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Roll of Honour of Officers of The Welsh Regiment

Who Died in the Great War

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Those Officers of The Welsh Regiment

Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 23rd (Service) Battalion Welsh Regiment (Welsh Pioneers)

No

Date Died

Surname

Forenames

Rank

Decs

Age

Cause

Country

Location/Sector

Cemetery/Memorial

Notes

Died in 1916

1

3rd October

JENKINS

William Marendaz

Lt

-

25

KIA

Salonika

Mazurka, River Struma

Struma Military Cemetery (II.G.13)

(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.   JENKINS may well have been killed in a trench raid (WO 339/53948).

 

Battalion History

The 23rd (Service) Battalion (Welsh Pioneers) was formed and assembled at Porthcawl in September 1914.  The Battalion was moved to Aldershot in March 1916 and was temporarily attached to 68th (2nd East Anglian) Division for Home Defence duties at Thetford between 13th May 1916 and 22nd June 1916.   On 13th July 1916 the Battalion embarked at Devonport for Salonika arriving there on 24th August 1916 and placed under command of 28th Division, as the Divisional Pioneer Battalion.   The Battalion remained with 28th Division in Salonika for the remainder of the War.   After the Armistice with the Bulgarians on 30th September 1918 the Division was moved to Gallipoli to occupy the Dardanelles Forts where the gradual demobilisation of its units began.

 

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 formed 17 Service Battalions, a further 9 Territorial Force Battalions and 3 Graduated/Young Soldier Battalions.

 

 

Page last updated:  19th January 2025

 

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