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1st Battalion, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry
1st Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry were based at Tipperary with 16th Brigade, 6th Division when war broke out in August 1914.
They were mobilsed and returned to England, where 6th Division concentrated near Cambridge for training. They proceeded to France on the 10th of September 1914, landing at St Nazaire. Marched to the Aisne to reinforce the hard-pressed BEF. They moved north to Flanders and were in action at Hooge in 1915. In 1916 they were again in action at Battle of Flers-Courcelette on The Somme, and again in The Battle of Morval and The Battle of Le Transloy, in 1917 they were in action at Hill 70 and Cambrai. In 1918 they saw action in the Battle of St Quentin, The Battles of the Lys, The Advance in Flanders, Battles of the Hindenburg Line and The Pursuit to the Selle. After the Armistice, 6th Division were selected to join the occupation force and they moved into Germany in mid December, being based at Bruehl by Christmas 1918.
2nd Oct 1914 Reliefs
23rd Oct 1914 In Support
24th Oct 1914 Enemy Attack
25th Oct 1914 Enemy Attacks
19th May 1915 Instruction
25th Jul 1916 Shelling
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Those known to have served with1st Battalion, Kings Shropshire Light Infantry during the Great War 1914-1918. - Bason Arthur Henry. Pte. (d.2nd May 1918)
- Butcher Henry Richard. Pte. (d.19th Oct 1916)
- Dew Henry Thomas. Pte. (d.11th Oct 1918)
- Ellis John. Pte. (d.12th Oct 1916)
- Gwilliam Charles Henry. Pte. (d.2nd Jan 1915)
- Howard James Charles. L/Cpl. (d.10th Nov 1914)
- Round George. Pte.
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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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Pte. George Round 1st Btn. King's Shropshire Light Infantry George Round served with the 1st Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry.
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Pte. Charles Henry Gwilliam 1st Btn. Kings Shropshire Light Infantry (d.2nd Jan 1915) Charles Gwilliam was killed in action 02/01/1915, aged 21. Commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing in Belgium. He was the son of Samuel & Emily Gwilliam, of Bishopstone, Bridge Sollars. Hereford, Herefordshire.
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Pte. John Ellis 1st Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry (d.12th Oct 1916) My great uncle enlisted in Bangor, North Wales into the 284 Denbigh Yeomanry. He had been working with horses on a farm in Anglesey, where his mother thought he was. It was not until she received the telegram to say that he had been killed did she know that he had enlisted. He died aged 22. As her first language was Welsh she had to take the telegram down to the village Post Office so that it could be read to her. Apparently her hair turned white overnight.
Her other son was serving with the Navy. Whilst on deck one night during an attack he heard a voice telling him that he would survive the War but his brother would not. He had no idea that his brother had enlisted. After the war he became a lay preacher.
At some time John changed his unit to the King's Shropshire Light Infantry 1st Batt. He was killed on 12 October 1916 during the Battle of Transloy attacking Zenith Trench. All this information came to light when I visited the Thiepval memorial. My sister and I were the first in the family to read his name on the Memorial. It is good to keep these names alive and to remember that these were real people.
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