Welsh Regiment - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Welsh Regiment Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 10th (Service) Battalion Welsh Regiment (1st Rhondda)

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1915
1	19th December	TAIT	Wilfrid Webster	Lt	-	24	DOW	France	CCS at Lacoutre, near Neuve Chapelle	Vieille Chapelle New British Cemetery (I.A.2)	1/p302 (1)
Died in 1916
2	23rd January	McEWAN	David Grant	2Lt	-	20	A	France	Northwest of Richebourg-L'Avoue	St Vaast Post Military Cemetery (II.N.1)	(2)
3	9th February	DAVIES	James Gordon	Capt	-	24	KIA	France	South of Richebourg L'Avoue	Le Touret Military Cemetery (III.D.6)	-
4	12th February	MARSH	Henry Herbert	2Lt	-	25	KIA	France	South of Richebourg L'Avoue	Le Touret Military Cemetery (III.D.8)	-
5	19th March	WHITE	Lionel	Lt	-	22	KIA	France	Near La Bassee Canal	Guards Cemetery, Cuinchy	-
6	10th July	COWIE	Henry Benedict	2Lt	-	22	KIA	France	Mametz Wood, Somme	Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz (VI.S.2)	2/p116 (3)
7	10th July	JONES	Herbert Francis	2Lt	-	22	KIA	France	Mametz Wood, Somme	Thiepval Memorial (Pier/Face 7A/10A)	2/p116
8	12th July	JONES	David	Capt	-	23	KIA	France	Mametz Wood, Somme	Thiepval Memorial (Pier/Face 7A/10A)	2/p116
9	12th July	LLOYD	Thomas Yale	2Lt	-	20	KIA	France	Mametz Wood, Somme	Flatiron Copse Cemetery, Mametz (Sp Mem 28)	2/p116
10	2nd December	JENKINS	Llewellyn Maynard	2Lt	-	29	DOW	Belgium	CCS near Elverdinghe	Ferme-Olivier Cemetery (II.C.5)	(4)
Died in1917
11	22nd March	HADFIELD	Edgar	Lt	-	25	KIA	Belgium	East of Yser Canal, north of Ypres	Bard Cottage Cemetery (II.E.8)	-
12	31st May	JONES	James Brinley	Lt	-	26	KIA	Belgium	"Lancashire Farm", north of Ypres	Essex Farm Cemetery (III.I.4)	-
13	31st July	AVERY	Joseph Francis	2Lt	-	20	KIA	Belgium	"Candle Trench", east of Boesinghe	No Mans Cot Cemetery (B.4)	-
14	31st July	STANTON	Clifford	2Lt	MiD	23	KIA	Belgium	"Candle Trench", east of Boesinghe	No Mans Cot Cemetery (B.1)	-
15	16th August	TROTT	Henry George	2Lt	-	30	DOW	Belgium	CCS near Proven, near Poperinghe	Dozinghem Military Cemetery (III.C.8)	(5)
16	10th September	DAVIES	Daniel	Capt	-	42	DOW	Belgium	DS near Steenbeek, near Langemarck	Bard Cottage Cemetery (IV.H.1)	(6)
17	6th November	HUGHES	Sam	2Lt	-	25	KIA	France	Boutillerie, east of Laventie	Pont-du-Hem Military Cemetery (IV.D.2)	3/p61 (7)
The Battalion was disbanded in France on 7th February 1918
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. TAIT was wounded at Croix Barbee, near Neuve Chapelle, on 19th December 1915 whilst his platoon was under trench warfare instruction with 7th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment. 2. McEWAN was mortally wounded in a rifle grenade training accident. 3. COWIE was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the south of Mametz Wood, and reburied in Dantzig Alley British Cemetery in May 1919. 4. JENKINS was wounded near "Railway Wood", east of Ypres on 1st December 1916. 5. TROTT was wounded near Langemarck on 16th August 1917. 6. DAVIES was wounded in the Langemarck area on 8th September 1917. 7. HUGHES was killed whilst on patrol in "No Man's Land" near Boutillerie and was buried by the Germans in Beaucamps Communal Cemetery (German Extn) After the Armistice he was reburied in Pont-du-Hem Cemetery but for some reason his grave marker was lost and he was commemorated with a headstone which bore "Unknown Welsh Lieutenant". The author of "The Welsh at War", Steven John, found burial identification evidence sufficient for CWGC to inscribe Sam Hughes' name on the headstone.

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

10th (Service) Battalion Welsh Regiment (1st Rhondda)

Ref	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
1	27th May 1916	NAPIER	Maurice Alexander	Maj	-	29	KIA	France	Near Picantin, east of Laventie	Rue-du-Bacquerot (13th London) Graveyard (E.17)	2/p53 (1)
2	5th September 1917	WOODHOUSE	Bernard	Capt	-	28	DOW	Belgium	CCS at Proven, near Poperinghe	Mendinghem Military Cemetery (III.D.20)	(2)
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. NAPIER was detached from the Cheshire Regiment. 2. WOODHOUSE was detached from the RAMC and was the Battalion Medical Officer. He was wounded near the "Canal Bank", north of Ypres on 3rd September 1917.

Battalion History

10th (Service) Battalion Welsh Regiment (1st Rhondda) was formed at Rhondda in September 1914, initially part of K3, and assembled at Codford St Mary, near Warminster, in September 1914 under command of 76th Brigade, 25th Division. The original title of the unit was 1st Rhondda Battalion Welsh Regiment, a locally raised unit which commenced recruiting in the Rhondda Valley in September 1914. The Battalion was intended to be part of 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Welsh Army Corps, and on 30th September 1914 it was transferred from the 25th Division and placed under command of 129th Brigade, 43rd (Welsh) Division at Rhyl, assuming the title of 10th (Service) Battalion Welsh Regiment (1st Rhondda). On 29th April 1915 the Brigade/Divisional titles were changed to 114th Brigade, 38th (Welsh) Division and in August 1915 the Division was moved to the Winchester area. On 2nd December 1915 the Battalion marched from Winchester to Southampton and embarked for Le Havre. On disembarkation, on 3rd December 1915, the Battalion was moved to the Neuve Chapelle sector and was attached to various units of 56th then 58th Brigade for instruction in trench warfare. The Battalion served in France and Flanders with the Division until 7th February 1918 when it was disbanded as part of the BEF restructuring. Personnel of the disbanded Battalion were posted to 13th Battalion Welsh Regiment, 14th Battalion Welsh Regiment both in 114th Brigade, and to 1st Entrenching Battalion.

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 10th Battalion Officer Casualties

Year	BE	FR	TOTAL
1915		1	1
1916	1	8	9
1917	6	1	7
1918
TOTALS	7	10	17

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