Royal Welsh Fusiliers - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 16th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1916
1	10th January	THOMAS	Thomas	2Lt	-	?	KIA	France	"Farm Corner", Richebourg L'Avoue	St Vaast Post Military Cemetery (II.L.1)	(1)
2	11th July	REES	Henry Hugh Tregarthen	2Lt	-	24	KIA	France	Mametz Wood, Somme	Thiepval Memorial (Pier and Face 4A)	2/p116
3	31st August	TANNER	David Thomas	Capt	-	32	KIA	Belgium	Canal Bank, north of Ypres	Essex Farm Cemetery (III.E.19)	-
4	9th October	MANN	Robert Leonard	2Lt	-	19	KIA	Belgium	Canal Bank, north of Ypres	Essex Farm Cemetery (III.I.11)	-
Died in 1917
5	16th June	REES	Edward Davies	2Lt	-	28	KIA	Belgium	East of Canal Bank, north of Ypres	Essex Farm Cemetery (III.J.14)	-
6	21st June	JONES	William Hugh	2Lt	-	28	KIA	Belgium	East of Canal Bank, north of Ypres	Bard Cottage Cemetery (II.F.23)	-
7	2nd August	BEVERS	Isaac Gwilym	2Lt	-	24	DOW	Belgium	CCS northwest of Poperinghe	Dozinghem Military Cemetery (II.G.8)	(2)
8	19th September	WILLIAMS	William James	2Lt	MC	?	KIA	France	East of Chapelle d'Armentieres	Erquinghem-Lys Churchyard Extn (II.F.12)	-
Died in 1918
9	15th March	RICHARDS	John	2Lt	-	23	KIA	France	East of Chapelle d'Armentieres	Erquinghem-Lys Churchyard Extn (II.H.11)	3/p114
10	18th March	WILLIAMS	William Ifor	2Lt	-	23	DOW	France	DS east of Chapelle d'Armentieres	Erquinghem-Lys Churchyard Extn (II.H.27)	(3)
11	17th April	HEATLY	Charles Frederick	2Lt	-	23	DOW	France	CCS at St Omer	Longueness (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery (V.A.58)	(4)
12	22nd April	BENNETT	Herbert	2Lt	-	?	KIA	France	Near Aveluy Wood, Somme	Pozieres Memorial (Panel 36/37)	3/p146
13	22nd April	GOFF	William Setten	Lt	MC	36	KIA	France	Near Aveluy Wood, Somme	Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery Extn (IV.A.40)	3/p146
14	22nd April	JENKINS	Sydney Emlyn	2Lt	-	23	KIA	France	Near Aveluy Wood, Somme	Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery Extn (II.K.3)	3/p146
15	22nd April	LINTON	Frederick Tom	2Lt	MC	20	KIA	France	Near Aveluy Wood, Somme	Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery Extn (IV.A.31)	3/p146
16	22nd April	OWENS	Arthur Owen	2Lt	-	24	KIA	France	Near Aveluy Wood, Somme	Pozieres Memorial (Panel 36/37)	3/p146
17	22nd April	WILLIAMS	Vivian Pedr	2Lt	-	?	KIA	France	Near Aveluy Wood, Somme	Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery Extn (II.K.1)	3/p149
18	13th May	BRODIE	William Alan	2Lt	-	30	DOW	France	Hospital at Rouen	St Sever Cemetery (Offrs.B.4.29)	3/p146 (5)
19	4th July	HARRIS	Arthur Harold	Lt	-	25	DOW	France	CCS at Gezaincourt	Gezaincourt Communal Cemetery Extn (I.N.23)	(6)
20	21st August	ANDREWS	Glyndwr Levi	Capt	-	29	KIA	France	Bazentin-le-Grand, Somme	Caterpillar Valley Cemetery (VII.B.15)	(7)
21	24th August	OWEN	Henry James	2Lt	-	28	KIA	France	La Boisselle, Somme	Ovillers Military Cemetery (XIII.D.7)	3/p177 (8)
22	26th August	HARRIS	William Handel	2Lt	-	24	KIA	France	Near Longueval, Somme	Caterpillar Valley Cemetery (VII.B.12)	3/p181 (9)
23	27th August	GEORGE	Thomas	2Lt	-	24	KIA	France	Near Longueval, Somme	Caterpillar Valley Cemetery (VII.E.16)	3/p182 (10)
24	27th August	OWEN	William	2Lt	-	26	DOW	France	CCS at Gezaincourt	Bagneux British Cemetery (V.B.3)	3/p182 (11)
25	18th September	HOLLAND	Thomas Welsby	2Lt	-	30	KIA	France	Near Gouzeaucourt	Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery (VI.D.3)	3/p201 (12)
26	18th September	LEWIS	David Elwyn	2Lt	-	31	KIA	France	Near Gouzeaucourt	Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery (II.F.5)	3/p201 (13)
27	18th September	SAUNDERS	Gwilym Essex	2Lt	-	29	KIA	France	Near Gouzeaucourt	Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery (II.F.10)	3/p202 (14)
28	8th October	DAVIES	John Morris	2Lt	-	?	KIA	France	Mortho Wood, near Villers-Outreaux	Vis-en-Artois Memorial (Panel 6)	3/p231
29	9th October	PALFREYMAN	Arthur	2Lt	-	23	DOW	France	CCS at Lechelle	Five Points Cemetery, Lechelle (A.25)	3/p231 (15)
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. THOMAS was killed by a sniper. 2. BEVERS was wounded near "Zouave House", east of the Canal Bank, north of Ypres on 31st July 1917. 3. WILLIAMS was wounded east of Chapelle d'Armentieres on18th March 1918. 4. HEATLY was attached to the 38th Division Sniper Company and may well have been attending a musketry school in the Armentieres area when he was wounded. (WO 339/71324). 5. BRODIE was wounded near Aveluy Wood, Somme on 22nd April 1918. 6. HARRIS A H was wounded east of Englebelmer, Somme on 4th July 1918, 7. ANDREWS was originally buried in a battlefield grave near Bazentin-le-Grand Wood and was reburied in Caterpillar Valley Cemetery after the Armistice. 8. OWEN H J was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the west of La Boisselle and reburied in Ovillers Military Cemetery after the Armistice. 9. HARRIS W H was originally buried in a battlefield grave near Bazentin-le-Grand Wood and was reburied in Caterpillar Valley Cemetery after the Armistice. 10. GEORGE was originally buried in a battlefield grave near Bazentin-le-Grand Wood and was reburied in Caterpillar Valley Cemetery after the Armistice. 11. OWEN W was wounded near Longueval on 27th August 1918. 12. HOLLAND was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the west of Gouzeaucourt and reburied in Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery in July 1919. 13. LEWIS was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the south of Gouzeaucourt and reburied in Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery after the Armistice. 14. SAUNDERS was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the south of Gouzeaucourt and reburied in Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery after the Armistice. 15. PALFREYMAN was wounded at Mortho Wood on 8th October 1918.

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

16th (Service) Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
1	10th July 1916	CARDEN	Ronald James Walter	Lt Col	MiD	40	KIA	France	"Queen's Nulla", Mametz Wood	Carnoy Military cemetery (S.22)	2/p109 (1)
2	22nd April 1918	DAVIES	Brinley Owen	Lt	-	19	KIA	France	Near Aveluy Wood, Somme	Pozieres Memorial (Panel 49)	3/p146 (2)
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. CARDEN was detached from the 17th Lancers and was the Commanding Officer of the Battalion at the time of his death. 2. DAVIES was detached from the Welsh Regiment.

Battalion History

16th (Service) Battalion. The Battalion was formed at Llandudno in November 1914, by the Welsh National Executive Committee, from recruits and other manpower surplus to the 13th Battalion establishment. In November 1914, whilst the Battalion was at Llandudno, it was placed under command of 128th Brigade, 43rd Division. On 28th April 1915 these formations became the 113th Brigade, 38th (Welsh) Division. To complete the intensive individual and collective training required for service with the BEF the Battalion was moved to the Winchester area in August 1915. On 4th December 1915 the Battalion was entrained at Winchester for journey to Folkestone for embarkation to Boulogne. The Battalion was moved on 5th December 1915 to Aire-sur-la-Lys and marched to billets at Mametz, west of Aire. On 10th December the Battalion was moved to Laventie under temporary command of the Guards Division for instruction in trench warfare. By 4th January 1916 the Battalion was in the Richebourg St Vaast area fully under command of 113th Brigade, 38th (Welsh) Division. The Battalion remained with the Division for the duration of the war and a history of the actions and battles of the Division can be viewed here.

At the Armistice the Battalion was at Dimechaux, near Wattignies, in the Le Cateau area and remained in billets in the general area undergoing military and physical training and educational instruction until 29th December 1918 when the Battalion was moved to the Warloy area, northwest of Albert. Demobilisation began in mid-January 1919 with the Battalion remaining at Warloy until 17th March 1919 when it was moved to Blangy-Tronville, east of Amiens where units of 113rd Brigadae were concentrated. Demobilisation continued up to 27th April 1919 when the remainiing personnel were returned to the UK and the Battalion ceased to exist.

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 16th Battalion Officer Casualties

Year	BE	FR	TOTAL
1916	2	2	4
1917	3	1	4
1918		21	21
TOTALS	5	24	29

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