The origins of the Somerset Light Infantry date back to the late 1600s, when it was one of nine regiments raised by James II in response to the Monmouth Rebellion.
During the First World War, a total of eighteen battalions were raised by the regiment, and served on the Western Front, Mesopotamia and Palestine.
Commonwealth War Graves
Allen, Private George (d1917, aged 30, illness)
Alston, Private Jack (d1916, aged 51, accident/injury)
Baber, Colour Sergeant Henry (d1915, aged 56, cause unknown)
Badman, Private William (d1917, aged 29, illness)
Bailey, Company Sergeant Major Walter (d1919, aged 36, illness)
Baily, Private Charles (d1919, aged 40, cause of death unknown)
Baker, Private Ernest (d1915, aged 32, illness)
Barber, Private Edwin (d1921, aged 56, illness)
Bartelt, Captain Fritz (d1916, aged 28, illness)
Bartin, Private William (d1920, aged 27, illness)
Bellringer, Private Albert (d1918, aged 30, illness)
Besley, Private Thomas (d1917, aged 17, drowned)
Biddiscombe, Private Sidney (d1915, aged 20, illness)
Blackmore, Private Alfred (d1918, aged 49, suicide)
Blackmore, Private Charles (d1917, aged 21, illness)
Browning, Private Edward (d1919, aged 21, illness)
Budd, Private Sidney (d1917, aged 29, illness)
Bundy, Private Frederick (d1920, aged 16, accident)
Burke, Lance Corporal Albert (d1921, aged 23, suicide)
Carter, Private Oliver (d1918, aged 57, illness)
Cassidy, Company Sergeant Major Charles (d1916, aged 60, illness)
Cawley, Private Henry (d1916, aged 45, illness)
Chambers, Serjeant John (d1915, aged 68, illness)
Chapman, Private Walter (d1919, aged 21, cause of death unknown)
Chard, Private Arthur (d1918, aged 25, illness)
China, Private Frederick (d1917, aged 32, died of wounds)
Cook, Private Albert (d1915, aged 28, wounded in action)
Cornall, Private Thomas (d1919, aged 40, cause of death unknown)
Cox, Private Edgar (d1916, aged 19, wounded in action)
Creese, Private Alfred (d1919, aged 29, cause of death unknown)
Crook, Private Frederick (d1918, aged 22, illness)
Currey, Lance Corporal Joscelin (d1915, aged 18, illness)
Davis, Sergeant Major Frederick (d1917, aged 42, cause unknown)
Dench, Lance Corporal Reginald (d1917, aged 32, illness)
Drew, Private Gilbert (d1917, aged 19, illness)
Dunster, Corporal William (d1918, aged 23, wounded in action)
Dyer, Private John (d1915, aged 51, cause of death unknown)
Ferris, Sergeant Albert (d1916, aged 32, wounded in action)
Flint, Serjeant Frederick (d1918, aged 45, illness)
Flower, Serjeant Charles (d1916, aged 37, illness)
Foster, Private Edward (d1914, aged 27, illness)
Fox, Serjeant Andrew (d1915, aged 43, illness)
Francis, Private Wilfred (d1919, aged 28, cause of death unknown)
Gale, Private Albert (d1918, aged 35, illness)
Haines, Private William (d1916, aged 66, illness)
Harris, Second Lieutenant Cecil (d1915, aged 24, illness)
Harris, Lance Corporal John (d1917, aged 38, wounded in action)
Hasley, Private William (d1917, aged 19, illness)
Hawkins, Private Edwin (d1915, aged 38, illness)
Hibbs, Private Charles (d1917, aged 21, suicide)
Hill, Private Francis (d1916, aged 48, accident)
Hill, Private Harold (d1916, aged 19, illness)
Hobbs, Private Fred (d1920, aged 29, cause of death unknown)
Hookway, Private John (d1919, aged 43, illness)
Horwood, Private Edward (d1917, aged 52, cause unknown)
Hounsell, Private Henry (d1917, aged 25, illness)
House, Private William (d1916, aged 28, cause of death unknown)
Humphrys, Private William (d1917, aged 36, cause unknown)
Jones, Sergeant Arthur (d1919, aged 44, illness)
Jury, Private Frederick (d1919, aged 38, cause of death unknown)
King, Lance Corporal Alfred (d1916, aged 19, died of wounds)
King, Private Alfred (d1921, aged 48, cause unknown)
Lane, Private Arthur (d1914, aged 19, illness)
Lawrence, Private Harry (d1918, aged 22, wounded in action)
Lee, Private Arthur (d1914, aged 25, illness)
Lewis, Private Ernest (d1915, aged 20, wounded in action)
Llewellyn, Lieutenant Colonel Arthur (d1920, aged 46, illness)
Maidment, Private Harry (d1915, aged 25, wounded in action)
Major, Private Frederick (d1915, aged 33, cause of death unknown)
Millard, Private Herbert (d1921, aged 24, cause of death unknown)
Newman, Private Stanley (d1917, aged 27, cause unknown)
Oborne, Serjeant Robert (1920, aged 39, wounded in action)
Palmer, Private Montague (d1919, aged 32, wounded in action)
Parsons, Private Oliver (d1918, aged 21, wounded in action)
Parsons, Private Wallace (d1920, aged 26, illness)
Patch, Private Leonard (d1915, aged 22, illness)
Pepper, Second Lieutenant Cedric (d1915, aged 20, accidental death)
Perkins, Private Arthur (d1918, aged 35, cause of death unknown)
Plympton, Private James (d1916, aged 41, illness)
Pole, Private John (d1914, aged 17, illness)
Pow, Private Albert (d1917, aged 30, illness)
Prescott, Private Francis (d1915, aged 21, cause of death unknown)
Prince, Private Percy (d1918, aged 28, cause of death unknown)
Prout, Serjeant Richard (d1920, aged 24, accidental death)
Rapson, Lance Serjeant Frederick (d1917, aged 27, illness)
Rattle, Private Edgar (d1918, aged 23, illness)
Rawle, Private William (d1921, aged 27, illness)
Roberts, Private Samuel (d1914, aged 39, illness)
Rochfort-Davies, Second Lieutenant Wallis (d1916, aged 20, overdose)
Roman, Private Walter (d1916, aged 36, wounded in action)
Rowsell, Private Cyril (d1918, aged 21, wounded in action)
Salter, Private Thomas (d1917, aged 37, illness)
Sams, Private Edward (d1916, age and cause of death unknown)
Samways, Private Charles (d1918, aged 25, illness)
Sheppard, Private John (d1917, aged 27, died of wounds)
Sibley, Private Joseph (d1918, aged 19, wounded in action)
Singer, Private Tom (d1917, aged 40, illness)
Slade, Private Theodore (d1916, aged 31, illness)
Smith, Sergeant Joseph (d1916, aged 36, wounded in action)
Snook, Corporal Herbert (d1919, aged 24, illness)
Solomon, Private William (d1918, aged 27, illness)
Southwood, Lance Corporal Stanley (d1919, aged 23, illness)
Sowden, Lance Corporal Alfred (d1919, aged 35, illness)
Sparey, Private Charles (d1918, aged 28, wounded in action)
Sparrow, Private Albert (d1918, aged 37, illness)
Stelling, Serjeant Ernest (d1916, aged 38, illness)
Stent, Private Bertie (d1916, aged 27, illness)
Stone, Private Frank (d1919, aged 20, cause of death unknown)
Stoyle, Private Alfred (d1915, aged 25, cause unknown)
Sweet, Private Lawrence (d1920, aged 25, illness)
Symons, Private George (d1918, aged 23, wounded in action)
Talbot, Private William (d1916, aged 47, illness)
Taylor, Private Albert (d1915, aged 27, wounded in action)
Taylor, Private George (d1916, aged 30, illness)
Taylor, Private Thomas (d1915, aged 29, illness)
Tottle, Corporal Walter (d1919, aged 26, illness)
Townsend, Private Albert (d1914, aged 23, illness)
Tozer, Private William (d1919, aged 36, illness)
Troake, Private Samuel (d1918, aged 28, wounded in action)
Tucker, Private Clarence (d1918, aged 22, cause of death unknown)
Tucker, Private George (d1917, aged 33, cause unknown)
Tudball, Private Arthur (d1920, aged 26, illness)
Turner, Private Arthur (d1917, aged 20, illness)
Underhill, Private Henry (d1914, aged 54, illness)
Vagg, Private Wilfrid (d1918, aged 18, illness)
Vickery, Private Joseph (d1915, aged 50, illness)
Viles, Private Joseph (d1914, aged 27, cause of death unknown)
Walsh, Colonel Henry (d1918, aged 65, cause of death unknown)
Warren, Private Sidney (d1915, aged 20, illness)
Warren, Private Sidney (d1918, aged 28, illness)
Watts, Private George (d1919, aged 27, illness)
Weakley, Private Henry (d1921, aged 36, illness)
Webber, Private Henry (d1916, aged 27, died of wounds)
Welch, Corporal John (d1916, aged 50, wounded in action)
Wellman, Private Arthur (d1917, aged 25, illness)
West, Private Jeremiah (d1919, aged 27, illness)
Whaites, Private William (d1916, aged 37, illness)
Willcox, Sergeant Major Charles (d1919, aged 26, injury)
Wimble, Regt. Serjeant Major John (d1915, aged 45, illness)
Woodbury, Private William (d1916, aged 17, wounded in action)
Death and Service 