1st Battalion
Lieutenant-Colonel George Brenton Laurie 04/08/1914 to 12/03/1915 Killed in action/Died of wounds
Lieutenant-Colonel Osbert Clinton Baker 12/03/1915 to 09/05/1915 Killed in action/Died of wounds
Major Arthur Drummond Nairne Merriman 17/05/1915 to 17/06/1915 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Algernon Craigie Daunt 17/06/1915 to 26/02/1916 Invalided
Major E.C. Mayne 26/02/1916 to 14/04/1916 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Guy Henry Sawyer 14/04/1916 to 18/06/1916 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Carroll Macnamara 18/06/1916 to 01/07/1916 Killed in action/Died of wounds
Lieutenant-Colonel Evan Colclough Lloyd 20/07/1916 to 28/04/1917 Transferred to another active battalion
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Algernon Craigie Daunt 28/04/1917 to 08/07/1917 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Daniel Reid 08/07/1917 to 31/07/1917 Killed in action/Died of wounds
Captain Thomas H Ivey 31/07/1917 to 09/08/1918 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Heffernan William Denis McCarthy-O'Leary 09/08/1917 to 16/08/1917 Wounded
Major Thomas H Ivey 16/08/1917 to 01/09/1917 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel John Henley Morrison Kirkwood 01/09/1917 to 09/10/1917 Invalided
Major Thomas H Ivey 09/10/1917 to 29/12/1917 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Heffernan William Denis McCarthy-O'Leary 29/12/1917 to 27/03/1918 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel John Patrick Hunt 28/03/1918 to 16/08/1918 Temporary absence
Lieutenant-Colonel James Alan Mulholland 16/08/1918 to 11/09/1918 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel John Patrick Hunt 11/09/1918 to 11/11/1918 Remained CO
Lieutenant-Colonel George Brenton Laurie
killed in action at Neuve Chapelle, 11 March 1915
2nd Battalion
Lieutenant-Colonel Wilkinson Dent Bird 04/08/1914 to 16/09/1914 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Algernon Craigie Daunt 16/09/1914 to 24/10/1914 Replaced
Captain Charles Stewart Dixon 24/10/1914 to 25/11/1914 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel James William Alston 25/11/1914 to 15/04/1915 Killed in action/Died of wounds
Captain Cecil Morgan Ley Becher 15/04/1915 to 28/04/1915 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Vavasour Weir 28/04/1915 to 30/05/1915 Replaced
Major Edmund Merrit Morris 01/06/1915 to 23/06/1915 Transferred to another active battalion
Lieutenant-Colonel George Alexander Weir 24/06/1915 to 11/10/1915 Promoted
Lieutenant-Colonel Louis Charles Sprague 11/10/1915 to 25/11/1916 Transferred to another active battalion
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Russell Goodman 25/11/1916 to 07/01/1918 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Godfrey Ashley Cox 07/01/1918 to 10/01/1918 Temporary absence
Major Richard de Ras Rose 10/01/1918 to 21/03/1918 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Godfrey Ashley Cox 28/03/1918 to 31/08/1918 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel John Henry Bridcutt 31/08/1918 to 30/09/1918 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Morgan Ley Becher 06/10/1918 to 11/11/1918 Remained CO
3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion
Lieutenant-Colonel William Edward Carson McCammond 04/08/1914 to 11/11/1918 Remained CO
4th (Extra Reserve) Battalion
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Findlay 04/08/1914 to 27/04/1915 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Millar Gilliland McFerran 27/04/1915 to 11/11/1918 Remained CO
5th (Extra Reserve) Battalion
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Valentine Plaisted McCammon 04/08/1914 to 01/12/1915 Transferred to another active battalion
Lieutenant-Colonel George Kilmer Swettenham 01/12/1915 to 11/11/1918 Remained CO
6th (Service) Battalion
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Chaloner Bradford 19/08/1914 to 07/08/1915 Wounded
Captain Richard de Ras Rose 08/08/1915 to 03/10/1915 Replaced
Captain Robert Otway Mansergh 03/10/1915 to 28/11/1915 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Morgan Ley Becher 28/11/1915 to 03/08/1916 Temporary absence
Lieutenant-Colonel Fergus Reginald Winford Graham 04/08/1916 to 09/09/1916 Wounded
Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Morgan Ley Becher 09/09/1916 to 06/10/1917 Temporary absence
Lieutenant-Colonel Fergus Reginald Winford Graham 07/10/1917 to 11/10/1917 Wounded
Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Morgan Ley Becher 11/10/1917 to 15/05/1918 Remained CO
7th (Service) Battalion (absorbed by 2nd Btn 11/1917)*
Lieutenant-Colonel George Sumner Ormerod 06/09/1914 to 30/09/1914 Transferred to another active battalion
Lieutenant-Colonel Desmond Lambert Hartley 21/10/1914 to 28/01/1916 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Sidney Goodall Francis 28/01/1916 to 18/10/1917 Promoted
Major Ernest Hope Carson 18/10/1917 to 14/11/1917 Remained CO
8th (Service) Battalion (into 8/9th)*
Colonel Hugh Thomas Lyle 29/09/1914 to 19/09/1915 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Pierce Thomas Chute 19/09/1915 to 29/12/1915 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Raymond Theodore Pelly 30/12/1915 to ?/07/1916 Transferred to another active battalion
Major J.D. Morrough to ?/07/1916 to 03/08/1916 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Claud George Cole-Hamilton 03/08/1916 to 29/08/1917 Transferred to another active battalion
9th (Service) Battalion (into 8/9th)*
Lieutenant-Colonel George Sumner Ormerod 30/09/1914 to 27/03/1916 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Frank Percy Crozier 28/03/1916 to 28/11/1916 Promoted
Lieutenant-Colonel Philip James Woods 28/11/1916 to 02/08/1917 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Cecil Elwes 04/08/1917 to 07/02/1918 Remained CO
10th (Service) Battalion (disbanded 02/1918)*
Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Clifford Bernard 14/10/1914 to 01/07/1916 Killed in action/Died of wounds
Major William Richard Goodwin 01/07/1916 to 04/07/1916 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Norman George Burnand 04/07/1916 to 20/02/1918 Remained CO
11th (Service) Battalion (into 11th/13th and disbanded 02/1918)*
Lieutenant-Colonel Hercules Arthur Pakenham 14/09/1914 to ?/08/1916 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Laurence Kington-Blair-Oliphant ?/08/1916 to 13/02/1918 Remained CO
Lieutenant Colonel Philip Laurence Kington-Blair-Oliphant
12th (Service) Battalion*
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Chaine Alexander McCalmont 15/09/1914 to 01/11/1915 Transferred to another active battalion
Lieutenant-Colonel George Bull 01/11/1915 to 03/12/1916 Promoted
Lieutenant-Colonel William Richard Goodwin 03/12/1916 to 11/03/1918 Invalided
Major A.H. Hall 11/03/1918 to 06/04/1918 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel George Thomson 06/04/1918 to 20/06/1918 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel William Richard Goodwin 20/06/1918 to 11/11/1918 Remained CO
13th (Service) Battalion (into 11th/13th and disbanded 02/1918)*
Lieutenant-Colonel William Henry Savage 21/09/1914 to 15/11/1916 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert David Percival Maxwell 16/11/1916 to 31/08/1917 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Holt Waring 31/08/1917 to 13/11/1917 Replaced
14th (Service) Battalion*
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Peel Dawson Spencer Chichester 12/09/1914 to 10/05/1916 Replaced
Major Harold Cecil Jones Biss 10/05/1916 to 06/12/1915 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Cecil Charles Gough Ashton 07/12/1915 to 01/01/1916 Transferred to another active battalion
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Peel Dawson Spencer Chichester 01/01/1916 to 02/03/1916 Replaced
Major Francis Osborne Bowen 02/03/1916 to 05/04/1916 Replaced
Major Evan Henry Llewellyn 05/04/1916 to 03/05/1916 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Osborne Bowen 03/05/1916 to 22/10/1916 Invalided
Major James McKee 22/10/1916 to 08/11/1916 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Owen Fitzstephen Lloyd 08/11/1916 to 01/02/1917 Invalided
Major Odo Richard Vivian 10/02/1917 to 04/03/1917 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel George Ronald Hamilton Cheape 04/03/1917 to 19/08/1917 Promoted
Lieutenant-Colonel Odo Richard Vivian 19/08/1917 to 18/02/1918 Remained CO
15th (Service) Battalion*
Lieutenant-Colonel George Higginson Ford-Hutchinson 08/10/1914 to 01/12/1915 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Lewis Rawson Gordon 01/12/1915 to ?/07/1917 Replaced
Major William Alexander Montgomery ?/07/1917 to 09/09/1917 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Claud George Cole-Hamilton 09/09/1917 to ?/01/1918 Replaced
Major William Alexander Montgomery ?/01/1918 to 31/01/1918 Replaced
Major Edward Francis Lepper 01/03/1918 to ?03/1918
Captain Percy Maurice Miller 21/03/1918 to 02/04/1918 Replaced
Major John Dunwoody Martin McCallum 02/04/1918 to 11/04/1918 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert David Percival Maxwell 11/04/1918 to 25/04/1918 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert Caesar Smythe 25/04/1918 to 06/09/1918 Wounded
Major Ernest Richard Hallam May 06/09/1918 to 24/09/1918 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Bryan John Jones 24/09/1918 to 20/10/1918 Killed in action
Major John Dunwoody Martin McCallum 20/10/1918 to 24/10/1918 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Walter McClellan Crosbie 24/10/1918 to 11/11/1918 Remained CO
16th (Service - Pioneer) Battalion
Lieutenant-Colonel John Leader 20/10/1914 to 08/09/1916 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel Cyril Frankland Meares 08/09/1916 to 10/04/1918 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel William James Allen 10/04/1918 to 11/11/1918 Remained CO
17th (Reserve) Battalion
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert H Wallace 16/01/1915 to 09/11/1915 Transferred to another active battalion
Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Thomas Lyle 12/11/1915 to 09/05/1918 Remained CO
18th (Reserve) Battalion
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Gordon Sharman-Crawford 15/04/1915 to 09/05/1918 Remained CO
19th (Reserve) Battalion
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert H Wallace 09/11/1915 to 12/01/1918 Replaced
Lieutenant-Colonel William Charles Hall 13/01/1918 to 09/05/1918 Replaced
20th (Reserve) Battalion
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Valentine Plaisted McCammon 01/12/1915 to 02/04/1917 Killed in action/Died of wounds
Lieutenant-Colonel Stewart Ward William Blacker 18/04/1917 to 09/05/1918 Remained CO
1st Garrison Battalion
Colonel Attiwell Henry Wood 11/12/1915 to 11/11/1918 Remained CO
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