The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has 4,085 recorded WW1 deaths for the Dorsetshire Regiment.
A Soldier of the Great War. Dorsetshire Regiment.
'Known Unto God'.
Lebucquiere Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas-de-Calais, France.
KESTELL-CORNISH, (MC&Bar, MiDx3). Robert Vaughan. Captain. Dorsetshire Regiment, Attached :- Staff, Divisional Head Quarters. Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. Died 17-06-1918 of wounds received on 18-03-1918 Son of Vaughan Kestell Kestell-Cornish & Mrs. Kestell-Cornish (nee Keble) late of the British Consulate, Brest, France.Remembered on the Fairford war memorial, Gloucestershire. Stone Inscription :- "Because Of You We Will Be Glad And Gay Remembering You We Will Be Brave And Strong".
Military Cross & Bar.
Mentioned in Dispatches x 3.
WILLES, William Frances George. Captain. Dorsetshire Regiment, Commanding :- 11th Division Cyclist Company, Army Cyclist Corps. Avesnes-le-Compte Communal Cemetery Extension, Pas-de-Calais, France. 19-07-1916. Age 32. Husband of Irene R. Willes of "Fiveways" Camberley, Surrey, UK.