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Roll of Honour of Officers of Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry)

Who Died in the Great War

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Roll of Honour

Surnames   -   S

(27 officers)

 

 

SADLEIR, John Raymond

Second Lieutenant.   Seconded to Depot Machine Gun Corps.   Died in UK on 26th November 1918.   Aged 25.

 

SAMUDA, Cecil Markham Annesley

Major.   Attached to 13th Battalion Royal Fusiliers.   Died of wounds in France on 2nd July 1917.   Aged 38.

 

SARGEANT, Ralph Leslie

Second Lieutenant.   8th Battalion.   Accidentally killed in France on 25th March 1917.   Aged 26.

 

SCAMMELL, Sydney John Alfred

Second Lieutenant.   6th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 16th September 1916.  Aged 20.

 

SCOTT, William Francis

Second Lieutenant.   8th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 1st July 1916.   Aged 31.

 

SELWYN, Colin Redgrave

Second Lieutenant.   6th Battalion.   Killed in action in Belgium on 22nd August 1917.   Aged 24.

 

SHARP, Stanley Ernest Cecil

Second Lieutenant.   2nd Battalion.   Died of illness in Mesopotamia (Persia) on 20th October 1918.   Aged 28.

 

SHEPPARD, Lewis Charles Burford

Second Lieutenant.   Seconded to 32nd Squadron Royal Flying Corps.   Killed in aerial action in France on 21st April 1917.   Aged 20.

 

SHUFFLEBOTHAM, Guy Mynors

Captain, MiD.   7th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 3rd September 1916.   Aged 20.

 

SKRINE, Henry Langton

Captain.   6th Battalion.   Killed in action in Belgium on 25th September 1915.   Aged 34.

 

SMERDON, John Geoffrey

Second Lieutenant.   Attached to 2/5th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers.   Killed in action in Belgium on 20th September 1917.   Aged 24.

 

SMITH, Henry James

Second Lieutenant.   8th Battalion.   Killed in action in Belgium on 4th October 1917.   Aged 20.

 

SNOW, Tom Cyril

Captain.   Formerly 8th Battalion and Labour Corps.   Died of illness in UK on 10th July 1919.   Aged 29.

 

SOMERS-COCKS, Reginald

Captain, MC, MiD.   Attached to HQ 26th Infantry Brigade.   Killed in  action in Belgium on 24th April 1918.   Aged 23.

 

SPILLER, Arthur James

Second Lieutenant.   7th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 17th September 1916.   Aged 40.

 

SPRINGFIELD, Arthur Lincoln

Second Lieutenant.   6th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 9th April 1917.   Aged 25.

 

SPURWAY, Richard Popham

Second Lieutenant.   Attached to 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment.   Lost at sea with HMT Royal Edward off Kandelioussa on 13th August 1915.   Aged 25.

 

STAIGHT, Ralph Neville

Second Lieutenant.   6th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 24th March 1917.   Aged 26.

 

STALEY, Francis Colin

Lieutenant.   1/4th Battalion.   Killed in action in Mesopotamia on 8th March 1916.   Aged 27.

 

STEAD, Aubrey Arthur

Second Lieutenant.   Attached to 13th Trench Mortar Battery.   Killed in action in France on 9th April 1917.   Aged 20.

 

STEER, Gordon Pemberton

Captain.   Attached to 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment.   Died of wounds in France on 26th December 1915.   Aged 31.

 

STOCKEN, Kenneth Edgar

Second Lieutenant.   Attached to 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment.   Killed in action in France on 30th August 1918.   Aged 19.

 

STONE, Harold George

Second Lieutenant.   8th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 5th April 1918.   Aged 19.

 

STRONG, Oswald Lucking

Second Lieutenant.   Attached to 2nd Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry.   Died of wounds in Salonika on 5th August 1917.   Aged 22.

 

SULLY, Donovan Ernest

Second Lieutenant.   1st Battalion.   Died of wounds in Belgium on 9th August 1916.   Aged 20.

 

SWABEY, Alan Maurice Eustace

Second Lieutenant.   Attached to 1st Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.   Killed in action in Belgium on 20th April 1915.   Aged 20.

 

SWAYNE, Cecil Walter Harris

Lieutenant.   2nd Battalion.   Died of illness in India on 25th May 1917.   Aged 21.

 

 

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