Fallen Officers of the Great War   |  South Wales Borderers

1

18th January

JENKINS

Richard Borlase

2Lt

-

19

att 9th Sqn Royal Flying Corps

DOW

France

RFC Aerodrome near Villers Bocage

(2)

2

7th February

SEAGER

William Henry

2Lt

-

23

10th Battalion

KIA

France

Neuve-Chapelle

(p229)

3

19th February

MAYNE

Victor Charles Moore

Lt

-

20

1st Battalion

KIA

France

Hart's Crater, Loos

(p214)  

4

20th February

CULLIMORE

Smart

Capt

-

38

11th Battalion

KIA

France

Festubert/Richebourg-L'Avoue Sector

(p230)

5

25th February

JOHN

Iorwerth Glyndwr

2Lt

-

21

1st Battalion

KIA

France

Hart's Crater, Loos

  -

6

2nd April

MORGAN

William Rich

2Lt

MC

?

1st Battalion

KIA

France

Hart's Crater, Loos

(p215)

7

6th April

HEMINGWAY

Stewart

Lt

-

35

4th Battalion

KIA

Mespot

Fallahiya, north east of Sannaiyat

(p204)

8

9th April

AUSTIN

Thomas Carnelly MacDonald

Capt

MiD

24

4th Battalion

KIA

Mespot

Sannaiyat

(p205)

9

9th April

FARROW

Jack

Capt

MiD*

?

4th Battalion

KIA

Mespot

Sannaiyat

(p205)

10

9th April

MORGAN-OWEN

John Guith

2Lt

-

?

4th Battalion

KIA

Mespot

Sannaiyat

(p205)

11

17th April

BIRCH

Frederick William

Major

-

48

4th Battalion

KIA

Mespot

"Twin Pimples", west of Sannaiyat

(p207)

12

22nd April

POWELL-JONES

Percival Morgan

Capt

-

?

4th Battalion

KIA

Mespot

West of Sannaiyat

  -

13

24th April

HUGGETT

Wyndham Henry

2Lt

-

26

10th Battalion

DOW

France

La Gorgue, near Armentieres

(3)   (p229)

14

29th April

BYRNE

Edmund James Widdrington

Capt

-

35

2nd Battalion

KIA

France

Hawthorn Redoubt, Beaumont Hamel

(p221)

15

10th May

PARRY-DAVIES

David Christopher

2Lt

--

27

2nd Battalion

DOW

France

CCS at Beauval, north west of Albert

(4)   (p221)

16

28th May

LIVESAY

George Augustus Bligh

Lt

-

49

5th Battalion

LAS

At Sea

Lost from SS Archangel

(5)

17

10th June

NISBET

Douglas Guille

Lt

-

21

5th Battalion

KIA

France

West of Ovillers

(p224)

18

14th June

LLEWELLYN

Harold Alfred

Lt

-

?

8th Battalion

AK

Salonika

Kriston

-

19

16th June

LAKE

John Stephen Raymond

Capt

-

34

1st Battalion

KIA

France

Maroc, south west of Loos

(p217)

20

29th June

ALLAWAY

Trevor Rhys

Capt

MC, MiD

24

att  2nd Bn Welsh Regt

AK

Egypt

Cairo

(6)

21

1st July

BOWYER

George Henry

2Lt

-

26

2nd Battalion

KIA

France

Y Ravine, Beaumont Hamel

(p238)

22

1st July

EVANS

Humphrey Pennefather

Lt

-

20

2nd Battalion

KIA

France

Y Ravine, Beaumont Hamel

(p238)

23

1st July

HUGHES

Alexander Arbuthnott

Capt

-

29

2nd Battalion

KIA

France

Y Ravine, Beaumont Hamel

(p238)

24

1st July

KARRAN

John Bowler

2Lt

-

22

2nd Battalion

KIA

France

Y Ravine, Beaumont Hamel

(p238)

25

1st July

MURRAY

John Claude

2Lt

-

?

2nd Battalion

KIA

France

Y Ravine, Beaumont Hamel

(p238)

26

1st July

RICE

Fred

2Lt

-

?

2nd Battalion

KIA

France

Y Ravine, Beaumont Hamel

(p238)

27

1st July

ROBINSON

John

2Lt

-

29

2nd Battalion

KIA

France

Y Ravine, Beaumont Hamel

(p238)

28

1st July

WELLS

Thomas William Maurice

2Lt

-

27

2nd Battalion

KIA

France

Y Ravine, Beaumont Hamel

(p238)

29

1st July

NEWMAN

Alfred

Lt

-

23

12th Battalion

DOW

France

Marles-les-Mines

(7)   (p231)

30

7th July

HAMER

Thomas Pryce

Lt

-

33

11th Battalion

KIA

France

Mametz Wood, Somme

(p244)

31

7th July

LYON HALL

Clarence Espeut

Lt

MC

20

5th Battalion

KIA

France

La Boisselle, Somme

(p240)

32

7th July

STEPHENS

Godrey Gwilyn Brychan

2Lt

-

?

att 9th Bn Welsh Regt

KIA

France

Bailiff Wood, near Contalmaison

-

33

7th July

WILKINSON

Sidney John

Lt Col

DSO

38

10th Battalion

KIA

France

Mametz Wood, Somme

(p244)

34

10th July

EVERTON

Maryon Jeffreys

2Lt

-

31

10th Battalion

KIA

France

Mametz Wood, Somme

(p247)

35

10th July

LUCAS

Clifton Malet

2Lt

-

30

att 15th Battalion Welsh Regt

KIA

France

Mametz Wood, Somme

-

36

11th July

FLETCHER

Arthur Stanley

2Lt

-

26

11th Battalion

KIA

France

Mametz Wood, Somme

(p244)

37

11th July

GRIFFITHS

Nicholas

2Lt

-

25

6th Battalion

 KIA

France

Ovillers la Boisselle, Somme

(p241)

38

11th July

LEWIS

Lawrence Reddrop

Capt

-

34

11th Battalion

KIA

France

Mametz Wood, Somme

(p247)

39

11th July

MILLER-HALLETT

Stewart Alexander

2Lt

-

25

11th Battalion

KIA

France

Mametz Wood, Somme

(p244)

40

15th July

WILLIAMS-VAUGHAN

John Christopher Arthur

2Lt

-

25

att 100th Coy Machine Gun Corps

KIA

France

High Wood, Somme

-

41

16th July

WARD-JONES

Frederick Vivian

Lt

MC

30

1st Battalion

KIA

France

Near Mametz Wood, Somme

(p249)

42

17th July

SALATHIEL

Ewart Gladstone

2Lt

-

27

11th Battalion

DOW

UK

Hospital at London

(8)   (p244)

43

19th July

ROBERTS

David Charles

2Lt

-

20

10th Battalion

KIA

France

Colincamps, Somme

(p247)

44

22nd July

LOCH

Alex Arthur Francis

Capt

DSO, MiD*

20

att HQ 2nd Inf Bde

KIA

France

Near Bazentin le Petit, Somme

(p214)

45

25th July

COLE

Richard Harry

2Lt

-

?

1st Battalion

KIA

France

Munster Alley, near Pozieres, Somme

(p251)

46

25th July

EVANS

Norman

2Lt

-

?

1st Battalion

KIA

France

Munster Alley, near Pozieres, Somme

(p251)

47

25th July

SKINNER

Hilary Francis Cleveland

2Lt

-

27

1st Battalion

KIA

France

Munster Alley, near Pozieres, Somme

(p251)

48

25th July

WILLIAMS

David Aubrey

2Lt

-

?

1st Battalion

KIA

France

Munster Alley, near Pozieres, Somme

(p251)

49

5th August

REES

Henry Charles

Major

-

32

12th Battalion

KIA

France

Calonne, north west of Loos

(p292)

50

12th August

KIRK

Arthur

2Lt

-

?

att 1/4th Bn Royal Scots Fusiliers

DOW

Egypt

CCS at Port Said

(9)

51

14th August

PRITCHARD

Charles Meyrick

Capt

MiD

34

12th Battalion

DOW

France

CCS at Chocques

(10)   (p292)

52

25th August

WALSHE

Francis Weldon

Capt

MC

37

1st Battalion

KIA

France

Near Bazentin le Petit, Somme

(11)   (p256)

53

25th August

WOOD

Charles Harald

2Lt

-

21

att 8th Bn KRRC

DOW

France

13th CCS Dernancourt, Somme

(12)

54

31st August

WILLIAMS

Edward Herbert

2Lt

-

?

11th Battalion

KIA

Belgium

St Julien, near Ypres

(p289)

55

8th September

WILEMAN

Gerald Watkins Brett

Capt

-

26

2nd Battalion

KIA

France

High Wood, Somme

(p258)

56

10th September

PLATTEN

Walter Henry

2Lt

-

22

att 19th Battalion R Welsh Fusiliers

KIA

France

Near Loos

-

57

11th September

PUGH

Henry Loyn

2Lt

-

29

1st Battalion

DOW

France

CCS at Mericourt-L'Abbe, Somme

(13)   (p258)

58

25th September

ZACHARIAS

Francis Herbert

2Lt

-

31

1st Battalion

KIA

France

Eaucourt L'Abbaye, near Flers, Somme

(p262)

59

26th September

WINGARD

Hume Sanders

Lt

MiD

23

12th Battalion

DOW

France

CCS at Noeux-les-Mines

(14)   (p293)

60

6th October

CHARLTON

George Fenwick Hedley

Capt

MiD

24

10th Battalion

KIA

Belgium

Poelcapelle, near Ypres

(p289)

61

20th October

BRICKNELL

Ernest Thomas Samuel

2Lt

-

20

2nd Battalion

DOW

France

DS near Longueval, Somme

(15)   (p267)

62

21st October

BEARDSHAW

Reginald Dudley

Lt

-

33

2nd Battalion

KIA

France

Grease Trench, near Guedecourt

(p267)

63

21st October

WILTON

Charles Innes

2Lt

-

35

2nd Battalion

KIA

France

Grease Trench, near Gueudecourt

(p267)

64

26th October

HARFORD

John Henry

Lt

-

20

2nd Battalion

KIA

France

Grease Trench, near Gueudecourt

(p267)

65

13th November

JONES

Robert Carl Moesch

2Lt

-

18

5th Battalion

DOW

France

CCS at Puchevillers

(16)   (p268)

66

20th December

GOULD

Ralph Bohn

2Lt

-

26

4th Battalion

KIA

Mespot

River Tigris, south of Kut

(p315)

Officers of Other Regiments Who Died in 1916 Whilst Serving with the South Wales Borderers

1

7th January

WILLIAMS

Ivor Phillips

2Lt

-

22

KSLI att 4th Battalion

KIA

Gallipoli

"Gully Ravine", near Krithia

(p197)

2

5th April

BOURNE

Stanley Mackenzie

Lt

-

22

R Fusiliers att 4th Battalion

KIA

Mespot

Fallahiya, north east of Sannaiyat

(p204)

3

5th April

FIELD

Arthur Clarence Henley

2Lt

-

26

R Fusiliers att 4th Battalion

KIA

Mespot

Fallahiya, north east of Sannaiyat

(p204)

4

9th April

MACAULAY

Colin Alexander

2Lt

-

22

Cameronians att 4th Battalion

KIA

Mespot

Sannaiyat

(p205)

5

15th May

JONES

George William

2Lt

-

24

Cheshire Regt att 6th Battalion

KIA

France

Crosbie Craters, north west of Vimy

(p277)

6

1st July

BLAKE

Francis Seymour

Capt

-

38

Liverpool Regt att 2nd Battalion

KIA

France

Y Ravine Beaumont Hamel

(p238)

7

1st July

DON

David Fairweather

2Lt

-

22

Sherwood Foresters att 2nd Battalion

KIA

France

Y Ravine Beaumont Hamel

(p238)

8

1st July

McLAREN

Robert John

Capt

-

?

Cheshire Regt att 2nd Battalion

KIA

France

Y Ravine Beaumont Hamel

(p238)

9

10th July

TAYLOR

Ralph Paton

2Lt

-

20

Northants Regt att 10th Battalion

KIA

France

Mametz Wood, Somme

(p247)

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.   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.

3.   HUGGETT was wounded at Neuve-Chapelle on 24th April.

4.   PARRY-DAVIES was wounded at Hawthorn Redoubt, Beaumont Hamel on 29th April.

5.   LIVESAY was reported as "missing" from the leave boat SS Archangel on 28th May.

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

7.   NEWMAN was accidentally killed during bombing training at Marles-les-Mines on 1st July.                                               .

8.   SALATHIEL was wounded at Mametz Wood on 7th July and evacuated to the UK.

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

10. PRITCHARD was wounded in the Loos Sector on 12th August.

11. WALSHE  was shot by a German who feigned surrender.

12. WOOD was wounded at Delville Wood on 24th August 1916.

13. PUGH was wounded at High Wood on 8th September.

14. WINGARD was wounded at Double Crassier, Maroc Sector on 26th September.

15. BRICKNELL was wounded at Grease Trench, near Gueudecourt, on 20th October.

16.JONES was wounded near Grandcourt on 10th November.