The King's (Shropshire Light Infantry) - Roll of Honour of Officers of The King's (Shropshire Light Infantry) Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 1st Battalion The King's (Shropshire Light Infantry)

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1914
1	28th September	MITCHELL	Julian Alan Spencer	Capt	-	28	DOW	France	CCS at Braine, near Soissons	Braine Communal Cemetery (A.54)	p3 (1)
2	24th October	MASEFIELD	Robert	Major	-	42	KIA	France	Le Quesne, near Armentieres	Ploegsteert Memorial (Panel 8)	p5
3	25th October	HERDMAN	Arthur Widdrington	Lt	-	28	KIA	France	Le Quesne, near Armentieres	Ploegsteert Memorial (Panel 8)	p5
4	25th October	VERNER	Frederick Charles	2Lt	-	23	KIA	France	Le Quesne, near Armentieres	Ploegsteert Memorial (Panel 8)	p5
5	6th November	JENINGS	George Pierce Creagh	Lt	-	27	KIA	France	Rue au Bois, near Armentieres	Ploegsteert Memorial (Panel 8)	p6
Died in 1915
6	8th August	CURRIE	Frederick Rivers	Lt	-	18	KIA	Belgium	Near "Maple Copse", Sanctuary Wood	Sanctuary Wood Cemetery (II.B.11)	p14 (2)
7	9th August	DAVIES	George Herbert	Lt	-	26	KIA	Belgium	Hooge Crater, east of Ypres	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panels 47/49)	p14
8	9th August	FOULGER	Maurice	2Lt	-	26	KIA	Belgium	Hooge Crater, east of Ypres	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panels 47/49)	p14
9	9th August	GOODALE	Arthur William	2Lt	-	20	KIA	Belgium	Hooge Crater, east of Ypres	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panels 47/49)	p15
10	9th August	ISAAC	Frank Philip	2Lt	-	21	KIA	Belgium	Hooge Crater, east of Ypres	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panels 47/49)	p14
11	9th August	WOODLAND	Richard William	Lt	-	21	KIA	Belgium	Hooge Crater, east of Ypres	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panels 47/49)	p15
12	25th August	SPEARMAN	John Vanstone	2Lt	-	27	KIA	Belgium	Near La Brique, northeast of Ypres	La Brique Military cemetery No 2 (I.K.23)	p15
13	27th October	DYMOCK	Robert Townsend Vaughton	Lt	-	20	DOW	Belgium	CCS at Vlamertinghe	Hop Store Cemetery (I.D.30)	p17 (3)
14	26th November	BAMFORD	Harold Walley	2Lt	-	29	DOW	France	Hospital at Etaples	Etaples Military Cemetery (I.A.15)	p18 (4)
15	22nd December	RIDOUT	Clarence Grosvenor	Lt	-	30	DOW	Belgium	10th CCS at Lijssenthoek	Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery (II.A.18)	p19 (5)
Died in 1916
16	6th January	WILSON	Harold Algar	Capt	-	22	KIA	Belgium	La Brique, northeast of Ypres	Duhallow ADS Cemetery (VII.F.8)	p19 (6)
17	21st April	HAZARD	Charles Piper	2Lt	-	28	KIA	Belgium	"Morteldje Estaminet", near Ypres	Essex Farm Cemetery (II.G.6)	p24
18	21st April	HITCHCOCK	Cyril Augustus	2Lt	-	22	KIA	Belgium	"Morteldje Estaminet", near Ypres	Essex Farm Cemetery (II.K.3)	p24
19	22nd April	JOHNSTON	Alec Leith	Lt	-	27	KIA	Belgium	"Morteldje Estaminet", near Ypres	Essex Farm Cemetery (II.Q.19)	p24
20	24th April	LUARD	Edward Bourryau	Lt Col	DSO, MiD**	45	DOI	Belgium	10th CCS at Lijssenthoek	Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery (V.A.23)	p24 (7)
21	19th August	PUGH	Ronald George	2Lt	-	23	KIA	France	Beaumont-Hamel, Somme	Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps (V.nN.9)	p31
22	18th September	MACLAVERTY	Colin Johnston	Capt	-	37	KIA	France	Guillemont, Somme	Thiepval Memorial (Pier/Face 12A/12D)	p33
23	18th September	MARRIOTT	Richard Henry	Lt	MC, MiD	22	KIA	France	E of Ginchy, Somme	Guards' Cemetery, Lesboeufs	p33 (8)
24	19th September	LEE	Eric Hanson	2Lt	-	20	DOW	France	CCS at Meaulte, Somme	Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte (I.C.40)	p33 (9)
25	11th October	TAVERNER	Arthur Frederick	2Lt	-	19	DOW	France	CCS at Meaulte, Somme	Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte (I.B.1)	p35 (10)
26	12th October	MYLIUS	John Kingsford	Lt	MiD	21	DOW	France	CCS at Meaulte, Somme	Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte (I.B.2)	p35 (11)
27	15th October	JAMES	Eric Gwynne	Capt	DSO, MiD*	23	DOW	France	Hospital at Rouen	St Sever Cemetery, Rouen (Offrs.B.I.43)	p33 (12)
Died in 1917
28	18th January	ROOPER	Trevor Godolphin Hungerford	2Lt	-	19	KIA	France	Northeast of Vermelles	Vermelles British cemetery (V.E.46)	p37
29	14th April	BUCKLEY	Hubert Hyde	Lt	-	26	KIA	France	Near Loos	Philosophe British Cemetery (I.N.51)	p39
30	17th April	SYMONDS-TAYLER	Frederick Kingsley	Capt	-	22	DOW	France	CCS at Chocques	Chocques Military Cemetery (V.A.3)	p 39 (13)
31	8th May	FOX	Arthur	Capt	MC	20	KIA	France	South of Hulluch	Philosophe British Cemetery (I.0.5)	p40
32	18th May	JACKSON	Douglas William	Lt	-	40	DOW	France	7th CCS, Noeux-les-Mines	Noeux-les-Mines Communal Cemetery (I.L.20)	p40 (14)
33	1st June	DAVIES	James Gordon	2Lt	-	?	KIA	France	Near "Hendon Alley", Hulluch	Loos Memorial (Panels 98/99)	p41
34	28th September	LEWIS	Archibald Ernest	2Lt	-	20	KIA	France	Near "Catapult Trench", near Lens	Loos British Cemetery (XX.F.8)	p44
35	20th November	WHITMORE	Roger Searle	Capt	MC	23	KIA	France	East of Havrincourt	Ribecourt British Cemetery (I.B.12)	p45
36	3rd December	BLAKE	George Victor	2Lt	-	30	KIA	France	Quarry, north of Rumilly	Marcoing British Cemetery (II.C.13)	p46 (15)
Died in 1918
37	21st March	DAVENPORT	Francis Edward Alexander Orme	2Lt	-	19	KIA	France	Near Lagnicourt, Bapaume	Arras Memorial (Bay 7)	p51
38	21st March	JACKSON-TAYLOR	John Curzon	2Lt	-	19	KIA	France	Near Lagnicourt, Bapaume	Arras Memorial (Bay 7)	p50
39	21st March	PLATT	Frank Lindsay	Capt	-	29	KIA	France	Near Lagnicourt, Bapaume	Queant Road Cemetery, Buissy (VII.H.35)	p50 (16)
40	18th September	ADAMS-POSNER	Robert Cecil	2Lt	-	33	KIA	France	Fresnoy-le-Petit, near St Quentin	Vis-en-Artois Memorial (Panel 8)	p58
41	18th September	THOMSON	Reginald Gresham	Capt	MC, MiD	22	DOW	France	CCS at Brie, south of Peronne	Brie British Cemetery (I.B.5)	p58 (17)
42	24th September	LEWIS	John Dunning Gaunt	Lt	-	26	KIA	France	"Trout Copse", near Holnon	Vadencourt British Cemetery (V.G.2)	p60
43	8th October	HARROP	James Allinson	2Lt	-	20	KIA	France	Near "Mannequin Hill", Mericourt	Vis-en-Artois Memorial (Panel 8)	p61
44	8th October	PYE	Colin	2Lt	-	23	DOW	France	CCS at Maissemy, near St Quentin	Vadencourt British Cemetery, Maissemy (III.B.11)	p61 (18)
45	6th November	WILDIG	George	Lt	DCM	27	DOW	UK	Hospital at Birmingham	Pembroke Dock (Llanion) Cemetery (V.2)	p62 (19)
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. MITCHELL was wounded east of Vailly on 25th September 1914. 2. CURRIE was originally buried in a battlefield grave near "Maple Copse" and reburied in Sanctuary Wood Cemetery in February 1928. 3. DYMOCK was wounded at Hooge on 27th October 1915. 4. BAMFORD's date and circumstances of wounding are unclear in the Battalion's War Diary. He is mentioned as going on leave on 25th September 1915 when the Battalion was billeted between Poperinghe and Vlamertinghe. 5. RIDOUT was gassed near La Brique, northeast of Ypres, on 19th December 1915. 6. WILSON was originally buried in a battlefield grave near La Brique and was reburied at Duhallow ADS Cemetery in January 1920. 7. LUARD was wounded near "Morteldje Estaminet", northeast of Ypres, on 22nd April 1916. 8. MARRIOTT was originally buried in a battlefield grave east of Ginchy, and was reburied at Lesboeufs in August 1919. 9. LEE was wounded near Guillemont on 18th September 1916. 10. TAVERNER was wounded southeast of Gueudecourt on 10th October 1916. 11. MYLIUS was wounded southeast of Gueudecourt on 12th October 1916. 12. JAMES was wounded near Guillemont on 17th September 1916. 13. SYMONDS-TAYLER was wounded near Loos on 14th September 1917. 14. JACKSON was wounded west of Hulluch on 17th May 1917. 15. BLAKE was originally buried in a battlefield grave north of Rumilly and reburied at Marcoing British Cemetery in March 1920. 16. PLATT was originally buried in a battlefield grave northwest of Buissy and reburied in Queant Road Cemetery after the Armistice. 17. THOMSON was wounded near Fresnoy-le-Petit, northwest of St Quentin, on 18th September 1918. 18. PYE was wounded near "Mannequin Hill", west of Mericourt on 8th October 1918. 19. WILDIG was wounded west of Catillon, River Sambre, on 24th October 1918 and evacuated to the UK.

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

1st Battalion The King's (Shropshire Light Infantry)

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
1	9th August 1915	PIRRIE	Robert Bourn	Lt	-	21	KIA	Belgium	Hooge Crater, east of Ypres	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 35)	p14 (1)
2	16th September 1916	INGRAM	Thomas Lewis	Capt	DSO, MC, MiD*	41	KIA	France	West of Morval, Somme	Guard's Cemetery, Lesboeufs (X.U.1)	p33 (2)
3	21st May 1918	ROCH	George Powell	Capt	-	43	KIA	Belgium	Southeast of Vlamertinghe	Nine Elms British Cemetery (IXV.A.2)	p53 (3)
4	24th July 1918	JONES	David	2Lt	-	28	KIA	Belgium	Dickebusch, southwest of Ypres	Abeele Aerodrome Military Cemetery (II.C.6)	p55 (4)
5	19th September 1918	HOARE	Reginald Arthur	Capt	-	40	KIA	France	Fresnoy-le-Petit, near St Quentin	Chapelle British Cemetery, Holnon (IV.E.11)	p58 (5)
6	8th October 1918	DUCKWORTH	Walter Clarence	2Lt	-	29	KIA	France	"Precelles Farm", nearJoncourt	Ramicourt British Cemetery (A.23)	p61 (6)
7	17th October 1918	TAYLOR	Harold James	2Lt	-	22	KIA	France	West of Vaux Audigny	Vis-en-Artois memorial (Panel 3)	p62 (7)
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. PIRRIE was detached from the Border Regiment. 2. INGRAM was detached from the Royal Army Medical Corps as Battalion Medical Officer. He was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the west of Morval and reburied in Guard's Cemetery in August 1919. 3. ROCH was detached from the Pembroke Yeomanry. 4. JONES was detached from the South Wales Borderers. 5. HOARE was detached from the Pembroke Yeomanry. He was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the south of Fresnoy-le-Petit and reburied at Chapelle British Cemetery during August 1919. 6. DUCKWORTH was detached from the Welsh Regiment. 7. TAYLOR was detached from The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)

Battalion History

In the 1881 Childers Reforms, The King's (Shropshire Light Infantry) was formed as 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 1st Battalion was stationed in Egypt from 1882, and served with distinction in the Anglo-Egyptian War. The Battalion was sent to Malta where it was based from 1883 to 1891, but was back in the Eastern Sudan serving in the Soudan Expedition 1886–87. From 1891 the Battalion was in Hong Kong, and three years later it was moved to British India, serving there until early 1903. The last posting in India was at Poona.

On the Declaration of War on 4th August 1914 the Battalion was stationed at Tipperary under command of 16th Brigade, 6th Division. The Battalion was ordered to mobilise and this was completed on 8th August at which time the Battalion was posted, with 16th Brigade, to Grantchester, near Cambridge to complete individual and collective training for combat operations. The Battalion deployed to the BEF on 10th September 1914, landing at St Nazaire, and saw its first action in trenches north of Vailly on 22nd September 1914.

The 6th Division remained with the BEF for the duration of the war and a history of the 6th Division during the Great War can be viewed here. After the war the Battalion was reconstituted as a Regular Battalion.

The Battalion lost 988 soldiers during the war,

Regimental History

The King's Light Infantry (Shropshire Regiment) was formed on 1 July 1881 as the county regiment of Herefordshire and Shropshire as part of the Childers Reforms. 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. 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 here - "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.

Analysis of 1st Battalion Officer Casualties

Year	BE	FR	UK	TOTAL
1914		5		5
1915	9	1		10
1916	5	7		12
1917		9		9
1918		8	1	9
TOTALS	14	30	1	45

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