South Wales Borderers - Roll of Honour of Officers of the South Wales Borderers Who Died In The Great War Whilst Serving With 2nd Battalion South Wales Borderers

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
1915
1	25th April	BEHRENS	Robert Philip	Lt	-	21	KIA	Gallipoli	"S" Beach	Helles Memorial (Panel 80 - 84)	(p105)
2	25th April	MARGESSON	Edward Cuninghame	Maj	-	43	KIA	Gallipoli	"S" Beach	Helles Memorial (Panel 80 - 84)	(p105)
3	25th April	PALMER	Roland Gaskell	Capt	-	38	KIA	Gallipoli	"S" Beach	Helles Memorial (Panel 80 - 84)	(p110)
4	5th May	MACGREGOR	Cortlandt Richard	Lt	-	21	KIA	Gallipoli	Near Krithia Nullah	Helles Memorial (Panel 80 - 84)	(1) (p118)
5	9th May	BUNCE	George Owen	2Lt	-	31	KIA	Gallipoli	Gully Ravine	Helles Memorial (Panel 80 - 84)	(p118)
6	9th May	HEAL	Charles Henry	2Lt	-	18	DOW	Gallipoli	DS near Gully Beach	Twelve Trees Copse Cemetery (Sp Mem 339)	(2) (p118)
7	13th May	STANBOROUGH	Walter Thomas Henry	2Lt	-	42	DOW	Gallipoli	DS near Gully Beach	Helles Memorial (Panel 80 - 84)	(3) (p118)
8	9th June	SILK	Norman Galbraith	Lt	-	20	KIA	Gallipoli	Gully Ravine	Twelve Trees Copse Cemetery (XI.A.16)	(p121)
9	15th June	SPARTALI	Michael	2Lt	-	33	KIA	Gallipoli	East of Gully Ravine	Helles Memorial (Panel 80 - 84)	(4) (p121)
10	19th June	CASS	Hugh Launcelot	2Lt	-	23	KIA	Gallipoli	East of Gully Ravine	Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery (XI.D.12)	(p123)
11	19th June	JORDAN	John	Lt	-	45	DOW	Gallipoli	DS near "W" Beach	Lancashire Landing Cemetery (A.26)	(5) (p123)
12	19th June	RUNDLE	Cubitt Noel	2Lt	-	19	KIA	Gallipoli	East of Gully Ravine	Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery (I.B.3)	-
13	22nd June	JONES	Bertram Ivor Lewis	2Lt	-	18	KIA	Gallipoli	East of Gully Ravine	Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery (VII.B.4)	(6)
14	28th June	BUDD	Wrinch Joseph Charles	Lt	-	40	KIA	Gallipoli	East of Gully Ravine	Helles Memorial (Panel 80 - 84)	(p124)
15	29th June	INGLIS	Rupert Charles	Lt	-	31	DOW	Gallipoli	DS near Gully Beach	Helles Memorial (Panel 80 - 84)	(p121)
16	2nd July	BRADLY	John Frank	Lt	-	27	DOW	Malta	Military Hospital at Pieta	Pieta Military Cemetery (XXVI.5)	(7) (p124)
17	6th July	ELGEE	Hugh Francis	Capt	-	35	KIA	Gallipoli	East of Gully Ravine	Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery (S Mem C.126)	(p126)
18	6th July	TURNER	Percy Herbert	2Lt	MiD	33	KIA	Gallipoli	East of Gully Ravine	Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery (S Mem C.383)	(p126)
19	21st August	BURRELL	Percy Edmund	2Lt	-	33	KIA	Gallipoli	Scimitar Hill	Helles Memorial (Panel 80 - 84)	(p165)
20	21st August	NEVILE	Hugh George	Lt	-	36	KIA	Gallipoli	Scimitar Hill	Helles Memorial (Panel 80 - 84)	(p165)
21	22nd September	HALL	John Edward Kenyon	2Lt	-	37	DOW	Gallipoli	DS near Suvla Bay	Helles Memorial (Panel 80 - 84)	(8) (p185)
1916
22	29th April	BYRNE	Edmund James Widdrington	Capt	-	35	KIA	France	Hawthorn Redoubt, Beaumont Hamel	Thiepval Memorial (Pier 4A)	(p221)
23	10th May	PARRY-DAVIES	David Christopher	2Lt	-	27	DOW	France	CCS at Beauval	Beauval Communal Cemetery (A.7)	(9) (p221)
24	1st July	BOWYER	George Henry	2Lt	-	26	KIA	France	Y Ravine, Beaumont Hamel	Thiepval Memorial (Pier 4A)	(p238)
25	1st July	EVANS	Humphrey Pennefather	Lt	-	20	KIA	France	Y Ravine, Beaumont Hamel	Thiepval Memorial (Pier 4A)	(p238)
26	1st July	HUGHES	Alexander Arbuthnott	Capt	-	29	KIA	France	Y Ravine, Beaumont Hamel	Y Ravine Cemetery, Beaumont Hamel (C.9)	(p238)
27	1st July	KARRAN	John Bowler	2Lt	-	22	KIA	France	Y Ravine, Beaumont Hamel	Y Ravine Cemetery, Beaumont Hamel (B.10)	(p238)
28	1st July	MURRAY	John Claude	2Lt	-	?	KIA	France	Y Ravine, Beaumont Hamel	Thiepval Memorial (Pier 4A)	(p238)
29	1st July	RICE	Fred	2Lt	-	?	KIA	France	Y Ravine, Beaumont Hamel	Y Ravine Cemetery (Spec Mem A.3)	(p238)
30	1st July	ROBINSON	John	2Lt	-	29	KIA	France	Y Ravine, Beaumont Hamel	Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery No 2, (B.74)	(p238)
31	1st July	WELLS	Thomas William Morris	2Lt	-	27	KIA	France	Y Ravine, Beaumont Hamel	Thiepval Memorial (Pier 4A)	(p238)
32	8th September	WILEMAN	Gerald Watkins Brett	Capt	-	26	KIA	France	High Wood, Somme	Peake Wood Cemetery, Fricourt (B.23)	(p258)
33	20th October	BRICKNELL	Ernest Thomas Samuel	2Lt	-	20	DOW	France	CCS Near Longueval	Longueval Road Cemetery (Spec Mem)	(10) (p267)
34	21st October	BEARDSHAW	Reginald Dudley	Lt	-	33	KIA	France	Grease Trench, near Gueudecourt	Bulls Road Cemetery, Flers (III.L.5)	(p267)
35	21st October	WILTON	Charles Innes	2Lt	-	35	KIA	France	Grease Trench, near Gueudecourt	Bancourt British Cemetery (IX.K.13)	(11) (p267)
36	26th October	HARFORD	John Henry	Lt	-	20	KIA	France	Grease Trench, near Gueudecourt	Thiepval Memorial (Pier 4A)	(p267)
1917
37	30th January	EARLAND	Reginald John	2Lt	-	25	DOW	France	CCS at Meaulte, Albert	Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte (I.A.11)	(12)
38	4th February	SANDYS-THOMAS	Walter Jones	2Lt	-	24	KIA	France	Le Transloy, Somme	AIF Burial Ground, Flers (V.H.15)	(p285)
39	15th April	OWENS	Charles Percy	Capt	MiD	29	KIA	France	East of Monchy le Preux, Arras	Wancourt British Cemetery (IV.C.38)	(p296)
40	23rd April	CLARKE	Horace Yelverton Chatfield	2Lt	-	19	KIA	France	East of Monchy le Preux, Arras	Arras Memorial (Bay 6)	(p298)
41	23rd April	HARRIES	John Elvet	2Lt	-	19	KIA	France	East of Monchy le Preux, Arras	Arras Memorial (Bay 6)	(p298)
42	23rd April	HILL	Philip Aubrey	Capt	-	43	KIA	France	East of Monchy le Preux, Arras	Arras Memorial (Bay 6)	(p298)
43	23rd April	HOPKINS	Daniel Idwal	2Lt	-	?	KIA	France	East of Monchy le Preux, Arras	Arras Memorial (Bay 6)	(p298)
44	23rd April	NIGHTINGALE	William Bryant	2Lt	-	23	KIA	France	East of Monchy le Preux, Arras	Arras Memorial (Bay 6)	(p298)
45	23rd April	PHILLIPS	Reginald	2Lt	-	22	KIA	France	East of Monchy le Preux, Arras	Arras Memorial (Bay 6)	(p298)
46	19th May	DAVIES	Benjamin Jones	Capt	-	31	KIA	France	"Arrow Trench", Monchy le Pruex	Arras Memorial (Bay 6)	(p299)
47	16th August	EVANS	Neville Vernon	2Lt	-	19	KIA	Belgium	Broombeck, near Langemarck	Artillery Wood Cemetery, N of Ypres (V.A.1)	(p338)
48	16th August	FRENCH	The Hon Ernest Aloysius	Lt	-	22	DOW	Belgium	CCS near Poperinghe	Dozinghem Military Cemetery (III.I.18)	(13) (p338)
49	16th August	HAYDON	Geoffrey Miles	Capt	-	22	KIA	Belgium	Broombeck, near Langemarck	Artillery Wood Cemetery, N of Ypres (X.E.16)	(p338)
50	16th August	ROBERTSON	George Arthur Norris	Capt	-	?	KIA	Belgium	Broombeck, near Langemarck	Artillery Wood Cemetery, N of Ypres (VI.B.2)	(p338)
51	16th August	ROSS	Willie	Capt	-	?	KIA	Belgium	Broombeck, near Langemarck	Artillery Wood Cemetery, N of Ypres (VI.D.10)	(p338)
52	29th September	JOYCE	Frederick George	Lt	-	33	KIA	Belgium	Near Langemarck	Artillery Wood Cemetery, N of Ypres (VI.B.8)	(p344)
53	4th October	LOWE	Arthur Denis Worsley	2Lt	MC	22	KIA	Belgium	"Japan House", near Langemarck	Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 65/66)	(p344)
54	21st November	PIERSON	William Henry Maxwell	Capt	MC, CdeG	36	KIA	France	North of Masnieres, Cambrai	Marcoing British Cemetery (II.A.16)	(p356)
55	21st November	ROWLANDS	Franklyn Theodore Rowland	2Lt	-	19	KIA	France	North of Masnieres, Cambrai	Marcoing British Cemetery (II.A.17)	(p356)
56	22nd November	EDWARDS	Hywel	2Lt	-	24	DOW	France	CCS at Mannancourt, Cambrai	Rocquigny-Equancourt Mil Cemetery (II.F.2)	(14) (p355)
57	23rd November	JAMES	Gwilym Christopher Bowring	Lt	-	35	DOW	France	CCS at Mannancourt, Cambrai	Rocquigny-Equancourt Mil Cemetery (IV.B.9)	(15) (p355)
58	23rd November	WEEKS	Herbert Ward Meredith	Lt	-	22	DOW	France	CCS at Tincourt	Tincourt New British Cemetery (II.F.21)	(16) (p355)
59	3rd December	GARNETT	Harold Gwyer	Maj	CdeG	38	KIA	France	East of Marcoing, Cambrai	Cambrai Memorial (Panel 5)	(p368)
60	25th December	NETHERCLEFT	Hugh Kirk	2Lt	-	31	DOW	France	Hospital at Rouen	St Sever Cemetery, Rouen (Offrs.B.2.23)	(17) (p369)
1918
61	3rd February	MORRIS	William Henry	Lt	-	29	KIA	Belgium	"Bellevue Spur", near Gravenstafel	Oxford Road Cemetery, Wieltje (V.G.4)	(p383)
62	11th April	ARNOLD	Hedley Graham	2Lt	-	20	KIA	France	Near Le Petit Mortier, Merville	Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck (II.K.35)	(p415)
63	11th April	DAVIES	William	Capt	-	29	KIA	France	Near Le Petit Mortier, Merville	Ploegsteert Memorial (Panel 5)	(p415)
64	12th April	MALINS	Edward Francis	2Lt	-	19	DOW	France	CCS at Hazebrouck	La Kreule Military Cemetery (I.C.16)	(18) (p415)
65	17th April	MORGAN	Idris Aneurin	Capt	-	28	KIA	France	Northeast of Hazebrouck	Meteren Military Cemetery (II.N.343)	(19) (p421)
66	20th April	THOMAS	Evan David	2Lt	-	27	DOW	France	CCS at Ebblinghem	Ebblinghem Military Cemetery (II.A.15)	(20) (p415)
67	22nd May	DIXON	Leonard Frederick	Lt	-	26	KIA	France	Vieux Berquin, near Hazebrouck	Cinq Rues British Cemetery (D.25)	(p424)
68	18th August	THOMAS	Cyril Raymond	2Lt	-	20	KIA	France	Near Oultersteene	Borre British Cemetery (II.G.36)	(p437)
69	26th August	EVANS	Roy Galloway	Lt	-	25	KIA	France	Near Oultersteene	Borre British Cemetery (II.H.26)	(p452)
70	28th August	DICKINSON	Digby Cecil Caleb	2Lt	-	20	KIA	France	Near Oultersteene	Borre British Cemetery (II.G.38)	(p437)
71	29th September	DAVIES	George Price	2Lt	-	37	KIA	Belgium	West of Kruiseick	Zantvoorde British Cemetery (I.D.26)	(p462)
72	29th September	SHERER	Stephen Frank	2Lt	-	23	KIA	Belgium	West of Kruiseick	Zantvoorde British Cemetery (I.J.27)	(p462)
Officers of Other Regiments Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 2nd Battalion South Wales Borderers
1	6th July 1915	KERR	Daniel	Lt	-	23	KIA	Gallipoli	East of Gully Ravine	Helles Memorial (Panel 76 to 78)	(21) (p126)
2	21st August 1915	McSHANE	Vincent	Lt	-	21	KIA	Gallipoli	Scimitar Hill	Helles Memorial (Panel 34 to 36)	(22) (p165)
3	1st July 1916	BLAKE	Francis Seymour	Capt	-	38	KIA	France	Y Ravine, Beaumont Hamel	Thiepval Memorial (Pier 1D8B)	(23) (p238)
4	1st July 1916	DON	David Fairweather	2Lt	-	22	KIA	France	Y Ravine, Beaumont Hamel	Thiepval Memorial (Pier 10C)	(24) (p238)
5	1st July 1916	McLAREN	Robert John	Capt	-	-	KIA	France	Y Ravine, Beaumont Hamel	Hawthorn Ridge Cemetery No 2, (A.48)	(25) (p238)
6	23rd April 1917	SHAW	Bernard Lynton	Lt	-	35	KIA	France	East of Monchy le Preux, Arras	Arras Memorial (Bay 6)	(26) (p298)
7	4th May 1917	BEYNON	William Charles	2Lt	-	29	DOW	France	CCS at Duisans, Arras	Duisans British Cemetery (IV.B.30)	(27) (p298)
8	19th May 1917	JONES	Vivasor	2Lt	-	27	KIA	France	"Arrow Trench", Monchy le Pruex	Drury Crucifix Cemetery (II.H.29)	(28) (p298)
9	4th July 1917	DAVIES	John Howard	2Lt	-	22	KIA	Belgium	East of Canal Bank, north of Ypres	Bard Cottage Cemetery (II.J.5)	(29) (p310)
10	16th August 1917	PHILLIPS	David Charles	2Lt	-	22	KIA	Belgium	Broombeck, near Langemarck	Artillery Wood Cemetery (V.A.2)	(30) (p338)
11	21st November 1917	COOPER	Francis Nicholas Nooth	Lt	-	21	KIA	France	Masnieres, Cambrai	Marcoing British Cemetery (Sp Mem 8)	(31) (p357)
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. MACGREGOR may well have been killed on 2nd May 1915. 2. HEAL was wounded at Gully Ravine on 8th May 1915. 3. STANBOROUGH was wounded at Gully Ravine on 8th May 1915. 4. SPARTALI may well have been killed on 12th June 1915. 5. JORDAN was wounded at "Turkey Trench", east of Gully Ravine on 19th June 1915. 6. JONES (Lewis-Jones) may well have been killed on 19th June 1915. 7. BRADLY was wounded east of Gully Ravine on 28th June 1915. 8. HALL was wounded at "The Horseshoe", near Scimitar Hill on 18th September 1915. 9. PARRY-DAVIES was wounded at Hawthorn Redoubt, Beaumont Hamel on 29th April. 10. BRICKNELL was wounded at Grease Trench, near Gueudecourt, on 20th October 1916. 11. WILTON was re-buried at Bancourt in December 1920 from a battlefield grave east of Gueudecourt. 12. EARLAND was wounded near Le Transloy on 29th January 1917. 13. FRENCH was wounded at Broombeck, near Langemarck on 16th August. 14. EDWARDS was wounded near Masnieres, Cambrai on 21st November 1917. 15. JAMES was wounded near Masnieres, Cambrai on 21st November 1917. 16. WEEKS was wounded near Masnieres, Cambrai on 21st November 1917. 17. NETHERCLEFT was wounded east of Marcoing on 2nd December. 18. MALINS was wounded south west of Merris on 12th April 1918. 19. MORGAN was temporarily detached to 87th Brigade Composite Battalion at the time of his death. 20. THOMAS E D was wounded south west of Le Petit Mortier on 11th April 1918. 21. KERR was detached from the Cheshire Regiment. 22. McSHANE was detached from the Northumberland Fusiliers. 23. BLAKE was detached from The King's (Liverpool Regiment). 24. DON was detached from the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). 25. McLAREN was detached from the Cheshire Regiment. 26. SHAW was detached from the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. 27. BEYNON was detached from the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was wounded east of Monchy le Preux, Arras on 23rd April 1917. 28. JONES V was detached from the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. 29. DAVIES was detached from the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. According to the Battalion War Diary, he died of wounds on 5th July 1917. 30. PHILLIPS was detached from the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. 31. COOPER was detached from the Army Service Corps.

Battalion History

On the Declaration of War on 4th August 1914 the Battalion was based at Tientsin, China.   On the 23rd September 1914 the Battalion landed at Lao Shan Bay for operations against the German territory of Tsingtao.   The Battalion then embarked at Hong Kong for Plymouth on 4th December 1914, arriving 12th January 1915.   Assigned to 87th Infantry Brigade of 29th Division, and moved to billets at Rugby.   On 17th March 1915, the Battalion embarked at Avonmouth for operations at Gallipoli landing at Cape Helles on 25th April 1915.   The Battalion was evacuated from Gallipoli on 8th January 1916 then moved to Egypt on 11th January 1916.

The Battalion was sent on to France, arriving at Marseilles 15 March 1916.   It remained in France and Flanders for the remainder of the war being engaged in operations in 1916 at The Battle of Albert, The Battle of the Transloy Ridges. In 1917 at The First Battle of the Scarpe, The Second Battle of the Scarpe, The Third Battle of the Scarpe, The Battle of Langemarck, The Battle of Broodseinde, The Battle of Poelcapelle, The Battle of Cambrai. In 1918 at The Battle of Estaires, The Battle of Messines 1918, The Battle of Hazebrouck, The Defence of Nieppe Forest, The Battle of Bailleul, The Action of Outtersteene Ridge, The Capture of Ploegsteert and Hill 63, The Battle of Ypres 1918, The Battle of Courtrai.

As part of the Army of Occupation in Germany, the Battalion entered Germany on 4th December 1918 at Malmedy and formally entered Cologne on 13th December 1918.   In the new year, after many men were demobilised the Battalion, at a strength of 7 officers and 80 men, moved to Mulheim and on 4th April 1919 embarked at Dunkirk for the UK, arriving in Brecon on 5th April 1919.

During the course of the war the Battalion lost 72 officers, 11 officers of other Regiments and 1413 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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