Royal Welsh Fusiliers - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 26th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1918
1	20th November	LOVELUCK	Clifford Andrew	2Lt	-	25	DOI	France	No 8 British Red Cross Hospital, Boulogne	Terlincthun British Military Cemetery (XI.C.33)	( )
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. LOVELUCK died of influenza/pneumonia.

Battalion History

26th (Service) Battalion (formerly 4th (Garrison) Battalion). The 4th (Garrison) Battalion was formed at Bebington, near Birkenhead on 15th April 1916 deploying to the BEF on 7th June 1916. The Battalion was attached as Army Troops to Third Army in Lines of Communication duties. It was renamed 4th Garrison Guard Battalion on16th May 1918 and placed under command of 176th Brigade, 59th (2nd North Midland) Division. On 16th July 1918 it was renamed the 26th (Service) Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers remaining with 176th Brigade, 59th (2nd North Midland) Division until the end of the war.

At the Armistice the battalion was statined in the Toufflers area, east of Lille, and by the end of the month, after some time in the Mourcourt area, east of Tournai, the Battalion had returned to Lille. Military and physical training continued and an education scheme implementated. On 6th December 1918 the Battalion was moved westward to Barlin, south of Bethune, where military training and education continued. On 31st December 1918 the Battalion was moved to the Hondinghem Staging Camp, near Hazebrouck to undertake camp duties untl 18th January 1919 when the Staging Camp was shut down. On 30th January 1919 the Battalion was moved to run the Demobilisation Centre at Dunkirk and on 1st March 1919 the Battalion supplied 12 officers and 266 men to the local POW Camp. From 7th February 1919 many officers and men, who were not yet entitled to demobilisation, were posted to the Battalion from other units of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, the Monmouthshire Regiment, South Wales Borderers and the Cheshire Regiment and on 29th March 1919 demobilisation began. Officers and men were still arriving and departing up to 30th April 1919 when the last entry into Battalion War Diary was made.

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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