Unit / Ship / Establishment:


1st Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment

  Detail :

 1/1st Battalion August 1914 : at Newport. Part of Welsh Border Brigade in the Welsh Division. Moved on mobilisation to Pembroke Dock but by 10 August went to Oswestry and by the end of the month was at Northampton. Moved in December to Bury St Edmunds and in January 1915 to Cambridge. 13 February 1915 : left the Division and landed in France. Came under orders of 84th Brigade in 28th Division. 27 May 1915 : amalgamated with the 1/2nd and 1/3rd Bns at Vlamertinghe, after all suffered heavy casualties during Second Battle of Ypres. Resumed identity on 11 August 1915. 3 September 1915 : transferred as Pioneer Battalion to 46th (North Midland) Division.

  Notes:

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 Rank Initials Surname Died Lodge
 Lt. E.S. PHILLIPS  08-05-1915 Isca No.683
 Lt.Col. C.L. ROBINSON TD  08-05-1915 Isca No.683
Wear Valley No.1121
 Capt. J.C. LEWIS  20-11-1917 Narberth No.2001

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