Royal Welsh Fusiliers - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 1st Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1914
1	19th October	BRENNAN	John Henry	Capt	-	45	KIA	Belgium	Near Dadizeele	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 22)	1/p67
2	19th October	CHANCE	Guy Ogden de Peyster	Lt	-	22	KIA	Belgium	Near Dadizeele	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 22)	1/p67
3	20th October	HOSKYNS	Edwin Cecil Leigh	Lt	-	24	KIA	Belgium	Near Becelaere	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 22)	1/p70
4	20th October	KINGTON	William Miles	Capt	DSO, MiD***	38	KIA	Belgium	Near Becelaere	Tyne Cot Cemetery (XIX.B.24)	1/p70 (1)
5	20th October	SNEAD-COX	Geoffrey Phillip Joseph	2Lt -	-	19	KIA	Belgium	Near Becelaere	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 22)	1/p70
6	23rd October	ACKLAND-ALLEN	Hugh Thomas	Lt	-	21	KIA	Belgium	Kleythoek, near Becelaere	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 22)	-
7	24th October	LLOYD	Meyricke Entwisle	Capt	-	34	KIA	Belgium,	Passchendaele area	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 22)	(2)
8	24th October	VYVYAN	William Geoffrey	Capt	-	38	KIA	Belgium	East of Zonnebeke	Bedford House Cemetery No 4 (Sp Mem 3)	(3)
9	30th October	CADOGAN	Henry Osbert Samuel	Lt Col	MiD*	46	KIA	Belgium	Near Zandvoorde	Hooge Crater Cemetery (IXA.L.11)	1/p85 (4)
10	30th October	DOONER	Alfred Edwin Claud Toke	Capt	MiD	22	KIA	Belgium	Near Zandvoorde	Hooge Crater Cemetery (IXA.L.12)	1/p85 (5)
11	30th October	EGERTON	Rowland Le Belward	2Lt	-	19	KIA	Belgium	Near Zandvoorde	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 22)	1/p85 (6)
12	31st October	BARKER	Richard Vincent	Capt	MiD	34	KIA	Belgium	Near Zandvoorde	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Addenda Panel 57)	1/p85 (7)
13	7th November	ORME	Francis Reginald	Lt	-	23	KIA	Belgium	Near Hollebeke	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 22)	-
14	20th December	GORE	Gerard Ribton	2Lt	-	21	DOW	France	CCS at Merville	Merville Communal Cemetery (I.K.2)	(6)
Died in 1915
15	22nd January	REES	John Trevor	2Lt	-	21	DOW	France	Rue Bataille, near Fluerbaix	Bois Grenier Communal Cemetery (G.2)	1/p126
16	11th March	WOOD	Charles Edmund	Capt	MiD	30	KIA	France	Near Fauquissart	Fauquissart Military Cemetery (H.9)	1/p126 (7)
17	12th March	PARKES	Horace Frederick	2Lt	MiD	25	KIA	France	Near Fauquissart	Le Touret Memorial (Panels 13/14)	1/p143
18	13th April	GLADSTONE	William Charles Glynne	Lt	-	29	KIA	France	East of Rue du Bacquerot	Hawarden (St Deiniol) Churchyard (Family Plot)	1/p144 (8)
19	16th May	ACKERLEY	Ronald Hermann	Lt	-	23	KIA	France	Northeast of Festubert	Pont-du-Hem Military Cemetery (V.D.18)	1/p211 (9)
20	16th May	COLES	Herbert Stonehouse	Capt	-	37	KIA	France	Northeast of Festubert	Le Touret Memorial (Panel 13/14)	1/p211
21	16th May	EDWARDS	Henry Laidley Garland	Lt	-	30	DOW	France	Aid Post northeast of Festubert	Browns Road Military Cemetery (III.A.20)	1/p211
22	16th May	GABBETT	Richard Edward Phillips	Lt Col	-	47	KIA	France	Northeast of Festubert	Guard's Cemetery, Windy Corner (V.G.19)	1/p211 (10)
23	16th May	JONES	Leonard	2Lt	-	?	KIA	France	Northeast of Festubert	Le Touret Memorial (Panel 13/14)	1/p211
24	16th May	JONES	Stanley	Capt	-	35	KIA	France	Northeast of Festubert	Guard's Cemetery, Windy Corner (V.G.17)	1/p211 (11)
25	16th May	LYNCH	Harold Jerome	2Lt	-	19	KIA	France	Northeast of Festubert	Guard's Cemetery, Windy Corner (IV.G.17)	1/p211 (12)
26	16th May	MORRIS	John Torrington	2Lt	-	?	KIA	France	Northeast of Festubert	Guard's Cemetery, Windy Corner (V.G.18)	1p211 (13)
27	16th May	NAYLOR	Rowland Edmund	Lt	-	21	KIA	France	Northeast of Festubert	Guard's Cemetery, Windy Corner (IV.G.16)	1/p211 (14)
28	16th May	SAVAGE	John Brown	2Lt	MC, MiD	34	KIA	France	Northeast of Festubert	Guard's Cemetery, Windy Corner (VI.B.27)	1/p211 (15)
29	20th May	WOODWARD	Charles Francis	Lt	-	20	DOW	France	CCS at Bethune	Bethune Town Cemetery (II.H.15)	1/p211 (16)
30	29th May	CHAPMAN	Herbert Foster	Lt	-	27	DOW	France	Hospital at St Omer	Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir cemetery (I.A.143)	(17)
31	7th July	LAW	Harry	Lt	MiD*	23	DOW	UK	Guy's Hospital, London	Fleet (St Mary Magdalene) Churchyard	(18)
32	25th September	BRUNT	Henry John Francis	Lt	-	19	KIA	France	Near "The Quarries", Loos	Loos Memorial (Panel 50/52)	1/p261
33	25th September	JAMES	Walter Ibbe	Lt	-	?	KIA	France	Near "Cite St Elie", Loos	Loos Memorial (Panel 50/52)	1/p261
34	25th September	MORGAN	Guy William Stuart	Capt	-	20	KIA	France	Near "Cite St Elie", Loos	Loos Memorial (Panel 50/52)	1/p261
Died in 1916
35	18th March	THOMAS	David Cuthbert	2Lt	-	20	KIA	France	Bois Francais, Fricourt	Point 110 New Military Cemetery (D.3)	2/p45
36	19th March	RICHARDSON	Mervyn Stronge	Capt	MiD	21	DOW	France	DS near Bois Francais, Fricourt	Point 110 New Military Cemetery (D.4)	2/p46 (19)
37	22nd March	PRITCHARD	David	2Lt	-	19	KIA	France	Bois Francais, Fricourt	Point 110 New Military Cemetery (D.5)	2/p46 (20)
38	14th July	BAYNES	Richard Henry Beindge	Lt	-	27	KIA	France	West of Bazentin-le-Grand, Somme	Thiepval Memorial (Pier/Face 4A)	2/p127
39	14th July	MORGAN	Geoffrey Penny	2Lt	-	?	KIA	France	West of Bazentin-le-Grand, Somme	Thiepval Memorial (Pier/Face 4A)	2/;p127
40	3rd September	DADD	Edmund Hilton	Capt	MC	25	KIA	France	Ginchy, Somme	Thiepval Memorial (Pier/Face 4A)	2/p156
41	3rd September	DAVIES	Joseph Ithel Jehu	Lt	-	22	KIA	France	Ginchy, Somme	Delville Wood Cemetery (VII.A.1)	2/p156 (21)
42	3rd September	JONES	Edwin Tudor	Capt	-	47	KIA	France	Ginchy, Somme	Thiepval Memorial (Pier/Face 4A)	2/p156
43	3rd September	JONES	Hugh	2Lt	-	?	KIA	France	Ginchy, Somme	Thiepval Memorial (Pier/Face 4A)	2/p156
44	15th September	NEWMAN	Vivian Frederic	2Lt	-	19	DOW	France	Hospital at Rouen	St Sever Cemetery (Offrs.A.8.8)	(22)
45	22nd September	GROSER	Arthur Hugh	2Lt	-	31	KIA	Belgium	Ploegsteert Wood	Berks Cemetery Extension (I.H.6)	-
46	29th September	LACK	Reginald Walter	2Lt	MM, MiD	23	KIA	Belgium	Ploegsteert Wood	Ploegsteert Memorial (Panel 5)	-
Died in 1917
47	27th February	ADAMS	John Bernard Pye	Lt	-	26	DOW	France	CCS at Couin	Couin New British Cemetery (B.3)	2/p217 (23)
48	27th February	WILLIAMS	William	2Lt	-	31	DOW	UK	Wokingham	Liverpool (Everton) Cemetery (XVII.NC.420)	2/p27 (24)
49	28th February	MACKAY	Frederick	Lt	DCM	38	DOW	France	CCS at Couin	Couin New British Cemetery (A.1)	2/p217 (25)
50	30th March	DOVE	Etienne Howard	2Lt	-	19	KIA	France	Near Croisilles, southeast of Arras	St Ledger British Cemetery (A.3)	2/p230
51	3rd April	JERVIS	Percy William	2Lt	-	31	KIA	France	Near Croisilles, southeast of Arras	St Ledger British Cemetery (A.2)	-
52	16th April	MILLS	John Birchell	Lt	-	27	DOW	France	Hospital at Wimereux	Wimereux Communal Cemetery (III.D.1)	(26)
53	4th May	JONES	Daniel Thomas	2Lt	-	?	KIA	France	Near Bullecourt	Arras Memorial (Bay 6)	2/p247
54	4th May	LEWIS	Arthur Starkey	Lt	-	32	KIA	France	Near Bullecourt	Arras Memorial (Bay 6)	2/p247
55	4th May	SYRETT	Alfred Montague	2Lt	-	29	KIA	France	Near Bullecourt	Arras Memorial (Bay 6)	2/p247
56	4th May	THOMAS	David Arthur	2Lt	-	22	KIA	France	Near Bullecourt	Arras Memorial (Bay 6)	2/p247
57	5th May	ELLIS	Hugh Lodwick Maldwyn	2Lt	-	27	DOW	France	CCS at Achiet-le-Grand	Achiet-le-Grand Comm Cem Extn (I.A.7)	2/p247 (27)
58	14th May	EVANS	Richard Parry	2Lt	-	23	KIA	France	"Red Patch", Bullecourt	Bailleul Road East Cemetery (III.E.5)	2/p252 (28)
59	14th May	MADLEY	Lewis George	2Lt	-	23	KIA	France	"Red Patch", Bullecourt	Arras Memorial (Bay 6)	2/p252
60	16th May	BROCKLEBANK	Ralph Royds	2Lt	-	19	DOW	France	CCS at Achiet-le-Grand	Achiet-le-Grand Comm Cem Extn (I.A.10)	2/p252 (29)
61	1st October	JONES	John Harold	2Lt	-	28	KIA	Belgium	Polygon Wood	Tyne Cot Memorial (Panels 63/65)	3/p46
62	2nd October	TAYLOR	Guy Collins Vernon	Lt	-	29	KIA	Belgium	Near Polygon Wood	Tyne Cot Memorial (Panels 63/65)	3/p46
63	27th October	LEWIS	Thomas William	2Lt	-	29	DOW	Belgium	CCS near Hooge	Hooge Crater Cemetery (VII.L.8)	3/p55 (30)
64	27th October	REES	Idris	2Lt	-	?	DOW	Belgium	West of Gheluvelt	Tyne Cot Memorial (Panels 63/65)	3/p55 (31)
Died in 1919
65	10th May	BOUCHER	Bazil Edward Cresswell	Lt	MiD	21	A	UK	Royal Salop Infirmary, Shewsbury	Cheddleton Churchyard (South West Plot)	(32)
Notes: (The numbers marked with a "p" in the Notes column refers to the page within the trio of Books "The Welsh At War" - (Book 1) - From Mons to Loos and the Gallipoli Tragedy, (Book 2) - The Grinding War :The Somme and Arras and (Book 3) - Through Mud to Victory: Third Ypres and the 1918 Offensives, by Steven John, where the death of the officer is mentioned or indicated). 1. KINGTON was originally commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial until research in 2019 confirmed that his body was buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery after being found by a battlefield clearance party in 1921. 2. LLOYD, according to the Battalion War Diary, was killed on 22nd October 1914. 3. VYVYAN was buried by the Germans in Droogenbroodhoek, near Zonnebeke, but the grave was subsequently lost and he is commemorated on a Special Memorial. 4. CADOGAN was originally buried in a battlefield grave at Zandvoorde and reburied in Hooge Crater Cemetery in May 1919. 5. DOONER was originally buried in a battlefield grave at Zandvoorde and reburied in Hooge Crater Cemetery in May 1919. 6. EGERTON was originally, and erroneously, commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial. 7. BARKER was attached to HQ 22nd Brigade as a Staff Captain. 6. GORE was wounded south of Bois Grenier on 18th December 1914. 7. WOOD was killed by a sniper. 8. GLADSTONE, the grandson of former Prime Minister William Gladstone, was initially buried in France but his body was later repatriated to the UK. The Battalion War Diary states that he died of wounds. He was MP for Kilmarnock Burghs since 1911. 9. ACKERLEY was originally buried in a mass grave to the northeast of Festubert and was reburied in Pont-du-Hem Military Cemetery in January 1921. 10. GABBETT was originally buried in a battlefield grave south of the Rue Cailloux, northeast of Festubert, and reburied in Guard's Cemetery in March 1920. 11. JONES was originally buried in a battlefield grave south of the northeast of Festubert, and reburied in Guard's Cemetery in October 1919. 12. LYNCH was originally buried in a battlefield grave near Essars and reburied in Guard's Cemetery in October 1919. 13. MORRIS was originally buried in a battlefield grave near Essars and reburied in Guard's Cemetery in October 1919. 14. NAYLOR was originally buried in a battlefield grave near Essars and reburied in Guard's Cemetery in October 1919. 15. SAVAGE was originally buried in a battlefield grave north of Festubert and reburied in Guard's Cemetery, Windy Corner in January 1920. 16. WOODWARD was wounded northeast of Festubert on 16th May 1915. 17. CHAPMAN was wounded near Givenchy on 16th May 1915. 18. LAW was wounded near Givenchy on 10th June 1915 and evacuated to UK. 19. RICHARDSON was wounded by a shell at Bois Francais, near Fricourt on 18th March 1916. 20. PRITCHARD was temporarily attached to the 22nd Brigade Heavy Trench Mortar Battery. 21. DAVIES was originally buried in a battlefield grave northwest of Ginchy, east of Delville Wood, and reburied in Delville Wood Cemetery after the Armistice. 22. NEWMAN was wounded at Ginchy on 3rd September 1916. 23. ADAMS was wounded at Puisieux on 27th February 1917. 24. WILLIAMS, according to the Battalion War Diary, was admitted to hospital on 10th October 1916 as sick, whilst serving in the Ploegsteert area. 25. MACKAY was wounded at Puisieux on 27th February 1917. 26. MILLS was wounded at Croiselles on 3rd April 1917. 27. ELLIS was wounded at Bullecourt on 5th May 1917. 28. EVANS was originally buried in a battlefield grave near Bullecourt and reburied in Bailleul Road East Cemetery, St Laurent-Blangy in April 1922. 29. BROCKLEBANK was wounded at Bullecourt on 14th May 1917. 30. LEWIS was wounded to the west of Gheluvelt on 27th October 1917. 31. REES is recorded in The Army List of December 1917 and in ODGW as "died of wounds" and usually the location of the grave is known to Battalion or medical authorities. If this is the case then his grave must have been subsequently lost. 32. BOUCHER was severely injured in a motor cycle accident near Shrewsbury on 10th May 1919.

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

1st Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
1	30th October 1914	VINCENT	William	Capt	-	48	KIA	Belgium	Near Zandvoorde	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 20)	(1)
2	13th April 1915	LEDGER	Raymond Kirwood	Lt	MiD	23	KIA	France	Near Fleurbaix	Rue-de-Bois Military Cemetery (Sp Mem)	(2)
3	25th September 1915	ILES	John Owen	Lt	-	22	KIA	France	Near "The Quarries", Loos	Loos Memorial (Panels 73/76)	1/p261 (3)
4	14th May 1917	PEEL	The Rev. Hon. Maurice Berkeley	Capt	MC*	44	KIA	France	Bullecourt	Queant Road Cemetery (V.A.31)	2/p252 (4)
5	29th October 1917	CHISSELL	George Edwin	Capt	MC, MiD	25	DOW	Belgium	CCS at Lijssenthoek	Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery (XXI - BB - 10)	3/p54 (5)
Notes: (The numbers marked with a "p" in the Notes column refers to the page within the trio of Books "The Welsh At War" - (Book 1) - From Mons to Loos and the Gallipoli Tragedy, (Book 2) - The Grinding War :The Somme and Arras and (Book 3) - Through Mud to Victory: Third Ypres and the 1918 Offensives, by Steven John, where the death of the officer is mentioned or indicated). 1. VINCENT was detached from the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. 2. LEDGER was detached from the Rifle Brigade. 3. ILES was detached from the South Staffordshire Regiment. 4. PEEL was detached from the Army Chaplains Department. He was killed by a sniper and buried in a battlefield grave southwest of Bullecourt and reburied in Queant Road Cemetery in October 1919. 5. CHISSELL was detached from the Royal Army Medical Corps and was the Battalion Medical Officer. He was wounded at Bodmin Copse, near Gheluvelt on 26th October 1917.

Battalion History

On 1 July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms, the 1st Battalion was formed from within the existing 23rd (Royal Welsh Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot. At the declaration of War on 4th August 1914 the Battalion was based in Malta and was ordered to return to the UK, landing at Southampton 3rd September 1914. The Battalion was placed under command of the 22nd Brigade, part of the 7th Division, and placed under a war footing with restructuring and reinforcement. On 4th October 1914 the Battalion received orders to report to Southampton Docks the next day and embark on the liner "Winifredian" for Dunkirk. On 6th October, en route, the ship was ordered to return to Dover and was laid up in harbour until later on the 6th October when it eventually departed for Zeebrugge, landing on the 7th October 1914.

The Battalion remained with the 22nd Brigade, 7th Division in the BEF and in Italy from November 1917, for the duration of the war and a detailed account of the Division's major actions can be viewed here. After the war, the Battalion was reconstituted as a Regular Battalion.

Regimental History

The Regiment was formed on 1st July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms which saw the 2 separate Battalions of the 23rd (Royal Welsh Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot re-titled to become the regular 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Regiment, with the Regimental Depot based at Hightown Barracks, Wrexham.

The 1881 reforms also redesignated the Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVC) and Militia units within the Regimental District of Anglesey, Carnarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Merionethshire (and later in 1908, Montgomeryshire) as numbered Battalions of the Regiment - the 1st Denbighshire Volunteers becoming the 1st Volunteer Battalion and the 1st Flintshire & Carnarvon Volunteers becoming the 2nd Volunteer Battalion.

The Militia units of the Regiment were the Royal Denbigh and Merioneth Rifles and the Royal Carnarvon Rifle Corps. In 1908, as part of the Haldane Reforms, the Militia Battalions were reorganised and restructured forming the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion and the RVC Battalions (which were re-organised in the late 1890s when the 3rd Volunteer Battalion was formed) were retitled. The 1st Volunteer Battalion became the 4th (Denbighshire) Battalion TF, the 2nd Volunteer Battalion became the 5th (Flintshire) Battalion TF, the 3rd Volunteer Battalion became the 6th (Carnarvonshire & Anglesey) Battalion TF and the 4th Volunteer Battalion became the 7th (Merioneth & Montgomery) Battalion TF of the Regimental Territorial Force.

After the Declaration of War on 4th August 1914 and up to 1st June 1918, the Royal Welsh Fusiliers had formed, disbanded or reconstituted 45 Regular, Territorial Force, Service, Garrison and Reserve Battalions.

Analysis of 1st Battalion Officer Casualties

Year	BE	FR	UK	TOTAL
1914	13	1		14
1915		19	1	20
1916	2	10		12
1917	4	13	1	18
1919			1	1
TOTALS	19	43	3	65

Page last updated: 5th September 2024

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