Somerset Light Infantry - PoW Other Ranks 1914

This is an edited roll of men serving with the Somerset Light Infantry, who were captured by the enemy and became Prisoners of War on or before the 25th December 1914. Read more about this data source on my 1914 PoWs page.

This data has been transcribed from the following sources at the Imperial War Museum:

1. B.O.2 1/287. This is an eight-page handwritten letter and list of Somerset Light Infantry Prisoners of War submitted by the Somerset Prisoners of War Help Committee and dated 20th December 1918.
2. B.O.2 1/288. This is a 16-page handwritten letter and list of Somerset Light Infantry Prisoners of War submitted 6th January 1919. This list appears to pre-date B.O.2 1/287

My full transcription of this Somerset Light Infantry PoW collection (not reproduced here) also contains the following information against some or all of the names:

Date of capture
Home address
Next of kin
Next of kin's address
Notes

The longest serving man here was 4461 Sergeant Patrick Williams who joined the regiment in June 1896. The most recent recruit appears to have been the exquisitely named, Morley Archibald Hargett, whose number suggests he joined the regiment in May or June 1914.

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5456 Private F Allen, 6926 Private J Anderson, 6609 Private J Appleton, 6712 Private J Arthur 

6774 Private C Bailey, 7990 Private S Balbin, 7061 Private W Baldwin, 7741 Private Charles Barber
7990, Private S H Belbin, 9220 Bugler A Bell, 6029 Private T Biggs, 8981 Lance-Corporal C Bird, 7315 Private A Bowsher, 7043 Private J Branchflower, 9463 Private R Buller, 6950 Private C Bullock, 9694 Private H Burgess, 6739 Private Arthur Burt, 7279 Private H Burt, 8263 Lance-Corporal J Butler.

7167 Corporal W Care, 7964 Private F Chapman, 6637 Private W Chapman, 9203 Private W Clifford, 8609 Corporal F Cobb, 6975 Private W Coleman, 9109 Corporal R Collins, 7615 Private H Compton, 7667 Private W Coombs, 9583 Private S Cossins, 7581 Private W Cousins, 9418 Private F Cox, 7936 Lance-Corporal C Craven, 6296 Private W J Crockson, 9545 Lance-Corporal A Cross. 

7512 Corporal C H A Dally, 9523 Private E W Davidge, 7338 Corporal E Davies, 8198 Lance-Corporal J Davis, 8035 Private A Dawson, 9677 Private H Day, 7341 Private E Derrick, 7498 Private J Derrick, 7004 Private J Dredge, 7940 Private A Drew, 9636 Private S Driscoll, 9191 Lance-Corporal W Dunster, 6188 Private J Duxberry, 6700 Private S Dyer.

9637 Private A English, 9426 Private L Everall 

5878 Private W Fear, 7045 Private A Ford, 7464 Private J Ford, 7778 Sergeant W Ford, 7361 Private P Francis, 7576 Private T French, 8955 Private B Furzer 

.6453 Private P Garter, 7732 Private A Garland, 9727 Private G Garland, 7129 Private H Gillard, 6997 Corporal D Gillespie, 7196 Private D Golden, 8843 Lance-Corporal E Goodman, 7613 Private L Grant, 7108 Private A Gray, 7103 Private A Gray, 7344 Private C Greet, 7092 Private H Gunningham 

7307 Private C Hacker, 8735 Private D Hall, 7360 Private T Hampshire, 9641 Private A E Hanks, 7418 Private G Hann, 7505 Private W Harding, 9731 Private M Hargett, 9531 Private P Harris, 8409 Private L Hartridge, 9519 Private J Havard, 7795 Private H Hawkins, 9373 Lance-Corporal J Hawkins, 9641 Private A Hawks, 5324 Private G Hawthorne, 8604 Lance-Corporal E Hayward, 8346 Corporal A Heath, 7792 Private W Hill, 9482 Private S Hines, 7101 Private C Holder, 9675 Private J Hollick, 9547 Lance-Corporal E Hopkins, 7413 Private J Houlding, 8354 Private F Hucklesby, 7360 Private T Humphries 

9552 Private A James, 7823 Private W Jones, 7471 Private H Joyce. 

7289 Private R Kates, 7727 Private E Kerby, 9527 Private H King, 5446 Lance-Corporal W Knight. 

7824 Private J Langdon, 8059 Lance-Corporal J Lee, 9626 Private Thomas J Legg, 8429 Private F Lewis, 9684 Private F Linham, 7234 Private F Long, 4789 Sergeant H Lugg. 

9254 Private W Margetts, 9213 Private E J Masters, 7978 Private Frederick McCready, 7303 Private J Meadon, 8942 Private C Medhurst, 8343 Private F Mitchell, 6590 Private G Morgan, 9366 Lance-Corporal W E Morgan, 6653 Private J Mounce, 6689 Private T Murley. 

7563 Private H Nash. 

6999 Private W Oates, 7918 Private C O'Hare, 9150 Private J Oliver. 

7667 Private C Pafford, 7690 Private F Parsons, 9682 Private A Peppin, 9513 Private F Phillips, 6778 Private P Phillips, 9166 Private P A Phillips, 9327 Private W Phillips, 8294 Corporal A Phipps, 7489 Private Albert S Pitt, 9074 Lance-Corporal F Pocock, 9595 Private E Poole, 7835 Private George Popham, 9618 Private W Porter, 5968 Sgt Bugler J Prince, 8496 Private F Pugsley. 

9149 Private W Rainey, 9329 Private W Randell, 9726 Private T Reynolds, 6359 Private R Roberts, 8185 Sergeant E Rogers. 

9517 Lance-Corporal Harry Sarsfield, 7933 Private W J Sawyer, 9656 Private Samuel S Sims, 7274 Lance-Corporal T Smale, 8742 Private P Smart, 9553 Private J Smith, 7412 Private F Smith, 6960 Private H Soper, 9568 Lance-Corporal S Southwood, 7903 Lance-Corporal W Spencer, 8037 Private E Squires, 8328 Private J Stoker, 7478 Private C Stokes, 7620 Private F Stokes, 6956 Private Frank Stone, 9057 Private W Sullivan, 7369 Private S Summerhayes. 

9632 Private W Taylor, 5806 Sergeant W Tooze, 7843 Private V Tout, 9515 Private H Trask, 7227 Private J Tucker. 

5569 Private O Veale. 

7996 Private B Wallace, 7545 Private A Wathen, 9399 Private W H Webb, 6596 Private C Webber, 8498 Private C Weeks, 8962 Bugler J West, 7634 Private F Weston, 7534 Private T Whalley, 9481 Bugler A White, 7987 Lance-Corporal James S White, 8834 Private A Whitlock, 6661 Private James S Wilkins, 9125 Private C Williams, 4661 Sergeant Patrick Williams, 6681 Private G Willis, 7028 Corporal J Willis, 7421 Lance-Sergeant C Wills, 6703 Private G Wills, 9412 Private R Wiltshire, 8574 Private J Withers 

7570 Private F J Young

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