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

Whilst Serving With

2/6th Battalion (TF)    -    11 Officers
No Date Surname Forenames Rank Decs Age Cause Country Location Cemeteries/Memorials Notes

1916   (7 officers)
1 11th July BRIGGS Geoffrey Featherstone Lt - 19 KIA France E of Fauquissart Laventie Military Cemetery, La Gorgue  (II.B.22) -
2 19th July FRY Leonard 2Lt - - KIA France NE of "Wick Salient", NW of Fromelles Rue-Petillon Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix  (I.G.9) -
3 19th July LANGFORD William John Lt - 24 KIA France NE of "Wick Salient", NW of Fromelles Loos Memorial  (Panel 60 to 64) -
4 19th July RUDMAN Harold Ewart Capt - 32 KIA France NE of "Wick Salient", NW of Fromelles Loos Memorial  (Panel 60 to 64) -
5 29th July EYRE Henry Wright Capt - 23 DOW France Hospital at St Omer Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery (IV.A.22) (1)
6 19th September LEWIS Clifford Stanley Lt - 21 DOW France Hospital at Merville Merville Communal Cemetery  (VII.A.28) (2)
7 8th December BARON Stephen Timmis 2Lt - 25 KIA France Aveluy, S of Grandcourt, Somme Aveluy Communal Cemetery Extension  (M.43) -

1917   (4 officers)
8 30th October SHUTE George Francis 2Lt - 22 KIA France E of St Nicholas, NE of Arras Arras Memorial   (Bay 6) (3)
9 3rd December BANWELL Leonard Henry 2Lt - 38 KIA France E of "Corner Work", NW of La Vacquerie Cambrai Memorial  (Panel 6) -
10 3rd December TRATMAN Arnold Wigmore Lt - 21 KIA France E of "Corner Work", NW of La Vacquerie Cambrai Memorial   (Panel 6) -
11 17th December GURNEY Kenneth Gerard 2Lt - 30 POW Belgium Ligny, NE of Charleroi Re-buried at Honnechy British Cemetery (II.D.77) (4)

Officers of Other Regiments Attached to 2/6th Battalion   (6 officers)
1 19th July 1916 FISON Frank Henry Lt - 22 KIA France NE of "Wick Salient", NW of Fromelles Aubers Ridge British Cemetery  (III.B.16) Norfolk Regt
2 19th July 1916 MATHEWS Anthony Edward 2Lt - 22 KIA France NE of "Wick Salient", NW of Fromelles Laventie Military Cemetery, La Gorgue  (II.D.9) Devon Regt
3 19th July 1916 MITCHELL George James 2Lt - 33 KIA France NE of "Wick Salient", NW of Fromelles Loos Memorial (Panel 35 to 37) Devon Regt
4 19th July 1916 SKEWES Arthur Courtis 2Lt - 20 KIA France NE of "Wick Salient", NW of Fromelles Laventie Military Cemetery, La Gorgue  (II.D.10) Devon Regt
5 3rd May 1917 CLARK Henry Featherstone Lt - 23 KIA France E of Holnon, W of St Quentin Chapelle British Cemetery, Holnon  (II.J.14) Devon Regt
6 2nd December 1917 RUTHVEN William Logan Major - 38 KIA France "Corner Work", NW of La Vacquerie Cambrai Memorial  (Panel 5) East Yorks Regt
7 2nd December 1917 WATTS William Kenworthy Capt - - KIA France "Corner Work", NW of La Vacquerie Cambrai Memorial  (Panel 4) Norfolk Regt
 

Notes:

1.   EYRE was wounded NE of "Wick Salient", NW of Fromelles on 19th July 1916.

2.   LEWIS was wounded during a trench raid at Neuve Chapelle on 19th September 1916.

3.   SHUTE may have been wounded and captured by the Germans on 29th October 1917 during a trench raid.

4.   GURNEY was wounded and captured by the Germans at La Vacquerie on 2nd December 1917 and reported to have died of wounds at Ligny, NE of Charleroi, Belgium on 17th December 1917.

Battalion History
Formed at Bristol as the Second Line of the 6th Battalion in September 1914.   Full Title - 2/6th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment (Territorial Force)
Assigned to 183rd Infantry Brigade, 61st (2nd South Midland) Division in January 1915.   Arrived in France in 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 Battalion and 24th Entrenching Battalion.

 

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