Welsh Regiment - Roll of Honour of Officers of the Welsh Regiment Who Died in the Great War Whilst Serving With 7th (Cyclist) Battalion Welsh Regiment TF

No	Date Died	Surname	Forenames	Rank	Decs	Age	Cause	Country	Location/Sector	Cemetery/Memorial	Notes
Died in 1920
1	1st September	WILLIAMS	Gwilym	Capt	-	34	DOI	UK	Whitby Fever Hospital	Whitby (Larpool) Cemetery (Yellow.3259)	(?)
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. WILLIAMS died of ?

Battalion History

The 7th (Cyclist) Battalion Welsh Regiment TF was formed on 1st April 1908 as a result of the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907, and was based at Newport Road, Cardiff. On the Declaration of War on Tuesday 4th August 1914 the Battalion was at Annual Camp and orders to mobilise, and to break camp and return all personnel, stores and equipment to Cardiff, were received on 5th August 1914, After going through the mobilisation processes, elements of the Battalion were deployed to Berwick and Montrose in Scotland area on Home and Coastal defence duties. All Cyclist Battalions of the Territorial Force were deployed on Home and Coastal Defence duties and their role was considered to be so important that, initially, none of these Battalions were sent overseas. In 1915, the Army Cyclist Corps was founded to encompass these Battalions; and later this was extended to cover a dozen more Battalions raised from second-line Yeomanry Regiments which had been converted to Cyclists.

In the autumn of 1914 the 7th (Cyclist) Battalion was split and reorganised into the 1/7th Battalion TF (personnel who were medically fit and had signed up for Imperial Service (embodied)) and the 2/7th Battalion (personnel who were unfit for war service or who could not sign up for Imperial Service). The mobilisation location of the 1/7th Battalion was to the Tees Garrison and it moved to Saltburn, near Redcar in 1915 and to Seaton Carew, near Hartlepool, in 1916. Its last posting was to Middlesbrough in 1917 were it remained for the duration of the war.

The 2/7th (Cyclist) Battalion moved from Cardiff to its operational location on the Norfolk Coast Defences at Holt in 1916 and then to Fakenham, attached to 223rd Brigade, in 1917 before returning to Holt. In 1918 the Battalion was first posted to Hunstanton and then in the summer to Melton Constable where it remained.

The 3/7th (Cyclist) Battalion was formed in Cardiff in the Spring of 1915 as a Depot Unit for the 1/7th and 2/7th Battalions, and was posted to Milford Haven on Garrison and Coastal Defence duties. This Battalion was disbanded in March 1916 with personnel posted to the 2/7th (Cyclist) Battalion.

All Battalions of the Territorial Force were run down after demobilisation between 1918 and 1920 an only fully reconstituted from early 1921 as a result of the Territorial Army and Militia Act 1921. After the war, Cyclists Battalions were perceived as having little future value and the Army Cyclist Corps was disbanded in 1919 with all remaining Territorial Cyclist Battalions converted back to conventional infantry by 1922.

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.

The Welsh Regiment was renamed the Welch Regiment in 1920.

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