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Kings Shropshire Light Infantry
Regular Battalions: - 1st Battalion, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry
- 2nd Battalion, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry
- 3rd Battalion, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry
Territorial Force: - 4th Battalion, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry
- 10th Battalion, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry
- 2/4th Battalion, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry
- 3/4th Battalion, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry
Kitchener's New Army: - 5th Battalion, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry
- 6th Battalion, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry
- 7th Battalion, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry
- 8th Battalion, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry
- 9th Battalion, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry
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Those known to have served withKings Shropshire Light Infantry during the Great War 1914-1918. - Austin Edwin. Pte. 6th Btn (d.22nd Aug 1917)
- Bailey John Thomas . Pte. 6th Btn. (d.6th Sep 1916)
- Baldry Henry William. L/Cpl. 7th Battalion (d.3rd April 1916)
- Ball George. 9th Battalion
- Bason Arthur Henry. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.2nd May 1918)
- Bennett Charles Pinder. Pte. 6th. Batallion
- Bennett James. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.21st Feb 1917)
- Bennett James. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.21st Feb 1917)
- Bradley Joseph. Pte. 4th Btn. (d.28th March 1918)
- Brown Edwin. Pte. 16th Btn. (d.22nd Apr 1918)
- Butcher Henry Richard. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.19th Oct 1916)
- Carr MC, MID Geoffrey. Major 8th Battalion
- Clarke William. Pte 7th Btn. (d.27th Sep 1918)
- Compton George. Sgt. 6th Btn.
- Corfield Henry. Pte. 7th Btn. (d.22nd Aud 1916)
- Davies Charles Albert. 2nd Lt. 7th Btn. (d.22nd Sep 1918)
- Dew Henry Thomas. Pte. 1st Battalion (d.11th Oct 1918)
- Edwards Richard. Pte 6th Btn (d.17th Sep 1916)
- Edwards Richard. Pte 6th Battalion (d.17th September 1916)
- Edwards William. Pte. 6th Battalion (d.30th March 1918 )
- Ellis John. Pte. 1st Battalion (d.12th Oct 1916)
- Fleming Henry John. Pte. 7th Btn. (d.19th December 1916)
- Ford Hubert James. Pte. 2nd Btn. (d.28th Aug 1915)
- French Charles John. Maj. (d.2nd July 1916)
- Galliers Charles. Pte. 10th Btn. (d.22th Aug 1918)
- Gollins DCM. Herbert. Sgt. 6th Btn. (d.22nd March 1918)
- Goodman Arthur. Sgt.
- Griffiths Boaz. Pte. 6th Btn. (d.2nd Aug 1918)
- Grimshaw Harry. Pte. 8th Btn. (d.31st Aug 1917)
- Grimshaw Harry. Pte. 8th Btn. (d.31st August 1917)
- Gwilliam Charles Henry. Pte. 1st Btn. (d.2nd Jan 1915)
- Hammond Vincent Edward. Pte. 11th (d.18th Nov 1916)
- Hanock Harry. L/Cpl. 7th Btn. (d.7th Nov 1917)
- Harmer DCM. Oscar. Sgt. 16th (Cardiff City) Battalion
- Heaton Charles William. Cpl. 8th Btn.
- Higham David. Pte. 8th (Service) Btn.
- Howard James Charles. L/Cpl. A Coy. 1st Btn. (d.10th Nov 1914)
- Howard William John. Pte. 7th Btn. (d.21st August 1918)
- Howells Harry. Pte. 7th Battalion (d.25th Apr 1916)
- Jones Military Medal Dennis. Cpl. 5th Battalion
- Jones Harold Douglas. Private 1st/4th Btn. (d.6th July 1918)
- Kelly Edward James. Pte. 8th Batt. (d.11 September 1917)
- Langley Henry George. Pte. 6th Btn.
- Mawdsley John Howard. Pte. 8th Btn. (d.27th Dec 1916)
- Molyneux John . Pte. 6th Btn. (d.1th Oct 1918)
- Palmer Charles. Capt. (d.15th January 1916)
- Pike John Harold. Pte. 8th Battalion (d.30th June 1918)
- Plested Herbert James. Cpl. (d.25th Feb 1919)
- Pope Arthur George. Sgt. 7th Btn. (d.21st August 1918)
- Pope F. G.. Cpl. 7th Btn. (d.26th Sep 1917)
- Price Frederick George. Pte. 7th Btn. (d.2nd August 1916)
- Profeit Leopold. Lt. 8th Btn. (d.25th Apr 1917)
- Reade Herbert Cecil. 6th Btn.
- Ree Henry. Pte. 7th Btn. (d.30th Mar 1918)
- Ree Henry. Pte. 7th Btn. (d.30th March 1918)
- Rigby Daniel. L/Cpl. 1st Btn. (d.17th Oct 1916)
- Roberts George Thomas. Bdr.
- Roberts Tudor Aled. Cpl. 6th Btn.
- Roberts William Joseph. Pte 6th Btn (d.16th Aug 1917)
- Round George. Pte. 1st Btn.
- Sarginson Thomas William. Pte. 10th Btn. (d.30th Nov 1917)
- Saxton Frederick William. Pte. (d.18th Aug 1917)
- Seare Edmund Josiah Henry . Pte. 7th Btn. (d.14th Jul 1916)
- Skyrme Horace John. Pte. 2nd Battalion
- Southall Gilbert Harry. Pte. 6th Btn. (d.26th Mar 1918)
- Steele George Henry. Pte. B Coy
- Suthon John Richard. Pte. 10th Btn. (d.30th Nov 1917)
- Suthon John Richard. Pte. 10th Btn. (d.30th Nov 1917)
- Taylor John M.. A.L/Cpl 6th Battalion (d.6th Sep 1916)
- Tranetr Joseph. Pte. (d.1st Oct 1918)
- Tranter Joseph. Pte. (d.1st Oct 1918)
- Wilkes MM. William Ernest. Pte. 7th Battalion
- Wilkinson Wallace William. Pte. 6th Battalion (d.10th August 1916)
- Wood William George. L/Cpl. 6th Battalion (d.5th March 1917)
- Wood William George. L/Cpl. 6th Btn (d.5th Mar 1917)
- Woosnam William George. Pte. 6th Battalion
- Worrall Alfred. Pte. 6th Battalion (d.20th Sept 1917)
- Yapp James. Grdsmn. 3rd Btn. (d.27th Nov 1917)
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1206547 Pte. Henry Corfield 7th Btn. King's Shropshire Light Infantry (d.22nd Aud 1916) Herny Corfield was killed in action on the 22nd of August 1916, aged 38 and is buried in Plot 2. B. 102 in the Corbie Communal Cemetery Extension in France.
He was the son of Eunice Griffiths, of 25, Crown Yard, Little Dawley, Dawley, Shropshire.
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1206112 Herbert Cecil Reade 6th Btn. Kings Shropshire Light Infantry Herbert Cecil Reade joined the Kings Shropshire Light Infantry 6th Battalion (Pals) in Shrewsbury in 1914. In 1916 he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as an observer in No.1 Squadron. He was invalided back to the UK in 1917.
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1205958 Grdsmn. James Yapp 3rd Btn. Grenadier Guards (d.27th Nov 1917) James Yapp was killed in action on the 27th of November 1917, aged 22 and is commemorated on The Cambrai Memorial in France.
He was the son of James & Sarah Yapp of 44 Stable Row, Lightmoor, Dawley, Shropshire and had enlisted into the KSLI Territorials (4th Bn.) in June 1913 aged 17 years 10 months and had been discharged as unfit for duty in Oct 1914 only to immediately re-enlist into the Guards
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263927 Sgt. George Compton 6th Btn. Kings Shropshire Light Infantry I have recently become the owner of a silver cigarette case engraved with the following inscription.
"Sergt Geo. Compton Kings Shropshire Light Infantry 1915-19.
In recognition of his service in the great war. From Tardebigge Parish."
On the reverse of the case is engraved
"France & Belgium"
I have done a small bit of research and discovered his Regimental Number was 11992 and he was a Private, Lance Corporal and eventually a Sergeant.
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263257 Pte. Thomas William Sarginson 10th Btn. Shropshire Light Infantry (d.30th Nov 1917) Thomas William Sarginson was killed in action in Palestine.
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263180 Lt. Leopold Profeit 8th Btn. Kings Shropshire Light Infantry (d.25th Apr 1917) Leopold Profeit was a son of Dr. Alexander Profeit, Queen's Commissioner at Balmoral during the reign of Queen Victoria.
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261210 Pte. Charles Galliers 10th Btn. Kings Shropshire Light Infantry (d.22th Aug 1918) The adopted son of Annie Roberts, Charles Galliers enlisted in Oswestry. Shortly before the end of the war, he was killed in action on the western front in France at the age of 22. Charles is buried in Merville Cemetery and is remembered on both the Cambrian Railway War Memorial and the Guildsfield War Memorial.
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260918 Pte. Edwin Brown 16th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers (d.22nd Apr 1918) Formerly serving with the Shropshire Light Infantry.
Edwin Brown is buried at Bouzincourt Ridge Cemetery Albert in France. I have just visited and placed a wreath.
I am interested to know what took place on 22nd April as over 50 of his regiment seem to have been killed on the same day.
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260305 Cpl. Tudor Aled Roberts 6th Btn. Kings Shropshire Light Infantry My grandfather Tudor Roberts was shot by friendly fire in February 1916, possibly on the Somme. He was shot in a trench when a colleague's gun discharged. The bullet entered his back, went through a cigarette case, and emerged through his chest. Miraculously, he survived and later returned to the front.
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259572 Cpl. Charles William Heaton 8th Btn. King's Shropshire Light Infantry  My maternal grandfather, Charles William Heaton, was born on the 9th August 1895 in Dyke Street Everton, Lancashire. He attended St. John's Church in Everton where he was a choirboy. According to my mother, he had a fine baritone voice as a man. He possessed a fine collection of books (many of which have been passed down to my mother), including the complete works of William Shakespeare as well as books on history and philosophy, gramophone records, and pianola rolls. At the age of 15, Charles moved from Everton to Bloomsbury, London, where was apprenticed to his uncle as a French polisher.
Soon after the start of the Great War, on 8 September 1914, Charles enlisted in the army. He joined the King's Light Shropshire Infantry, which he facetiously referred to as ‘The King's Silly Little Idiots’. His serial number was W3626, his regimental number was 13701, and he held the rank of Corporal. He served in Greece – we have his pay-book, showing he was paid in drachmas. After contracting and suffering from malaria, he received a war pension of 13 shillings a month. On 23 February 1919, he was demobbed and transferred to Army Reserves, Shrewsbury.
According to my mother, he was a highly principled man and a firm Socialist both by nature and politically. He may also have been at one time a member of the Communist Party. He received the daily paper - The Daily Worker and Russia Today, which were the mouthpieces of the party. He was a staunch supporter of the National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades Association and became President at Branch 54 in Liverpool. He would often leave the family at home whilst he went to his club at the Union's Liverpool headquarters at Low Hill, ostensibly on Union business but probably for a few pints of beer.
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258110 Pte. Boaz Griffiths 6th Btn. Kings Shropshire Light Infantry (d.2nd Aug 1918)  Born in 1893 in Weston Rhyn, Oswestry, Boaz Griffiths was the third youngest child and youngest son of John, a coal miner, and Catherine Griffiths.
In 1901, six of his siblings were living at their parents home, but he had two more older sisters, who probably had moved out.
The census of 1911 gives 17 children born of which 9 survived. In this year the family lived at Albert Square, Weston Rhyn, and Boaz and his brothers, John and Charlie, were working as coal miners at Chirk Green. Their mother died probably in the first three months of 1911, the census of this year has their father as a widower, he would later live at Vine Cottages, Albert Road.
Boaz joined the Army for the KSLI in 1914 when War broke out against Germany and died on the 2nd of August 1918 at No. 12 Stationary Hospital at St. Pol. The cause of his death was Septic Meningitis.
He was wounded three times and survived until on the 11th July, records 2 ORs killed and 6 wounded. Boaz was likely wounded on 11th of July when 3 men were accidentally wounded when they hit an old unexploded bomb whilst digging. Alternatively, but this does not fit with his Obituary, on 14 July at 2.30am, he was one of 3 men wounded after the enemy shelled Adept (Trench) for about 20 minutes this is according to the War Diary.
He is buried in St Pol British Cemetery. His name is also recorded on the Weston Rhyn War Memorial and St Oswalds Church, Oswestry.
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256782 Pte. Henry Ree 7th Btn. Kings Shropshire Light Infantry (d.30th March 1918) Henry Ree is my great uncle. He enlisted into 7th Btn Kings Shropshire Light Infantry in 1914/15. He landed in France on the 28th of September 1915. Henry was reported missing on the 18th of March 1918, believed to have been seriously wounded and captured by Germans. He was taken to Estrees Field Hospital where he died of wounds on the 30th of March 1918. He was interred at Eltrees and then on 30th of September 1920 finally laid to rest in Sauchy Cauchy Cemetery, France.
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256132 Pte. Henry Ree 7th Btn. Kings Shropshire Light Infantry (d.30th Mar 1918) Henry Ree died of wounds on 30th of March 1918 and was finally interred in Sauchy Cauchy Cemetery.
I have been endeavouring to establish where he was located when he was wounded. So far, the best I have been able to establish is that Henry was probably wounded during the period 21st to 28th of March 1918 when the 7th Battalion, according to the War Diary, suffered 174 wounded ORs.
During this period the Unit was located near Heninel. Given the proximity of Sauchy Cauchy to Heninel it appears probable, assuming Henry was with the 7th, he was one of the 174.
Henry was 25 years old when he died and is remembered in the churches at Stoke Edith and Yarkhill in Herefordshire.
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255595 L/Cpl. Henry William Baldry 7th Battalion Kings Shropshire Light Infantry (d.3rd April 1916) Harry Baldry served with the 7th Battalion, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry.
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255541 Cpl. F. G. Pope 7th Btn. Kings Shropshire Light Infantry (d.26th Sep 1917) F G Pope was an American who joined the British Army.
I'm a 35 year old woman living in Antwerp, Belgium.
I decided to adopt a grave at Tyne Cot Cemetery.
They are all soldiers who died in Flanders.
This was the soldiers' grave given to me and of course the little information that came with it.
So I'm still looking for information.
I really hope I can find out more about him and maybe even some family; that would be the best.
But until then I'll keep on searching
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254647 2nd Lt. Charles Albert Davies 7th Btn. South Wales Borderers (d.22nd Sep 1918) My great uncle Charles Davies was born in 1884 in Oswestry. He worked as a clerk on Cambrian Railways until he enlisted in August 1914 as a Private in the 6th King's Shropshire Light Infantry. He served with 6th Btn. KSLI at Loos, Ypres and The Somme until late 1917 when he was selected for officer training as a Temporary Lieutenant.
He received his commission on 27th of February 1918 and was posted to 7th Btn South Wales Borderers, stationed in Salonika and Macedonia.
He was killed at the Third Battle of Doiran. He was listed as missing on 18th of September 1918 and as killed on or since 22nd of September 1918.
Charles has no known grave and is commemorated on the Doiran War Memorial. He is also remembered on St Oswald's Church and on Cambrian Railway war memorials.
My father's middle name is Charles in his memory.
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253974 Cpl. Herbert James Plested Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (d.25th Feb 1919) Herbert Plested, born in 1892, was the 9th of 11 children of William Plested and Elizabeth Stretton. He was an agricultural labourer and lived in Shabbington with his parents and siblings.
He served first with the Ox & Bucks Light Infantry.
He was then moved to the 3rd Royal Berkshire Regiment, finally he was transferred to the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and he became a Corporal. He was attached to the 111th Company of the Chinese Labour Corps.
He died in the 41st Stationary Hospital, in Gailly, France and is buried in St Pierre War Cemetery, Amiens, France.
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252630 Sgt. Oscar Harmer DCM. 16th (Cardiff City) Battalion Welch Regiment My Grandfather, Oscar Harmer, was an original member of the 16th (Cardiff City) Battalionm Welsh Regiment. Oscar was the Battalion's Goat Major and appears in a number of photographs on parade with the Battalion's Goat.
On deployment to France in December 1915, he was appointed Lt Colonel Frank Gaskell's runner, and was present when Frank Gaskell was shot by a German sniper. Having looked at the Battalion's trench diary entry, they had been out inspecting an observation post. I understand the shot hit Frank Gaskell's ammo pouch which in turn exploded. My grandfather was also present at Frank Gaskell's funeral, although the diary had incorrectly misspelt my grandfather's surname (Hammer).
On 7th of July 1916 my grandfather took part in the fighting during the Battle of the Somme and was present when the Battalion took part in the fighting for Mametz Wood where they fought against the soldiers of the Prussian Guard. He was also present during the fighting at Pickem Ridge which was in the opening stages of the Battle of Passchendale.
As a result of restructuring within the Army, the Cardiff City Battalion was sadly disbanded in February 1918. My grandfather, by now promoted to Sergeant, was transferred to the 1st Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry where on 19th of September 1918 he was awarded the DCM.
The citation reads: 'For most conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. In the attack on Fresnoy-Le-Petite, 19th of September 1918, when all the officers of his company had become casualties, he reorganised the company and took command. Later, with half a platoon and one Lewis gun, he captured an enemy post, from which he silenced a hostile machine-gun with Lewis fire, and succeeded in keeping down the fire of enemy snipers. The post was repeatedly attacked by the enemy with bombs and rifle grenades, but chiefly due to his fine example and energy all attacks were repulsed, though nearly all his men were wounded. Eventually he successfully withdrew his men under cover of darkness.
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251366 Pte. Henry Thomas Dew 1st Battalion Kings Shropshire Light Infantry (d.11th Oct 1918) Thomas Dew died of wounds on the 11th of October 1918. Aged 22, he was serving with the 1st Kings Shropshire Light Infantry. Son of Thomas Henry and Mary Ann Dew of Bronte Cottage, Burghill, Hereford.
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249876 Pte. William John Howard 7th Btn. Kings Shropshire Light Infantry (d.21st August 1918) William Howard was my great uncle on my mother's side. We have visited his grave in Bucquoy Road Cemetery France, a sad and lonely place.
The 21st of August 2018 will the 100th anniversary of his death. Little is known about his service history as according to the CWGC many records were lost during the bombing in the WW2.
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