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3rd Battalion, South Wales Borderers



9th Aug 1914 Reliefs

16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme

1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets

11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment

10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens

9th February 1916 Call Ups

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There are:5235 items tagged 3rd Battalion, South Wales Borderers 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

3rd Battalion, South Wales Borderers

during the Great War 1914-1918.

  • Atkin Joseph. Pte.
  • Gilbert James Albert. Pte
  • Howell Frederick James. Pte.
  • Jones J. D.. Pte. (d.18th October 1918)
  • McGee Arthur. (d.1919)
  • Virgin William Charles . Pte. (d.10th Jun 1915)

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   Arthur McGee 3rd Battalion South Wales Borderers (d.1919)

Arthur McGee died in Mhow of appendicitis in 1919.

Joanne Usher






  Pte. Frederick James Howell 3rd Btn. South Wales Borderers

My grandfather, Frederick Howell, volunteered for the South Wales Borderers in March 1915 in Newport, he was just 17. He told me that when he was in the trenches the men either side of him were killed by snipers' bullets, he couldn't understand how he survived. He talked about the conditions in the trenches and how he was lucky to have been invalided out, having lost some of his toes as a result of frostbite. He walked with a drunken lilt for the rest of his life and counted himself lucky. He talked about Ypres (which he called Wipers) and sang Mademoiselle from Armentieres to me!

Glynis Jones






  Pte. J. D. Jones 3rd Battalion South Wales Borderers (d.18th October 1918)

J.D. Jones is buried in Gelliwen Chapel Yard Gelliwen near Carmarthen

Tom Johnston






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