Welsh Regiment - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Welsh Regiment Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 17th (Service) Battalion Welsh Regiment (1st Glamorgan)

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1916
1	17th October	LLOYD-WILLIAMS	Kelyth Pierce	2Lt	-	21	KIA	France	North of Maroc	Maroc British Cemetery (I.K.12)	2/p177
2	19th October	LYNE	Charles Vyvyan	Capt	-	25	KIA	France	"St James Street", near Maroc	Maroc British Cemetery (I.K.11)	2/p177
3	19th October	WILKIE	Charles Joseph	Lt Col	-	48	KIA	France	"St James Street", near Maroc	Maroc British Cemetery (I.K.10)	2/p177
Died in1917
4	4th February	O'DONNELL	Hugh Neil	2Lt	-	22	DOW	France	Hospital at Rouen	St Sever Cemetery, Rouen (Offrs.B.3.34)	(1)
5	21st April	JACKMAN	Gerald Radcliffe	2Lt	MiD	34	KIA	France	Near Villers-Plouich	Fins New British Cemetery (IV.L.1)	2/p237 (2)
6	19th June	JONES	Arthur Trevor	Capt	-	25	DOW	France	CCS near Villers-Plouich	Fins New British Cemetery (VIII.K.8)	(3)
7	31st August	HIGSON	Frederick Stewart	Capt	MC	22	KIA	France	Southeast of Gouzeaucourt	Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery (VIII.G.16)	3/p33 (4)
8	24th November	BAILEY	Hubert Percy Andrew	2Lt	-	28	KIA	France	Bourlon Wood, west of Cambrai	Cambrai Memorial (Panel 7)	3/p90
9	24th November	DUNN	Clifford Martyn	Capt	MiD*	23	KIA	France	Bourlon Wood, west of Cambrai	Anneux British Cemetery (I.E.31)	3/p90
10	24th November	ELMITT	Austin Joyce	Capt	MC	20	KIA	France	Bourlon Wood, west of Cambrai	Cambrai Memorial (Panel 7)	3/p90
11	24th November	GRIFFITHS	William John	Capt	MC	24	KIA	France	Bourlon Wood, west of Cambrai	Cambrai Memorial (Panel 7)	3/p90
12	24th November	JENKINS	Ernest Stanley	2Lt	-	28	KIA	France	Bourlon Wood, west of Cambrai	Anneux British Cemetery (I.G.20)	3/p90
13	25th November	MATHIAS	John Harold Tudor	2Lt	-	24	KIA	France	Bourlon Wood, west of Cambrai	Cambrai Memorial (Panel 7)	3/p90
14	25th November	O'MALLEY	Charles	Lt	-	27	KIA	France	Bourlon Wood, west of Cambrai	Cambrai Memorial (Panel 7)	3/p90
15	26th November	ENSOR	John Collen	Lt	-	22	DOW	France	CCS at Grevillers	Grevillers British Cemetery (VIII.E.7)	3/p90 (5)
Died in1918
16	9th January	McCARTNEY	Robert Stuart	2Lt	-	19	DOW	France	CCS at Achiet-le-Grand	Achiet-le-Grand Communal Cemetery (II.C.7)	(6)
The Battalion was disbanded in France on 9th 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. O'DONNELL was wounded near Bouchavesnes on 16th January 1917. 2. JACKMAN was originally buried in Fins Churchyard and was reburied in Fins New British Cemetery in October 1924. 3. JONES was wounded near Villers-Plouich on 19th June 1917 during a raid on German trenches. 4. HIGSON was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the southeast of Gouzeaucourt and reburied in Gouzeaucourt New British Cemetery in August 1919. 5. ENSOR was wounded at Bourlon Wood on 24th November 1917. 6. McCARTNEY was wounded near Croisilles, southeast of Arras, on 9th January 1918.

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

17th (Service) Battalion Welsh Regiment (1st Glamorgan)

Ref	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
1	24th April 1917	YOUNG	Colin Turner	Capt	MiD	26	KIA	France	Near Villers-Plouich	Fins New British Cemetery (IV.L.2)	2/p242 (1)
2	14th January 1918	NORRIS	William Eric	2Lt	-	20	A	France	East of Croisilles	St Leger British Cemetery (F.27)	(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. YOUNG was detached from The Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). He was originally buried in Fins Churchyard and was reburied in Fins New British Cemetery in October 1924. 2. NORRIS was detached from the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry and was accidentally killed due to a trench collapse.

Battalion History

17th (Service) Battalion (1st Glamorgan) was formed at Cardiff in early December 1914 as a Bantam Battalion. Later that month it assembled at Rhyl and was initially assigned to 43rd (Wessex) Division. The Battalion was moved to Rhoos in February 1915 and then to Prees Heath in July 1915 where it was re-assigned to 119th Brigade, 40th Division. The Division moved to the Aldershot area in September 1915 to complete it individual, collective and formation training. 17th Battalion was based at Aisne Barracks, Blackdown.

On 2nd June 1916 the Battalion, at a strength of 35 officers and 995 men, was entrained for Southampton Docks and embarked on SS City of Benares and SS Connaught for Le Havre, arriving on 3rd June 1916. The Battalion remained with 119th Brigade, 40th Division until 9th February 1918 when it was disbanded under the BEF Brigade restructuring plans. Officers and men were transferred to reinforce18th Battalion Welsh Regiment, 9th Battalion Welsh Regiment, 2nd Battalion Welsh Regiment and 9th 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 17th Bn Officer Casualties

Year	FR	TOTAL
1916	3	3
1917	12	12
1918	1	1
TOTALS	16	16

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