. He was detached from South Wales Borderers. 6. WILLIAMS was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the west of Menin and reburied at Dadizeele in October 1919. He was detached from Welsh Regiment.

Regimental History

In the Great War the Herefordshire Regiment was unusual in that it had no units of the Regular Army. All of the Regimental Battalions shown below were of the Territorial Force (TF).

1/1st Battalion

At the outbreak of war in August 1914 the Battalion was based at Hereford, part of the Welsh Border Brigade in the Welsh Division. The Battalion was moved to its operational location on mobilisation to Pembroke Dock but was soon moved to Oswestry, and by the end of the month was based at Irchester and Rushden in Northamptonshire. The Battalion was moved on to Bury St Edmunds in December 1914.
On 24th April 1915 the Battalion was placed under command of the North Wales Brigade in the same Division, and then moved to Bedford in May 1915.
On 13th May 1915 the North Wales Brigade became 158th Brigade in 53rd (Welsh) Division TF and on 16th July 1915 the Battalion embarked at Devonport on SS Euripedes, with 29 officers and 969 other ranks. On reaching Port Said the Battalion was reduced to 25 officers and 750 other ranks and these men went on to land at ‘C’ beach at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli at 7.20am on 9 August 1915. Their Divisional artillery had been left behind in England under orders for the BEF in France, and the Division had no other wheeled transport and no horses.
On 12th December 1915 the Battalion evacuated from Gallipoli and moved to Egypt for in preparation for combat operations in the Palestine Campaign.
The Battalion left the Division on 1st June 1918 and moved via Italy to France, landing at Taranto (Italy) on 22nd June 1918. The unit arrived at Proven in Belgium 30th June 1918 and came under command of 102nd Brigade in 34th Division.

For their part in the landing at Suvla Bay on 9 August 1915 the Battalion was "Mentioned in Despatches" by General Sir Ian Hamilton. …….the 1st/1st Herefordshire, which attacked with impetuosity and courage between Hetman Chair and Kaslar Chair about Azmak Dere on the extreme right of his line.

2/1st Battalion

This Battalion was formed at Hereford in September 1914 as the Regimental Second Line Battalion forming the depot and training establishment for the Regiment and providing trained reinforcements for the 1/1st Battalion.
In December 1914 the Battalion moved to Aberystwyth and in April 1915 moved on to Northampton where it came under orders of 205th Brigade in 68th Division. In May and June 1915 the Battalion worked on North London defences in the Billericay area. The Battalion moved to Bedford in July 1915 and on to Lowestoft in November 1915. The Battalion moved on to Herringfleet, Suffolk, in May 1917 and was finally disbanded on 10 September 1917.

3/1st Battalion

Formed in Hereford in February 1915 as the Regimental depot and training establishment for the Regiment and reinforcement unit for the 1/1st and 2/1st Battalions. The Battalion moved to Abergavenny and by September 1915 was based at Oswestry. Renamed 1st (Reserve) Battalion Herefordshire Regiment on 8th April 1916 it then merged with 4th (Reserve) Battalion of the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry at Swansea on 24th July 1917.

A detailed history of the Herefordshire Regiment can be can be viewed here and in the book "Manu Forti: History of the Herefordshire Regiment - 1860-1967" by J T B Hill.

The Debt Of Honour Register

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) was established by Royal Charter in 1917 as the Imperial War Graves Commission, and pays tribute to the 1,700,000 men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the two World Wars. It is a non-profit-making organisation founded by Sir Fabian Ware.

The CWGC's principles are:

Each of the dead should be commemorated by name on the headstone or memorial.
Headstones and memorials should be permanent.
Headstones should be uniform.
There should be no distinction made of account of military or civil rank, race or creed.

Since its inception, the Commission has constructed 2,500 war cemeteries and plots, erecting headstones over graves and, in instances where the remains are missing, inscribing the names of the dead on permanent memorials. Over one million casualties are now commemorated at military and civil sites in some 150 countries.

Together with the tasks of structural and horticultural maintenance, the CWGC is charged with keeping records of the 1.75 million Commonwealth war dead. At each cemetery and memorial you will find a register showing the service details and, in some cases, family details, of the men and women buried or commemorated there. Much of the Commission’s day-to-day work is concerned with maintaining the integrity of the casualty database, the electronic version of the records, which can be accessed via the Debt of Honour Register (DoHR).

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.

Some apparent inaccuracies in the records of Officers of the Herefordshire Regiment contained in the DoHR may have been found. The Webmaster will investigate and report these errors to the CWGC as the project/website is progressed.

Below is a brief summary of apparent inaccuracies discovered so far and action taken or planned to take.

Name Apparent Inaccuracy Date Reported to CWGC Agreed by CWGC

PETTIGREW, Lt Gilbert Thomas Richardson

Unit of RFC not recorded (66th Trg Sqn RFC)

JONES, 2Lt Frederick Thomas Averay

Attached to 2nd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment at time of death.

HOWELL, Lt Regiment

Attached to 2/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment when taken and died whilst a POW.

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