Second Lieutenant Rotheram Bagshawe Cecil

Army Number: n/a

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born in Southwold, Suffolk. Son of Rotheram and Henrietta Jervis Cecil, of Manor House, Dronfield, Derbyshire. He was educated at Rottingdean School and Parkhouse School, Tunbridge, Kent. He was gazetted Second Lieutenant 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 21st July 1915. He went to France on 10th January 1916 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 21, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated : Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Second Lieutenant Rotheram Bagshawe Cecil is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. John the Baptist Church Stained Glass Window (Private Memorial), Dronfield, Derbyshire.

His brother Private Frederick Rotherham Cecil, 28th Battalion London Regiment (Artists Rifles), also fell in the Great War.