WORLD WAR I

Memorial Page

To the glory of God and in grateful memory of the men from this parish and of all who nobly gave their lives for justice and liberty in the Great War 1914-1918

Bowen, John

Lance Sergeant 5th Battalion South Wales Borderers  No 5/18302

Who died on Tuesday 14th March 1916 aged 20, official cemetery Pont-Du-Hem Military Cemetery La Gorgue Nord France

Channon,James

Sergeant 7th Battalion South Lancashire Regiment No 13130

Who died on Thursday 20th July 1916 aged 25, official cemetery Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France

Campbell, George Spencer

Lance Corporal  6th Coy. Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) No 64977

Who Died on Saturday 21st April 1917 aged 31, official cemetery Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. There is a private memorial for him also at Saint Matthew's

Davies, Ebenezer

Corporal 12th Battalion Rifle Brigade No S/3068

Who died on Saturday 7th October 1916 aged 23, official cemetery Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. There is a private memorial for him also at Saint Matthew's

Davies, Jenkin

Private 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment No IO/93

Who died on Thursday 21st March 1918, no age given, official cemetery Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

Evans, Albert Bowen

Private 15th Battalion London Regiment (prince of Wales' Own Civil Service Rifles) No 2259.

Who died on Dec 10th 1915 aged 25 (official records indicate he died on Wednesday 22nd December 1915), official cemetery Bethune Town Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. There is also a private memorial for him at Saint Matthew's

Evans, David Goodwin

Corporal 8th Battalion Welsh Regiment No 27352

Died on Sunday 8th August 1915, no age given, official cemetery Helles Memorial, Turkey. There is also a private memorial to him at Saint Matthew's

Edwards, Isaiah George

Private Royal Army Medical Corps No 71441

Who died on Thursday 30 December 1915, no age given, official cemetery Saint Matthew's Dyffryn.

Harding, Emlyn Joseph

Sergeant 9th Battalion Welsh Regiment No 15923

Who died on Thursday 19th July 1917, aged 23, official cemetery Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Lleper, West Vlaanderen, Belgium

Lewis, Alfred

Lance Corporal 1st Battalion Welsh Guards No 232

Who died on Monday 27th September 1915, aged 19, official cemetery Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. There is also a private memorial at Saint Matthew's. This indicates his age to be 21.

Mattey, Cuthbert

Private 2nd Battalion South Wales Borderers No 30346

Who died Saturday 8th December 1917, no age give, Official cemetery Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France.

Powell, Thomas

Captain Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

Who died on Monday 1 July 1918, no age given, official cemetery Grangegorman Military Cemetery, County Dublin, Ireland. ( Uncertain if this is the right person, but it is the only entry in official records to match the name on the memorial)

Thomas, Hopkin Joseph

Lance Corporal 1st/5th Battalion Welsh Regiment No 241808

Who died on Sunday 22nd September 1918, aged 27, official cemetery Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel.

Thompson, Henry

Rifleman 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade No S/13469

Who died on Monday 22nd April 1918, no age given, official cemetery Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

R.I.P

"Live Ye for Britain, We for Britain Died"