Welsh Regiment - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Welsh Regiment Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 11th (Service) Battalion Welsh Regiment (Cardiff Pals)

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1916
1	23rd October	TURNER	Edgar Harold Holmes	Lt	-	21	KIA	Salonika	Near Cardiff Ravine, Dorsale	Karasouli Military Cemetery (D.813)	2/p195
Died in1918
2	18th September	BROWNSON	Alfred Reginald	Lt	-	31	KIA	Salonika	Grand Couronne	Doiran Military Cemetery (V.F.16)	3/p209
3	18th September	EVANS	David Edgar	Lt	-	32	KIA	Salonika	Grand Couronne	Doiran Memorial	(1)
4	18th September	FIELDER	Charles	Lt	-	27	KIA	Salonika	Grand Couronne	Doiran Military Cemetery (Spec Mem)	3/p209
5	18th September	HUGHES	Norman Alfred	Capt	-	30	KIA	Salonika	Grand Couronne	Doiran Military Cemetery (V.F.15)	3/p209
6	18th September	JONES	Trevor Benjamin	Lt	-	23	KIA	Salonika	Grand Couronne	Doiran Military Cemetery (V.F.12)	-
7	28th October	SHORT	John	Lt	-	?	DOI	Salonika	63rd General Hospital, Kalamaria	Mikra British Cemetery (No. 596)	-
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. EVANS date of death, as recorded by CWGC, is 11th September 1918 and that he was serving with 14th Battalion. 2. FIELDER's actual grave location within Doiran Military Cemetery is not known and he is commemorated on a Special Memorial headstone. CWGC records his date of death as 22nd September 1918.

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

11th (Service) Battalion Welsh Regiment (Cardiff Pals)

Date Died

Surname

Forenames

Rank

Decs

Age

Cause

Country

Location/Sector

Cemetery/Memorial

Notes

16th April 1917

McCOSH

Thomas

Capt

Salonika

Cucunei Camp, near Karasouli

Karasouli Military Cemetery (A10)

(1)

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. McCOSH was detached from the RAMC and was Battalion Medical Officer. He was accidentally killed when thrown from his horse.

Battalion History

The 11th (Service) Battalion (Cardiff Pals) was formed at Cardiff in September 1914, part of K3. Battalion assembled at South Downs Camp and assigned to 67th Brigade, 22nd Division. The Battalion was moved to Hasting in the late autumn of 1914 and in April 1915 to Seaford. The Battalion was moved to Aldershot in May 1915 to complete individual, unit and formation training prior to proceeding to the BEF, landing at Boulogne on 6th September 1915. After orders were received to deploy to Salonika, the Division concentrated at Marseilles for sailing on 30th October 1915, landing on 8th November 1915. The Battalion remained with 67th Brigade, 22nd Division in Salonika for the remainder of the War.

By 20th October 1918, units of the Division had marched back to Stavros. Here they embarked on destroyers with the intention of a landing at Dede Agach to continue the fight against Turkey. After one attempt was called off due to rough weather, the infantry finally landed on 28 October 1918. On reaching Makri, the Division was informed that an Armistice with Turkey was imminent. Demobilisation began at Chugunsi and the Division ceased to exist by 31 March 1919.

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 11th Bn Officer Casualties

Year	SA	TOTAL
1916	1	1
1918	6	6
TOTALS	7	7

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