Welsh Regiment - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Welsh Regiment Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 24th (Pembroke and Glamorgan Yeomanry) Battalion Welsh Regiment

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in1917
1	6th November	RICHARDS	John Thomas	2L5	-	20	KIA	Palestine	"Qawuqa System", northeast of Beersheba	Beersheba War Cemetery (K.74)	3/p68
Died in1918
2	18th September	GRIFFITHS	William Dillwyn	2Lt	-	24	KIA	France	Near "Orchard Post", southeast of Ronssoy	Ronssoy Communal Cemetery (B.28)	3/p204
3	21st September	WOOLF	William	Lt	-	24	KIA	France	"Guillemont Farm", west of Borry	St Emile Valley Cemetery (II.C.12)	3/p205 (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. WOOLF was originally buried in a battlefield grave near "Quennemont Farm", to the southwest of Borry, and reburied in St Emile Valley Cemetery after the Armistice.

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

24th (Pembroke and Glamorgan Yeomanry) Battalion Welsh Regiment TF

Ref	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
1	1st November 1917	EDWARDS	William Armine	Lt	-	25	DOW	Palestine	Hospital at Beersheba	Beersheba war Cemetery (K.75)	3/p65 (1)
2	8th November 1917	REES	John Oswald	2Lt	-	28	DOW	Egypt	Hospital at Kantara	Kantara War Memorial Cemetery (E.363)	(2)
3	19th November	ABRAHAM	Geoffrey William Pepperrell	Capt	-	22	DOW	Egypt	Hospital at Port Said	Port Said War Memorial Cemetery (F.42)	(3)
4	27th December 1917	MORRIS	James	Lt	-	25	KIA	Palestine	Near Beit Duqqu, north of Jerusalem	Jerusalem War Cemetery (E.29)	3/p77 (4)
5	27th December 1917	YORKE	James Hamilton Langdon	Capt	MC	33	KIA	Palestine	Near Beit Duqqu, north of Jerusalem	Jerusalem War Cemetery (E.75)	3/p77 (5)
6	9th March 1918	MORGAN	David Lloyd Popkin	Capt	MC	31	KIA	Palestine	Jordan Valley	Jerusalem War Cemetery (F.37)	(6)
7	18th August 1918	TRASK	Charles William Trevor	2Lt	-	19	KIA	France	Northeast of Robecq	St Venant-Robecq Road British Cemetery (IV.B.23)	3/p174 (7)
8	7th September	WAKEFORD	Charles Herbert Stanley	Lt	-	28	KIA	France	Near Villers-Faucon	Tincourt New British Cemetery (VIII.E.20	3/p193 (8)
9	21st September	CLEMETSON	David Louis	Lt	-	24	KIA	France	"Guillemont Farm", west of Borry	Unicorn Cemetery, Vendhuile (I.D.4)	(9)
10	23rd October 1918	WATKINS	Howell Cyril	Lt	MC	21	DOW	France	German Field Hospital in Le Cateau area	Le Cateau Military Cemetery (III.F.2)	(10)
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. EDWARDS was detached from the Glamorgan Yeomanry. He was wounded near Wadi Saba on 31st October 1917. 2. REES was detached from the South Wales Borderers. He was wounded near Wadi Saba on 31st October 1917. 3. ABRAHAM was detached from the Glamorgan Yeomanry. He was wounded near the Qawuqa System on 6th November 1917. 4. MORRIS was detached from the Glamorgan Yeomanry. 5. YORKE was detached from the Pembroke Yeomanry. 6. MORGAN was detached from the Pembroke Yeomanry. 7. TRASK was detached from the Somerset Light Infantry. 8. WAKEFORD was detached from the Glamorgan Yeomanry. He was originally buried in a battlefield grave near Longavesnes, and reburied in Tincourt New British Cemetery in April 1920. 9. CLEMETSON was detached from the Pembroke Yeomanry. 10. WATKINS was detached from the Pembroke Yeomanry. He may well have died in German hands.

Battalion History

The 24th (Pembroke and Glamorgan) Battalion TF was formed In Egypt on 2nd February 1917 from personnel of the Welsh Regiment, and the dismounted Glamorgan Yeomanry and Pembroke Yeomanry Regiments and was assigned to 231st Brigade, 74th (Yeomanry) Division. On 14 January 1917 the GOC Egyptian Expeditionary Force, Sir Edmund Allenby, gave orders for the reorganisation of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Dismounted Brigades of Yeomanry – at the time all were serving on Suez Canal Defences – and for their conversion and re-designation as the 229th, 230th and 231st Infantry Brigades. These Brigades were then organised into 74th Division, which began to assemble on 4th March 1917 near El Arish. The Division fought throughout the Palestine Campaign and were part of the force that took Jerusalem in December 1917. On 3rd March 1918 the 74th Division received a warning order to prepare to leave Palestine and move to France. Embarkation began at Alexandria on 29 April 1918 and the first units landed at Marseilles on 7 May 1918 and entrained for the north. Concentration was completed in the area of Rue (near Abbeville) by 18 May 1918 and the Division was held in GHQ Reserve. On 14th July 1918 the Division took over a sector of front line near Merville and then remained in France and Flanders for the rest 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 formed 17 Service/Reserve Battalions, a further 9 Territorial Force Battalions and 3 Graduated/Young Soldier Battalions.

Analysis of 24th Battalion Officer Casualties

Year	PA	FR	TOTAL
1917	1		1
1918		2	2
TOTALS	1	2	3

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