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9th Battalion, Welch Regiment
9th (Service) Battalion, Welsh Regiment was raised at Cardiff on the 9th of September 1914 as part of Kitchener's Second New Army and joined 58th Brigade, 19th (Western) Division. They trained on Salisbury Plain and moved into billets in Basingstoke in November 1914 for the winter. In January they moved to Weston Super Mare and to Perham Down in May 1915 for final training. They proceeded tp France, landing at Boulogne in mid July 1915, the division concentrating near St Omer. Their first action was at Pietre, in a diversionary action supporting the Battle of Loos. In 1916 They were in action during the Battle of the Somme, capturing La Boisselle and being involved in The attacks on High Wood, The Battles of Pozieres Ridge, the Ancre Heights and the Ancre. In 1917 they were in action in The Battle of Messines and the Third Battles of Ypres. In 1918 They fought on The Somme during The Battle of St Quentin and The Battle of Bapaume and in the Battles of the Lys at Messines, Bailleul and The First Battle of Kemmel Ridge. They fought in The Battle of the Aisne and during the Final Advance in Picardly they were in action in The Battle of the Selle, The Battle of the Sambre and the passage of the Grand Honelle. At the Armitice were were in billets near Bavay. Demobilisation began in December 1918 and the final cadres returned to England on the 27th of June 1919.
Jul 1915 Training Instruction
Jul 1915 Billets
18th Jul 1915 9th Battalion, Welsh Regiment departed from Southampton aboard the H.M.Transport Monas Queen.
4th Oct 1915 Trench Work 
5th Oct 1915 Trench Work
6th Oct 1915 Trench Work
16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme
31st Oct 1915 Reliefs
7th Nov 1915 Reliefs
8th Nov 1915 A Pleasant Time
12th Nov 1915 Reliefs
1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets
11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment
11th of December 1915 On the Move
21st Dec 1915 Instruction
22nd Dec 1915 Instruction
23rd Dec 1915 Reliefs
24th Dec 1915 Instruction
26th Dec 1915 Working Parties
27th Dec 1915 Reliefs
28th Dec 1915 Working Party
31st Dec 1915 Reliefs
10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens
18th Jan 1916 Reliefs
1st of February 1916 Billet Inspection
9th February 1916 Call Ups
18th Feb 1916 Reliefs
2nd Apr 1917 Heavy Snow
7th of July 1916 Into Action
1st Oct 1916 Orders
2nd Oct 1916 Brigades Training
3rd Oct 1916 Reliefs
4th Oct 1916 On the Move
6th Oct 1916 Orders
7th Oct 1916 Reliefs
8th Oct 1916 Orders Issued
12th Oct 1916 Shelling
14th Oct 1916 Orders
15th Oct 1916 Orders
1st Dec 1916 Training
2nd Dec 1916 Training
13th Dec 1916 Inspection
18th Dec 1916 Inspections
21st Dec 1916 Sports Medals
22nd Dec 1916 Company Training
31st Dec 1916 Training
28th of February 1917 Relieved
1st Apr 1917 Artillery Registration
3rd Apr 1917 Blizzard
4th Apr 1917 Artillery Active
5th Apr 1917 Some Shelling
6th Apr 1917 Artilery in Support
7th Apr 1917 Shelling
8th Apr 1917 Artillery Registration
9th Apr 1917 Hail Stones
7th August 1917 Lectures
8th Feb 1918 Draft
23rd Mar 1918 Heavy Fighting
24th Mar 1918 Fighting Withdrawal
1st of April 1918 In Front Line
4th of April 1918 Inter-Coy Relief
10th of April 1918 Into Battle
31st of August 1918 Reliefs Complete
28th of September 1918 Into Divisional Reserve
4th Nov 1918 Attack Made
5th of December 1918 Drill
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Those known to have served with9th Battalion, Welch Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Badham William H.. Sgt. (d.24th March 1918)
- Brayne Charles. Pte. (d.23rd Sep 1917)
- Cartwright Richard. Pte. (d.20th September 1917)
- Castree William Edgar. Pte
- Cheetham Alban. Pte. (d.14th July 1917)
- Clarke William Benjamin. Pte. (d.30th May 1918)
- Confrey George. Pte.
- Davies Edwin. Pte. (d.11th Nov 1915)
- Davies George James. Sgt. (d.14th Apr 1918)
- Edwards MM. William Henry. Pte.
- Edwards MM. William Henry. Pte.
- Egan Patrick. Sgt. (d.17th May 1917)
- Ellis Arthur George. L/Cpl. (d.24th Oct 1918)
- Erriottis George. Pte (d.7th Jun 1917)
- Evans David John. Pte (d.7th Jun 1917)
- Evans Thomas Joseph. Sgt. (d.26th March 1918)
- Gill William James. Pte. (d.4th Apr 1918)
- Gray John Stanley. Pte. (d.30th May 1918)
- Gregg John William. Pte. (d.27th February 1918)
- Gregory Robert. Pte. (d.5th November 1918)
- Hancock Alfred Phelps. Pte. (d.7th Jun 1917)
- Harries Gwilym. Sgt. (d.28th May 1917)
- Hibbins Albert. Pte. (d.17th Apr 1918)
- Jefferys Charles E. Sgt.
- Jenkins Fred. Pte. (d.4th November 1918)
- John Edward Howel. L/Cpl. (d.7th Nov 1918)
- Jordan William Brinley. Pte. (d.2nd Aug 1917)
- Lewis John. Pte. (d.8th Jun 1917)
- Lewis Titus. Pte
- Markin MM Frank Augustus. Cpl. (d.28th July 1916)
- Marlow Thomas. Pte. (d.15th April 1918)
- Marlow Thomas. Pte (d.15th Apr 1918)
- Millington John Arthur . Cpl.
- Neal J.. Pte. (d.7th Jun 1917)
- Nicholas Frederick Hugh. Pte (d.21st Dec 1915)
- O'Brien Hezekiah Gordon. Cpl. (d.23rd March 1918)
- Owen David Rees. Pte. (d.4th Nov 1918)
- Parsell Edwin. Pte (d.20th Sep 1917)
- Pugh-Hughes John. Pte. (d.1st Aug 1917)
- Rees William Nelson. Pte. (d.15th Nov 1916)
- Smith Albert Edward. Pte.
- Treby Samuel Robert. Pte. (d.19th Jul 1917)
- Treharne Thomas Trevor. Pte. (d.24th Apr 1918)
- Turvey Leonard Lewis. Pte
- Waggett James Charles. Pte. (d.7th Jun 1917)
- Webber Joseph. Pte.
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Pte. Thomas Trevor Treharne 9th Btn Welsh Regiment (d.24th Apr 1918) We have discov ered that ThomasTreharne is interred in Boulogne Eastern Cemetery and plan to visit the cemetery this year.
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Pte. Charles Brayne 9th Btn. Welsh Regiment (d.23rd Sep 1917) Charlie Brayne was my great-uncle. He was the youngest of six brothers who went to fight in the Great War, and the only one of the brothers who did not survive. Two days after being injured on 21st of September 1917 during the battle of Menin Road Ridge, he died in a field hospital from those injuries.
He is buried at the church in West Outer, just a few miles from Ypres.
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Pte. William Nelson Rees 9th Btn. Welsh Regiment (d.15th Nov 1916)  William Rees was attested on 5th of August 1914 at Abergavenny Depot, then was recalled to headquarters of the Monmouthshire Regiment at Abergavenny. On 6th August, he went to Pembroke Dock for training as part of the Welsh Border Brigade, and then on 10th August he was sent to training camp at Oswestry. On the 31st, he went for training and equipping to the Northampton race course with the 53rd (Welsh) Division, where they billeted with and were well liked by the local people. In October 1914, he and the 3rd Monmouthshires were sent to Bury St. Edmunds in East Anglia to train on digging trenches and setting up defensive works. On 1st December, they went to Cambridge in January 1915 for rifle training, and on 11th February 1915, they were inspected by King George V. On 13 February 1915, the 3rd Monmouthshires proceeded by train to Southampton and sailed for France on the S.S. Chyebassa. The next morning, they arrived at Le Havre and proceeded by train to Cassel, where the GHQ of the French Northern Army was located.
On 28th February 1915, they left Steenvorde on a fleet of double-decker London buses and went into action in the front lines. During the next seven months, 3rd Battalion participated in the following battles: Messines-Wytschaete Ridge; Wulverghem; Polygon Wood (in which they were attached to the Northumberland Field Company and the 171st Tunnelling Company R.E); Hill 60; Frezenberg Ridge; Hooge Chateau; Vlamertinghe; Poperinghe; Hellfire Corner; Reninghelst; Yser Canal; Caesar’s Nose; Lindenoek; Locre; Kemmel; and Elverdinghe Chateau.
In September 1915, the 3rd Battalion was detached to the 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division as a pioneer battalion and engaged in repairing roads and digging trenches and dugouts. In December, the 3rd Battalion rejoined the rest of the Monmouthshire Regiment, which was encamped at Elverdinghe Chateau. On the 29th December, while on parade there, a large German shell fired from a nearby forest exploded, wounding 30 of the Battalion and killing 39, all of whom are buried at Ferme-Olivier cemetery in Belgium.
During the first six months of 1916, 3rd Monmouthshires participated in the following actions: Albert; Brucamps; Candas; Neuville; St. Vaast; Agnieres; Pommier; and Foncquevillers. On the 1st July, the Battalion took part in the Battle of the Somme in support of the 36th Ulster Division’s attack on a German strong-point.
In August 1916, the 3rd Battalion fought at Acheux, Hedin, and Capelle. There were failed attacks on enemy trenches and many casualties, and the Battalion was ordered to retire. At the end of the month, 3rd Battalion heard the unwelcome news that, owing to
the difficulty in finding replacements, the unit would be broken up and distributed among other Welsh regiments. On 24th August, Private Rees learned that he was one of 200 men to be assigned to the new 9th Entrenching Battalion, which had been formed from the remnants of the 3rd Monmouthshires. Then on 20th September, he was transferred to the 9th Battalion, Welsh Regiment.
On 15th November 1916, Private Rees was with a bomb and bayonet detachment near Le Sars in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, when a hidden German machine gun opened up on the detachment. One officer was wounded. Thirty other soldiers were wounded or missing. One of these was Willie, as he was known. His body was never identified. His name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
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Cpl. John Arthur Millington 9th Btn Welsh Regiment John Millington was captured on the 30th of May 1918 at Poilley during the Battle of the Aisne
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Sgt. Thomas Joseph Evans 9th Btn. Welch Regiment (d.26th March 1918) Sergeant Thomas Evans is buried in Puchvilleres British Cemetery in France. He was a very good footballer who played for Wales at youth level.
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Sgt. Gwilym Harries 9th Btn. Welsh Regiment (d.28th May 1917) My Great Grandfather, Gwilym Harries is reported to have died of wounds at the 53rd Casualty Clearing Station at Bailleul, France.
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Pte. William Henry Edwards MM. 10th Btn. Welch Regiment My maternal Great Grandfather William Edwards was born in Mardy, Glamorgan Wales in 1890, Will was a 24 year old married coal miner with two sons (and a third on its way, that being my grandfather) when war was declared and he enlisted with the newly formed 10th Btn, Welsh Regiment. He served with the 10th in Flanders seeing action at both the Battles of Mametz Wood (1916) and Pilkem Ridge (1917).
When the 10th were disbanded he was posted to the 9th Welsh Regiment in 1918 where he saw action at the Battles of Bapaume and Lys at Messines where he was awarded the honour of Military Medal which is awarded for "acts of gallantry and devotion to duty under fire or for individual or associated acts of bravery".
After he was demobbed in early 1919, Will returned to coal mining in the Rhondda and then later in Kent. He had eight children with his wife Frances Jane Crandon.
In the Second World War he served in the Home Guard in Kent.
Will died in 1969 and is buried with his wife in Ramsgate Cemetery.
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Pte. Thomas Marlow 9th Battalion Welsh Regiment (d.15th April 1918) Thomas Marlow died of wounds at No.62 Casualty Clearing Station.
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Sgt. William H. Badham 9th Btn. Welsh Regiment (d.24th March 1918) William Badham served with the 9th Btn. Welsh Regiment.
He was the son of William Thomas and Roseanna Badham, of Tredegar and
husband of Mrs. W. H. Badham of 21 Bryteg Terrace, Nantybuch, Tredegar, Mon.
He is buried in St. Hildaire Cemetary at Frevent in France.
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Pte. Fred Jenkins 9th Battalion Welch Regiment (d.4th November 1918) Fred Jenkins is buried in Cross Roads Cemetery, Fontaine-Au-Bois.
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Sgt. Patrick Egan 9th Battalion Welsh Regiment (d.17th May 1917) Patrick Egan died as a prisoner of war. He is buried in Hamburg Cemetery in Germany.
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Pte. Richard Cartwright 9th (Service) Battalion Welsh Regiment (d.20th September 1917) Richard Cartwright was the youngest son of John Cartwright, journeyman cordwainer (fine shoemaker), and his wife Sarah, who lived in Wallasey Village, Cheshire. John had died shortly after Richard's birth in 1896, leaving the family then at home (Sarah, daughter Beatrice, son Robert and youngest son Richard) in reduced circumstances. Sarah managed as a washerwoman but died in 1907.
Robert (my grandfather) joined the Royal Garrison Artillery as a regular, in 1911. Young Richard ran away to London and is recorded as living in a home for destitute boys, learning a trade as a carpenter. He volunteered to join the Welsh Regiment and survived the Somme. Along with many comrades in his Section, he was killed by hidden German machine gunners on the first day of the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge (part of the battle for Passchendaele), 20th September 1917, aged 21. His body was not found but his name lives on, at Tyne Cott Cemetery, at St. Hilary's Church War Memorial, Wallasey, and - in memory - in the first name of his great nephew.
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Cpl. Hezekiah Gordon O'Brien 9th Btn. Welsh Regiment (d.23rd March 1918) Hezekiah O'Brien was my great-great uncle. He was born in Auckland NZ and lived his early years employed as a bushman clearing the dense NZ forest into farmland. He removed at some point to New South Wales around 1914. His mother, Margaret Morgan O'Brien, emigrated to NZ in 1875 from Glamorgan, Wales, as did her future husband William O'Brien from Dublin, Ireland.
Hezekiah went to Wales at the outbreak of the war to take up mining and settled in his mother's home town. When war broke out he enlisted in the Welch regiment at Merthyr and rose to the rank of corporal.
He died of wounds on 23rd March 1918 at age 29, most likely inflicted during the Battle of Saint Quentin. He is buried in a marked grave in Mont Huon Military Cemetery at Le Treport in Normandy, France. A memorial headstone can also be found at the O'Brien family plot in Auckland next to his parents and siblings.
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Pte. Alban Cheetham 9th Btn. Welsh Regiment (d.14th July 1917) Alban Cheetham was from Ancoats in Manchester. He originally joined the 8th Battalion Welsh Regiment on 20th September 1915 and served in the Balkans at Gallipoli. He died on 14th July 1917 "of accidental wounds" whilst serving with the 9th Battalion Welsh Regiment in the Passchendaele area. Alban is buried at Ballieul Communal Cemetery Extension Nord.
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Cpl. Frank Augustus Markin MM 9th Btn. Welsh Regiment (d.28th July 1916) Frank Markin served with the 9th Btn. Welsh Regiment.
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Pte. Albert Edward Smith 9th Btn. Welsh Regiment Albert Smith served with the 9th Btn. Welsh Regiment.
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Pte. Edwin Davies 9th Btn. Welsh Regiment (d.11th Nov 1915) Edwin Davies was the son of John and Hannah Slater, husband of Catherine. His birth name was George Edwin Slater. He enlisted at Bargoed, South Wales under the surname Davies. His mother and wife had the maiden name of Davies.
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Pte. William Henry Edwards MM. 9th Battalion Welsh Regiment Bill Edwards joined the 9th Battalion, Welsh Regiment and went to France in July 1915. He never spoke about his experience to anyone, including his daughter. The only thing he ever said is that he could still hear the guns. It was only of few years ago that his grandson, whilst researching family history, discovered that he had been awarded the Military Medal. This was gazetted on 13th September 1918 but the family are unable to discover why this was awarded. His daughter or grandchildren never saw any of his medals.
He was one of the kindest, gentlest men you could ever meet
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Pte. William Brinley "Brin" Jordan 9th Btn Welsh Regiment (d.2nd Aug 1917) My Grandfather, who was always known as Brin Jordan, was killed on the 2nd of August 1917. According to the letter I have that his Commanding Officer wrote to my Grandmother, he was killed by a shell that cost them several brave lads. He was buried in the field the next day by his comrades so has no known grave. His name is on the Menin Gate Memorial.
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Pte Frederick Hugh Nicholas 9th Battalion Welsh Regiment (d.21st Dec 1915) From Letters to my Grandmother, who was Frederick Nicholas's cousin, I learn that he joined in about October 1914 and died in December 1915 aged 21. He had been attending Cardiff University. He told her in some detail about life in the trenches, the French countryside, what they were expecting the outcome to be and his hopes. He also mentioned what it was like when the King and Lord Kitchener visited the regiments in training. His last letter in my possession was in mid September 1915 so we have about 2 months missing before he died on 21st of December 1915.
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