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 2nd Battalion The King's (Shropshire Light Infantry)

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1915
1	1st March	VYVYAN	Walter Drummond	Lt	MiD	26	KIA	Belgium	St Eloi, near Voormezeele	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 47/49)	p70
2	2nd March	BIRD	Francis Clifford	2Lt	-	19	KIA	Belgium	St Eloi, near Voormezeele	Voormezeele Enclosure No 3 (III.A.4)	p70
3	7th March	VENABLES	Gilbert Rowland	2Lt	-	34	KIA	Belgium	St Eloi, near Voormezeele	Voormezeele Enclosure No 3 (I.A.2)	p70
4	9th April	HOLMAN	Geoffrey	Lt	-	22	KIA	Belgium	"Etange de Bellewaarde", near Ypres	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 47/49)	p70
5	23rd April	HAZARD	Douglas George	Lt	-	21	KIA	Belgium	"Railway Wood", east of Ypres	Sanctuary Wood Cemetery (V.U.13)	p87 (1)
6	25th April	BIDDLE-WOOD	Anthony Cyprian Prosper	2Lt	-	27	KIA	Belgium	Near Bellewaarde Wood	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 47/49)	p76
7	25th April	BLACKETT	Charles Robert	2Lt	-	20	KIA	Belgium	Near Bellewaarde Wood	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 47/49)	p76
8	25th April	LLOYD	Lewis John Bevenall	Lt	-	29	KIA	Belgium	Near Bellewaarde Wood	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 47/49)	p76 (2)
9	26th April	LEACH	Francis James	Capt	MiD	36	DOW	France	Hospital at Boulogne	Hawkchurch (St John the Baptist) Churchyard	p76 (3)
10	27th April	POUND	John Russell	Capt	-	27	KIA	Belgium	West of Zonnebeke	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 47/49)	p77
11	1st May	BRYANT	Henry Grenville	Capt	DSO	43	DOW	Belgium	German CCS at Roeselare (Roulers)	Roeselare Communal Cemetery (I.E.2)	p76 (4)
12	12th May	ROWAN-ROBINSON	William James	Major	-	44	KIA	Belgium	"Railway Wood", east of Ypres	Sanctuary Wood Cemetery (II.B.28/29)	p82 (5)
13	12th May	WILKINSON	Clement Arthur	Major	MiD*	44	KIA	Belgium	"Railway Wood", east of Ypres	Sanctuary Wood Cemetery (II.B.28/29)	p82 (6)
14	14th May	BEACALL	Hugh	Lt	MiD	22	DOW	France	Hospital at Boulogne	Boulogne Eastern Cemetery (II.B.39)	p82 (7)
15	18th May	SHAW	William Easterby	Lt	-	27	DOW	France	Hospital at Boulogne	Boulogne Eastern Cemetery (II.B.43)	p81 (8)
16	25th May	STEWARD	Charles	2Lt	-	?	KIA	Belgium	Bellewaarde Ridge	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 47/49)	p87
17	19th August	TIPPET	Alexander Arnold	2Lt	-	22	DOW	France	DS at Erquinghem-Lys	Erquinghem-Lys Churchyard Extn (I.E.1)	p88 (9)
18	22nd September	KOCH	Marcus Addison	2Lt	-	21	KIA	France	Cappy, near Albert, Somme	Assevillers New British Cemetery (XII.B.4)	p89
19	5th December	SAVORY	Francis Richard Egerton	Capt	-	22	DOW	At Sea	At sea en route to Malta	Doiran Memorial	(10)
Died in 1916
20	21st February	LLOYD	Gilbert Kingsley	Lt	-	36	DOI	Salonika	83rd Field Ambulance, Stavros	Mikra British Cemetery (1804)	p90 (11)
Died in1917
21	21st February	SKINNER	James Steuart	Major	-	31	LAS	At Sea	Off Mudros, Lemnos	Mikra Memorial	(12)
22	4th May	HILL	Guy Charles Dunlop	2Lt	-	26	LAS	At Sea	Off Cape Vado, near Savona, Italy	Savona Memorial	(13)
23	4th May	LOWRY	John	2Lt	-	23	DOI	Salonika	Hospital in Salonika City	Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery (O.32)	(14)
Died in 1918
24	27th November	HARPER	Charles	2Lt	-	31	DOI	Salonika	CCS at Kirechkoi	Kirechkoi-Hortakoi Military Cemetery (5.6)	(15)
Died in 1920
25	21st October	CAUTLEY	Christopher Hugh	Major	MiD	42	DOI	UK	Tidenham, near Chepstow	Tidenham (SS Mary and Peter) Churchyard	(16)
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. HAZARD was originally buried in a battlefield grave at "Railway Wood", east of Ypres, which was subsequently found in 1932 and he was reburied in Sanctuary Wood Cemetery. Originally listed for inclusion on the Menin Gate Memorial. 2. LLOYD may well have killed on 27th April 1915 (as per the Battalion War Diary). Second forename may well be Bucknall. 3. LEACH was wounded at Polygon Wood, east of Ypres, on 17th April 1915. After his death at the Base Hospital at Boulogne, his family arranged for his body was repatriated to UK for burial at Hawkchurch, Devon. 4. BRYANT died of wounds as a POW of the Germans. He was wounded and captured near St Julien on 27th April 1915. 5. ROWAN-ROBINSON was originally buried in a battlefield grave at "Railway Wood", east of Ypres, which was subsequently found in 1929 and he was reburied in Sanctuary Wood Cemetery. Originally listed on the Menin Gate Memorial. 6. WILKINSON was originally buried in a battlefield grave at "Railway Wood", east of Ypres, which was subsequently found in 1929 and he was reburied in Sanctuary Wood Cemetery. Originally listed on the Menin Gate Memorial. 7. BEACALL was wounded at "Railway Wood", east of Ypres on 9th May 1915. 8. SHAW was wounded near Bellewaarde Lake on 8th May 1915. 9. TIPPET was wounded near Armentieres on 19th August 1915. 10. SAVORY was wounded near Lake Doiran in late November/early December 1915 and died of wounds at sea on route to Malta. 11. LLOYD died of complications after appendicitis in Stavros, where he was originally buried. He was reburied at Kalamaria after the Armistice. 12. SKINNER was lost at sea off SS "Princess Alberta" when it was mined by German Submarine UC-23 off the island of Lemnos on 21st February 1917. 13. HILL was lost at sea from RMS "Transylvania" when it was torpedoed off Cape Vado, Ligurian Sea, Italy. Over 400 passengers and crew were lost. 14. LOWRY died of ? 15. HARPER died of influenza/pneumonia. 16. CAUTLEY died of ? He is not commemorated by the CWGC.

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

2nd Battalion The King's (Shropshire Light Infantry)

Ref

Date Died

Surname

Forenames

Rank

Decs

Age

Cause

Country

Location/Sector

Cemetery/Memorial

Notes

5th August 1917

STRONG

Oswald Lucking

2Lt

DOW

Salonika

CCS at Stavros

Mikra British Cemetery (No 1770)

(1)

Notes:

1. STRONG was detached from the Somerset Light Infantry and was serving with 80th Trench Mortar Battery at the time of his death. He was originally buried in Stravros Cemetery and was reburied at Kalamaria in September 1921.

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 2nd Battalion was stationed in Ireland from 1886 to 1894, and in late 1899 embarked for South Africa as part of the reinforcements for the Second Boer War. Following the end of the war in South Africa in 1902, the Battalion went to India, where it was stationed at Ranikhet in Bengal.

On the Declaration of War on 4th August 1914 the Battalion was stationed at Secunderabad under command of GHQ India. The Battalion was ordered to mobilise and sailed for the UK from Bombay on 13th October 1914. On arrival in UK the Battalion was posted to Winchester and placed under command of 80th Brigade, 27th Division, to complete individual and unit training for combat operations. The Battalion deployed to the BEF on 21st December 1914, landing at Le Havre, and saw its first action in trenches at Kroistraathoek, north west Voormezeele, on 8th January 1915. The 27th Division remained with the BEF until 4th December 1915 when it was deployed to Salonika where it remained for the rest of the war. A detailed history of the 27th Division during the Great War can be viewed here.

The Battalion lost 354 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 2nd Battalion Officer Casualties

Year	BE	FR	SA	SEA	UK	TOTAL
1915	13	5		1		19
1916			1			1
1917			1	2		3
1918			1			1
1920					1	1
TOTALS	13	5	3	3	1	25

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