No

Date Died

Surname

Forenames

Rank

Decs

Age

Cause

Country

Location/Sector

Cemetery/Memorial

Notes

Died in1917

1

30th October

COAKLEY

Charles Stewart

2Lt

-

27

KIA

Belgium

"Albatross Farm", near Passchendaele

Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 112/113)

p108

2

30th December

ATHERTON

Walter

Lt

-

27

KIA

France

"Welsh Ridge", near Marcoing

Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery (IV.1.18)

p109   (1)

3

30th December

MORLEY

Gordon Harpur

Lt

MiD

23

KIA

France

"Welsh Ridge", near Marcoing

Cambrai Memorial (Panel 8/9)

p109

4

30th December

SMITH

Norman Louis

Lt

-

33

KIA

France

"Welsh Ridge", near Marcoing

Cambrai Memorial (Panel 8/9)

p109

Died in 1918

5

23rd March

WHITE

Arthur Ingram

2Lt

-

27

DOW

France

CCS at Grevillers, west of Bapaume

Grevillers British Cemetery (XIII.A.1)

(2)

6

10th April

McALISTER

Gordon Duncan

2Lt

-

19

KIA

Belgium

"Hill 63", near Ploegsteert Wood

Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 112/113)

p113

7

14th April

WACE

Henry Edward

Capt

-

26

KIA

Belgium

"Hill 63", near Ploegsteert Wood

Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 112/113)

p113

8

12th June

OWEN

William Llewellyn

2Lt

-

29

DOW

France

Hospital at Rouen

St Sever Cemetery, Rouen (Offrs.B.5.2)

p115   (3)

9

28th August

SHERWOOD

Hamilton Stanley

Lt

-

19

KIA

France

Near Vieille Chapelle, Locon

Chocques Military Cemetery (II.B.6)

-

10

30th September

HARTY

William David

2Lt

-

20

KIA

France

Near "Les Laies Ditch", Mauquissart

Bethune Town Cemetery (III.J.27)

p120

11

30th September

LEECH

Robert Edward Holt

2Lt

-

21

KIA

France

Near "Les Laies Ditch", Mauquissart

Bethune Town Cemetery (III.J.26)

p120

12

4th October

SPARROW

George William Sparrow

Capt

-

42

KIA

France

Near Aubers Ridge

Ration Farm Military Cemetery (VIII.D.1)

-

13

8th October

MARINDIN

Henry Eden Allan

2Lt

MC

19

DOW

France

CCS at Bethune

Bethune Town Cemetery (III.J.30)

(4)

14

6th November

HIBBARD

Richard

2Lt

-

28

KIA

France

Bry, near Valenciennes

Cross Roads Cemetery, Fontaine-au-Bois (I.D.5)

p121

15

10th March

TORRIE

Louis Eric

Lt

-

25

DOI

UK

Bristol

Bristol (Canford) cemetery (SECT P, Grave 2578)

(5)

Notes:   (The numbers marked with a "p" in the Notes column refers to the page in "The History of The King's Shropshire Light Infantry in the Great War 1914 - 1918 " by Major W de B Wood, where the death of the officer is mentioned or indicated).

1.   ATHERTON was originally buried in a battlefield grave near "Newton Road", southeast of Gonnelieu and was reburied at Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery in December 1919.

2.   WHITE was wounded near Lebucquiere on 23rd March 1918.

3.   OWEN was wounded near Chaumuzy, southwest of Rheims on 6th June 1918.

4.   MARINDIN was wounded near "Les Laies Ditch", east of Mauquissart, on 30th September 1918.

5.    TORRIE died of ? and was a member of the 4th Battalion FT which was reconstituted after the war.   He was posthumously officially retired from the Army on 30th September 1921.

Those Officers of Other Regiments Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With

1/4th Battalion The King's (Shropshire Light Infantry) TF

No

Date Died

Surname

Forenames

Rank

Decs

Age

Cause

Country

Location/Sector

Cemetery/Memorial

Notes

1

16th October 1918

LEATHER

John Francis

Capt

MiD

24

DOI

France

72nd Gen Hosp, Deauville

Tourgeville Military Cemetery (VII.C.70)

(1)

2

4th November 1918

JORDAN

Leonard Owen

Capt

MC

24

KIA

France

Jenlain, SE of Valenciennes

Maresches  Communal Cemetery (NW Part)

p121   (2)

Notes:   (The numbers marked with a "p" in the Notes column refers to the page in "The History of The King's Shropshire Light Infantry in the Great War 1914 - 1918 " by Major W de B Wood, where the death of the officer is mentioned or indicated).

1.   LEATHER was detached from the Army Service Corps and died of influenza/pneumonia.

2.   JORDAN was detached from the Herefordshire Regiment.

The 4th Battalion TF was formed in 1908, part of the Haldane Reforms, when the 1st and 2nd Volunteer Battalions of the Regiment were merged to form the 4th Battalion of the new Regimental Territorial Force, based at Longden Coleham in Shrewsbury, under command of the Welsh Division TF.   On the declaration of war on 4th August 1914 the Battalion was sent to Cardiff, its initial mobilisation location, part of the Severn Defences Command.   On 4th September 1914 it was redeployed to Sittingbourne for duty with the Medway Defences and was readied for departure to India.   Before the Battalion departed it was reorganised, forming 1/4th Battalion TF and 2/4th Battalion TF (the 1/4th Battalion made up of personnel who had signed the Imperial Service Order for overseas service and the 2/4th Battalion of men who had not signed the ISO and those medically unfit for service overseas).

The 1/4th Battalion sailed for India 29th October 1914 from Southampton under command of the Middlesex Brigade of the Home Counties Division TF, arriving at Bombay on 1st December 1914.   The Battalion was posted to Singapore on 10th February 1915, with a detachment going to the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, and another detachment was sent to Hong Kong.   The Battalion was concentrated at Singapore on 13th April 1917 for duty at Colombo, arriving on 19th April 1917.   The Battalion was recalled to UK for duty with the BEF and arrived at Le Havre, after a short stop at Southampton, on 29th July 1917.   The Battalion was placed under command of 190th Brigade, 63rd (Royal Naval) Division 18th August 1917 and was transferred to 56th Brigade, 19th (Western) Division on 4th February 1918 where it stayed for the remainder of the war.   The Battalion was reconstituted after the war as 4th Battalion TF.

The Battalion lost 369 soldiers during the war.

The King's Light Infantry (Shropshire Regiment) was formed on 1 July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms, as the County Regiment of Herefordshire and Shropshire.   It was renamed as The King's (Shropshire Light Infantry) on 10 March 1882.   The Regiment was an amalgamation of the 53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot and the 85th (King's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot, which became the Regular 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Regiment.  The 1881 reforms also redesignated the Militia and Rifle Volunteers units within the Regimental District as Battalions of the Regiment.   Accordingly, the Shropshire Militia and Royal Herefordshire Militia became the 3rd and 4th (Militia) Battalions respectively, and the 1st and 2nd Shropshire Rifle Volunteer Corps became the 1st and 2nd Volunteer Battalions.  The 1st Herefordshire (Herefordshire and Radnorshire) Rifle Volunteer Corps was also affiliated as a Volunteer Battalion, without change of title.   In 1908, as part of the Haldane Reforms, the two Militia Battalions were merged to form the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion and the 1st and 2nd Volunteer Battalions were merged to form the 4th Battalion of the Regimental Territorial Force at Longden Coleham in Shrewsbury. At the same time, the Herefordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps became independent as the Herefordshire Regiment (TF).

A detailed history of The King's (Shropshire Light Infantry) can be viewed here, here, here and here.   Further reading is from - "The King's Shropshire Light Infantry 1881 - 1968":  By Shropshire Regimental Museum (Author) and Peter Duckers (Compiler).   Published in 2009 - ISBN 13 - 978-0752411934.

The History of The King's (Shropshire Light Infantry) in the Great War 1914 - 1918 (edited by Major W de B Wood) - ISBN 13: 978-1843426097 ) provides a detailed account of the Regimental Battalions in the Great War.