Fallen Officers of the Great War   |   South Wales Borderers

No

Date Died

Surname

Forenames

Rank

Decs

Age

Cause

Country

Attached To

Location/Sector

Notes (1)

Died in 1914

1

17th November

PEEL

Alan Ralph

Capt

-

28

KIA

Cameroon

5th Battalion Nigeria Regt, WAFF

North east of Banyo

-

2

23rd December

SPARROW

George Lewis

Lt

-

31

DOW

France

2nd Battalion KOSB

CCS at Bailleul

(2)

Died in 1915

3

3rd April

SALT

Thomas Frederick Cyril

Lt

-

21

DOW

France

3rd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment

CCS at Bailleul

(3)

4

25th May

RUMSEY

Charles Gordon

Lt

-

23

KIA

Belgium

2nd Battalion Welsh Regiment

Bellewaarde Ridge, east of Ypres

-

5

4th June

PRICKARD

Gerald Thornton

2Lt

-

30

KIA

Gallipoli

1st Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers

South west of Krithia

-

6

12th October

LEWIS

Arthur Glanmor

2Lt

-

19

KIA

France

1st Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment

Hohenzollern Redoubt, near Loos

-

Died in 1916

7

18th January

JENKINS

Richard Borlase

2Lt

-

19

DOW

France

9th Sqn Royal Flying Corps

Villers Bocage

(4)

8

29th June

ALLAWAY

Trevor Rhys

Capt

MC, MiD

24

DOW

Egypt

2nd Battalion Welsh Regiment

Military Hospital at Cairo

(5)

9

7th July

STEPHENS

Godfrey Gwilyn Brychan

2Lt

-

?

KIA

France

9th Battalion Welsh Regiment

Bailiff Wood, near Contalmaison, Somme

-

10

10th July

LUCAS

Clifton Malet

2Lt

-

30

KIA

France

15th Battalion Welsh Regiment

Mametz Wood, Somme

-

11

15th July

WILLIAMS-VAUGHAN

John Christopher Arthur

2Lt

-

25

KIA

France

100th Company Machine Gun Corps

High Wood, Somme

-

12

22nd July

LOCH

Alex Arthur Francis

Capt

DSO, MiD*

20

KIA

France

HQ 2nd Infantry Brigade

Near Bazentin le Petit, Somme

(p214)

13

12th August

KIRK

Arthur

2Lt

-

?

DOW

Egypt

1/4th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers

CCS at Port Said

(6)

14

25th August

WOOD

Charles Harald

2Lt

-

21

DOW

France

8th Bn King's Royal Rifle Corps

13th CCS at Dernancourt, south west of Albert

(7)

15

10th September

PLATTEN

Walter Henry

2Lt

-

22

KIA

France

19th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Loos Sector

-

Died in 1917

16

22nd February

RAIKES

Frederick Munro

2Lt

-

45

KIA

Mespot

135th Company Machine Gun Corps

River Tigris, Kut

-

17

14th May

CHAMBERLAIN

John

Capt

MC

35

KIA

Belgium

14th Battalion Welsh Regiment

Elverdinghe, north west of Ypres

-

18

28th July

MORGAN

Ronald Charles Wybrow

Lt

-

19

DOW

Belgium

55th Squadron Royal Flying Corps

Hoogstade, north west of Ypres

(8)

19

31st July

MOYNAN

Harold Otho William

2Lt

-

29

KIA

Belgium

1/6th Battalion Cheshire Regiment

Pilckem Ridge, north of Ypres

-

20

17th August

REID

John Shute

2Lt

-

20

DOW

Belgium

87th Trench Mortar Battery

CCS near Poperinghe

(9)  (p338)

21

8th November

REES

John Oswald

2Lt

-

28

DOW

Egypt

24th Battalion Welsh Regiment

CCS at Kantara

(10)

22

1st December

MORRIS

Edwin Alan

2Lt

-

19

DOW

Palestine

25th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers

CCS at Gaza

(11)

Died in 1918

23

27th February

GRIFFITHS

Edwin Arthur

Lt

-

30

KIA

France

115th Trench Mortar Battery

Wez Macquart, near Armentieres

-

24

9th March

KEYZOR

Herbert Louis Abraham

2Lt

-

20

KIA

Palestine

25th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Mezra esh Sherqiye, Jerusalem

-

25

10th March

YOUNG

Arthur John

2Lt

-

20

KIA

Palestine

1/7th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers

Mezra esh Sherqiye, Jerusalem

-

26

27th March

ALLEN

Lionel Raymond Whateley

Lt

-

21

KIA

France

12th Battalion Machine Gun Corps

Near Albert, Somme

-

27

31st March

LEE

John William

Lt

-

24

KWF

Egypt

23rd Training Squadron RFC

Alexandria

-

28

11th April

MORGAN

William Hugh

2Lt

-

-

KIA

France

18th Battalion Welsh Regiment

East of Estaires

-

29

18th April

OXLEY

Harry Chamberlain

Major

-

41

DOW

Belgium

17th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers

CCS at Lijssenthoek

(12)  (p416)

30

1st May

BEDBROOK

Ernest Arthur St George

Major

-

39

DOI

USA

British Military Mission, New York

New York

-

31

14th May

GARNONS-WILLIAMS

Alexander Aylmer Curtis

Capt

MC

22

KWF

UK

112th Squadron RAF

Near Horsham, Kent

-

32

29th May

PRANCE

Arthur Christopher Norman

Lt

MC

20

KIA

France

8th Signal Company RE

Near Soissons

-

33

16th June

McCOWAN

James

2Lt

-

20

KIA

France

7th Battalion KSLI

Near Bethune

-

34

24th June

KANE

Augustine George

2Lt

-

22

KIAA

Salonika

47th Squadron RAF

Pobrogue, Salonika

-

35

16th July

AUSTER

Norman Conway Littlewood

2Lt

-

23

KIAA

France

27th Squadron RAF

North east of Dormans, Marne

-

36

24th July

JONES

David

2Lt

-

28

KIA

Belgium

1st Battalion KSLI

Dickebusch, south west of Ypres

-

37

30th July

WERNET

William Edward

Capt

-

38

AK

Mespot

40th Bde Light Trench Mortar Battery

Near Baghdad

-

38

18th August

MATTHEWS

William Frederick

Capt

-

31

KIA

France

1st Battalion East Lancashire Regiment

Near Thiennes, west of Merville

-

39

19th August

RENWICK

Hugh Archibald

Capt

-

26

KWF

UK

RAF (Munitions Branch)

Farnborough, Hants

-

40

18th September

DAVID

Frederick John Louis

2Lt

-

23

DOW

France

15th Battalion Welsh Regiment

South of Gouzeaucourt, near Cambrai

(13)

41

18th September

JONES

Geoffrey Brian

2Lt

-

22

KIA

France

13th Battalion Welsh Regiment

North of Epehy, near Cambrai

-

42

5th October

TOWLER

Frederick Stuart

2Lt

-

18

KIAA

Germany

110th Squadron RAF

Trippstadt, west of Saarbrucken

(14)

43

8th October

BURMESTER

Charles Mansel

Capt

-

43

DOW

France

1st Battalion KSLI

CCS at Magny la Fosse

(15)

44

8th October

JONES

Tom Watson

2Lt

-

24

KIA

France

15th Battalion Welsh Regiment

Villers-Outreaux, near Cambrai

-

45

8th October

SCOTT

William

2Lt

-

26

DOW

France

13th Battalion Welsh Regiment

CCS at Magny la Fosse

(16)

46

10th October

WARD

Thomas Pryce

2Lt

-

21

DOW

Belgium

1/1st Battalion Herefordshire Regiment

CCS at Poperinghe

(17)

47

29th October

TALBOT

Arthur Aston

Lt

-

37

DOI

Kenya

Special List, GHQ East Africa Force

No 3 British General Hospital, Nairobi

(18)

48

8th December

MORGAN

Matthew

Lt

-

-

DOI

UK

4th Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment

Liverpool

-

Notes:

1.   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.

2.   SPARROW was wounded in the Laventie area on 22nd December 1914.

3.   SALT was wounded at Neuve Chapelle on 15th March, serving as a Private soldier with 3rd Bn Monmouth Regt, awaiting return to UK to take up commission in SWB.   Commissioned 9th March 1915 and Gazetted (Third Supplement to LG 29130) 14th April 1915.

4.   JENKINS was returning to the RFC Aerodrome near Villers Bocage and was wounded after his aircraft was attacked by a German Fokker close to the Aerodrome.   Originally buried in Villers Bocage Communal Cemetery then re-interred at Terlincthun in 1962.

5.   ALLAWAY was accidentally killed during bombing training at Cairo on 29th June 1916.

6.   KIRK was wounded at Romani, Sinai Peninsula, on 4th August 1916.

7.   WOOD was wounded at Delville Wood, Somme on 24th August 1916

8.   MORGAN R C W was shot down and wounded in aerial combat near Hoogstade on 27th July 1917.

9.   REID was wounded at Broombeck, near Langemarck on 16th August 1917.

10. REES was wounded at Gaza on 7th November 1917.

11. MORRIS was wounded near Gaza on 30th November 1917.

12. OXLEY was wounded near Wytschaete on 16th April 1918.

13. DAVID was wounded near Gouzeaucourt but died before reaching a dressing station.   Originally buried where he died but his body was exhumed in July 1919 and he was re-buried at Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery.

14. TOWLER was shot down and killed, with Lt Ripley, over Saarbrucken.   110th Sqn RAF was part of the Independent Air Force, engaged in the bombing offensive against Germany.

15. BURMESTER was wounded near Pontruet on 5th October 1918.

16. SCOTT was wounded near Villers Outreaux on 8th October 1918.

17. WARD was wounded south east of Ypres on 8th October 1918.

18. TALBOT died of pneumonia/influenza whilst attached to HQ East Africa Force.   His parent unit was the Brecknockshire Battalion.