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Roll of Honour of Officers of The King's (Shropshire Light Infantry)

Who Died in the Great War

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Those Officers of The King's (Shropshire Light Infantry)

Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 3rd (Reserve) 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

2nd November

BEAMISH

John Spread Hamilton

Lt

-

38

D

UK

Paddington, London

Brookwood Cemetery (KA. 176564)

(1)

Died in 1916

2

15th January

PALMER

Charles

Capt

-

30

DOI

UK

Hospital in Ireland

Tramore (Holy Cross) RC Churchyard, Co Waterford

(2)

Died in 1918

3

27th November

MARTIN

William Henry

2Lt

-

?

DOI

UK

Hillsborough, near Lisburn

Hillsborough (St Malachi) C of I Churchyard (Sp Mem)

(3)

Died in 1919

4

11th August

BYRNE

Gerald William

2Lt

-

32

DOI

UK

Hospital in London

Hanwell (City of Westminster) Cemetery (A.7399

(4)

Notes:  

1.   BEAMISH saw service with 2nd Battalion between 13th May 1915 and the night of 24/25th May 1915, when he was wounded at "Railway Wood", east of Ypres.   He was evacuated to UK for treatment but took his own life in November 1915.

2.   PALMER saw active service with 5th Battalion in the autumn of 1915 but became ill with ? and was returned to the UK for treatment.

3.   MARTIN died of influenza/pneumonia   He had previously seen active service with 6th Battalion.

4.   BYRNE was commissioned into the Regiment on 31st July 1918 and saw active service with 10th Battalion.   He died of appendicitis.

 

Battalion History

In 1908, as part of the Haldane Reforms, the 3rd and 4th Militia Battalions of the Regiment were merged to form the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion.   At the outbreak of the Great War the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion was mobilised at Shrewsbury and on 9th August 1914 moved to its war station in the Pembroke Dock area under command of the Severn Defences.  Half of the Battalion was detached to Colinton Barracks Edinburgh on 17th November 1914 - both elements of the Battalion carrying out its role of training and supplying reinforcements to KSLI Battalions overseas.   The Edinburgh Detachment returned to Pembroke Dock in March 1915 where the Battalion remained until December 1917, when it was moved to Crosshaven in Queenstown Harbour, Cork.   The Battalion was moved to Fermoy, County Cork, in early 1918 where it remained for the duration of the war.   During the war the prepared and sent no less than 546 officers and 16,107 men to the BEF and other active service locations overseas.

 

The Battalion lost 35 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 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.

 

 

Page last updated:  21st June 2024

 

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