Welsh Regiment - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Welsh Regiment Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 18th (Service) Battalion Welsh Regiment (2nd Glamorgan)

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector/Area	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1915
1	31st March	EVANS	Arthur	2Lt	-	33	DOI	UK	Pontypridd	Aberystwyth Cemetery (3.1.NC.714	(1)
Died in1917
2	23rd November	EDWARDS	Edward Walter	Capt	-	28	KIA	France	Bourlon Wood, west of Cambrai	Cambrai Memorial (Panel 7)	3/p88
3	24th November	CURTIS	John Handel	2Lt	-	26	KIA	France	Bourlon Wood, west of Cambrai	Cambrai Memorial (Panel 7)	3/p90
4	24th November	LEECE	Edwin Stanley	Lt	-	35	KIA	France	Bourlon Wood, west of Cambrai	Cambrai Memorial (Panel 7)	3/p90
5	24th November	LEWIS	Leonard Glynne	2Lt	MC	23	KIA	France	Bourlon Wood, west of Cambrai	Cambrai Memorial (Panel 7)	3/p90
6	24th November	PERCIVAL	Cecil Bernard	Capt	-	25	KIA	France	Bourlon Wood, west of Cambrai	Cambrai Memorial (Panel 7)	3/p90
7	24th November	ROGERS	Trevor	2Lt	-	20	KIA	France	Bourlon Wood, west of Cambrai	Cambrai Memorial (Panel 7)	3/p90
8	25th November	EDMUNDS	David Gwynne	Capt	-	21	KIA	France	Bourlon Wood, west of Cambrai	Cambrai Memorial (Panel 7)	3/p90
9	26th November	GRACIE	Hugh Colin Stuart	2Lt	-	23	DOW	France	CCS at Ytres	Rocquigny-Equancourt Road Cemetery (IV.E.5)	3/p90 (2)
Died in1918
10	9th April	BOWEN	Joseph Jones	Lt	MC	27	KIA	France	East of Laventie	Rue-d-Bois Military Cemetery (II.H.12)	3/p133
11	9th April	DUFF	Sidney Hamilton	2Lt	-	24	KIA	France	East of Laventie	Ploegsteert Memorial (Panel 7)	3/p133
12	9th April	FRANKLIN	Arthur John	2Lt	-	31	KIA	France	East of Laventie	Ploegsteert Memorial (Panel 7)	3/p133
13	10th April	ANTHONY	Albert Frederick	2Lt	-	20	DOW	France	CCS at Haverskerque	Haverskerque British Cemetery (B.1)	1/p136 (3)
14	13th April	GARNER	William Percy	2Lt	-	27	POW	France	North of Cite St Emile, near Lens	Arras Road Cemetery, Roclincourt (II.M.3)	3/143 (4)
15	20th April	TURNBULL	Gerald Illtyd	Lt	-	32	POW	France	In German hands at Lille	Lille Southern Cemetery (III.C.5)	3/p143 (5)
16	22nd April	GOUGH	Harry Percy Bright	Major	MC*	38	DOW	France	44th CCS, Arneke	Arneke British Cemetery (I.C.22)	3/p141 (6)
17	14th October	COOK	Philip John Cecil	2Lt	-	25	KIA	France	Near Douvrin, south of La Bassee Canal	Sailly-Labourse Communal Cemetery (M.6)	(7)
Died in1919
18	11th April	EVANS	Christmas Richard	Capt	MC	32	A	UK	Reading Railway Station	Trealaw Cemetery (W.987)	(8)
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 died of ? (WO 339/26698) 2. GRACIE was wounded at Bourlon Wood on 25th November 1917. 3. ANTHONY was wounded east of Laventie on 9th April 1918. 4. GARNER was probably wounded and taken POW on 9th April 1918 and died on 13th April 1918. He was originally buried north of Cite St Emile, in German held territory. His remains were discovered in October 1928 and reburied in Arras Road Cemetery, Roclincourt. 5. TURNBULL was wounded and taken prisoner near Laventie on 9th April 1918. 6. GOUGH was wounded near Strazeele, east of Bailleul on 13th April 1918. 7. COOK may well have been killed on 13th October 1918, according to Battalion War Diary. 8. EVANS was accidentally killed when falling from a train at Reading Railway Station.

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

18th (Service) Battalion Welsh Regiment (2nd Glamorgan)

Ref	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
1	23rd November 1917	KENNEDY	William	Lt Col	MC	32	KIA	France	Bourlon Wood, west of Cambrai	Cambrai Memorial (Panel 10)	3/p90 (1)
2	25th November 1917	THOMAS	Tudor	2Lt	-	2	KIA	France	Bourlon Wood, west of Cambrai	Cambrai Memorial (Panel 5)	3/p89 (2)
3	25th March 1918	McCLATCHEY	Samuel Edward	Capt	MiD	37	KIA	France	East of Ervillers, near Gommecourt	Arras Memorial (Bay 10)	3/p123 (3)
4	9th April 1918	BASKERVILLE	Ralph Hopton	Capt	-	35	KIA	France	East of Laventie	Ploegsteert Memorial (Panel 1)	3/p133 (4)
5	9th April 1918	MACGREGOR	Roderick Dear	Capt	-	42	KIA	France	East of Laventie	Ploegsteert Memorial (Panel 11)	3/p133 (5)
6	11th April 1918	MORGAN	William Hugh	2Lt	-	?	KIA	France	Near Le Verrier, west of Steenwerck	Ploegsteert Memorial (Panel 5)	3/p143 (6)
7	12th October	SMITH	Cecil	2Lt	-	27	KIA	France	Near Dourvin, east of Haisnes	Sailly-Labourse Communal Cemetery (M.6)	(7)
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. KENNEDY was detached from the Highland Light Infantry as Commanding Officer. 2. THOMAS was detached from Royal Welsh Fusiliers. 3. McCLATCHEY was detached from the Royal Army Medical Corps and was Battalion Medical Officer. 4. BASKERVILLE was detached from the Glamorgan Yeomanry. 5. MACGREGOR was detached from the Royal Army Medical Corps and was Battalion Medical Officer. 6. MORGAN was detached from the South Wales Borderers. 7. SMITH was detached from the Northern Cyclist battalion.

Battalion History

The 18th (Service) Battalion (2nd Glamorgan) was formed at Cardiff in January 1915 as a Bantam battalion. The Battalion assembled at Porthcawl and was paced under command of 43rd Division. In July 1915 the Battalion moved to Prees Heath, near Whitchurch, Salop and was placed under command of 119th Brigade, 40th Division and then moved to Aldershot in September 1915 for intensive individual, collective and unit training. The Battalion departed Southampton for Le Havre on 3rd June 1916 aboard SS Connaught and SS King Edward landing the same day and first saw action in the Maroc area on 16th June 1916.. The Battalion fought with 119th Brigade, 40th Division in France and Flanders up to 5th May 1918 when, after sustaining heavy casualties during the German Operation Georgette/Battle of the Lys, leaving it with a reduced strength of 7 officers and 787 men. It was moved to Calais for reconstitution and refitting. On 17th June 1918 the Battalion was returned to the UK and moved to North Walsham and was placed under command of 47th Brigade, 16th (Irish) Division. On 20th June 1918, after absorbing the newly formed 25th Battalion Welsh Regiment, the Battalion was deemed to be ready to commence intensive training for active service and moved to Aldershot. By 29th July 1918 the Battalion moved with 16th (Irish) Division to France where it served for the remainder of the war.

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 18th Battalion Officer Casualties

Year	FR	UK	TOTAL
1915		1	1
1917	8		8
1918	8		8
1919		1	1
TOTALS	16	2	18

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