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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

Those Officers of Other Regiments Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With the Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry)

(41 officers)

 

 

ACLAND, John Henry Dyke

Captain.   Royal Army Medical Corps.   Attached to 1st Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 12th July 1916.   Aged 36.

 

AITKEN, James

Second Lieutenant.   Worcestershire Regiment.   Attached to 11th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 4th May 1917.   Aged 22.

 

BEAUMONT-CHECKLAND, Montmorency Beaumont

Lieutenant.   West Somerset Yeomanry.   Attached to 7th Battalion.   Killed in action in Belgium on 17th August 1917.   Aged 33.

 

BROOKE, Cyril Thomthwaite

Captain.   Dorsetshire Regiment.    Attached to 6th Battalion.  Killed in action in Belgium on 22nd August 1917.  Aged 26.

 

 

BUTLER, Richard Jefferson

Captain, MBE.   King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.   Attached to 2nd Battalion.   Killed in action in India on 1st July 1919.   Aged 26.

 

CHADWICK, Norman Stuart

Second Lieutenant.  South Lancashire Regiment.   Attached 12th Battalion.  Killed in action in Palestine on 6th November 1917.  Aged 28.

 

CHERRY, Alfred Douglas

Captain.  Dorsetshire Regiment.   Attached 6th Battalion.  Killed in action in France on 4th April 1917.   Aged 28.

 

CLARKE, James Burford

Second Lieutenant.  South Lancashire Regiment.   Attached to 12th Battalion.  Killed in action in France on 2nd September 1918.   Aged 23.

 

 

COHEN, Aaron Simeon

Lieutenant.   Royal Army Medical Corps.   Attached to 8th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 25th September 1915.   Aged 24.

 

DAVIS, Ralph Salway

Second Lieutenant.   Dorsetshire Regiment.   Attached to 6th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 16th September 1916.   Aged 19.

 

FULLER, Walter

Lieutenant (QM).   General List.   Attached to 1st Garrison Battalion.   Died of illness in Malta on 3rd January 1920.   Aged 46.

 

GOLDING, Harold William

Captain, MiD.  Army Service Corps.   Attached 8th Battalion.  Killed in action in France on 31st October 1918.   Aged 26.

 

GOULD, Ernest William

Second Lieutenant.  South Lancashire Regiment.   Attached to 1/5th Battalion.  Killed in action in Palestine on 10th April 1918.   Aged 19.

 

HILL, Arthur Moberly

Second Lieutenant.   North Somerset Yeomanry.   Attached to 1st Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 9th April 1917.   Aged 22.

 

HOBBS, Geoffrey Harold Chapman

Second Lieutenant.   Dorsetshire Regiment.   Attached to 6th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 16th September 1916.   Aged 33.

 

JAFFE, Joseph

Captain.   Royal Army Medical Corps.   Attached to 2/4th Battalion.  Killed in action in France on 1st August 1918.  Aged 28.

 

JERWOOD, John Hugh

Major, MC.   Durham Light Infantry.   Attached to 6th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 21st March 1918.   Aged 28.

 

 

 

KEEN, William Allan

 

Captain.   Middlesex Regiment.   Attached to 12th Battalion.   Died of wounds in France on 6th September 1918.   Aged 29.

 

 

LE BRUN, Lewis Appleby

Second Lieutenant.   Hampshire Regiment.   Attached to 11th Battalion.   Killed in action in Belgium on 31st October 1918.   Aged 22.

 

LYON, Edward Lycett

Major, MiD.   18th Hussars.   Attached to 7th Battalion.   Died of wounds in France on 17th September 1916.   Aged 39.

 

MACMAHON, John Aquila

Lieutenant.   Royal Army Medical Corps.   Attached to 1st Battalion.    Died of wounds in UK on 12th May 1915.   Aged 25.

 

MALPAS, Reginald Arthur

Captain.   Dorsetshire Regiment.   Attached to 7th Battalion.   Died of wounds in UK on 18th November 1917.   Aged 34.

 

MIERS, Maurice Colin Capel

Lieutenant Colonel, MiD.   Middlesex Regiment.   Attached as Commanding Officer 8th Battalion.  Died of wounds in UK on 9th August 1917.  Aged 35.

 

MOLONEY, Frank

Second Lieutenant.   Rifle Brigade.   Attached 1/5th Battalion.  Killed in action in Palestine on 9th April 1918.  Aged 21.

 

PARKER, James

Captain.   Royal Army Medical Corps.   Attached to 7th Battalion.   Killed in action in Belgium on 16th June 1916.   Aged 34.

 

PEARCY, Albert

Second Lieutenant.   Devonshire Regiment.   Attached to 7th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 30th November 1917.   Aged 26.

 

PENN, Geoffrey Mark

Second Lieutenant.  Rifle Brigade.   Attached to 1st Battalion.  Killed in action in Belgium on 11th February 1915.  Aged 28.

 

RICE, Ernest John

Second Lieutenant.  Devonshire Regiment.   Attached 7th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 20th November 1917.   Aged 26.

 

RICHARDSON, Alfred Terence Henry

Captain.   West Somerset Yeomanry.   Attached to 12th Battalion.   Killed in action in Palestine on 6th November 1917.   Aged 25.

 

SCOTT, John Willoughby

Lieutenant Colonel, DSO, MiD**.   QO Oxfordshire Hussars.   Attached as CO of 8th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 23rd April 1917.   Aged 38.

 

 

SMITH, Herbert Bennett

Second Lieutenant.   West Somerset Yeomanry.   Attached to 8th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 17th July 1917.   Aged 20.

 

SMITH, John Henry

Second Lieutenant, MM.   Devonshire Regiment.   Attached to 7th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 28th August 1918.   Aged 28.

 

STEEL, James

Captain, MC.   Royal Army Medical Corps.    Attached to 1st Battalion as.    Killed in action if France on 2nd September 1918.   Aged 25.

 

 

STEELE, D'Arcy Walter Stewart

Second Lieutenant.   Dorsetshire Regiment.    Attached to 7th Battalion.    Killed in action if France on 1st October 1916.   Aged 21.

 

STOCK, John Lancelot Walmsley

Second Lieutenant.   Dorsetshire Regiment.   Attached to 6th Battalion.   Died of wounds in France on 3rd May 1917.   Aged 29.

 

 

TAYLOR, Douglas John Bulpin

Captain.   West Somerset Yeomanry.   Attached to 12th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 2nd September 1918.   Aged 28.

 

TAYLOR, Robert Lester

Second Lieutenant.   Worcestershire Regiment.   Attached to 11th Battalion.   Died of wounds in France on 11th September 1918.   Aged 24.

 

 

TERRY, Leslie Ryder

Lieutenant.   Royal Warwickshire Regiment.   Attached to 1/5th Battalion.   Died of illness in Egypt on 7th August 1919.   Aged 26.

 

 

THOMSON, Cyril Ground

Captain, MC.   West Somerset Yeomanry.   Attached to 12th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 22nd September 1918.   Aged 27.

 

 

WADDY, John Raymond

Lieutenant, MC, MiD.   Royal Army Medical Corps.   Attached to 1st Battalion.   Killed in action in Belgium on 17th March 1915.   Aged 27.

 

 

WATSON, Dominic Macaulay

Lieutenant.   West Somerset Yeomanry.   Attached to 7th Battalion.   Died of wounds in France on 3rd December 1917.   Aged 30.

 

WOOLNOUGH, Frederick Ullathorne

Captain.   Dorsetshire Regiment.   Attached to 6th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 22nd March 1918.   Aged 35.

 

 

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