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Roll of Honour of Officers of the South Wales Borderers

Who Died in the Great War

Copyright and source:  British Military Badges

Roll of Honour

Surnames   -   W

(25 officers)

 

WALSHE, Francis Weldon

Captain, MC.   1st Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 25th August 1916.   Aged 37.

 

WARD, Thomas Pryce

Second Lieutenant.   Attached to 1st Battalion Herefordshire Regiment.   Died of wounds in Belgium on 10th October 1918.   Aged 21.

 

WARD-JONES, Frederick Vivian

Lieutenant, MC.   1st Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 16th July 1916.   Aged 30.

 

WATKINS, David John George

Lieutenant.   1st Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 21st April 1918.   Aged 21.

 

WATKINS, Horace Holmes

Second Lieutenant.   1st Battalion.   Killed in action in Belgium on 21st October 1914.   Aged 23.

 

WEEKS, Herbert Ward Meredith

Lieutenant.   2nd Battalion.   Died of wounds in France on 23rd November 1917.   Aged 25.

 

WELBY, Glynne Everard Earle

Major.   1st Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 26th September 1918.   Aged 41.

 

WELLS, Thomas William Maurice

Second Lieutenant.   2nd Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 1st July 1916.   Aged 27.

 

WERNET, William Edward

Captain.   Attached to 40th Trench Mortar Battery.   Accidentally killed in Mesopotamia on 30th July 1918.   Aged 38.

 

WHITEHORN, William Joseph

Lieutenant.   7th Battalion.   Killed in action in Salonika on 18th September 1918.   Aged 36.

 

WILEMAN, Gerald Watkins Brett

Captain.   2nd Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 8th September 1916.   Aged 26.

 

WILKINSON, Sidney John

Lieutenant Colonel, DSO.   Commanding Officer 10th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 7th July 1916.   Aged 38.

 

WILLIAMS, Charles Ellicombe

Captain, MiD.   7th Battalion.   Died of wounds in Salonika on 27th May 1917.   Aged 27.

 

WILLIAMS, David Aubrey

Second Lieutenant.   1st Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 25th July 1916.   Aged ?

 

WILLIAMS, Edward Herbert

Second Lieutenant.   11th Battalion.   Killed in action in Belgium on 31st August 1916.   Aged ?

 

WILLIAMS, Gwilym

Second Lieutenant.   4th Battalion.   Died of illness in UK on 22nd May 1918.   Aged ?

 

WILLIAMS, Leonard

Lieutenant.   1st Battalion.   Died of wounds in France on 11th September 1915.   Aged 20.

 

WILLIAMS, Leonard Vincent

Captain.   7th Battalion.   Killed in action in Salonika on 26th May 1917.   Aged 24.

 

WILLIAMS, Walter Frank

Second Lieutenant.   10th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 12th September 1918.   Aged 29.

 

WILLIAMS-VAUGHAN, John Christopher Arthur

Second Lieutenant.   Seconded to 100th Machine Gun Company.   Killed in action in France on 15th July 1916.   Aged 25.

 

WILTON, Charles Innes

Second Lieutenant.   2nd Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 21st November 1916.   Aged 35.

 

WINGARD, Hume Saunders

Lieutenant, MiD.   12th Battalion.   Died of wounds in France on 26th September 1916.   Aged 23.

 

WOOD, Charles Harald

Second Lieutenant.   Attached to 8th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps.   Died of wounds in France on 25th August 1916.   Aged 21.

 

WOODWARD, Robert

Captain.   1st Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 9th May 1915.   Aged 38.

 

WOOLLEY, William Lawton

Second Lieutenant.   7th Battalion.   Killed in action in Salonika on 18th September 1918.   Aged 19.

 

 

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