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Aim of the Website/Project
The aim of this part of the website is
simple. It is to collate into one place an accurate
record of the service and death of the 36 officers of the Welsh Guards who died in the Great War and to make a
permanent record of their sacrifice. These officers
are listed here in a
Regimental
Officers Roll of Honour.
Accuracy and Research
The author has taken every reasonable care to
ensure that the information on this website is as accurate as
possible. Please contact the author should errors or omissions be discovered by
visitors to the site in order that corrective action can be
taken. Contact details are as shown below. Research is continuing
for further information which will be posted on the site as soon as it is checked and confirmed.
First World War Casualties
The formal dates of the First World War as
recognised by the UK Government are between 4th August 1914 and 31st August
1921 inclusive, and any member of the UK and Commonwealth/Empire Armed Services who died
in this period, or as a result of their service during this
period, are officially registered and commemorated by the
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) either by an approved
headstone on the grave or if this is not possible or practical,
the name being inscribed on a relevant Memorial to the Missing.
All of the
officers listed in this
Regimental
Officers Roll of Honour are those registered and commemorated
by the CWGC.
The
Welsh Guards During the Great War
The Regiment was formed on 26th February 1915 by Royal Warrant as a
Regiment formed of a single Battalion.
A reserve Battalion, the 2nd (Reserve) Battalion, was formed in August 1915 at
Wellington Barracks, Westminster. The Regiment took
army precedence after the Grenadier Guards, the Coldstream
Guards, the Scots Guards and the Irish Guards.
The
Guards Regiments had no Battalions of the Territorial Force and
raised none for the New Armies. During
the Great War the Regiment was organised as
described here.
The Regiment earned 20 Battle Honours during the war and a list
of these honours can be
viewed here.
Facts and Figures
A total of 36 officers
of the Regiment lost their lives in the Great War and a detailed
analysis of these casualties can be viewed
here.
All are buried or commemorated on
Memorials To The Missing as official war
casualties. 26 officers are buried
or commemorated in France and 5 in Belgium. There are
4 officers buried in the UK and 1 officer buried in Palestine.
Project
Development
In addition to the basic sources of
information outlined on the main Project
Home Page, an enormous amount of information regarding the Regiment is available through the following organisations and
publications:
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Commonwealth War Graves
Commission (CWGC)
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"Officers
Died in the Great War" (ODGW)
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History of the Welsh Guards, by C H
Dudley Ward, 1919
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The Welsh at War, by Steven John.
Book 1 - From Mons tom Loos and the Gallipoli Tragedy
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The Welsh at War, by Steven John.
Book 2 - The Grinding War: The Somme and Arras
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The Welsh at War, by Steven John.
Book 3 - Through Mud to Victory: Third Ypres and the
1918 Offensives
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British Regiments 1914 -
1918: by Brigadier E A James
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1st Battalion Welsh Guards War Diaries
(available in Catalogue WO/95/1224 at the National Archives)
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3rd Guards Brigade War Diaries (available
in Catalogue WO/95/1221 to 1224 at the National Archives)
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The Guards Museum, Wellington
Barracks, London
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General Register Office (GRO) Index To War
Deaths 1914 - 1921, Army Officers
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Army Lists (1914
- 1921) (from the National Library of Scotland)
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Bond of Sacrifice
(Volumes 1 and 2)
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De Ruvigny's Roll
of Honour 1914 - 1918
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War Office
personal files held in Catalogues WO 339 and WO 374 at The
National Archives
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Medal Index
Cards held in Catalogue WO 372 at The National Archives
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Service Medal and Award Rolls
1914 - 1918 held in Catalogue WO 329 at The National
Archives
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British First World War Trench
Maps, 1915 - 1918 (from National Library of Scotland)
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National and Local
contemporary press
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The Times Digital
Archive 1785 - 1985
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The
London Gazette
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War Memorials and
commemorative plaques
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The RAF Museum Archive (for RAF/RFC Casualty cards)
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Royal Flying Corps Research Website
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Fatal Air Accidents in Britain Website (Period 1914 -
1920)
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The
Great War Forum
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The
National Army Museum
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The Imperial War
Museum
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The
Long, Long Trail - Discovering the British Army and its
Soldiers in the Great War
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The
Wartime Memories Project
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Ancestry.co.uk
- Military Records
These sources, with others, together form the
basis for the
Roll of Honour of
Officers of the Welsh Guards who died in
the Great War.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)
The CWGC commemorates those official
casualties who died in service, or died due to service, during
the First World War. The formal inclusive dates of
the war are between 4th August 1914 and 31st August 1921 and any
member of the UK and Commonwealth/Empire Armed Services who died during this period are
officially registered and commemorated by the CWGC either by an
approved headstone on the grave, or if this is not possible or
practical, the name being inscribed on a Memorial to the
Missing.
In December 2020, the Commission reviewed
their policy on amendments to the Casualty Database.
One of the outcomes of the review was that they would no longer
add Honours and Awards to the database where there is no entitlement to
post-nominal letters. Therefore the recording of
"Mentioned in Despatches", for instance, would no longer be carried out.
There are some apparent anomalies in individual records
contained in the Casualty Database
maintained by the CWGC and these are
listed here with
the suggested corrective action taken, and the Webmaster's long term aim is to
attempt correct all of these
inaccuracies.
Officers of
Other Corps and Regiments Honoured and Remembered in this Website/Project
Also
recorded and honoured in this website/project are the names of
fallen officers
of the following Yeomanry, Royal Engineer and Infantry Regiments:
Site/Project Author
The author of this website can be contacted here:
fallenofficersofthegreatwar@gmail.com
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