South Wales Borderers - Roll of Honour of Officers of the South Wales Borderers Who Died In The Great War Whilst Serving With 1st Battalion South Wales Borderers

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
1914
1	14th September	JOHNSON	Mervyn Taylor	Lt	-	28	KIA	France	Chivy Valley, Chemin des Dames, Aisne	Vendresse British Cemetery (I.C.18)	(p24)
2	15th September	YEATMAN	Marwood Edwards	Capt	-	30	KIA	France	Chivy Valley, Chemin des Dames, Aisne	La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial	(p27)
3	26th September	BLACKALL-SIMONDS	George Prescott	Lt	-	33	KIA	France	Chivy Valley, Chemin des Dames, Aisne	La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial	(p30)
4	26th September	COKER	John Cadwallader	Lt	MiD	27	KIA	France	Chivy Valley, Chemin des Dames, Aisne	Vendresse British Cemetery (I.B.8)	(p30)
5	26th September	SILLS	Charles Caldwell	2Lt	-	20	KIA	France	Chivy Valley, Chemin des Dames, Aisne	La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial	(p30)
6	26th September	WELBY	Glynne Everard Earle	Major	-	41	KIA	France	Chivy Valley, Chemin des Dames, Aisne	La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial	(p30)
7	21st October	CURGENVEN	William Charles	Capt	-	37	KIA	Belgium	Near Langemarck	Perth Cemetery (China Wall) (XV.B.2)	(1) (p38)
8	21st October	WATKINS	Horace Holmes	2Lt	-	23	KIA	Belgium	Near Langemarck	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 22)	(p39)
9	31st October	HADLEY	Reginald Bracebridge	Lt	-	23	KIA	Belgium	Gheluvelt	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 22)	(p43)
10	31st October	LAWRENCE	William Lyttleton	Major	DSO, MiD	41	KIA	Belgium	Gheluvelt	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 22)	(p47)
11	31st October	MAXWELL	Ian Bouverie	Capt	-	24	KIA	Belgium	Gheluvelt	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 22)	(p50)
12	1st November	PATERSON	Charles James	Capt	MiD	26	DOW	Belgium	CCS at Ypres	Ypres Town Cemetery (E1.15)	(2) (p44)
13	11th November	HOMFRAY	John Richards	Lt	-	21	KIA	Belgium	Near Zillebeke	Sanctuary Wood Cemetery (III.D.35)	(p52)
14	29th December	FARRIER	Archibald Manaton	2Lt	-	26	DOW	France	CCS at Gorre	Gorre British and Indian Cemetery (I.B.9)	(3) (p92)
15	31st December	PRYCE-JENKIN	Richard Douglas	2Lt	-	20	KIA	France	East of Festubert	Brown's Road Military Cemetery, Festubert (II.B.3)	(p93)
1915
16	17th January	McNAUGHT-DAVIS	James Walden Fortune	Lt	-	23	KIA	France	Givenchy	Woburn Abbey Cemetery, Cuinchy	-
17	28th March	TRAVERS	Hamilton Henry	Lt	-	22	DOW	France	CCS at Bethune	Bethune Town Cemetery (II.B.11)	(4) (p99)
18	28th March	BILL	John Francis	Capt	-	33	KIA	France	Port Arthur, Richebourg L'Avoue	Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery (XXVII.A.7)	(p99)
19	2nd April	GRAHAM	Eric Montrose	Lt	-	21	DOW	UK	Hospital at London	Kensal Green (All Souls) Cemetery (50.2.44645)	(5) (p46)
20	9th May	FRENCH (Lord De Freyne)	Arthur Reginald	Capt	MiD	35	KIA	France	Richebourg L'Avoue	Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery (XXVII.A.5)	(p139)
21	9th May	FRENCH (The Hon)	George Phillip	Lt	-	25	KIA	France	Richebourg L'Avoue	Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery (XXVII.A.5)	(p138)
22	9th May	GARNETT-BOTFIELD	Alfred Clulow Fitzgerald	Lt	-	22	KIA	France	Richebourg L'Avoue	Le Touret Memorial (Panels 14/15)	(p140)
23	9th May	LANGLANDS	Alan	2Lt	-	19	KIA	France	Richebourg L'Avoue	St Vaast Post Military Cemetery (II.B.2)	(p140)
24	9th May	POLLOCK	Martin Viner	Lt	-	26	KIA	France	Richebourg L'Avoue	Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery (XXVII.A.6)	(p138)
25	9th May	TURNER	Noel Price James	Lt	MiD	36	DOW	France	CCS at Bethune	Bethune Town Cemetery (II.G.1)	(6) (p140)
26	9th May	WOODWARD	Robert	Capt	-	38	KIA	France	Richebourg L'Avoue	Guards Cemetery, Cuinchy (Sp Mem 7)	(p140)
27	29th August	HARMOOD-BANNER	Walcot	Capt	-	33	KIA	France	Cambrin	Cambrin Churchyard Extn (A.12)	(p142)
28	11th September	WILLIAMS	Leonard	Lt	-	20	DOW	France	CCS at Vermelles	Vermelles British Cemetery (I.C.19)	(7) (p142)
29	26th September	SAUNDERS	Louis Desormeaux	2Lt	-	25	KIA	France	West of Hulluch	Loos Memorial (Panel 52)	(p149)
30	28th September	PLAYFORD	Anthony Boydell	2Lt	-	26	KIA	France	West of Hulluch	Loos Memorial (Panel 52)	(8) (p148)
31	10th October	FORSTER-MORRIS	Herbert Gloyne Forster	2Lt	-	19	DOW	France	Hospital at Le Treport	Le Treport Military Cemetery (II.O.29)	(9) (p150)
1916
32	19th February	MAYNE	Victor Charles Moore	Lt	-	20	KIA	France	Hart's Crater, near Loos	Canadian Cemetery No 2, Neuville (13.F.1)	(10) (p214)
33	25th February	JOHN	Iorwerth Glyndwr	2Lt	-	21	KIA	France	Hart's Crater, near Loos	St Mary's ADS Cemetery, Haisnes (Mem 2)	(11) (p214)
34	2nd April	MORGAN	William Rich	2Lt	MC	?	KIA	France	Hart's Crater, near Loos	St Patrick's Cemetery, Loos (III.J.19)	-
35	16th June	LAKE	John Stephen Raymond	Capt	-	34	KIA	France	Maroc, south west of Loos	Loos British Cemetery (XVIII.E.10)	(p217)
36	16th July	WARD-JONES	Frederick Vivian	Lt	MC	30	KIA	France	Near Mametz Wood, Somme	Flatiron Copse Cemetery (VIII.G.8)	(p249)
37	25th July	COLE	Richard Harry	2Lt	-	?	KIA	France	Munster Alley, east of Pozieres	Thiepval Memorial (Pier 4A)	(p251)
38	25th July	EVANS	Norman	2Lt	-	?	KIA	France	Munster Alley, east of Pozieres	Pozieres British Cemetery (IV.P.46)	(p251)
39	25th July	SKINNER	Hilary Francis Cleveland	2Lt	-	27	KIA	France	Munster Alley, east of Pozieres	Thiepval Memorial (Pier 4A)	(p251)
40	25th July	WILLIAMS	David Aubrey	2Lt	-	?	KIA	France	Munster Alley, east of Pozieres	Thiepval Memorial (Pier 4A)	(p251)
41	25th August	WALSHE	Francis Weldon	Capt	MC	37	KIA	France	Near Bazentin le Petit	Peake Wood Cemetery, Fricourt	(12) (p256)
42	11th September	PUGH	Henry Loyn	2Lt	-	29	DOW	France	CCS at Mericourt-L'Abbe	Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-L'Abbe (IV.F.4)	(13) (p258)
43	25th September	ZACHARIAS	Francis Herbert	2Lt	-	31	KIA	France	Flers Trench, near Eaucourt L'Abbaye	Thiepval Memorial (Pier 4A)	(p262)
1917
44	10th November	DAVIES	Harry Harding	2Lt	-	21	KIA	Belgium	Goudberg, near Passchendaele	Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 65 to 66)	(p349)
45	10th November	MASON	Derick Cecil	2Lt	-	20	KIA	Belgium	Goudberg, near Passchendaele	Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 65 to 66)	(p349)
46	10th November	PHILLIPS	Cyril Gordon	Lt	-	25	KIA	Belgium	Goudberg, near Passchendaele	Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 65 to 66)	(p349)
1918
47	21st April	WATKINS	David John George	Lt	-	21	KIA	France	"The Keep", near Festubert	Fouquieres Churchyard Extn (II.B.9)	(p421)
48	17th August	LLEWELLIN	William Mervyn Johnes	2Lt	-	20	KIA	France	Hohenzollern Redoubt, near Vermelles	St Mary's ADS Cemetery, Haisnes (XI.F.20)	(p434)
49	14th September	DAVID	Arthur Walter	2Lt	-	31	KIA	France	Near Villecholes, St Quentin	Vadencourt British Cemetery (V.A.8)	(p449)
50	29th September	KING	Robert	2Lt	-	?	KIA	France	East of Pontruet	Savy British Cemetery (I.J.11)	(p458)
51	29th September	MARTIN	Harry Forster	2Lt	-	19	KIA	France	East of Pontruet	Savy British Cemetery (I.J.10)	(p458)
52	29th September	PARKER	Leslie Rowland	2Lt	-	20	KIA	France	East of Pontruet	Savy British Cemetery (I.J.12)	(p458)
53	5th October	LLOYD	Ewan Christian	2Lt	-	20	DOW	France	CCS at Vadencourt, Maissemy	Vadencourt British Cemetery (III.B.7)	(14) (p459)
54	18th October	BENNETT	Herbert Stanley	Lt	-	26	KIA	France	Rejet de Beaulieu, Sambre Canal	St Souplet British Cemetery (III.E.12)	(p467)
55	23rd October	TAYLOR	Edward Roy	Capt	MC	32	KIA	France	Near Ors, Sambre Canal	Wassigny Communal Cemetery	(p474)
56	1st November	JAMES	Frank	Lt	-	22	KIA	France	Catillon, Sambre Canal	Vaux-Andigny British Cemetery (C.17)	(p475)
Officers of Other Regiments Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 1st Battalion South Wales Borderers
1	21st December 1914	OWEN	Ernest Haddon	Lt	-	28	KIA	France	East of Festubert	Le Touret Memorial (Panel 8)	(15) (p92)
2	9th May 1915	JACKSON	Edward Phillips	Lt	-	21	KIA	France	Richebourg L'Avoue	Le Touret Memorial (Panel 6)	(16) (p140)
Notes: (Those numbers marked with a "p" in the Notes column refers to the page in "The History of the South Wales Borderers 1914 - 1918" by C T Atkinson where the death of the officer is mentioned or indicated). 1. CURGENVEN was originally buried in Schreyboom German Military Cemetery and reburied at Perth Cemetery (China Wall) Zillebeke in 1924. 2 PATERSON was wounded at Gheluvelt on 31st October 1914. 3. FARRIER was wounded near Givenchy on 28th December 1914. 4. TRAVERS was wounded at Port Arthur, Richebourg L'Avoue, on 28th March 1915. 5. GRAHAM was wounded at Gheluvelt on 31st October 1914. 6. TURNER was wounded at Richebourg L'Avoue on 9th May 1915. 7. WILLIAMS was wounded near Cambrin on 11th September 1915. 8. PLAYFORD was killed leading a patrol during the evening of 25th September 1915 according to the book "The History of the South Wales Borderers", on page 148. 9. FORSTER-MORRIS was wounded west of Hulluch on 26th September 1915. 10. MAYNE was originally buried in Loos Communal Cemetery until reburial in 1931. 11. JOHN was originally buried in Loos Communal Cemetery but his grave was later destroyed by German shellfire. A Special Memorial stone has been erected in St Mary's ADS Cemetery, Haisnes. 12. WALSHE was shot by a German who feigned surrender. 13. PUGH was wounded at High Wood, Somme on 8th September 1916. 14. LLOYD was wounded near Montbrehain, near St Quentin on 5th October 1918. 15. OWEN was detached from the Lincolnshire Regiment. 16. JACKSON was detached from the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.

Battalion History

On the Declaration of War on 4th August 1914 the 1st Battalion was based at Bordon, part of 3rd Infantry Brigade, 1st Division. On 13th August 1914 the Battalion landed at Le Havre for operations with the BEF and remained in France and Flanders for the duration of the war and were engaged in various actions on the Western Front including in 1914, The Battle of Mons and the subsequent retreat, The Battle of the Marne, The Battle of the Aisne, First Battle of Ypres. In 1915, Winter Operations 1914-15, The Battle of Aubers, The Battle of Loos. In 1916, The Battle of Albert, The Battle of Bazentin, The Battle of Pozieres, The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, The Battle of Morval. In 1917, The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, The Second Battle of Passchendaele. In 1918, The Battle of Estaires, The Battle of Hazebrouck, The Battle of Bethune, The Battle of Drocourt-Queant, The Battle of Epehy, The Battle of the St Quentin Canal, The Battle of Beaurevoir, The Battle of the Selle, The Battle of the Sambre. On 11th November 1918 the Battalion was based at Fresnoy-le-Grand north of Le Quesnoy, France.

As part of the Army of Occupation in Germany, the Battalion entered Cologne on 13th December 1918 and on 4th April 1919 embarked at Dunkirk for the UK, arriving in Brecon on 5th April 1919, when the Battalion was reconstituted as a Regular Battalion.

The Battalion lost 56 officers, 2 from other Regiments, and 1206 other ranks.

Regimental History

The South Wales Borderers was formed on 1st July 1881, as part of the Childers Reforms, which saw the two separate Battalions of the 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot become the Regular 1st and 2nd Battalions of the retitled Regiment, with the Regimental Depot based at The Barracks, Brecon.

The 1881 reforms also redesignated the Militia and Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVC) within the Regimental District as numbered Battalions of the Regiment - the 3rd (Militia) Battalion was formed from the Royal South Wales Borderers Militia and the 4th (Militia) Battalion from the Royal Montgomeryshire Rifles. The four (later five) Rifle Volunteer Corps, the 1st Brecknockshire RVC, 1st Monmouthshire RVC, 2nd Monmouthshire RVC, 3rd Monmouthshire RVC and 1st Montgomeryshire RVC were retitled as 4th to 8th Volunteer Battalions respectively.

The 1908 Haldane Reforms reorganised the Regimental Militia and Volunteer Battalions, with the 3rd Militia Battalion forming the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion. The 4th (Militia) Battalion was transferred to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers with the Montgomeryshire Volunteer Battalion. The three Monmouthshire Volunteer Battalions were reorganised as the newly formed Monmouthshire Regiment of the Territorial Force (TF). The 4th Volunteer Battalion became the 1st Brecknockshire Battalion of the Regimental Territorial Force (TF). After the Declaration of War on 4th August 1914 and up to 1st July 1918, the South Wales Borderers had formed, disbanded, reorganised or reconstituted 20 Regular, Territorial Force, Service, Reserve, Graduated and Young Soldier Battalions.

A detailed history of the South Wales Borderers can be viewed here.

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