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11th Battalion, Welch Regiment
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Those known to have served with11th Battalion, Welch Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Bottomley Herbert. Pte. (d.18th Sep 1918)
- Eade Cecil Claude Stewart. L/Cpl. (d.4th Mar 1916)
- Gibson George Edward. Pte (d.18th September 1918)
- Melandri Leonard. Cpl.
- Melandri Vincent. Pte.
- Pearce MM. John. Pte.
- Rostron Harold. Pte.
- Smith Sidney Ancterbury.
- Thomas James. Pte.
- Uren MM. Wilfred. Pte. (d.18 September 1918)
- Williams Ivor. L/Cpl.
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Pte. James Thomas 11th Btn. Welch Regiment At 17 years of age James Thomas went to fight in the 1914-18 war.
He was sent to Verona in Italy and thought it was so beautiful that he named his 2nd daughter Beryl Verona. He was also in Salonika, Greece and Bulgaria (I have a Bulgarian Leva note from that time which he brought back amongst his papers) during his service.
His Medical Army card states that he was returned home due to deafness probably due to bomb blasts.
I have a letter dated 11th of August 1918 from his father Phillip Thomas, sent to James while he was on active duty asking if he was all right and telling him all the news from Wales. James had wavy auburn hair. According to my mother he had two different coloured eyes.
When my mother gave birth to me, she travelled to see her father to show her first baby to him. He was very ill at the time and died two days later.
His date of death in 1954 is recorded in our family Bible
He is buried in Cymmer Cemetery along with his wife Gwyneth.
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Sidney Ancterbury Smith 11th Btn. Welsh Regiment  Sidney Smith was the second eldest in a large family in Banham, Norfolk. By the start of World War 1, he was living in Cardiff, aged 27.
I know little much more about him, other than that my aunts used to refer to the fact that he was in the army and fought in the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915.
However, I have 2 very interesting postcards in the old family papers, sent to his sister Ruby, in Stowmarket, and his mother Elizabeth in Banham. Sidney is fourth from the right, front row.
They are dated 5th of October 1914. So it appears he volunteered immediately war was declared in August 1914, and by 25th of September 1914 this picture was taken of his platoon, still in civvies, just over a month after the beginning of the war. You can see from the picture, they volunteered as the Cardiff Commercial Pals Battalion. And from the note to Ruby, that was officially the 14th Platoon, D Company, 11th Battalion, Welsh Regiment, then at Seaford on the South Coast near Brighton. And he says "Expected to move in about 10 days, destination in London."
I know that Sidney fought at Gallipoli, but nothing as to whether he stayed out there until the end. I do not believe he was injured, but was said to suffer from poor health after his return home until he died in 1944 aged only 56. That may have been connected with mustard gas used in those battles, but I do not know that for certain.
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Pte. Wilfred Uren MM. 11th Btn. Welsh Regiment (d.18 September 1918) The citation of Private Wilfred Uren, 11th Btn, Welsh Regiment reads: During a raid on Dorsale on 22nd/23rd of October 1916, stretcher-bearer Pte W Uren, worked continuously and most gallantly between the Aid Post and the enemy trenches under intense enemy fire, towards the end of the operations he voluntarily made his way under a heavy shell and rifle fire up to the position of deployment searching for our wounded. He showed a conspicuous example of courage and devotion to duty.
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Pte. Herbert Bottomley 11th Btn. Welsh Regiment (d.18th Sep 1918) Herbert Bottomley was born in 1889 and died in 1918, age 29, during WWI in Greece.
Herbert joined the King's Liverpool Regiment on 10th of November 1914 age 27 and was probably later transfered to the 11th Btn. Welsh Regiment.
He died on the 18th of September 1918 age 29 son of Margaret Bottomley of 2 Ridehalgh St., Colne, Lancs, and the late James Bottomley.
Herbert is buried in Doiran Military Cemetery, Greece is situated in the north of Greece close to the Yugoslav frontier and near the south-east shore of Lake Doiran.
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Pte. John Pearce MM. 11th Btn. Welsh Regiment John Pearce survived the war and raised a family, he died in the 1920s, possibly due to lung weakness from gas attacks in the trenches.
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L/Cpl. Ivor Williams 11th Btn. Welsh Rifles Lance Corporal Ivor Williams of the 11th Welsh Rifles, served in France during 1915, then Salonika in 1916. He was in the Carmarthen Red Cross Hospital on May 31st 1917 where he wrote in the recently discovered grandmother's diary.
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Cpl. Leonard Melandri 11 Battalion, B Coy, 5 Pl. Welsh Regiment Uncle Leonard enlisted with his brother Vincent. They served in Greece, France and Belgium. Leonard was severely wounded in the leg and received a disability pension after the war. I remember that he said his wound was packed with sulphur and strapped up so he could still keep fighting. He was unable to bend his leg for as long as we knew him. He married Clarice after the war but they were never able to have any children perhaps that is why they spoiled my brother and I as children.
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Pte. Vincent Melandri 11th Battalion, B Coy, 5 Pl. Welsh Regiment My Uncle Vincent Melandri enlisted with his brother Leonard. Although wounded in the head Vincent stayed with his unit as long as he could. He served the entire War being demobbed in 1919. He worked as an electrical linesman after the war and sadly he never married and kept to himself. He visited us in London on at least three occasions and was a lovely man.
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