Fallen Officers of the Great War

No

Date Died

Surname

Forenames

Rank

Decs

Age

Cause

Country

Location/Sector

Cemetery/Memorial

Notes

Died in1917

1

25th April

PROFEIT

Leopold

Capt

-

39

KIA

Salonika

Southwest of Lake Doiran

Karasouli Military Cemetery (F.1386)

p275

Died in 1918

2

18th September

TURNER

Henry Alfred

2Lt

DCM, MiD

31

KIA

Salonika

Pip Ridge, near Lake Doiran

Doiran Military Cemetery (VI.B.32)

p282

3

21st September

NALDER

Frank Shirley

Capt

MiD

23

KIA

Salonika

Pip Ridge, near Lake Doiran

Doiran Military Cemetery (IV.C.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).

The 8th (Service) Battalion was formed and assembled at Shrewsbury on 14th September 1914, as part of "K3" , under command of Colonel C H Stisted, and soon moved to Lewes, then Seaford to organise and commence individual and collective training.   The Battalion was placed under command of 66th Brigade, 22nd Division.   The Battalion was then moved in February 1915 to Maidstone and shortly afterwards returned to Seaford, then finally to Aldershot to complete individual, collective and formation training.   The Battalion embarked at Southampton for Boulogne on 5th September 1915.   The Battalion saw it's first action on 18th September 1915 but suffered no casualties.   The Battalion with the 22nd Division was transferred to Salonika arriving on 28th October 1915.   The Division fought in Salonika for the remainder of the war and a detailed history of the 22nd Division can be viewed here.   After the Armistice in the area the Battalion as a whole was amalgamated with 2nd Battalion The King's (Shropshire Light Infantry) on 29th November 1918 and ceased to exist.

The Battalion lost 136 soldiers during the war.

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.