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Roll of Honour of Officers of the Welsh Regiment

Who Died in the Great War

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Roll of Honour

Surnames   -   W

(32 officers)

 

WADDINGTON, James Hubert

Second Lieutenant.   16th Battalion.   Died of wounds in France on 6th July 1916.   Aged 20.

 

WALKER, Howard Napier

Lieutenant Colonel, OBE, MC, MiD.   Seconded to RAF Staff, Air Ministry.   Died of illness in UK on 3rd June 1919.   Aged 31.

 

WARREN, Frederick John

Major.   9th Battalion.   Died of illness in UK on 14th July 1915.   Aged 52.

 

WARREN, James Lionel East

Captain.   1st Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 2nd October 1915.   Aged 20.

 

WATKINS, William

Second Lieutenant.   Seconded to 139th Squadron RAF.   Killed in aerial action in Italy on 23rd July 1918.   Aged 26.

 

WATTS, Albert Edward

Second Lieutenant.   15th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 22nd April 1918.   Aged 26.

 

WAVELL, Arthur John Byng

Major, MC.   Seconded to Arab Rifles.   Killed in action in British East Africa (now Kenya)  on 9th January 1916.   Aged 34.

 

WEEDING, John Richard Baggallay

Second Lieutenant, MiD.   2nd Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 22nd December 1914.   Aged 32.

 

WEEKS, Henry Russell

Captain.   1st Battalion.   Died of wounds in Salonika on 23rd September 1918.   Aged 24.

 

WELLS, Frank Irving Pascoe

Lieutenant.   2nd Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 9th May 1915.   Aged 21.

 

WESTBY, Edmund Henry Herbert

Captain.   1st Battalion.   Killed in action in Belgium on 25th May 1915.   Aged 33.

 

WHITE, Henry Thompson

Lieutenant.   2nd Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 8th September 1916.   Aged 36.

 

WHITE, Lionel

Lieutenant.   10th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 19th March 1916.   Aged 22.

 

WILKIE, Charles Joseph

Lieutenant Colonel.   17th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 18th October 1916.   Aged 48.

 

WILLIAMS, Arthur Jones

Second Lieutenant.   1/4th Battalion.   Killed in action in Palestine on 3rd November 1917.   Aged 31.

 

WILLIAMS, Daniel Llewellyn

Lieutenant.   Attached to 1/1st Battalion Herefordshire Regiment.   Killed in action in Belgium on 15th October 1918.   Aged 25.

 

WILLIAMS, Fawcett Thomas

Captain.   3rd (Reserve) Battalion.   Died of illness in UK on 23rd February 1919.   Aged 27.

 

WILLIAMS, Frank Emlyn

Captain, MC.   Seconded to 57th Squadron RAF.   Died of accidental injuries in Egypt on 7th April 1918.   Aged 23.

 

WILLIAMS, George Stanley

Lieutenant.   14th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 20th October 1918.   Aged 28.

 

WILLIAMS, Gordon

Captain, MiD.   Seconded to Northern Rhodesia Rifles.   Died of illness in Belgian Congo (now DRC) on 15th November 1918.   Aged ?

 

WILLIAMS, Gwilym

Captain.   7th Battalion.   Died of illness in UK on 1st September 1920.   Aged 34.

 

WILLIAMS, Howell Morgan

Second Lieutenant.   19th Battalion.   Killed in action in Belgium on 24th June 1917.   Aged 23.

 

WILLIAMS, John Lewis

Captain.   16th Battalion.   Died of wounds in France on 12th July 1916.   Aged 34.

 

WILLIAMS, Oswald Morgan

Second Lieutenant.   16th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 9th April 1916.   Aged 21.

 

WILLIAMS, Wilfred Brynmor

Second Lieutenant.   16th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 5th July 1916.   Aged 30

 

WILLIAMS, William Bernard

Lieutenant.   14th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 20th October 1918.   Aged 29.

 

WILLIAMS, William Morley

Second Lieutenant.   14th Battalion.   Killed in action in Belgium on 7th June 1917.   Aged 21.

 

WILSON, Douglas Jonathan Rogers

Second Lieutenant.   9th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 25th September 1915.   Aged 21.

 

WILSON, Edgar Henry

Second Lieutenant.   14th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 8th October 1918.   Aged 22.

 

WINFIELD, Herbert Ben

Lieutenant.   Formerly 16th Battalion.   Died of accidental wounds in UK on 21st September 1919.   Aged 41.

 

WINSTANLEY, Oswald Coke

Second Lieutenant.   1/5th Battalion.   Killed in action in Gallipoli on 10th August 1915.   Aged 27.

 

WOOLF, William

Lieutenant.   24th Battalion.   Killed in action in France on 21st September 1918.   Aged 24.

 

 

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