Fallen Officers of the Great War     |     Welsh Regiment

No

Date Died

Surname

Forenames

Rank

Decs

Age

Cause

Country

Attached To

Location/Sector

Cemetery/Memorial

Notes

Died in 1914

1

20th December

PICTON-WARLOW

Wilfrid

Capt

-

30

A

Sea

6th Sqn RFC

English Channel off Calais

Arras Flying Services Memorial

3/p265  (1)

Died in 1915

2

11th May

LOMAX

Gerald David

2Lt

-

20

DOW

France

2nd Bn R Berks Regt

CCS at Estaires

Estaires Communal Cemetery (II.A.5)

(2)

3

21st May

JOY

George Bruce

Lt

-

23

KIA

France

1st Bn HLI

Near La Bassee

Le Touret Memorial (Panels 23/24)

-

4

19th August

EYRE

William

Capt

-

36

DOW

Egypt

1st Bn Lancs Fus

19th General Hospital, Alexandria

Alexandra (Chatby) War Cemetery (E.120)

(3)

Died in 1916

5

9th January

WAVELL

Arthur John Byng

Major

MC

34

KIA

B.E.F

Arab Rifles

Mkongani Waterhole, Mwele Ondogo

Mwele Ondogo Military Grave

(4)

6

26th February

LATHAM

Francis Pulsford

Major

-

50

DOI

GIB

1st (Gar) Bn RWF

Hospital at Gibraltar

Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery (C.3259)

(5)

7

19th March

SMITH

Charles Henry

2Lt

-

25

KIA

France

HQ 114th Inf Bde

Near Givenchy

Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner (III.N.15)

(6)

8

9th April

DALLAS

William Frederick

Lt

-

23

KIA

Mespot

6th Bn E Lancs Regt

Sannaiyat, River Tigris

Basra Memorial (Panel 24)

2/p29

9

19th July

HYLAND

Herbert Bright

2Lt

-

21

KIA

France

100th Coy MGC

High Wood, Somme

Thiepval Memorial (Pier/Face 5C/12C)

(7)

10

22nd July

VAUGHAN-LEWES

Martyn Tulloch

Lt

-

21

A

France

25th Sqn RFC

CCS at Bailleul

Bailleul Community Cemetery Extn (II.F.57)

(8)

11

23rd July

STANYON

Terence George

2Lt

-

22

DOW

France

1st Bn E Surrey Regt

CCS at Maricourt

Peronne Road Cemetery (I.C.6)

(9)

12

30th July

FOOT

James Stanley

Capt

-

35

KIA

France

2/4th Bn Glos Regt

Fauquissart, south east of Laventie

Laventie Military Cemetery (II.D.12)

-

Died in 1917

13

17th January

FORTUNE

Henry George

2Lt

-

21

KIA

Mespot

132nd Coy MGC

Khudaira Bend, River Tigris

Amara War Cemetery (XXVIII.A.11)

(10)

14

9th February

GROSSART

Robert Dykes

2Lt

-

25

A

UK

36th (Res) Sqn RFC

Beverley

Kirkpatrick-Juxta Parish Churchyard

2/p214  (11)

15

12th February

BROWN

George Trevor

Lt

-

25

A

UK

Central Flying Sch RFC

Upavon

Oystermouth Cemetery (H.100)

2/p215  (12)

16

2nd March

PICKARD

Reginald Gilbert

2Lt

-

28

DOW

France

2/4th Bn KOYLI

CCS at Beaumont-Hamel

Ancre British Cemetery (VI.B.3)

(13)

17

11th April

HARRIS

Alfred George

2Lt

-

22

KIA

France

2/6th Bn W Yorks Regt

Near Bullecourt, south east of Arras

Arras Memorial (Bay 6)

-

18

2nd June

GRIFFITHS

Gwyn Arthur

Lt

-

24

KIAA

France

35th Sqn RFC

Near Mons-en-Chaussee, Tertry

Mons-en-Chaussee Cemetery (I.4)

(14)

19

7th June

DAVIES

Arthur Trevor

Capt

-

?

KIA

Belgium

1/8th Bn London Regt

Near Damm Strasse, St Eloi

Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 37)

-

20

17th June

BOND

Hubert Samuel Emery

2Lt

-

23

A

UK

42nd Trg Sqn RFC

Hounslow

Cardiff (Cathays) Cemetery (J.CE.1385)

(15)

21

22nd June

HARRINGTON

Walter

2Lt

-

39

KIA

France

13th Bn Cheshire Regt

East of Messines

St Quentin Cabaret Military Cemetery (II.H.5)

-

22

15th July

SNELSON

Victor Louis

2Lt

-

20

KIA

France

12th Bn SWB

Near Villers Plouich

Fins New British Cemetery (I.C.8)

-

23

4th September

DOWNING

George Guy Barry

Lt

-

23

A

UK

34th Trg Sqn RFC

Turnbury

Llanishen (St Isan) Churchyard

(16)

24

17th September

ANGUS

James Robert

Lt Col

MiD

45

A

France

11th Bn SWB

River Lys, near Armentieres

Erquinghem-Lys Churchyard (II.F.8)

(17)

25

20th September

THOMAS

Lionel George T

2Lt

-

19

KIA

Belgium

? Coy MGC

Near "Shrewsbury Forest", Hooge

Hooge Crater Cemetery (X.B.3)

(18)

26

22nd September

ROBERTS

Robert Jesse Adams

Capt

DSO

22

DOW

India

15th Ludhiana Sikhs

Hosp at Murree (now in Pakistan)

Karachi 1914-1918 War Memorial

(19)

27

1st October

HUGHES

John Lawrence

Lt

-

25

KIAA

France

25th Sqn RFC

Near Lapugnoy

Lapugnoy Military Cemetery (VI.A.10)

(20)

28

28th October

CAUNTER

John Charles Ashford

Capt

-

20

KIAA

Belgium

60th Sqn RFC

Near Passchendaele Ridge

Arras Flying services Memorial

(21)

29

28th October

DICKINSON

William Vicris

Col

CMG

61

DOI

France

HQ BEF (3rd Echelon)

Hospital at Rouen

St Sever Cemetery, Rouen (Officers.B.8.7)

3/p55  (22)

30

5th November

BLAKE

George Cyril

Lt

-

31

DOI

UK

General List

Hospital at Manchester

Manchester Southern Cemetery (A.CE.540)

(23)

31

28th November

DAVIES

Geoffrey David

Lt

-

26

DOW

France

119th TMB

CCS at Manancourt

Rocquigny-Equancourt Rd Cemetery (V.B.2)

(24)

32

20th December

TREMELLEN

Enner Thorney

Capt

-

31

DOI

UK

23rd Bn Liverpool Regt

North Wales Sanatorium, Denbigh

Aberdare Cemetery ("C" P.3 03,4)

(25)

Died in 1918

33

25th January

SAUNDERS

Ferdinand Ward

2Lt

-

21

A

France

35th Sqn RFC

Estrees-en-Chaussee, SE of Peronne

Tincourt New British Cemetery (IV.D.4)

(26)

34

16th February

THOMAS

David Cecil Sanby

2Lt

-

23

A

Egypt

57th Trg Sqn RFC

Abu Sueir, near Ismailia

Ismailia War Memorial Cemetery (B.37)

(27)

35

17th March

HUGHES

Benjamin Thomas

2Lt

-

24

KIA

France

13th Bn R Welsh Fus

Near Armentieres

Erquinghem-Lys Churchyard Extn (II.H.10)

-

36

7th April

THOMAS

Trevor Sanby

Lt

-

20

KIA

France

2nd Bn Manchester Regt

Near Ayette, north west of Bapaume

Quesnoy Farm Military Cemetery (B.2)

-

37

7th April

WILLIAMS

Frank Emlyn

Capt

MC

23

A

Egypt

57th Trg Sqn RFC

Abu Sueir, near Ismailia

Ismailia War Memorial Cemetery (C.8)

(28)

38

12th April

BROOM

Lewis John

Capt

MBE

34

KIA

PEA

2nd n KAR

Chirimba Hill, Medo, Mozambique

Pemba Cemetery (A.14)

(29)

39

12th April

COOPER

Robert Charles

Lt

-

32

DOW

France

119th TMB

CCS at La Kreule

La Kreule Military Cemetery (I.C.3)

(30)

40

19th April

SULLIVAN

Walter Ernest

2Lt

MC

27

DOW

France

HQ 114th Inf Bde

CCS at Doullens

Doullens Communal Cemetery (VI.A.37)

(31)

41

22nd April

DAVIES

Brinley Owen

Lt

-

19

KIA

France

16th Bn R Welsh Fus

West of Bouzincourt, Somme

Pozieres Memorial (Panel49)

-

42

28th April

MORGAN

Lewis Laugharne

Lt

MC

21

A

UK

50th Sqn RAF

Bekesbourne Airfield, Canterbury

Canterbury Cemetery (B.671)

(32)

43

18th July

SHUREY

Edward

Lt

-

27

A

Ireland

52nd Bn Cheshire Regt

Curragh Camp

Curragh Military Cemetery (No. 1264)

(33)

44

23rd July

WATKINS

William

2Lt

-

26

KIAA

Italy

139th Sqn RAF

Near Belluno, Rive Piave

Tezze British Cemetery (VI.C.14)

(34)

45

6th August

STREET

Brooks Henry

Lt

-

24

A

Italy

34th Sqn RAF

Aerodrome near Thiene

Montecchio Precalcino Cemetery (V.C.5)

(35)

46

4th September

LISTER

Herbert Dixon

2Lt

-

32

KIA

Belgium

1/1st Bn Hereford Regt

South west of Wytschaete

Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 93/94)

-

47

18th September

JONES

David

2Lt

-

30

KIA

Salonika

11th Bn R Welsh Fus

Near "Sugar Loaf", Doiran

Doiran Military Cemetery (III.E.18)

3/p208

48

8th October

DUCKWORTH

Walter Clarence

2Lt

-

29

KIA

France

1st Bn KSLI

"Precelles Farm", near Joncourt

Ramicourt British Cemetery (A.23)

-

49

8th October

MORGAN

Ralph Augustus

2Lt

-

20

KIA

France

38th Bn MGC

Near Le Catelet

Prospect Hill Cemetery, Guoy (IV.C.4)

3/p231  (36)

50

15th October

WILLIAMS

Daniel Llewellyn

2Lt

-

25

KIA

Belgium

1/1st Bn Hereford Regt

West of Menin

Dadizeele New British Cemetery (IV.A.18)

(37)

51

17th October

GRIFFITHS

Reginald Hopkin Hill

2Lt

MC

20

KIAA

Belgium

53rd Sqn RAF

Near Lauwe, east of Menin

Harlebeke New British Cemetery (I.D.13)

3/p236  (38)

52

29th October

SAMPSON

Richard Harry

Lt

-

27

DOI

France

HQ 114th Brigade

Hospital at Etaples

Etaples Military Cemetery (XLVIII.C.5)

(39)

53

4th November

SUMSION

Francis

Lt

-

25

KIAA

Belgium

62nd Sqn RAF

Near Blaugies, Mons

Blaugies Communal Cemetery

(40)

54

15th November

WILLIAMS

Gordon

Capt

MiD

?

DOI

BC

Special List

Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi)

Lubumbashi Cemetery

(401

Died in 1919

55

24th February

TOLLER

Richard Arthur

Lt

-

27

DOI

UK

Air Ministry

Regent's Park, London

Brompton Cemetery (W.1.175133)

(42)

56

26th February

JENKINS

Thomas Frederick

Major

-

36

DOI

France

1st Army School

CCS at St Pol

St Pol British Cemetery (III.E.3)

(43)

57

3rd March

HARRIS

Clifford Beaumont

Lt

-

30

DOI

UK

Depot MGC

Swansea

Swansea (Danygraig) Cemetery (I.34)

(44)

58

3rd June

WALKER

Howard Napier

Lt Col

OBE, MC, MiD

31

DOI

UK

Air Ministry

Central RAF Hospital Finchley

Plymouth (Efford) Cemetery (A.786)

(45)

59

25th December

THOMAS

John Clay

Lt

-

31

DOI

Turkey

General List

Hospital at Istanbul

Haidar Pasha Cemetery (I.H.16)

(46)

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.   PICTON-WARLOW was piloting his aircraft, a Bleriot 2-seater monoplane, from St Omer to Dover and was last seen flying over Calais.

2.   LOMAX was wounded northeast of Fromelles on 9th May 1915.

3.   EYRE was wounded at Gully Beach, Gallipoli on 6th August 1915 and evacuated to 19th General Hospital, Alexandria.

4.   WAVELL was killed in British East Africa what is known now as Kenya.

5.   LATHAM died of ? (WO 339/55279)

6.   SMITH was the 114th Brigade Bombing Officer.   He was killed by "friendly fire".

7.   HYLAND served with 20th (Service) Battalion (3rd Rhondda) before secondment to MGC.

8.   VAUGHAN-LEWES was seriously injured when his aircraft, a FE2b, crashed on landing whilst on a training mission on 15th July 1916, after being hit ground fire near Ypres which destroyed the landing gear.

9.   STANYON was wounded near Longueval, Somme on 20th July 1916.

10. FORTUNE was detached from 3/6th Battalion Welsh Regiment.   132nd Coy MGC was part of 3rd (Lahore) Division, Indian Army.

11. GROSSART was undergoing training when his aircraft, a BE2c, entered a spinning nose dive and crashed in a field near Beverley

12. BROWN was piloting a Martinsyde G100/102 during a training flight and collided in mid-air with a BE2e piloted by Lt G Wilson, who survived.

13. PICKARD was wounded on 1st March 1917 east of Beaumont-Hamel, Somme.

14. GRIFFITHS was an observer in Armstrong Whitworth FK8 with 2Lt E R Bottomley on a reconnaissance mission when it was shot down and both airmen were killed.

15. BOND was piloting an RE8 aircraft during a training flight on 15th June 1917 which broke up in mid air and crashed to the ground.

16. DOWNING was piloting an BE2c aircraft during a training flight which stalled in mid air and crashed to the ground.

17. ANGUS was accidentally drowned whilst swimming in the River Lys.

18. THOMAS was originally buried in a battlefield grave northeast of Shrewsbury Wood, south of Hooge, and reburied in Hooge Crater Cemetery in May 1919.

19. ROBERTS was wounded at ? (WO 339/21981).

20. HUGHES was on a reconnaissance mission with Lt C Raynor in a FE2b when it was shot down and both were killed.     

21. CAUNTER was piloting a SE5 during a fighting patrol when he was shot down and killed.

22. DICKINSON died suddenly of ?.   He was a previous Commanding Officer of 2nd Battalion.

23. BLAKE died of dysentery - most probably contracted whilst serving with 1/4th Battalion in Gallipoli or Egypt.

24. DAVIES was wounded at Bourlon Wood, near Cambrai on 25th November 1917.

25. TREMELLEN died of TB.   He had seen active service in Gallipoli and France before being wounded and becoming ill, returning to UK to take a training role at Kinmel Park Camp.  (WO 374/69444).

26. SAUNDERS was piloting a FK8 during a training flight when the aircraft stalled and crashed into the ground. 

27. THOMAS was piloting a Avro 504A aircraft during a training flight when it stalled whilst turning and crashed into the ground.

28. WILLIAMS was piloting an RE8 on a reconnaissance mission on 2nd April 1918 when near the aerodrome it crashed to the ground and burst into flames.  He was severely burnt and died on 7th April 1918.

29. BROOM was killed in Portuguese East Africa, now known as Mozambique.

30. COOPER was wounded near Laventie on 9th April 1918.

31. SULLIVAN was wounded near Albert on 19th April 1918.

32. MORGAN was killed when his aircraft, SE5a serial C5342 crashed just after take-off.   He was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps (later the RAF) on 15th March 1917.

33. SHUREY was accidentally killed during grenade training in a premature explosion.   He had previously seen active service with 16th Battalion Welsh Regiment and was wounded and returned to the UK in 1916. (WO 339/29657).

34. WATKINS was an observer on a Bristol F2b fighter during offensive patrol piloted by Lt V D Fernald which was last seen flying east past Belluno on the River Piave.  The crashed aircraft and dead airmen were found at San Fior, north of Tezze.

35. STREET was piloting a RE8 during a training flight when it crashed into the ground at the aerodrome and burst into flames.  He had previously served with 2/7th (Cyclist) Battalion Welsh Regiment.

36. MORGAN was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the northeast of Le Catelet and was reburied at Prospect Hill Cemetery in October 1919.

37. WILLIAMS was originally buried in a battlefield grave to the west of Menin and reburied at Dadizeele New British Cemetery in October 1919.

38. GRIFFITHS was the observer of an RE8 on a reconnaissance mission with Lt G Whitehead when it was shot down by ground fire and both were killed.   They were initially buried in Lauwe German Cemetery and reburied at Harlebeke New British Cemetery in 1920.

39. SAMPSON died of influenza/pneumonia.

40. SUMSION was piloting a Bristol F2b fighter on patrol with Lt W G Walford when it was brought down by unknown means killing both airmen.

41. WILLIAMS most probably died of influenza/pneumonia.   Serving with the Northern Rhodesia Rifles.   (WO 339/12001).

42. TOLLER died of influenza/pneumonia.

43. JENKINS was serving with the Special List as a Musketry Instructor.  He died of influenza/pneumonia.

44. HARRIS died of influenza/pneumonia.

45. WALKER died of ?

46. THOMAS died of ?  He was an Area Works Manager stationed in Constantinople. (WO 339/23199).

Analysis of Detached Regimental Officer Casualties By Unit and Year

Year

STAFF

INF

MGC

TMB

RFC

RAF

TOTALS

1914

1915

1916

1917

TOTALS

Note:

1.   Includes General List, Special List and Arab Rifles.

Analysis of Detached Regimental Officer Casualties By Year and Location

Year

TOTALS

1914

1915

1916

1917

1918

TOTALS

Notes:

1.   BC is Belgian Congo - now Democratic Republic of Congo.

2.   B.E.A is British East Africa - now Kenya.

3.   P.E.A is Portuguese East Africa - now Mozambique.