Amongst the first Officers and N.C.O. s of the newly established Battalion were:-

• Lieut.-Colonel John Morton Clayton VD – Commanding (From 14th October 1914)
• Major Henry Welch (from Depot on 2nd December 1914)
• Major CH Heathcote – O/C A Company (from 2nd December)
• Captain and Adjutant VHE Langford (from Territorial Force Reserve)
• Captain F Stones
• Captain William Ernest Victor Tomkins (from Territorial Force Reserve)
• Captain Houghton Ealdred Okeover (promoted Captain on 16th December)
• Captain EB Johnson
• Captain WBM Jackson (promoted Captain on 4th December)
• Captain The Revd. HWH Ainsworth (attached 1st September 1915)
• Captain W Duncan RAMC (Medical Officer)
• Lieutenant John Marsden Chandler (Commissioned 15th August 1914)
• Lieutenant Houghton Ealdred Okeover (promoted Captain on 16th December)
• Lieutenant WT Marshall
• Lieutenant JM Chandler
• 2/Lieutenant GJ Edmunds
• 2/Lt JS Sampson
• 2/Lt CLO O’Ferrall
• 2/Lt GKK Maughan
• 2/Lt I Grimshaw
• 2/Lt JL Precival
• 2/Lt B Wallis
• 2/Lt CA Brown
• 2/Lt FG Gardiner
• 2/Lt RW Cash
• 2/Lt M Jellies
• 2/Lt CP Brown
• 2/Lieutenant JH Marsden (appointed Battalion Transport Officer on 5th February 1915)
• 2/Lieutenant Harry Davidson Orr (Commissioned 19th August 1914)
• 2/Lieutenant H Douglas
• 2/Lieutenant Edgar Stanley Woods – A Coy
• 2/Lieutentant KH Bond (appointed assistant Transport Officer 6th September 1915)
• Quatermaster-Sergt. WJ Roberts (promoted to Quatermaster and Hon Lieut.)
• Colour Sergt.-Instructor E Pullen (to Base depot on 22nd February 1915)
• Colour Sergt.-Instructor T Cumming (arrived from 1/6th Battn on 2nd March 1915)
• Colour Sergt. WJ Keery (who was appointed Reg.-Sergt. Major)