Royal Welsh Fusiliers - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 8th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1915
1	7th August	LLOYD	Walter	Capt	MiD	41	KIA	Gallipoli	"Chessboard Trenches", near Monash Valley	Shrapnel Valley Cemetery (IV.F.17)	1/p222
2	8th August	ALLIES	Alfric Euan	Lt	-	24	KIA	Gallipoli	"Chessboard Trenches", near Monash Valley	Helles Memorial (Panels 78/81)	1/p222
3	11th October	HILL	William	Lt	DCM, MiD	37	DOI	Gallipoli	CCS near Suvla Bay	Lala Baba Cemetery (II.B.5)	-
Died in 1916
4	5th January	EVANS	Oscar James	2Lt	-	24	KIA	Gallipoli	Southwest of Krithia	Helles Memorial (Panels 78/81)
5	5th April	HICKMAN	Arthur Kendrick	Lt	-	23	KIA	Mespot	Near Sannaiyat, east of Kut	Basra Memorial (Panel 15)	-
6	5th April	POWELL	Scott	Capt	MiD	30	DOW	Mespot	Near Fallahiyeh	Basra Memorial (Panel 15)	2/p27 (1)
7	9th April	BIRCH	Howard	2Lt	-	19	KIA	Mespot	Near Sannaiyat, east of Kut	Basra Memorial (Panel 15)	2/p28
8	9th April	SINNETT-JONES	Gilbert Lloyd	Capt	-	23	KIA	Mespot	Near Sannaiyat, east of Kut	Basra Memorial (Panel 15)	2/p28
9	9th April	STANLEY	Robert Oliver	2Lt	-	?	KIA	Mespot	Near Sannaiyat, east of Kut	Basra Memorial (Panel 15)	2/p28
10	25th April	HOLME	Bertram Lester	Lt	-	27	DOW	Mespot	Hospital at Amara	Amara War Cemetery (XII.J.11)	(2)
Died in 1917
11	14th January	HUGHES	Hubert Darrell	2Lt	-	19	KIA	Mespot	Shatt el Hai, south of Kut	Basra Memorial (Panel 15)	-
12	25th January	HUBBARD	Alfred William	2Lt	MiD	20	KIA	Mespot	Shatt el Hai, south of Kut	Basra Memorial (Panel 15)	2/p206
13	26th January	SWEETLAND	Rupert Girard	2Lt	-	23	DOW	Mespot	CCS near Shatt el Hai, south of Kut	Amara War Cemetery (XXV)	2/p206 (3)
14	28th January	DYCHE	John	Lt	-	20	DOW	Mespot	CCS near Shatt el Hai, south of Kut	Amara War Cemetery (XXV)	2/p206 (4)
15	3rd February	DUNN	Philip Morgan	Capt	-	28	KIA	Mespot	Shatt el Hai, south of Kut	Amara War Cemetery (XXV)	2/p207 (5)
16	3rd February	HAY	Archibald	Lt Col	-	44	KIA	Mespot	Shatt el Hai, south of Kut	Amara War Cemetery (XXV)	2/p207 (6)
17	15th February	HERINGTON	Percy Godrey	2Lt	-	20	KIA	Mespot	Dahra Bend, Shatt el Hai	Amara War Cemetery (XXI.L.13)	2/p208
18	19th February	OWEN	Thomas John	2Lt	-	26	DOW	Mespot	CCS on River Tigris	Shaikh Sa’ad Old Cemetery	2/p208 (7)
Died in 1918
19	30th June	CAWLEY	Robert	Lt	DCM, MSM	?	DOI	India	Hospital at Trimulgherry	Trimulgherry Cantonment Cemetery (A.4.13)	( 8)
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. POWELL date of death is between 4th and 5th April 1916. The action near Fallahiyeh commenced late in the evening of 4th April and continued into the early morning of the 5th. He is recorded as dying of wounds in ODGW. 2. HOLME was wounded near Kut on ? (WO 339/3914). 3. SWEETLAND was wounded on 25th January 1917 and was originally buried in the Umm-as-Saad trench grave and reburied at Amara Cemetery in 1924. 4. DYCHE was wounded on 25th January 1917 and was originally buried in the Umm-as-Saad trench grave and reburied at Amara Cemetery in 1924. 5. DUNN was originally buried in the Umm-as-Saad trench grave and reburied at Amara Cemetery in 1924. 6. HAY was originally buried in the Umm-as-Saad trench grave and reburied at Amara Cemetery in 1924. 7. OWEN was most probably wounded at the Dahra Bend on 15th February 1917. His grave in the Shaikh Sa’ad Old Cemetery was subsequently lost and he is commemorated on a Memorial in the Amara War Cemetery. 8. CAWLEY died of ? (WO 374/12955). He was RSM of the Battalion when commissioned into the General List as the unit Quartermaster on 17th April 1918.

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

8th (Service) Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
1	5th April 1916	GILBERT	Leslie Spencer	2Lt	-	19	KIA	Mespot	Hanna Lines, east of Kut	Basra Memorial (Panel 15)	2/p27 (1)
2	9th April 1916	BAINES	Arthur Edward Carrow	Capt	MiD	23	KIA	Mespot	Near Sannaiyat, east of Kut	Basra Memorial (Panel 15)	2/p27 (2)
3	9th April 1916	FARMER	William McDowall	Lt	-	?	KIA	Mespot	Near Sannaiyat, east of Kut	Basra Memorial (Panel 6)	2/p27 (3)
4	9th April 1916	HOUGHTON	William	2Lt	-	29	KIA	Mespot	Near Sannaiyat, east of Kut	Basra Memorial (Panel 15)	2/p27 (4)
5	9th April 1916	LEPPER	Harper Mervyn	2Lt	MC	19	KIA	Mespot	Near Sannaiyat, east of Kut	Basra Memorial (Panels 30/64)	2/p27 (5)
6	30th May 1916	LIPP	Frank	2Lt	-	24	DOW	India	Station Hospital Karachi	Delhi Memorial (India Gate) (Face 1)	(6)
7	25th January 1917	TRENCH	Percy Richard Oliver	Capt	-	22	KIA	Mespot	Hai Triangle, River Tigris	Basra Memorial (Panel 15)	2/p206 (7)
8	12th April 1917	EWING	James	Capt	MiD	24	DOW	Mespot	DS near Shatt-el-Adhaim	Basra Memorial (Panel 42)	(8)
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. GILBERT was detached from the Royal Fusiliers. 2. BAINES was detached from the Lincolnshire Regiment. 3. FARMER was detached from the Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment). 4. HOUGHTON was detached from the Royal Fusiliers. 5. LEPPER was detached from the Middlesex Regiment. He was born in New Zealand. 6. LIPP was detached from the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). He was wounded near Sannaiyat on 9th April 1916 and evacuated to Karachi. He was buried in Karachi Cemetery (Plot D. J. 25.) (now in Pakistan) but the grave is not maintainable by the CWGC. 7. TRENCH was detached from The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) 8. EWING was detached from the RAMC as the Battalion Medical Officer. He was wounded near Shatt-el-Adhaim on 12th April 1917.

Battalion History

8th (Service) Battalion. Formed at Wrexham in August 1914 as part of K1 and came under command of 40th Brigade, 13th (Western) Division. The Battalion concentrated at a camp on Salisbury Plain to commence individual and collective training in the autumn of 1914 and were moved to Blackdown Camp, near Camberley in February 1915 for intensive training leading up to deployment for active service. The Division was moved to Mudros in July 1915 and subsequently served in Gallipoli, Egypt and Mesopotamia.

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 8th Battalion Officer Casualties

Year	GA	ME	IND	TOTAL
1915	3			3
1916	1	6		7
1917		8		8
1918			1	1
TOTALS	4	14	1	19

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