Royal Welsh Fusiliers - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 25th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1918
1	8th September	ELLIOTT	George Keith	Lt	-	20	KIA	France	Northeast of Hargicourt	St Emille Valley Cemetery (II.E.15)	3/p193
2	18th September	PENSON	Thomas Edward	2Lt	-	31	KIA	France	Near Ronssoy	Templeux-le-Guerard Communal Cemetery (B.23)	3/p202
3	8th September	WILLIAMS	George Stewart Stanislaus S	Lt	-	20	KIA	France	Near Ronssoy	St Emille Valley Cemetery (I.A.9)	3/p194 (1)
4	18th September	PRICHARD	John Walter	Lt	-	25	KIA	France	Near Ronssoy	St Emilie Valley Cemetery (I.E.8)	(2)
5	18th September	THOMAS	Reginald Spencer Dudley	2Lt	-	?	KIA	France	Near Ronssoy	Vis-en-Artois Memorial (Panel 6)	3/p204
6	19th September	CHARLESWORTH	Frederic Raymond	Capt	-	24	DOW	France	CCS at Doingt	Doingt Communal cemetery Extn (I.A.23)	3/p204 (3)
7	21st September	EDWARDS	John Henry	2Lt	-	25	KIA	France	Near Ronssoy	Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery (XXXI.F.6)	3/p204 (4)
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. WILLIAMS was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the southwest of Ronssoy and reburied in St Emilie Cemetery in July 1919. 2. PRICHARD was buried in a battlefield grave to the southwest of Ronssoy and reburied in St Emilie Cemetery in July 1919. 3. CHARLESWORTH was wounded near the "Quadrilateral", south of Ronssoy on 19th September 1918. 4. EDWARDS was originally buried in a battlefield grave near "Benjamin Post", east of Ronssoy, and reburied in Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery in October 1924.

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

25th (Montgomeryshire and Welsh Horse Yeomanry) Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
1	1st December 1917	MORRIS	Edwin Alan	2Lt	-	19	DOW	Palestine	CCS near Gaza	Gaza War cemetery (VIII.E.4)	3/p70 (1)
2	27th December 1917	ROBERTS	Harry Cureton	Lt	-	32	KIA	Palestine	Near Beitunia, north of Jerusalem	Jerusalem War Cemetery (E.26)	3/p72 (2)
3	9th March 1918	KEYZOR	Herbert Louis Abraham	2Lt	-	20	KIA	Palestine	Sheikh Saleh, near Ramallah	Jerusalem War Cemetery (JS.7)	3/p108 (3)
4	19th September 1918	MILLER	John Kingsley	Lt	-	34	KIA	France	East of Ronssoy	Unicorn Cemetery, Venduile (III.B.30)	(4)
5	22nd September 1918	ELLIS	Rae Adam	Capt	-	36	DOW	France	20th CCS at Doingt	Doingt Communal cemetery Extn (I.A.33)	3/p205 (3)
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. MORRIS was detached from the South Wales Borderers. He was wounded near Beir Ur-al-Foqa on 30th November 1917. 2. ROBERTS was detached from the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry. 3. KEYZOR was detached from the South Wales Borderers. 4. MILLER was detached from the Denbighshire Hussars. He was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the east of Ronssoy and reburied in Unicorn Cemetery in August 1919. 5. ELLIS was detached from the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry. He was wounded near Ronssoy on 19th September 1918.

Battalion History

25th (Montgomeryshire and Welsh Horse Yeomanry) Battalion. This Battalion was formed in Palestine in March 1917 from officers and men of the dismounted 1/1st Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, the dismounted 1/1st Welsh Horse Yeomanry, officers and men of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and from Regiments, and placed under command of 231st Brigade, 74th (Yeomanry) Division TF at Khan Younis, near Gaza. The 74th Division then took part in the invasion of Palestine In October and November 1917, taking part in the Third Battle of Gaza (including the capture of Beersheba on 31st October 1917 and the Sheria Position on 6th November 1917). At the end of 1917, it took part in the capture and defence of Jerusalem and in March 1918 in the Battle of Tell 'Asur. On 3rd April 1918, the Division was warned that it would move to France to join the BEF and by 30th April 1918 had completed embarkation at Alexandria.

The Division landed at Marseilles in May 1918 and by 18th May, it had concentrated around Rue in the Abbeville area. Here the dismounted Yeomanry underwent intensive training for service on the Western Front, particularly gas defence. On 14th July 1918 the Division went into the line for the first time, near Merville on the right of XI Corps. From September 1918, as part of III Corps of Fourth Army, it took part in the Hundred Days Offensive including the Second Battle of the Somme (Second Battle of Bapaume) and the Battles of the Hindenburg Line (Battle of Épehy). In October and November 1918, it took part in the 'Final Advance' on Artois and Flanders and at the Armistice it was in the area of Tournai, Belgium. Post Armistice, the troops of 74th Division were engaged in railway and road repair work, military and recreational training, and education classes were undertaken while demobilisation began. The Division and its Brigades were disbanded on 10th July 1919.

At the Armistice the Battalion was stationed at Marquain, west of Tournai and by 17th December 1918 had marched to Grammont, west of Brussels where it remained until the Battalion Cadre began its return to the UK on 16th June 1919.

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.

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