Fallen Officers of the Great War   |   Welsh Guards

No

Date Died

Surname

Forenames

Rank

Decs

Age

Cause

Country

Location/Area/Sector

Cemetery/Memorial

Notes

Died in 1915

1

27th September

MAWBY

Edwin George

Lt

-

36

KIA

France

Near "Hill 70", east Loos

Loos Memorial (Panel 10)

1/p268

2

27th September

PALMER

Arthur Percy

Capt

DSO

43

KIA

France

Near "Hill 70", east Loos

Loos Memorial (Panel 10)

1/p268

3

27th September

RANDOLPH

Arthur Bertram (aka Julien)

Lt

-

31

KIA

France

Near "Hill 70", east Loos

Loos Memorial (Panel 10)

1/p268

4

27th September

SMITH

Ralph

2Lt

-

32

KIA

France

Near "Hill 70", east Loos

Loos Memorial (Panel 10)

1/p268

5

27th September

SUTTON

Hubert Joscelin

Lt

-

27

KIA

France

Near "Hill 70", east Loos

Loos Memorial (Panel 10)

1/p268

6

30th September

WILLIAMS

Osmond Trahairn Deudraeth

Capt

DSO

32

DOW

France

CCS at Lapugnoy

Lapugnoy Military Cemetery (I.B.12)

1/p268  (1)

Died in 1916

7

6th June

LEWIS

James Windsor

Lt

-

39

KIA

Belgium

Near "Machine Gun Farm", west of Ypres

Brandhoek Military Cemetery (II.E.2)

-

8

1st July

CRAWFORD-WOOD

Guy

2Lt

-

21

KIA

Belgium

North-east of La Belle Alliance, northwest of Wieljte

Brandhoek Military Cemetery (II.J.2)

-

9

10th September

BAGOT

Edward Luke Henry

Lt

-

19

KIA

France

North of Ginchy, Somme

Guards' Cemetery Lesboeufs (XIII.N.1)

2/p163  (2)

10

10th September

BROMFIELD

Harry Hickman

Major

DSO

47

KIA

France

North of Ginchy, Somme

Thiepval Memorial (Panel/Face 7D)

2/p162

11

10th September

CAZALET

Edward

2Lt

-

22

KIA

France

North of Ginchy, Somme

Citadel New Military Cemetery, Fricourt (II.A.4)

2/p163

12

10th September

POWER

John Wethered

Lt

-

22

KIA

France

North of Ginchy, Somme

Citadel New Military Cemetery, Fricourt (V.G.1)

2/p163

13

10th September

WERNHER

Alexander Pigott

2Lt

-

19

KIA

France

North of Ginchy, Somme

Citadel New Military Cemetery, Fricourt (II.A.5)

2/p163

14

31st October

HERBERT

Percy Robert (Viscount Clive)

Capt

-

23

DOW

UK

King Edward VII Hospital, London

Welshpool (Christ Church) Churchyard

2/p168  (3)

Died in 1917

15

25th August

JONES

Reginald Rees

2Lt

DSO

21

DOW

Belgium

64th CCS near Proven, near Poperinghe

Mendinghem Military Cemetery (III.D.9)

3/p18  (4)

16

3rd September

TENNANT

George Christopher Serocold

2Lt

-

19

KIA

Belgium

"Broenbeek", near Langemarck

Canada Farm Cemetery (II.D.1)

3/p31

17

12th October

NEWALL

Nigel

2Lt

-

22

KIA

Belgium

Near Houthulst Forest, north of Poelcapelle

Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 11)

2/p52

18

1st December

BOROUGH

Alaric Charles Henry

Lt

-

25

KIA

France

Near Gouzeaucourt, west of Gonnelieu

Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery (VI.G.20)

3/p94  (5)

19

1st December

HARGREAVES

Ralph Walter

Lt

-

25

KIA

France

Near Gouzeaucourt, west of Gonnelieu

Cambrai Memorial (Panel 3)

3/p94

20

1st December

RODERICK

Hume Buckley

Capt

-

30

KIA

France

Near Gouzeaucourt, west of Gonnelieu

Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery (IX.A.1)

3/p94  (6)

21

1st December

WEBB

Thomas Harry Basil

2Lt

-

19

KIA

France

Near Gouzeaucourt, west of Gonnelieu

Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery (VI.G19)

3/p94  (7)

22

3rd December

KEARTON

James Linton Graham

Lt

-

28

DOW

France

CCS at Ytres, southeast of Bapaume

Rocquigny-Equancourt British Cemetery (V.C.20)

3/p94   (8)

Died in 1918

23

9th March

BYRNE

Thomas Edmund

2Lt

-

19

KIA

France

Northeast of Roeux, east of Arras

Level Crossing Cemetery, Fampoux (II.B.15)

-

24

10th March

BALLARD

Charles Edward Penfold

2Lt

-

49

KIA

France

Northeast of Roeux, east of Arras

Level Crossing Cemetery, Fampoux (II.B.14)

3/p113

25

28th March

DAVIES

Evan James

2Lt

-

19

KIA

France

Near Boisleux St Marc, south of Arras

Arras Memorial (Bay 1)

3/p125

26

12th April

INSOLE

George Claud Latham

Capt

MC, MiD

30

KIA

France

Near Boisleux-au-Mont, south of Arras

Bailleulmont Communal Cemetery (C.6)

-

27

24th May

HOWARD

The Hon Philip Granville James F

Lt

-

23

DOW

France

VI Corps Dressing Station, Bac-du-Sud

Bac-du-Sud British Cemetery Bailleuleval (II.D.20)

(9)

28

26th May

WHITEHOUSE

Cyril Duncan

2Lt

-

21

KIA

France

South of Ayette, southeast of Douchy

Arras Memorial (Bay 1)

-

29

24th August

UPJOHN

William Moon

Lt

-

33

KIA

France

North of St Leger, southeast of Croisilles

Beaulencourt British Cemetery (I.F.7)

3/p179  (10)

30

10th September

TROTTER

Henry Baron

2Lt

MM

33

DOW

France

Hospital at Rouen

St Sever Cemetery, Rouen (Offrs, B.4.34)

(11)

31

6th November

POWELL

William Edward George Pryse Wynne

Lt

-

19

KIA

France

Bouvignies, southeast of Valenciennes

Maubeuge-Centre Cemetery (C.46)

3/p257  (12)

32

28th November

FOOT

Victor Edward

2Lt

-

21

DOI

France

CCS at Solesmes, east of Cambrai

Solesmes British Cemetery (I.D.14)

(13)

Notes:    (The numbers marked with a "p" in the Notes column refers to the page within the trio of Books "The Welsh At War" - (Book 1) - From Mons to Loos and the Gallipoli Tragedy, (Book 2) - The Grinding War :The Somme and Arras and (Book 3) - Through Mud to Victory: Third Ypres and the 1918 Offensives, by Steven John, where the death of the officer is mentioned or indicated).

1.   WILLIAMS was wounded near "Hill 70", Loos on 27th September 1915.

2.   BAGOT was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the north of Ginchy and was reburied in Guards' Cemetery Lesboeufs in August 1919.

3.   HERBERT was wounded near Lesboeufs on 16th September 1916.

4.   JONES was wounded near "Wood 15", northeast of Boesinghe, on 31st July 1917.

5.   BOROUGH was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the east of Gouzeaucourt and reburied in Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery in August 1919.

6.   RODERICK was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the east of Gouzeaucourt and reburied in Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery in August 1919.

7.   WEBB was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the east of Gouzeaucourt and reburied in Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery in August 1919.

8.   KEARTON was wounded to the east of Gouzeaucourt on 1st December 1917.

9.   HOWARD was wounded at Quesnoy Farm, southeast of Monchy-au-Bois

10.  UPJOHN was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the north of St Leger and reburied in Beaulencourt British Cemetery in September 1926.

11.  TROTTER was wounded near Boursies, northwest of Havrincourt on 4th September 1918.

12.  POWELL was originally buried in a battlefield grave near Bouvignies and reburied in Maubeuge Centre Cemetery in September 1919.

13.  FOOT died of influenza/pneumonia.

Permission to raise the Regiment had originally been given by King George V on 6th February 1915 and the War Office was tasked to carry out the necessary work.  Major General Sir Francis Lloyd, Commander of the Brigade of Guards and General Officer Commanding London District was issued orders by Field Marshal Lord Kitchener to raise the Regiment and the formal Royal Warrant to form the single Battalion of the Regiment was issued on 26th February 1915.   The nucleus of the Welsh Guards was soon formed with 300 Welshmen transferring from the Grenadier Guards and NCOs transferring from The Grenadier and Scots Guards, after careful selection had been carried out.   Lieutenant Colonel William Murray-Threipland was appointed to command the Regiment and the 1st Battalion and in the Supplement to the London Gazette, Number 29117, dated Thursday 1st April 1915, on page 3226, the following officers were appointed to the Regiment on 2nd April 1915:

As Majors:

Captain The Honourable Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven, VC, (from 1st (King's) Dragoon Guards

Captain Granville Cecil Douglas Gordon (from Scots Guards)

As Captains:

Lieutenant John Harford Bradney (from Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry)

Lieutenant Arthur Percy Palmer, DSO, (from Reserve of Officers) - Killed in action at Loos on 27th September 1915.

Lieutenant George William Fisher Philipps (from Durham Light Infantry)

Lieutenant John Lamplugh Wickham (from Scots Guards)

Second Lieutenant Osmond Trahairn Deudraeth Williams (from 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)) - Died of wounds in France on 30th September 1915.

Second Lieutenant Rhys Williams (from Grenadier Guards)

Lieutenant Richard Gerard Wellesey Williams-Bulkeley (from Reserve of Officers) - Died of illness in UK on 28th March 1918.

As Lieutenants:

Lieutenant Hugh Evelyn Allen (late Lieutenant Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment))

Lieutenant Hugh Ellison Wethered (from Reserve of Officers)

Lieutenant Percy Robert Herbert, Viscount Clive, (from Scots Guards) - Died of wounds in UK on 31st October 1916.

Lieutenant Percival Lawrence Montagu Battye (from Grenadier Guards)

Lieutenant Wilfred Hugh Julien Gough (from Montgomeryshire Yeomanry)

Captain Rupert Wyndham Lewis (from Glamorgan Yeomanry)

Captain James John Pugh Evans (from Welsh Horse Yeomanry)

Second Lieutenant Ernest Edmund Henry Malet Earl of Lisburne (Scots Guards)

Second Lieutenant Keith Graham Menzies (from 2nd Life Guards)

As Second Lieutenant:

Second Lieutenant Basil Tudor Vincent Hambrough (from Welsh Regiment)

Lieutenant James Allan Dyson Perrins (from Seaforth Highlanders)

Lieutenant Harry Talbot Rice (from East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry)

Second Lieutenant Geoffrey Cartland Hugh Crawshay (from Welsh Regiment)

Second Lieutenant Henry Algernon Evan-Thomas (from Coldstream Guards)

Second Lieutenant William Augustus Fitzgerald Lane Fox-Pitt (from Cheshire Regiment)

Lieutenant The Hon Philip Granville James Fitzalan Howard (from Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) - Died of wounds in France on 24th May 1918.

Second Lieutenant Felix Alexander Vincent Copland-Griffiths (from The Rifle Brigade)

After these initial appointments, a steady stream of new officers were Gazetted to the Welsh Guards by transferring from other Regiments or joining directly from Officer Training Corps.

The newly raised Welsh Guards were based at White City, and, at the behest of the King, mounted their first King's Guard at Buckingham Palace on 1st March 1915 (St David's Day) and thereafter recruitment started in earnest.   On 24th March 1915 the Regiment was inspected by Major General Sir Francis Lloyd, Commander of the Brigade of Guards and General Officer Commanding London District, at the White City and the strength of the 1st Battalion was 800.   Within two more weeks the 1st Battalion was up to full establishment and recruiting began to form a 2nd Battalion.   Meanwhile the 1st Battalion was sent to Sandown Park for combat training and preparation for deployment to France and the BEF and posting to the 3rd Guards Brigade, of the Guards Division.   The Battalion embarked at Southampton on 17th August 1915 on SS St Petersburg and SS Palm Branch and disembarked at Le Havre early on 18th August 1915.   On arrival at St Omer on 20th August 1915 the Battalion was formally placed under command of 3rd Guards Brigade with 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards and 2nd Battalion Scots Guards.

A detailed history of the Regiment can be found in "History of the Welsh Guards" by CH Dudley Ward, DSO, MC, published in 1919.