South Wales Borderers - Roll of Honour of Officers of the South Wales Borderers Who Died In The Great War Whilst Serving With 7th Battalion South Wales Borderers

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
1915
1	20th October	ROBINSON	Claude Gladstone	2Lt	-	22	KIA	France	South of Cappy, Assevillers	Assevillers New British Cemetery (XII.B.2)	(p173)
1917
2	15th January	ROYLE	John Bedward	Maj	-	43	KIA	Salonika	River Vardar, Doiran front	Karasouli Military Cemetery (D.814)	(p277)
3	26th May	WILLIAMS	Leonard Vincent	Capt	-	24	KIA	Salonika	"Whaleback Ridge", south west of Doiran	Karasouli Military Cemetery (A.128)	(p375)
4	27th May	WILLIAMS	Charles Ellicombe	Capt	MiD	27	DOW	Salonika	CCS near Chaushitsa	Karasouli Military Cemetery (B.403)	(1) (p375)
1918
5	17th September	DICKINSON	Francis John Twysden	Capt	-	21	KIA	Salonika	Tortoise Hill, west of Doiran	Doiran Military Cemetery (VI.E.23)	(p486)
6	18th September	DICK	Watson Tulloch	Capt	MC	24	KIA	Salonika	Grand Couronne, west of Doiran	Doiran Military Cemetery (V.D.16)	(p487)
7	18th September	GOTELEE	Geoffrey Harris	Capt	-	25	KIA	Salonika	Grand Couronne, west of Doiran	Doiran Memorial	(p487)
8	18th September	JONES	Emyr Griffith	2Lt	MM	22	KIA	Salonika	Grand Couronne, west of Doiran	Doiran Memorial	(p487)
9	18th September	LUCAS	Ernest	Lt	-	33	KIA	Salonika	Grand Couronne, west of Doiran	Doiran Memorial	(p487)
10	18th September	MILLS	Edgar Edward	Capt	MC, MiD	27	KIA	Salonika	Grand Couronne, west of Doiran	Doiran Memorial	(p487)
11	18th September	ROBERTS	William	2Lt	-	?	KIA	Salonika	Grand Couronne, west of Doiran	Doiran Military Cemetery (III.A.24)	(p487)
12	18th September	WHITEHORN	William Joseph	Lt	-	36	KIA	Salonika	Grand Couronne, west of Doiran	Doiran Memorial	(p487)
13	18th September	WOOLLEY	William Lawton	2Lt	-	19	KIA	Salonika	Grand Couronne, west of Doiran	Doiran Military Cemetery (IV.C.4)	(p487)
14	22nd September	DAVIES	Charles Albert	2Lt	-	?	KIA	Salonika	Grand Couronne, west of Doiran	Doiran Memorial	(p487)
Officers of Other Regiments Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 7th Battalion South Wales Borderers
1	15th January 1917	JARMAN	Harry Love	Capt	-	24	KIA	Salonika	River Vardar, Doiran front	Karasouli Military Cemetery (D.814)	(2) (p277)
2	3rd October 1918	HUGHES	Percy Caynton	2Lt	-	28	DOW	Salonika	CCS at Karasouli	Karasouli Military Cemetery (C.623)	(3) (p487)
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. WILLIAMS C E was wounded at "Whaleback Ridge", southwest of Doiran on 26th May 1917. 2. JARMAN was detached from the Royal Army Medical Corps as the Battalion Medical Officer. 3. HUGHES was detached from the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was wounded northeast of Grand Couronne on 25th September 1918.

Battalion History

Formed at Brecon on 14th September 1914 as part of "K3".   Full title:   7th (Service) Battalion South Wales Borders.
The Battalion assembled and commenced training for active service at Lewes and Seaford at the end of September 1914, where it was assigned to 67th Infantry Brigade of 22nd Division.   The Battalion moved to St Leonards on 1st December 1914 where it remained until February 1915 when it returned to Seaford, and finally, at the end of May 1915, to Aldershot where it stayed until embarked for Le Havre on 6th September 1915.   On arrival with the BEF in France the Battalion entrained initially to Amiens then marched to Vignacourt, to the north-west of Amiens, and commenced training for trench warfare near Albert.   The 22nd Division was selected to join the British Salonika Force and the Battalion embarked for Salonika, at Marseilles, on 30th October 1915, arriving on 9th November 1915.

The Battalion served in Salonika for the remainder of the war and a detailed list of engagements and operations can be viewed in a history of the 22nd Division.   The Battalion was amalgamated with 8th Battalion SWB on 6th December 1918 at Stavros and was then moved to the Gallipoli Peninsula on 16th March 1919 for garrison duties and then sent to the Constantinople area.   The Battalion was disbanded here on 29th November 1919.

The Battalion lost 14 officers, 2 officers from other Regiments and 170 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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