Welsh Regiment - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Welsh Regiment Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 1/5th Battalion Welsh Regiment TF

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1915
1	10th August	BRITTON	Arthur John Allan	2Lt	-	26	KIA	Gallipoli	Near Scimitar Hill, east of Suvla Bay	Helles Memorial (Panel 104/144)	1/p233
2	10th August	DUNN	Francis William Morgan	2Lt	-	29	KIA	Gallipoli	Near Scimitar Hill, east of Suvla Bay	Helles Memorial (Panel 104/144)	1/p233
3	10th August	EVANS	Rees Tudor	Capt	-	26	KIA	Gallipoli	Near Scimitar Hill, east of Suvla Bay	Helles Memorial (Panel 104/144)	1/p233
4	10th August	EVANS	Richard Stanley	Lt	-	23	KIA	Gallipoli	Near Scimitar Hill, east of Suvla Bay	Helles Memorial (Panel 104/144)	1/p233
5	10th August	EVANS	William David Russell	Lt	-	22	KIA	Gallipoli	Near Scimitar Hill, east of Suvla Bay	Green Hill Cemetery (VIII.G.1)	1/p233
6	10th August	OSBORNE	Harry Edgar	Lt	-	35	KIA	Gallipoli	Near Scimitar Hill, east of Suvla Bay	Helles Memorial (Panel 104/144)	1/p233
7	10th August	ROBATHAN	Douglas Parker	Capt	-	27	KIA	Gallipoli	Near Scimitar Hill, east of Suvla Bay	Helles Memorial (Panel 104/144)	1/p233
8	10th August	WINSTANLEY	Oswald Coke	2Lt	-	27	KIA	Gallipoli	Near Scimitar Hill, east of Suvla Bay	Helles Memorial (Panel 104/144)	1/p233
9	20th August	DUNN	John Robert Collard	2Lt	-	30	KIA	Gallipoli	Near Scimitar Hill, east of Suvla Bay	Helles Memorial (Panel 104/144)	-
10	21st August	MORGAN	Ernest Alfred	Lt	-	24	KIA	Gallipoli	CCS at Suvla Bay	Helles Memorial (Panel 104/144)	-
Died in 1916
11	11th September	MORGAN	Arthur Lewis	Lt	-	24	DOW	Egypt	Hospital at Ismailia	Ismailia War Memorial Cemetery (A.102)	(1)
12	16th December	PRIDHAM	George Frederick	Lt Col	-	37	DOI	Egypt	Hospital at Ismailia	Ismailia War Memorial Cemetery (A.22)	(2)
Died in1917
13	26th March	FRANKENSTEIN	Oscar Reginald	2Lt	-	34	KIA	Palestine	Near Ali Muntar, southeast of Gaza	Jerusalem Memorial (Panel 29/32)	2/p227
14	26th March	PHILLIPS	Thomas Glyn Llewellyn	Capt	-	23	KIA	Palestine	Near Ali Muntar, southeast of Gaza	Jerusalem Memorial (Panel 29/32)	2/p227
15	27th March	DAVIS	Cecil	Capt	-	21	KIA	Palestine	West of Ali Muntar, southeast of Gaza	Jerusalem Memorial (Panel 29/32)	2/p226
16	30th March	SOUTHEY	Harry Hartley Waite	Major	-	40	DOW	Egypt	Hospital at Kantara	Kantara War Memorial Cemetery (B.109)	2/p227 (3)
17	3rd November	DOWDESWELL	Horace Scott	2Lt	-	19	KIA	Palestine	Northwest of Beersheba	Beersheba War Cemetery (E.10)	3/p67
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. MORGAN was wounded in the Sinai Peninsula on or about 9th September 1916. (WO 374/48703). 2. PRIDHAM was Commanding Officer of the Battalion. He died of typhoid fever. He was awarded the Order of the Nile (Third Class) by the Sultan of Egypt on 17th June 1916. 3. SOUTHEY was wounded near Gaza on 26th March 1917.

Battalion History

The 5th Battalion Welsh Regiment TF was formed on 1st April 1908 as a result of the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907, and was based at Pontypridd, part of the South Wales Infantry Brigade TF, Welsh Division TF. On the Declaration of War on Tuesday 4th August 1914 the Battalion was at Annual Camp and orders to mobilise, and to break camp and return all personnel, stores and equipment to Pontypridd, were received on 5th August 1914, After going through the mobilisation processes, elements of the Battalion were deployed to the Pembroke Dock area on guard duties. Remaining personnel then went with the Battalion to the Welsh Division to the Bedford and Northampton concentration area to complete the individual and unit training for war. In September 1914 the Battalion was split and reorganised into the 1/5th Battalion TF (personnel who were medically fit and had signed up for Imperial Service (embodied)) and the 2/5th Battalion (personnel who were unfit for war service or who could not sign up for Imperial Service). On 17th April 1915 the South Wales Brigade TF and The Welsh Division TF were renamed/renumbered the 159th Brigade/53rd (Welsh) Division respectively, based at Bedford. The Division sailed from Devonport on 17th July 1915, arrived at Mudros on 5th August 1915 and landed at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli on 8th August 1915. After receiving many battle casualties the Battalion was amalgamated with 1/4th Battalion Welsh Regiment FT on 8th October1915 to form the 4th Welsh Composite Battalion. On 11th December 1915 this Battalion was withdrawn from Gallipoli and sent to Egypt for reconstitution and refitting and on 10th February 1916 the Composite Battalion reverted to the 1/4th and 1/5th Battalions. At this time the Division was involved as part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) in what is known as the Defence of the Suez Canal. In July 1916 the EEF began its move through the Sinai and into Palestine from early 1917, and was involved in the First, Second and Third Battles of Gaza and the capture of Jerusalem in early December 1917. Further operations were conducted in the Jordan Valley in 1918 and on 30th July 1918 the 1/4th and the 1/5th Battalions were again amalgamated, due to manpower shortages, into the 4/5th Battalion Welsh Regiment. After the Armistice with the Turks on 31st October 1918 the Division returned to Egypt where the gradual demobilisation of its units began.

After formation the 2/5th Battalion was posted to the Bedford area for individual and collective training and in November 1915 and absorbed by 2/4th Battalion Cheshire Regiment.

The 3/5th Battalion was formed at Pontypridd in March 1915 and was posted to the Milford Haven Garrison. It was renamed the 5th (Reserve) Battalion TF Welsh Regiment on 8th April 1916 before amalgamating with the 4th and 6th (Reserve) Battalions TF on 1st September1916 at Milford Haven to form the 4th (Reserve) Battalion TF Welsh Regiment.

Regimental History

The Welsh Regiment was formed on 1 July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms which saw an amalgamation of the 41st (Welch) Regiment of Foot and the 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot. These two units became the Regular 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Regiment, with the Regimental Depot based at Maindy Barracks, Cardiff. The 1881 reforms also redesignated the Militia and Rifle Volunteer Corps (RVC) units within the Regimental District of Carmarthenshire, Glamorgan and Pembrokeshire as Battalions of the Welsh Regiment (1st Pembrokeshire RVC, 1st Glamorganshire RVC, 2nd Glamorganshire RVC and the 3rd Glamorganshire RVC). The Militia unit of the Regiment was the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Militia. In 1908, as part of the Haldane Reforms, the Militia Battalion was reorganised and restructured forming the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion and the four RVC Battalions formed the 4th Battalion, 5th Battalion, 6th Battalion and 7th (Cyclist) Battalion of the Regimental Territorial Force. After the Declaration of War on 4th August 1914 and up to 1st June 1918, the Welsh Regiment had formed 17 Service/Reserve Battalions, a further 9 Territorial Force Battalions and 3 Graduated/Young Soldier Battalions.

Analysis of 1/5th Battalion Officer Casualties

Year	EG	GA	PA	TOTAL
1915		10		10
1916	2			2
1917	1		4	5
TOTALS	3	10	4	17

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