Extracts from documents at Gorseinon Library
relating to Gorseinon/Loughor Residents who died
as a result of action in World War 1
Name and Rank |
Place of birth/residence |
Place and date
of death |
Regiment |
Cpl Daniel Bevan |
r. Gorseinon |
27-30/5/18
France/Flanders |
Durham Light Infantry formerly Welch Regiment |
Sapper Robert Vivian Bennet |
r. Gorseinon |
|
1st Welsh Field Coy. R.E. |
Pte Edward Bevan |
b.Penllergaer r. Gorseinon |
France/Flanders |
2Bttn Welsh Regiment
|
L/Cpl Richard Bevan |
b. Gowerton r. Gorseinon |
France/Flanders |
1/6th Bttn Welsh Regiment |
Rifleman Nicholas Brown |
b. Loughor
|
France/Flanders |
Kings Royal Rifle Corps. 16th Bttn. |
Pte James Byrne |
r. Gorseinon |
France/Flanders |
15th Bttn. Welsh Regiment |
Pte. Harold
Victor Coxon |
b. r. Loughor |
France/Flanders |
Royal Welsh Fusiliers 16th Bttn.
|
Pte. James
Ernest Davies |
b. Gorseinon r. Penygres, |
France/Flanders |
2/7th Bttn Royal Warwickshire Regt.
Formerly 4124 Welsh Regiment |
Pte. Leonard
Raymond Davies |
b. r. Loughor |
|
1/6th Bttn Welsh Regiment |
Pte. Llewellyn
Oswald Davies |
b. Gorseinon
|
|
10th Service Bttn. |
Pte. Daniel
John Edwards |
b. Loughor r. Loughor |
France/Flanders |
Machine Gun Corps Formerly 28815 |
Pte. Martin
Thomas Evans |
b. Coleford, Glos. r. Gorseinon |
France/Flanders |
2nd Batt. Welsh Regiment
|
Pte. William
Fletcher |
b. Gorseinon r. Gorseinon |
France/Flanders |
|
Sapper George
Henry Footman |
b. Pembroke r. Loughor |
France/Flanders |
Corps of Royal Engineers formerly 13921 10th
Devon Regt (253rd Tunnel Coy. R.E.) |
Pte. Thomas
Francis |
b. Loughor r. Loughor |
|
4/5th Battn. Welsh Regiment |
Pte. David
Griffiths |
b. Loughor
|
|
24th Battn. Welsh Regiment |
Sgt. Gwilym Harris |
b. Llwynhendy, Llanelly r. Loughor |
France/Flanders |
9th Battn. Welsh Regiment |
L/Cpl Charles William Hart |
b. Hampstead r. Gorseinon |
France/Flanders |
5th Battn. |
Pte. George Hooper |
b. Gorseinon r. Gorseinon |
France/Flanders |
1/16th Battn. Welsh Regiment |
L/Cpl. Daniel Hopkins |
b. Gorseinon |
|
8th Bttn. Northumberland Fusiliers |
Pte. Ivor Hughes |
b. Loughor |
France/Flanders |
9th Bttn Royal Welsh Fusiliers |
Pte. Amos Humphreys |
b. Gowerton r. Gorseinon |
|
7th Bttn Oxfordshire &
Buckinghamshire Light Infantry |
Pte. Thomas Lewis Humphreys |
b. Devonport r. Loughor |
France/Flanders |
13th Bttn. Welsh Regiment |
Pte. John Emlyn James |
b. Gorseinon r. Gorseinon |
|
1/5th Bttn. Welsh Regiment |
Gunner David Jenkins |
b. Loughor r. Gorseinon |
France/Flanders |
Royal Horse Artillery & Royal Field Artillery |
Pte. Gwynfor Jenkins |
b. Gorseinon r. Gorseinon |
France/Flanders |
9th Bttn. Welsh Regiment |
Pte. Edward Daniel John |
b. r. Loughor |
|
1st Battn. Welsh Regiment |
Pte. Mansel John |
b. Loughor r. |
France/Flanders |
18th Bttn. Welsh Regiment formerly 2339
Glamorgan Yeomanry |
Sgt. Edward Jones |
b. Merthyr r. Gorseinon |
France/Flanders |
1/16th Bttn Welsh Regiment |
Sgt. Ernest Jones |
b. Gorseinon r. Gorseinon |
France/Flanders |
1/16th Bttn. Welsh Regiment |
Pte. Gomer Jones |
b. Loughor r. Gorseinon |
France/Flanders |
10th Bttn Royal Fusiliers (City of
|
Pte. James Thomas Jones |
b. Loughor r. Loughor |
France/Flanders |
2nd Battn. Welsh Regiment |
Pte. Joseph Jones |
r. Loughor |
France/Flanders |
1/1th Bttn. Welsh Regiment |
Pte. William John Jones |
b. Llangyfelach r. Gorseinon |
France/Flanders |
14th Bttn. Welsh Regiment |
Pte. Harry Lewis |
b. Gorseinon |
France/Flanders |
17th Bttn. Worcestershire Regt. Formerly
1635 The Welch Regiment |
Rifleman Trevor Lloyd |
b. Loughor r. Gowerton |
France/Flanders |
Kings Royal Rifle Corps. |
Pte. Thomas Measey |
b. Oakley, Bucks. r. Gorseinon |
|
Infantry Machine Gun Corps formerly 21326
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Infantry |
Pte. Garnel Lemuel Morgan |
b. Gorseinon |
France/Flanders |
9th Bttn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers |
Pte. Thomas John Morgan |
b. Gorseinon |
France/Flanders |
1/16th Bttn. Welsh Regiment |
Pte. Ernest Murphy |
b. Loughor r. Loughor |
France/Flanders |
15th Bttn. Welsh Regiment
|
Pte. Thomas Richard Nuttall |
b. Glasbury r. Gorseinon |
France/Flanders |
Royal Army Service Corps. |
Pte. George Payne |
b. Llanelly r. Gorseinon |
France/Flanders |
8th Bttn. Buffs (East Kent Regiment) |
Pte. William Peploe |
b. r. Penyrheol |
France/Flanders |
1st Bttn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers |
Pte. William Pitts |
r. Loughor |
France/Flanders |
14th Bttn. Welsh Regiment |
Pte. John Rees |
b. Taylorstown r. Penyrheol |
France/Flanders |
2nd Battn. Welsh Regiment |
L/Sgt. John Emlyn Rees |
b. Loughor r. Loughor |
France/Flanders |
1/16th Bttn. Welsh Regiment |
Pte. Lewis Thomas Rees |
b. Loughor |
France/Flanders |
9th Bttn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers |
Pte. David Richards |
b. Loughor r. Loughor |
France/Flanders |
1st Battn. Welsh Regiment |
Pte. David John Roberts |
r. Gorseinon |
France/Flanders |
1/16th Bttn. Welsh Regiment |
Pte. Uriel Roberts |
b. Gorseinon r. Brynamman |
France/Flanders |
2nd Battn. Welsh Regiment |
Pte. Thomas Rogers |
b. Mold r. Loughor |
France/Flanders |
10th Bttn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers |
Pte. Donald Leslie Slade |
b. r. Gorseinon |
France/Flanders |
2nd Battn. Welsh Regiment |
L/Cpl. Fred Slater |
b. r. Gorseinon |
France/Flanders |
5th Bttn. Dorsetshire Regiment formerly
12494 Somerset Light Infantry |
Pte. Ernest Strode |
b. Caldicott r. Loughor |
France/Flanders |
10th Bttn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers |
Pte. Thomas Gwynfor Thomas |
b. Penyrheol r. Gorseinon |
|
15th Battn. Welsh Regiment |
Pte. Joseph Arthur Vaughan |
b. Llanelly r. Loughor |
France/Flanders |
1/16th Bttn. Welsh Regiment |
Pte.Benjamin Williams |
b. Llanstephan r. Gorseinon |
France/Flanders |
2nd Battn. Welsh Regiment |
Pte. Brynmor Williams |
b. Loughor |
France/Flanders |
2nd Battn. |
Pte. Wyndham Williams |
b. Gorseinon |
France/Flanders |
2nd Battn. Welsh Regiment |