Great War> Allied Army

This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to accept cookies. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation.     Site Home     Great War Home     Search     Add Stories & Photos     Library     Help & FAQs  Features     Allied Army     Day by Day     RFC & RAF     Prisoners of War     War at Sea     Training for War     The Battles     Those Who Served     Hospitals     Civilian Service     Women at War     The War Effort     Central Powers Army     Central Powers Navy     Imperial Air Service     Library     World War Two  Submissions     Add Stories & Photos     Time Capsule  Information     Help & FAQs     Glossary     Volunteering     News     Events     Contact us     Great War Books     About Advertisements World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment

6th (Glamorgan) Battalion, Welch Regiment    6th (Glamorgan) Battalion Welch Regiment were a unit of the Territorial Force with their HQ in Richardson Steeet, Swansea, next to the Vetch football ground. B, C and D Coy's were based in Swansea, and there were Drill Halls at 220 Oxford Street and in Strathen Place. E Coy had their Drill Hall at 128 Neath Road, Hafod. They proceeded to France on the 29th of October 1914, landing at Le Havre and took up a role working in the Lines of Communication. On the 5th of July 1915 they joined 84th Brigade, 28th Division and on the 23rd of October transferred to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division. On the 15th of May 1916 the 1/6th became a Pioneer Battalion to 1st Division and saw action in the Battles of the Somme. In 1917 they saw action in The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line and the Third Battle of Ypres. In 1918 the Battles of the Lys, the Second Battles of Arras, the Battles of the Hindenburg Line, The Battle of the Selle and The Battle of the Sambre, in which the Division fought the Passage of the Sambre-Oise Canal. At the Armistice, 1st Division was selected to advance into Germany and formed part of the Occupation Force at Bonn. 24th of May 1915 Zeppelin under observation 28th Jul 1915 Reliefs 2nd Aug 1915 Reliefs 16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme 18th of November 1915 Relief Complete   1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets 11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment 11th Dec 1915 Reliefs   14th Dec 1915 Reliefs   17th Dec 1915 Reliefs   29th Dec 1915 Reliefs   1st Jan 1916 Reliefs   4th Jan 1916 Reliefs   10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens 9th February 1916 Call Ups 1st Apr 1916 Rescue Attempt 1st Jan 1917 Moves 9th Jan 1917 Working Parties 17th Jan 1917 Heavy Snow 22nd Jan 1917 Working Parties and Training 23rd Jan 1917 Moves 24th Jan 1917 Moves 31st Jan 1917 Very Cold Weather 6th Feb 1917 Reliefs 6th Feb 1917 Reliefs 7th Feb 1917 Reliefs 8th Feb 1917 Reliefs 9th Feb 1917 Reliefs Complete 10th Feb 1917 Hard Ground 11th Feb 1917 Quiet 12th Feb 1917 Quiet 1st Apr 1918 Hostile Artillery 2nd Apr 1918 Trench Raids 3rd Apr 1918 Quiet 4th Apr 1918 Orders 5th Apr 1918 Moves 5th of April 1918 Command of the Line   6th Apr 1918 Relief Complete 7th Apr 1918 Moves   8th Apr 1918 Moves   9th Apr 1918 Artillery Barrage   If you can provide any additional information, please add it here. Want to know more about 6th (Glamorgan) Battalion, Welch Regiment? There are:5271 items tagged 6th (Glamorgan) Battalion, Welch Regiment available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with 6th (Glamorgan) Battalion, Welch Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. Bennett John Arthur. Pte. Davies William Ralph. Pte. (d.6th October 1915) Murphy Thomas. L/Cpl. (d.1st October 1915) Roper Trevor Miles. Royall Richard Harold. Pte. Russell VC MC John Fox. (d.6 November 1917) Williams John. Pte. All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List Records of 6th (Glamorgan) Battalion, Welch Regiment from other sources. The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time. Want to find out more about your relative's service? Want to know what life was like during the Great War? Our Library contains many many diary entries, personal letters and other documents, most transcribed into plain text. Looking for help with Family History Research?    Please see Family History FAQ's Please note: We are unable to provide individual research. Can you help? The free to access section of The Wartime Memories Project website is run by volunteers and funded by donations from our visitors. If the information here has been helpful or you have enjoyed reaching the stories please conside making a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting or this site will vanish from the web. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation. Announcements 19th Nov 2024     Please note we currently have a massive backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. If you have already submitted a story to the site and your UID reference number is higher than 264989 your submission is still in the queue, please do not resubmit. Wanted: Digital copies of Group photographs, Scrapbooks, Autograph books, photo albums, newspaper clippings, letters, postcards and ephemera relating to the Great War. If you have any unwanted photographs, documents or items from the First or Second World War, please do not destroy them. The Wartime Memories Project will give them a good home and ensure that they are used for educational purposes. Please get in touch for the postal address, do not sent them to our PO Box as packages are not accepted. World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great battalion regiment artillery Did you know? We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations.   Pte. John Arthur Bennett 6th Btn Welch Regiment John Bennett served with the 6th Battalion, Welch Regiment. I am John's Grandson Christian Bennett Add to this record.   Pte. Richard Harold Royall 1/6th Btn. Durham Light Infantry Dick Royall is supposed to have joined up at 15, originally with 1/6th Welch Regiment. Charles Gordon Clark Add to this record.    Trevor Miles Roper 1/6th (Glamorgan) Btn. Welsh Regiment Trevor Roper served with the 1/6th (Glamorgan) Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Debbie Weeks Add to this record.   L/Cpl. Thomas Murphy 1/6th Btn. Welsh Rgt. (d.1st October 1915) L/Cpl. Thomas Murphy was killed at the Battle of Loos on 1st October 1915. He has no grave, but is remembered on the Loos memorial. John Murphy Add to this record. Recomended Reading. Available at discounted prices.

Links Suggest a link

The free section of The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers. This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources and we currently have a huge backlog of submissions. If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small to help with the costs of keeping the site running. Hosted by: The Wartime Memories Project Website is archived for preservation by the British Library Copyright MCMXCIX - MMXXIV - All Rights Reserved - We do not permit the use of any content from this website for the training of LLMs or for use in Generative AI, it also may not be scraped for the purpose of creating other websites.