Ref

Date Died

Surname

Forenames

Rank

Decs

Age

Cause

Country

Location

Status/Former Unit

Cemetery/Memorial

Notes

Died in 1916

1

16th March

PROCTOR

Frederic William

Major

-

53

DOI

UK

Maidenhead

Special List

Boyne Hill (All Saints) Churchyard

(1)

Died in 1917

2

20th November

TRICKETT

William Edwin

Major

-

46

DOW

UK

Military Hospital Manchester

1/5th Battalion

Gwernaffield (Holy Trinity) Churchyard (NE.1.9)

(2)

Died in 1918

3

1st July

LLOYD-JONES

Harold

2Lt

-

20

DOI

UK

Hospital in London

3rd (Reserve) Bn

Llandifriog (St Tyfrog) Churchyard (East)

(3)

4

29th July

BURKE

Gordon William

Lt

-

26

DOI

UK

Erpingham, Norfolk

?

Hammersmith Old Cemetery (Screen. 26. J. 63)

(4)

5

10th October

THOMAS

Edward Geoffrey

Lt

-

23

DOI

UK

Hospital at Marylebone

1/7th Battalion

Oswestry General Cemetery (E.CE.400)

(5)

6

12th October

WOODGATE

Frederick James

Lt

-

23

DOI

UK

Leigh-on-Sea

3rd (Res Gar) Bn

Leigh-on-Sea Cemetery (T.38)

(6)

7

10th November

JONES

Evan Brindle

Capt

-

25

DOI

UK

Llangefni

19th Battalion

Llangefni Cemetery (I.U.14.D)

(7)

Died in 1919

8

6th February

CLIEVE

James Francis

Maj (QM)

-

61

DOI

UK

Wrexham

Depot

Wrexham Cemetery (D.3918)

(8)

9

19th March

ROSHER

John Robert

Capt (QM)

-

52

DOI

UK

Bangor

General List

Bangor (Glanadda) Cemetery (E.NP.13)

(9)

10

25th June

THOMAS

Joseph Henry

Lt (QM)

-

47

DOI

UK

Worthing

14th Battalion

Heene (St Botolph) Churchyard Extn (956)

(10)

11

23rd September

HIGGINSON

John Victor

Capt

MC, MiD

21

DOI

UK

Military Hospital Aberdeen

3rd Battalion

Knockin (St Mary) Churchyard (West)

(11)

Died in 1920

12

14th April

PARRY

George Owen

Lt

-

38

DOI

UK

Bakewell

16th Battalion

Llanbeblig (St Peblig) Churchyard (NG.2.1)

(12)

13

15th May

BROCKLEHURST

Wilfrid Stanley

Major

-

30

DOI

UK

Residence in Sheffield

16th Battalion

Llanros (SS Eleri & Mary) Churchyard (V.H.25)

(13)

14

22nd November

JONES

William

Capt

-

27

DOI

UK

Carnarvon

5/6th Battalion

?

(14)

15

27th November

COOPER

Edmund Saffery

Major

-

58

DOI

UK

Smallburgh, Norfolk

General List (Staff)

Hoveton (St John) Churchyard (South West Part)

(15)

Died in 1921

16

31st March

HUGHES

Arthur Price

Capt

-

29

DOI

UK

Oldham

17th Battalion

Llandudno (Great Orme's Head) Cemetery (U.22)

(16)

17

6th June

WILLIAMS

John Jones

2Lt

-

41

DOI

UK

Machynlleth

TF Reserve

Aberdyfi Cemetery, Gwynedd (2.1.705)

(17)

Notes:  

1.   PROCTOR died of ?  He was re-employed by the War Office on the outbreak of war in 1914 initially as a Recruiting Officer then at the RE Signals Depot at Fenny Stratford.   Illness forced him to retire in October 1915.

2.   TRICKETT was severely wounded in Palestine in July 1917 and was evacuated to UK.   He died of blood poisoning arising from the wound.

3.   LLOYD-JONES died of heart disease.   He was serving with 3rd (Reserve) Battalion in Ireland prior to relinquishing his commission on 12th April 1918 due to ill health.

4.   BURKE was commissioned into the Regiment on 26th June 1917 and retired from the Army on 21st July 1918 due to ill health.   He was awarded a Silver War Badge on 7th July 1918.   (WO 339/68195).

5.   THOMAS was serving with 1/7th Battalion and was severely wounded at Gaza on 26th March 1917 and evacuated to the UK.   He died in Prince of Wales Military Hospital, Marylebone due to wounds/illness.  (WO 374/67857).

6.   WOODGATE died of influenza/pneumonia.   He relinquished commission on 18th July 1918 due to ill health after serving with 3rd (Reserve) Garrison Battalion.

7.   JONES died of influenza/pneumonia.  He was serving with 19th Battalion when wounded in early 1918 and evacuated to UK. (WO 339/26567).

8.   CLIEVE was placed on the Retired List on 27th January 1912 and promoted to Honorary Major on 12th May 1915.

9.   ROSHER, according to newspaper reports, died of shell-shock and gas poisoning.   At the outbreak of war he was a RWF pensioner and was appointed to a QM commission as a Lieutenant on 4th November 1914 and detached to 65th Provisional Bn TF in April 1915.

This Battalion was made up of Home Service TF personnel and was stationed on the East Coast in the Home Defence role.   He was transferred to the General List on 17th November 1918 and remained with the 65th Battalion, which was re-named the

15th Battalion Essex Regiment and was transferred to the BEF in May 1918 for active service.   He relinquished his commission on 20th February 1919 due to ill health.

10.  THOMAS was appointed as a Lieutenant (Quartermaster) on 17th June 1917 and relinquished his commission on 11th September 1918 due to ill health.

11.  HIGGINSON was severely gassed in ? and had been a patient at Aberdeen Military Hospital since December 1918.   He had previously seen active service with 2nd Battalion and was with 3rd (Reserve) Battalion in County Clare, Ireland. (WO 339/24526).

12.  PARRY died of ? (WO 374/52346).  He joined 16th Battalion in the field on 24th March 1917.   He relinquished his commission on 19th April 1918 due to ill health contracted on active service.   Awarded Silver War Badge on 15th November 1918.

13.  BROCKLEHURST died of influenza/pneumonia.  He has previously served with 10th Battalion and was severely wounded on 9th April 1917 and evacuated to UK.   He returned to active duty with 16th Battalion on 23rd November 1918 and retired in November 1919.

14.  JONES died of pneumonia/diabetes.   He had previously served in Palestine with the 5/6th Battalion. (WO 339/64773).

15.  COOPER was appointed to the General List (Assistant Provost Marshal) on 22nd June 1918 but had to relinquish his commission on 28th November 1919 due to ill health.

16.  HUGHES died of pneumonia.   He had previously seen active service with 17th Battalion.   He retired in ? (WO 339/50886).

17.  WILLIAMS died of ? (WO 374/74945).   He was commissioned into the Merionethshire Volunteer Regiment as a Second Lieutenant in the Territorial Force Reserve on 12th March 1917.  Awarded a Silver War Badge and discharged on 27th June 1918.