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Aim of the Website/Project
The aim of this part of the website is
simple. It is to collate into one place an accurate
record of the service and death of the 378 officers of the
Welsh Regiment who died during the First World War and to make a
permanent record of their sacrifice. These officers
served and died for their country on land, sea and in the air
and are listed here in
Regimental Rolls of Honour.
Accuracy and Research
The author has taken every reasonable care to ensure that the
information on this website is as accurate as possible.
Please contact the author should errors or omissions be
discovered in order that corrective action can be taken.
Contact details are shown below. Research is continuing
for further information which will be posted on the site as soon
as it is checked and verified.
First World War Casualties
The formal dates of the First World War as
recognised by the UK Government are between 4th August 1914 and 31st August
1921 inclusive, and any member of the UK and Commonwealth/Empire Armed Services who died
in this period, or as a result of their service during this
period, are officially registered and commemorated by the
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) either by an approved
headstone on the grave, or if this is not possible or practical,
the name being inscribed on a relevant Memorial to the Missing.
All of the officers listed in these
Regimental Officers Rolls of Honour are those registered and
commemorated by the CWGC. However there are others
who died as civilians when retired or discharged from the Army after the
31st August 1921 and are consequently too late
to be officially commemorated
by the CWGC. These former service officers are therefore not included in the final total, but remembered in this website
- a list of those officers can be
found here.
The
Welsh Regiment During the Great War
During the Great War the Regiment was organised
into Regular, Territorial Force, and Service Battalions as
described
here.
A total of 93 Battle Honours were earned by these Battalions
during the war and a list of these Battle Honours can
be
viewed here.
Facts and Figures of Officer Casualties
A total of 378 officers of the Regiment
lost their lives during the Great War and a detailed
analysis of these casualties can be
viewed here.
All are buried or commemorated on
Memorials To The Missing throughout the world as official war
casualties.
202 officers are buried
or commemorated in France and 72 in Belgium. Other burials or commemorations are in
British East Africa (now Kenya), Belgian Congo (now Democratic
Republic of Congo), Egypt, Gallipoli, Greece, Gibraltar, India,
Italy, Malta, Mesopotamia, Palestine, Portuguese East Africa
(now Mozambique), Salonika and Turkey. There are 35 officers buried in the UK and
2 officers were lost or buried at sea.
59 officers of the Regiment were detached to other
Services, Headquarters, units and fighting battalions of other Regiments
when they died
during the Great War and a list of these officers can be
viewed here.
A total of 45 officers of other Regiments
lost their lives during the Great War whilst serving with fighting battalions
of the Welsh Regiment. A list of their names in this
Roll of Honour and
details of their death can be
viewed here.
Project
Development
In addition to the basic sources of
information outlined on the main
Project
Home Page, an enormous amount regarding the Welsh Regiment is available through the following organisations and
publications:
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Commonwealth War Graves
Commission (CWGC)
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Officers
Died in the Great War (ODGW)
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The Welsh at War, by Steven John.
Book 1 - From Mons to Loos and the Gallipoli Tragedy
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The Welsh at War, by Steven John.
Book 2 - The Grinding War: The Somme and Arras
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The Welsh at War, by Steven John.
Book 3 - Through Mud to Victory: Third Ypres and the
1918 Offensives
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British Regiments
1914 - 1918: Brigadier E A James
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The Regimental Museum of the Royal
Welsh, Brecon
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General Register Office (GRO) Index To War
Deaths 1914 - 1921, Army Officers
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Army Lists (1914 - 1921) (from the
National Library of Scotland)
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Bond of Sacrifice
(Volumes 1 and 2)
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De Ruvigny's Roll
of Honour 1914 - 1918
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War Office
personal files held in Catalogues WO 339 and WO 374 at The
National Archives
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Medal Index
Cards held in Catalogue WO 372 at The National Archives
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Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914 - 1918 held in
Catalogue WO 329 at The National Archives
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Battalion War
Diaries and Histories (available in Catalogue WO95 at the
National Archives)
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British First World War Trench
Maps, 1915 - 1918 (from National Library of Scotland)
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National and Local
contemporary press
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The Times Digital
Archive 1785 - 1985
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The
London Gazette
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War Memorials and commemorative plaques
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The RAF Museum Archive (for RAF/RFC Casualty
cards)
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Royal Flying Corps Research Website
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Fatal Air Accidents in Britain Website (Period 1914 -
1920)
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The
Great War Forum
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The FreeBMD Project
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The
Imperial War Museum National War Memorial Register
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The
National Army Museum
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The
Long, Long Trail - Discovering the British Army and its
soldiers in the Great War
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The
Wartime Memories Project.
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Ancestry.co.uk
- Military Records
These sources, with others, together form the
basis of the information for the
Regimental Roll of Honour of
Officers of the Regiment who died in
the Great War.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC)
The CWGC commemorates those official
casualties who died in service, or died due to service, during
the First World War. The formal inclusive dates of
the war are between 4th August 1914 to 31st August 1921 and any
member of the UK and Commonwealth/Empire Armed Services who died during this period are
officially registered and commemorated by the CWGC either by an
approved headstone on the grave or if this is not possible or
practical, the name being inscribed on a Memorial to the
Missing.
In December 2020, the Commission reviewed
their policy on amendments to the Casualty Database.
One of the outcomes of the review was that they would no longer
add Honours and Awards to the database where there is no entitlement to
post-nominal letters. Therefore the recording of
"Mentioned in Despatches", for instance, would no longer be carried out.
There are some apparent anomalies in individual
officer's records
contained in the Casualty Database
maintained by the CWGC and these
are
listed here with
the suggested corrective action taken or planned, and the
Webmaster's long term aim is to correct all of these
inaccuracies.
Officers of
Other Corps and Regiments Honoured and Remembered in this Website/Project
Also
recorded and honoured in this website/project are the names of
fallen officers
of the following Yeomanry, Royal Engineer, Guards and Infantry Regiments:
Site Author/Webmaster
The site author/webmaster can be contacted through:
fallenofficersofthegreatwar@gmail.com
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