Welsh Regiment - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Welsh Regiment Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 1st Battalion Welsh Regiment

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1915
1	16th February	EVAN-JONES	Hilary Gresford	Lt	MiD	26	KIA	Belgium	"The Bluff", southwest of Zwarteleen	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 37)	1/p132 (1)
2	16th February	LLOYD	Gerald Aylmer	Capt	-	26	KIA	Belgium	"The Bluff", southwest of Zwarteleen	Bedford House Cemetery (Encl 3, C.5)	1/p132
3	16th February	POPE	Reginald Thomas Buckingham	Lt	-	23	KIA	Belgium	"The Bluff", southwest of Zwarteleen	Bedford House Cemetery (Encl 3, C.4)	1/p132
4	20th February	DUNDAS	Cecil Henry	Lt	-	23	DOW	Belgium	CCS at Ypres	Ypres Town Cemetery Extension (I.E.6)	1/p125 (2)
5	18th April	DAVIS	Henry William Warren	Lt	MiD	24	KIA	Belgium	Near Broodseinde, east of Zonnebeke	Memorial at Bedford House Cemetery	1/p148 (3)
6	25th May	PHILLIPS	Leslie	Capt	-	28	KIA	Belgium	Near "Wittepoort Farm", east of Ypres	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 37)	1/p165
7	25th May	TORKINGTON	Charles Coke	Capt	-	35	KIA	Belgium	Near "Wittepoort Farm", east of Ypres	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 37)	1/p166
8	25th May	WESTBY	Edmund Henry Herbert	Capt	-	33	KIA	Belgium	Near "Wittepoort Farm", east of Ypres	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 37)	1/p166
9	22nd June	COKER	Cadwallader John	Lt	-	23	KIA	Belgium	Near Ridge Wood, near Dickebusch	Ridge Wood Military Cemetery (I.E.1)	1/p168
10	1st October	POPE	Percy Paris	2Lt	-	33	KIA	France	"Little Willie", Hohenzollern Redoubt	Loos Memorial (Panels 77/78)	1/p276
11	2nd October	DAVIES	Griffith	2Lt	-	23	KIA	France	"Little Willie", Hohenzollern Redoubt	Loos Memorial (Panels 77/78)	1/p276
12	2nd October	DAVIES	Thomas John Carlyle	2Lt	-	20	KIA	France	"Little Willie", Hohenzollern Redoubt	Loos Memorial (Panels 77/78)	1/p276
13	2nd October	HOBBS	Arthur Harold	Major	-	34	KIA	France	"Little Willie", Hohenzollern Redoubt	Loos Memorial (Panels 77/78)	2/p276
14	2nd October	WARREN	James Lionel East	Capt	-	20	KIA	France	"Little Willie", Hohenzollern Redoubt	Loos Memorial (Panels 77/78)	2/p276
15	3rd October	MONK	Gerald Patrick De Baillou	Capt	MiD	23	KIA	France	Hohenzollern Redoubt	Vermelles British Cemetery (I.J.27)	-
Died in 1917
16	2nd June	SIMPSON	David	2Lt	MC	31	KIA	Salonika	West of Krusha Ridge, east of Doiran	Doiran Memorial	-
Died in 1918
17	23rd September	WEEKS	Henry Russell	Capt	-	24	DOW	Salonika	Bulgar Hospital, Cernisti, Serbia	Doiran Military cemetery (VI.K.12)	3/p209
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. EVAN-JONES is believed to be buried within grounds of Chateau Rosendal (part of Bedford House Cemetery) but this is unconfirmed by the CWGC. Contemporary letters indicate that he was buried alongside Capt G A Lloyd and Lt R T B Pope. 2. DUNDAS was wounded near "The Bluff", southwest of Zwarteleen, on 19th February 1915. 3. DAVIS was originally buried near Zonnebeke but his grave was later lost during further fighting in the area. He is now commemorated on a Memorial at Bedford House Cemetery, south of Ypres. 4. WEEKS was wounded in action on 18th September 1918 east of Lake Doiran and died at the Bulgar Hospital, Cernisti, Serbia on 23rd September 1918. He was originally buried in Cernisti Bulgar Cemetery, but was later exhumed and reburied in Colonial Hill Military Cemetery, Salonika. The name of this cemetery was subsequently changed to Doiran Military Cemetery.

Those Officers of Other Regiments Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With

1st Battalion Welsh Regiment

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
1	4th May 1915	LLEWELLYN-JONES	Vivian Bruford	Lt	-	23	KIA	Belgium	"California Avenue", near Wieltje	New Irish Farm Cemetery (VI.A.7)	1/p158 (1)
2	25th May 1915	RUMSEY	Charles Gordon	Lt	-	23	KIA	Belgium	"Wittepoort Farm", east of Ypres	Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 22)	1/p166 (2)
3	25th May 1915	TOPHAM	Henry Angrave Cecil	2Lt	-	23	DOW	France	CCS at Bailleul	Bailleul Community Cemetery (I.F.36)	(3)
4	2nd October 1915	HORE	Ruthven Pomfret	2Lt	-	26	DOW	France	CCS at Bethune	Bethune Town Cemetery (II.K.3)	1/p176 (4)
5	23rd July 1916	PARSONS	Ernest	2Lt	-	25	DOI	Salonika	Hospital at Salonika	Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery (O.9)	(5)
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. LLEWELLYN-JONES was detached from the Suffolk Regiment. He was originally buried in a battlefield grave near "California Avenue", northeast of Wieltje and was reburied at New Irish Farm Cemetery in September 1919. 2. RUMSEY was detached from the South Wales Borderers. 3. TOPHAM was detached from the Indian Army and was wounded near "Wittepoort Farm", east of Ypres on 25th May 1915. 4. HORE was detached from the Dorsetshire Regiment. He was wounded at "Little Willie Trench", Hohenzollern Redoubt, on 1st October 1915. 5. PARSONS was detached from the Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). He died of malaria.

Battalion History

On 1 July 1881 as part of the Childers Reforms, the 41st (Welch) Regiment of Foot and the 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment amalgamated to form the Welsh Regiment, forming the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Regiment. The 1st Battalion immediately moved to South Africa and then to Egypt in 1886 taking part in the Battle of Suakin in December 1888, during the Mahdist War. The Battalion then moved to Malta in 1889 and then to Pembroke Dock in December 1893, where in 1895 almost all the Battalion's artefacts, plate and silver were lost in a large fire. The Battalion was then moved to South Africa in November 1899 for operations in the Second Boer War and was engaged in Battle of Paardeberg in February 1900, where they suffered heavy losses, and again at the Battle of Driefontein in March 1900. The 1st Battalion then spent the next years performing garrison duties in Great Britain, Egypt, the Sudan, Ireland and India. On the Declaration of War with Germany on 4th August 1914 the Battalion was serving at Chakrata, India, part of the Dehra Dun Brigade, Meerut Division, and was ordered to return to the UK, landing at Plymouth on 22nd December 1914. It was then moved to Hursley Park, Winchester, for re-equipping and intensive training for combat operations and was paced under command of 84th Brigade, 28th Division. The Battalion departed for Le Havre on 18th January 1915 for service in the BEF but was moved to Egypt and then on to Salonika in November 1915 with the Division.

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, and this was the Regimental Order of Battle on the eve of the Great War. 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 1st Battalion Officer Casualties

Year	BE	FR	SAL	TOTAL
1915	9	6		15
1917			1	1
1918			1	1
TOTALS	9	6	2	17

Page last updated: 19th January 2025

| Welsh Regiment Officers Rolls of Honour By Name |

| Welsh Regiment Officers Roll of Honour By Unit |

| 23rd (Service) Battalion (Pioneers) | 24th (Pembroke and Glamorgan Yeomanry) Battalion TF |

| Fallen Officers of WW1 of Other Corps and Regiments |