Roll of Honour of Officers

Abbreviations of Regiments and Battalions, enclosed in brackets after names, denote Officers attached.
Each Officer counted once only.

The 1/5th Battalion comprises I5 killed, 28 wounded, and 2 missing, making a total of 45.

Mr. Henry Charles Dickens, O.B.E., and others, have kindly assisted in compiling and arranging, but it is regretted that no assurance of accuracy can accompany the following details.

Attention is especially invited to the note in the "Preface" of the volume published by His Majesty's Stationery Office under the title Officers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919 :--

"Nothing whatever contained in these rolls is to be quoted or made use of in any representation which it may be desired to make on the subject of rank, decoration, nature or date of casualty, or anything consequent upon any casualty."

The mere record of a Roll of Honour reveals nothing of the greatness of the sacrifice. To do full justice to the heroism of these Officers would be impossible, and to make a selection therefrom would be
invidious. Nevertheless, it would be well for us all in scanning this roll, to remember the immortal lines of one of our soldier-poets, that-

" There's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England."

List of Officer Casualties from November,
1916, to November, 1918

November, 1916.

Lieut. J. D. H. Maddrell, died from wounds received on the Somme.
Capt. T. A. V. Wood, wounded on the Somme.

December, 1916.

Capt. J. Trehain. M.C., wounded on the Somme.

June, 1917.

2nd Lieut. C. E. Vowles, wounded at Arras.

December, 1917.

Lieut. Dixon, wounded at Cambrai.

March, 1918.

Killed in the Battle of St. Quentin.

Lt.-Col. T. Carus-Wilson
Capt. C. W. N. Tyacke
Lieut. H. J. Palmer
2nd Lieut. L. C. Beer
2nd Lieut. L. C. Coombe

Wounded in the Battle of St. Quentin.

Capt. W. E. Potter, Adjt.
Lieut. A. G. Hughes, Asst. Adjt.
Capt. W. Jeffery
Lieut. L. S. Leverton
Lieut. H. C. Lorimer
Lieut. J. F. Chomley
Lieut. W. Taylor
Lieut. H. E. Ross
2nd Lieut. R. Chapple
Capt. F. Blanchard

April, 1918.

Killed in the Merville operations.

Lieut. T. Goldsworthy
Lieut. W. Smith
Lieut. P. J. Morcom
2nd Lieut. R. Chapple

Wounded in the Merville operations.

Capt. E. M. Hodson
Capt. Brian S. Hodge
Lieut. H. R. Trelawny
2nd Lieut. C. E. C. Hughes
2nd Lieut. Green
2nd Lieut. G. C. O'Carroll
2nd Lieut. W. F. Smith

Date of Casualty unknown.

2nd Lieut. Aedy
2nd Lieut. W. G. Hunt
2nd Lieut. Drewill
and Lieut. H. Blacklock was taken prisoner in the Merville operations, 1918.
Lieut. H. C. Lorimer died whilst at Hospital in England, early 1919.
Capt. J. F. Blanchard was killed in the Merville Sector, 3Ist May, 1918.

August, 1918.

2nd Lieut. Robson, was taken prisoner in the Merville Sector.
and Lieut. Paul Malton, was taken prisoner in the Merville Sector. Discovered later that and Lieut. Paul Malton died whilst a prisoner in German hands after having a leg amputated.

Killed in Action, Died of Wounds, Killed, or Died

Lieutenant- Colonel.

CARUS-WILSON, TREVOR, D.S.O., d. of w., 27/3/18.

Captain.

BALL, J., M.C., died 23/1/18. (1/D.C.L.I.).
BLANCHARD, FREDERICK JOHN, k. in a., 1/6/18.
TYACKE, CHARLES NOEL WALKER, k. in a., 23/3/18.

Lieutenant.

ALDERSON, ALEX GEORGE JERMYN, killed, 19/10/16. (And M.G.C.).
GOLDSWORTHY, THOMAS, k. in a., I2-14/4/18.
LORIMER, HUGH COWAN, died, 27/11/18.
MADDRELL, JOHN DENIS HUGH, d. of w., 13/I2/I6.
MORCOM, PERCIVAL JOHN HOSKING, k. in a., 11/4/18.
PALMER, HENRY JOHN, k. in a., 29/3/I8.
SMITH, LEON WALTER, k. in a., 12/4/18. (4/D.C.L.I.).
THOMAS, FRANCIS BERNARD VIVIAN, k. in a., 22/9/16. (4/D.C.L.I.).

Second Lieutenant.

BEER, LEWIS CHARLES, k. in a., 28/3/18.
BISHOP, BERNARD BENNETT, k. in a., 9/9/17. (Attd. R.F.C.).
BLACKMORE, EDWIN, k. in a., 16/8/16. {And M.G.C.).
BRETT, ERNEST HUGH WILLIAM, d. of w., 2/8/16. {Temp. 2/Lt.,9/D.C.L.I.}.
CHAPPLE, REGINALD CHARLES, k. in a., 12/4/18. {4/D.C.L.I.}.
COOMBE, LESLIE CLARENCE, k. in a., 25/3/i8. (Temp. 2/Lt.,1/D.C.L.I.).
EVERSON, CHARLES PERCY, k. in a., 7/10/16.
(p.) MALTON, PAUL LOCOCK, d. of w., 3/9/I8. (1/D.C.L.I.).
MITCHELL, HENRY WILLIAM, k. in a., 22/11/17.
MITCHELL, TERENCE HARGREAVES, d. of w., 6/11/I6.
MORCOM, FRANK CLIFFORD, k. in a., 8/5/17.
RATCLIFFE-GAYLAND, ERIC RONALD, k. in a., 20/7/16.
ROWSE, RICHARD SIDNEY, died. 2/9/15.

Wounded, Wounded and Missing, or Wounded and Prisoner

Captain.

HODGE, B. S., M.C.
HODSON, E. M.
JEFFREY, W. A.
POTTER, W. E.
WOOD, T. A. V.

Lieutenant.

CHOMLEY, J. M. F.
DIXON, C. D.
GEACH, R. D.
GRENN, A.
HUGHES, A. G.
LORIMER, H. C.
LEVERTON, L. S.
MARRISON, C. C.
O'CARROLL, G. C. W. (4/D.C.L.I.)
(p.) RICKARD, H.
Ross, H. E.
TAYLOR, W. H.
TREHANE, J.
TRELAWNY, H. R.

Second Lieutenant.

AEDY, E. C.
(p.) BLACKLOCK, H. A.
CAINE, J. H.
DREWETT, W. J.
HUGHES, C. E. C.
HUNT, R. G.
LUSCOMBE, R. A.
NEWBOULT, A.T. (1/D.C.L.I.).
RYDE, W. H.
SMITH, W. F. (4/D.C.L.I.).
TREWBELLA, H. R.
VOWLES, C. E.
WARD, F. S.
YELF, F. W.

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