Regiment: South Wales Borderers 1st Battalion

The Regiment raised XX Battalions and was awarded 64 Battle Honours, 6 Victoria Crosses losing 5,600 during the course of the war.

1st Battalion
04.08.1914 Stationed at Bordon as part of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Division.
13.08.1914 Mobilised for war and landed at Havre and engaged in various actions on the Western Front including;
1914
The Battle of Mons and the subsequent retreat, The Battle of the Marne, The Battle of the Aisne, First Battle of Ypres.
1915
Winter Operations 1914-15, The Battle of Aubers, The Battle of Loos.
1916
The Battle of Albert, The Battle of Bazentin, The Battle of Pozieres, The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, The Battle of Morval.
1917
The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line, The Second Battle of Passchendaele.
1918
The Battle of Estaires, The Battle of Hazebrouck, The Battle of Bethune, The Battle of Drocourt-Queant, The Battle of Epehy, The Battle of the St Quentin Canal, The Battle of Beaurevoir, The Battle of the Selle, The Battle of the Sambre.
11.11.1918 Ended the war at Fresnoy le Grand north of Le Quesnoy, France.

Last Name
Address
Narrative
Dickinson, Herbert
Private
South Wales Borderers 1st Battalion
16 Alexandra Avenue, Arundel Street, Hull
       
Died on
26/09/1914
       
Aged
15
Born Keighley, 25/10/1899. Son of Mary Ann Dickinson, of 16, Alexandra Avenue, Arundel Street, Hull (War Pension address). He enlisted in Leeds. Served in the 1st South Wales Borderers. Killed in action, on 26/09/1914 aged 15. His army effects were left to his sister, Annie Barnett.
Morgan, Christmas
Sergeant
South Wales Borderers 1st Battalion
7, MONTROSE AVENUE, SEYMOUR STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
       
Area
Seymour Street
       
Died on
19/02/1916
       
Aged
32
BORN CARDIFF 1884. HIS PARENTS LIVED IN HULL AT 7, MONTROSE AVENUE, SEYMOUR STREET, HULL. A COAL MINER. HE ENLISTED SHREWSBURY. SERVED WITH THE 1ST SOUTH WALES BORDERERS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 19/02/1916, AGED 32. COMMEMORATED ON THE ARRAS MEMORIAL, FRANCE. HIS WIFE ADA MATILDA ROSE KATE, LIVED AT 5 JOHN STREET. WATTON, BRECON.