Roll of Officers of the Gloucestershire Regiment Who Died in the Great War

Whilst Serving With

2/4th Battalion (Territorial Force)   -   10 Officers
No Date Surname Forenames Rank Decs Age Cause Country Location/Sector Cemetery/Memorial Notes

1916   (5 officers)
1 26th June HADINGHAM Roy Matthew Lt - 21 KIA France Colvin Trench, E of Mauquissart Loos Memorial (Panel 60 to 64) (1)
2 4th July MOORE Ernest Leonard 2Lt - 26 DOAW France Hospital at Merville Merville Communal Cemetery  (VII.A.21) (2)
3 5th July HANNAM Francis John Capt - 36 DOW France E of Fauquissart, SE of Laventie Laventie Military Cemetery, La Gorgue  (II.A.15) (3)
4 19th July JAMES Donald Croft 2Lt - 19 KIA France NE of "Wick Salient", NW of Fromelles Thiepval Memorial   (should be Loos Memorial) (4)
5 19th July SCRASE Reginald George Lt - 34 KIA France NE of "Wick Salient", NW of Fromelles Thiepval Memorial   (should be Loos Memorial) (5)
6 18th October PRATT Ralph Lewis Capt - 41 KIA France Neuve Chapelle, SE of Laventie Pont-Du-Hem Military Cemetery, La Gorgue  (II.B.18) -

1917   (4 officers)
7 18th May COX Walter Ewart 2Lt - 27 KIA France Fresnoy le Petit, N of Holnon Chapelle British Cemetery, Holnon  (I.D.6) -
8 27th August BEAVON Donald James 2Lt - 28 KIA Belgium "Pond Farm", SW of Gravenstafel Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 72 to 75) -
9 27th August HADLEY Ernest Sydney 2Lt - - KIA Belgium "Pond Farm", SW of Gravenstafel Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 72 to 75) -
10 27th August HALL Frank Leslie Lt - 20 KIA Belgium "Pond Farm", SW of Gravenstafel Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 72 to 75) -

Officers of Other Regiments Attached to 2/4th Battalion   (4 officers)
1 30th July 1916 FOOT James Stanley Capt - 35 KIA France Fauquissart, SE of Laventie Laventie Military Cemetery, La Gorgue  (II.D.12) Welsh Regt
2 18th October 1916 OWEN Arthur Edmund Lt - 20 DOW France Hospital at Merville Merville Communal Cemetery  (VII.A.29) (6)  Northants Regt
3 19th August 1917 DUDDLE William Kearsley 2Lt - 29 KIA Belgium "Pond Farm", SW of Gravenstafel Tyne Cot Memorial (Panel 54 to 60) Lancs Fusiliers
4 1st December 1917 ROBSON Charles Henry Capt - 30 KIA France La Vacquerie Cambrai Memorial  (Panel 13) RAMC
 

Notes:

1.   HADINGHAM initially reported missing on 22nd June 1916.

2.   MOORE was accidentally wounded during a training exercise at Riez Bailleul on 29th June 1916.

3.   HANNAM was wounded during a raid on the German trenches opposite Fauquissart on 5th July 1916.

4.   JAMES should properly be commemorated on the Loos Memorial.

5.   SCRASE should properly be commemorated on the Loos Memorial.

6.   OWEN was wounded at Neuve Chapelle, SE of Laventie on 17th October 1916.

Battalion History
Formed at Bristol as the Second Line of the 4th Battalion in September 1914.   Full Title - 2/4th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment (Territorial Force)
Assigned to 183rd Infantry Brigade, 61st (2nd South Midland) Division in January 1915.   Arrived in France on 25th May 1916.   Served in France and Flanders (Fauquissart, Somme, Peronne, St Quentin, Ypres, Arras, Cambrai).
Battle Honours, 4 earned at:   France and Flanders 1915 - 1918, Ypres 1917, Langemarck 1917, and Cambrai 1917.
Battalion disbanded on 20th February 1918, personnel transferred to 2/5th Bn Glos Regt and 24th Entrenching Battalion.
 

Page last updated: 15th May 2011

 

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