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Roll of Honour and Biographies
Officers of the Gloucestershire
Regiment Who Died in the Great War
Surnames - P (28 officers) |
PAINTER,
Henry Septimus
Second
Lieutenant. 12th
Battalion. Killed in action in France
on 29th July 1916. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. Aged 42.
PARKINSON,
Leslie Gerard
Major,
MC. 1/4th Battalion. Killed in action in France on 24th April
1917. Buried in St Emile Valley
Cemetery, Villers-Faucon. Aged 28.
PARNELL,
John Atherton Parnell
Lieutenant. 1st Battalion. Killed in action in France on 8th September
1916. Buried in Flatiron Copse
Cemetery, Mametz. Aged 21.
PARR,
Wilfred Wharton
Captain,
MC. 12th Battalion. Killed in action in France on 8th May
1917. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial. Aged 44.
PARSONS,
Hardy Falconer
Second
Lieutenant, VC. 14th
Battalion. Killed in action in France
on 21st August 1917. Buried
in Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery.
Aged 20.
PEARCE,
William James
Lieutenant. 2/5th Battalion. Killed in action in France on 2nd December
1917. Buried in Villers-Plouich
Communal Cemetery. Aged 33.
PEARS,
Norman
Second
Lieutenant. 1/6th
Battalion. Killed in action in France
on 24th April 1917.
Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
Aged 25.
PEATE,
John
Lieutenant. 1st Battalion. Killed in action in France on 8th September
1916. Commemorated on the Thiepval
Memorial. Aged
??.
PERRY,
Leslie Harold
Second
Lieutenant, MC. Attached to 2/6th Battalion Durham Light Infantry. Killed in action in France on 5th October
1918. Buried in Croix-du-Bac British
Cemetery,
Steenwerck. Aged 19.
PETERS,
Gerard
Second
Lieutenant. 1/6th
Battalion. Died of illness in France
on 24th February 1917.
Buried in Fouquescourt
British Cemetery. Aged 25.
PHELPS,
Leslie James
Second
Lieutenant. 8th Battalion.
Died of wounds in UK on
3rd November 1918. Buried in
Treorchy Cemetery. Aged 29.
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Leslie James PHELPS was born at
Porth, Rhondda Valley, South Wales in 1889. His
father, Mr James Phelps was the under manager of the Fernhill
Colliery near Treherbert in the Rhondda.
He enlisted into the Royal Welsh Fusiliers
as a Private soldier, number 75565, in 1917 and was granted a commission
in the Gloucestershire Regiment
on 25th June 1918. After training he was posted for service
with 8th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment in France.
On Sunday 20th
October 1918 he was serving with the unit when it was stationed west of
the River Selle near Haussy. The unit was ordered to advance
and capture the high ground to the east of the River. The
attack was successful although the unit did lose some men including 2Lt
Phelps who was wounded by shrapnel.
He was evacuated along the Army Medical
Services chain to the UK where he was eventually admitted to the Sir
John Ellerman's Hospital, Regents Park, London. He died on
3rd November 1918 of the wounds he received at Haussy. He
was buried in Treorchy Cemetery on 7th November 1918 in the Willis
family grave, the resting place of his father in law and mother in law.
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PHILLIPS,
Cecil Ivor
Second
Lieutenant. Seconded to 45th
Squadron Royal Flying Corps. Killed in
aerial action over Belgium
on 27th October 1917.
Commemorated on Arras
Flying Services Memorial. Aged 18.
PHILLIPS,
Gwilym
Second
Lieutenant. Attached to 1/8th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers. Killed in action in France on 13th October
1918. Buried in Romeries Communal
Cemetery Extension. Aged 22.
PHILLPOTTS,
Fitzroy Charles
Lieutenant. 7th Battalion. Died of wounds in Gallipoli on 9th
August 1915. Commemorated on the Helles
Memorial. Aged 21.
PHIPPEN,
Henry George
Lieutenant. 1/4th Battalion. Died of wounds in France on 9th November
1916. Buried in Becourt Military
Cemetery. Aged 24.
PICKERING,
Tom
Second
Lieutenant. 7th
Battalion. Died of illness in Egypt
on 1st November 1915. Buried
in Alexandria (Chatby) Military Cemetery. Aged 22.
POLACK,
Ernest Emanuel
Lieutenant. 1/4th Battalion. Killed in action in France on 17th July
1916. Buried in Lonsdale Cemetery,
Authuile. Aged 23.
POLLOCK,
Sydney Geoffrey
Lieutenant. Retired List. Died of illness in UK on 19th November
1918. Buried in North Sheen
Cemetery, London. Aged 23.
Picture from the Harrow School Memorials
To The Great War (Vol VI) |
Sydney
Geoffrey POLLOCK was born at Pembroke, South Wales in 1895.
His parents, Colonel Evelyn Pollock, CBE, RA, and Mrs Mary Pollock,
of 40 Gledstanes Road, Hammersmith, later resided at Villa Desiree,
Guethary, Pyrenees, France. He
was educated at Harrow School between 1909 and 1911 was attending
the School of Mines, London when war was declared. He
volunteered for service and was commissioned into the
Gloucestershire Regiment on 4th September 1914, being posted for
training to the 8th Battalion.
After a winter on Salisbury Plain he
was diagnosed with TB of the knee, and on 8th April 1915, just after
he was promoted to Lieutenant, was invalided out of the Army and
awarded a Silver War Badge. He then spent two and a half
years on crutches and underwent three operations. In
February 1918, he returned to the School of Mines and died of
pneumonia, following influenza, at Guy's Hospital, London, on 19th
November 1918. His death was announced in The Times
published on Wednesday 20th November 1918, under "Fallen Officers".
He was buried at North Sheen
Cemetery, Plot CC.176 on 22nd November 1918. He was 23
years of age.
His brother, Lt George Henry Pollock,
South Staffordshire Regiment, died of wounds on 18th June 1915
whilst serving with 1st Battalion Warwickshire Regiment in the Ypres
area, and is buried in the Hospital Farm Cemetery, Ypres.
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POOLE, Arthur George
Lieutenant
(Acting Captain),
MiD. Seconded to Cambridge University. Died of illness in UK on
23rd
November
1918. Buried in Clevedon (St Andrew’s)
Churchyard. Aged 25.
POPE,
Howard John
Second
Lieutenant. Retired List. Died of illness in UK on 4th March
1919. Buried in Bristol (Canford) Cemetery. Aged 29.
PRATT,
Ralph Lewis
Captain. 2/4th Battalion. Killed in action in France on 18th October
1916. Buried in Pont-du-Hem Military
Cemetery, La Gorgue. Aged 41.
PRESTON, John Alex
Stanley
Lieutenant. 2nd Battalion. Died of wounds in Salonika
on 7th October 1916. Buried in Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery. Aged 38.
PRICHARD, Edgar Albert
Major. Territorial Force Reserve. Died of illness in UK on 29th February
1916. Buried in Bristol Cathedral Burial Ground. Aged 55.
PRIESTLEY,
Charles Lacey
Captain. 1st Battalion. Died of wounds in Belgium on 11th November
1917. Buried in Oxford Road
Cemetery, south of Wieltje. Aged 20.
PRIESTLEY,
Stanley Noel
Lieutenant. 8th Battalion. Killed in action in France on 23rd July
1916. Commemorated on Thiepval
Memorial. Aged
??.
PRITCHETT,
Walter Penrose
Captain,
MiD. 1st Battalion. Died of wounds in France on 26th December
1914. Buried in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery. Aged 35.
PROSSER,
Walter
Lieutenant.
Attached to 38th
Battalion Machine Gun Corps. Died of wounds in France on 9th October
1918. Buried in Beaulencourt British Cemetery. Aged 35.
PUCKRIDGE,
Cyril Vincent Noel
Second
Lieutenant. 1/5th
Battalion. Killed in action in France
on 21st July 1916.
Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial.
Aged 21.