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9th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
9th (Service) Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers was raised at Wrexham on the 9th of September 1914 as part of Kitchener's Second New Army and joined 58th Brigade, 19th (Western) Division. They trained at to Tidworth, spending the winter in billets in Basingstoke, they returned to Tidworth in March 1915 for final training and proceeded to France, landing at Boulogne on the 19th of July 1915. 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
19th Jul 1915 9th Welsh Fuiliers arrive in France
25th Sep 1915 9th RWF in Action
25th Sep 1915 In Acion
16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme
1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets
7th Dec 1915 Reliefs
11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment
21st Dec 1915 Instruction 
22nd Dec 1915 Instruction
24th Dec 1915 Instruction
4th of January 1916 On Relief
10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens
9th February 1916 Call Ups
2nd Apr 1917 Heavy Snow
7th Aug 1916 Reliefs Complete
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
12th of November 1916 TMs Irritate Enemy
19th of November 1916 Relieved
22nd Nov 1916 To the trenches
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
3rd of February 1917 Relief Completed
31st of March 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
29th of April 1917 Brigade Relief
30th of April 1917 On the Move
1st of May 1917 On the Move
11th of October 1917 On Relief
21st of March 1918 Intense Barrage
23rd Mar 1918 Heavy Fighting
24th Mar 1918 Fighting Withdrawal
10th of April 1918 Into Battle
10th of September 1918 Relieved
18th of October 1918 Relieved
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Those known to have served with9th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers during the Great War 1914-1918. - Adams Percy Harold. L/Sgt.
- Bowles Thomas. Pte. (d.7th February 1916)
- Bricknell Harold. Pte. (d.20th Jun 1918)
- Cadwallader Charles Henry. Pte. (d.20th September 1917)
- Connors Patrick. Pte
- Davies MM. Edward. L/Cpl
- Davies J.. Pte. (d.7th Jun 1917)
- Davies John. Pte. (d.7th June 1917)
- Davies Joseph. Pte. (d.15th November 1918)
- Davies Richard Llewellyn. Cpl.
- Dykes William. Sgt. (d.18th April 1918)
- Edwards Enoch. Pte.
- Ellis John. L/Cpl. (d.20th Sep 1917)
- Ferrissey Cornelius Denis . Pte. (d.1st Aug 1917)
- Fisher DCM. George Humphrey. Pte. (d.30th May 1918)
- Forshaw DCM. William Henry. Pte.
- Gladwin William. Pte. (d.22nd March 1918)
- Goddard Arthur Stanley. Pte.
- Griffiths Rhys. Pte. (d.24th Jul 1918)
- Gunning John. Pte. (d.28th October 1917)
- Gunter Frederick Somerton. Pte. (d.25th Sep 1915)
- Hall Samuel Joseph. Pte
- Harwood Hubert. L/Cpl. (d.22nd Jun 1917)
- Hughes John Thomas. L/Sgt. (d.25th September 1915)
- Hughes John Thomas. L/Sgt. (d.25th Sep 1915)
- Jenkins MM. Frank Mason. L/Sjt. (d.8th May 1918)
- Jones Benjamin. L/Cpl. (d.23rd March 1918)
- Jones Daniel. Pte (d.28th Jun 1918)
- Jones Robert. Pte
- Jones W.. Pte. (d.25th Oct 1917)
- Lewis Edward. Pte. (d.3rd October 1917)
- Martin DCM. William Charles. A/CQMS.
- Mason (John Davies) Thomas Milton. Pte. (d.7th Jun 1917)
- Monnelly Francis. Pte. (d.21st Sep 1917)
- Nicholls DCM. John Thomas. Sergeant
- O'Brien Peter. Cpl. (d.12th Apr 1918)
- O'Neill Matthew. Cpl. (d.18th Apr 1918)
- Rowe Emlyn James. Pte. (d.14th June 1918)
- Shore Thomas John. Pte.
- Stokes Walter. L/Cpl (d.21st Feb 1919)
- Talbot Henry Waletr. 2nd Lt.
- Tatum George. Pte
- Thomas Jacob. L/Sgt. (d.25th September 1914)
- Wilkins Thomas. Pte. (d.25th September 1915)
- Williams H. Lloyd.
- Wolffsohn Arthur William. Capt.
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Pte Robert Jones 9th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers I have recently purchased one of Robert Jones' war medals. He was also with the Welsh Regiment. His record shows him as being ill with severe diarrhea with notes written at No 56 Casualty Clearing Station on 20th of October 1918. He was at No 46 Stationary Hospital on 11th of November 1918. Also mentioned as being transferred from sick convoy No 33 Ambulance Train.
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Pte. William Gladwin 9th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers (d.22nd March 1918) Billy Gladwin was the eldest son of Corporal W Gladwin RE, who was himself at the front for three and a hald years.
Billy enlisted, then underage, and saw 10 months service with the Herefordshire Regiment in Egypt but was sent home when his age was discovered. He was 19 years old in January 1918 and went to France in February being drafted into Royal Welsh Fusiliers and died in March.
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Pte. George Humphrey Fisher DCM. 9th Btn Royal Welsh Fusiliers (d.30th May 1918) George Fisher is one of 4 brothers who volunteered initially through the Monmouthshire Regiment.
George died on the 30th of May 1918, serving with the 9th Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
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Pte. Arthur Stanley Goddard 3rd Btn. Monmouthshire Regiment We have found out all of the information from Arthur Goddard's records. He served with the 3rd Monmouthshire Regiment, was later moved to the 9th Royal Welsh Fusiliers. On the Roll of Individuals it states Infantry Base Depot and also attached 9th Entrenching Battalion.
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Pte. John Gunning 9th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers (d.28th October 1917) John Gunning served in the Scout Section of the 9th Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
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Sgt. William Dykes 9th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers (d.18th April 1918)  William Dykes lived at 132 High Street, Haslington and enlisted in Crewe on 29th of November 1915 giving his age as 19 years and 4 months, he gave the wrong age (as was common) and had been born in 1898 so he was only 17 at the time. His father William was a carter for the co-op stores and William worked in the train sheds at Crewe.
He fought in the War for 2 years and 141 days and was wounded and hospitalised on two occasions. He was promoted in the field to Sergeant on 20th of October 1917. He was granted leave at the end of March 1918 and was killed on his return less than three weeks later. His recorded death was the 18th of April however he was likely to have been killed before this as this was the day the Welch Fusiliers were relieved and this is when he would have been reported as missing in action. The fury of the battle was on the 14th and 15th and William's body was never found.
His name is on the memorials at Tyne Cot memorial in Belgium (along with 35,000 other unfound soldiers) Haslington Town Memorial and the Crewe Railway Workers Memorial now in the first class lounge at Crewe station.
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Pte. Harold Bricknell 9th Btn. Welsh Fusiliers (d.20th Jun 1918) Harold Bricknell attended Alleyne's Grammar School as a student in the early 1900's. I am researching the School War Memorial and compiling a project to remember the Alleyne's war dead. Any information would be gratefully received.
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Pte. Emlyn James Rowe 9th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers (d.14th June 1918) Emlyn Rowe is ommemorated on the Soissons War Memorial. Presumed dead, he was the son of Albert and Catherine Ann Rowe of Glenfield Cottage, Newton, Porthcawl, Glamorgan.
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Pte. Thomas Bowles 9th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers (d.7th February 1916) Thomas Bowles served with the 9th Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
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Pte. Edward Lewis 9th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers (d.3rd October 1917) My mother, born in 1911, remembered Eddie Lewis on leave in his uniform. She was very fond of him.
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Pte. William Henry Forshaw DCM. 9th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers William Forshaw served with 9th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers and was awarded the DCM for his actions on Messines Ridge on the 7th of June 1917 where he captured an enemy strong point.
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Pte. John Davies 9th Btn. Welch Fusiliers (d.7th June 1917) I am not a relative of John Davies but am researching all the men who died in the war. Our history group have erected a memorial stone in the village and now want to compile a book with the info so that we can donate it to the local school.
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L/Sgt. Percy Harold Adams 19th Battalion Royal Welch Fusliers Percy Adams served with the 9th and 19th Battalions, Royal Welch Fusiliers and as a Platelayer with the 298th Railway Construction Company, Royal Engineers
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Pte. Charles Henry Cadwallader 9th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers (d.20th September 1917) Charles Cadwallader died in Passchendaele. He is remembered with honour at Tyne Cot Memorial
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Pte. Joseph Davies 9th Btn. Royal Welch Fusilisers (d.15th November 1918) Joseph Davies was my paternal great uncle, and served with the 9th Btn. Royal Welch Fusiliers. I am currently trying to piece his war history together, with some difficulty.
Joseph was apparently transferred to the Labour Corps 258063 at some stage later in the war. He contracted pneumonia whilst serving in Clonmel, Co Tipperary. Sadly he died on 15th November 1918 in Clonmel and is buried there in a war grave.
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2nd Lt. Henry Waletr Talbot 9th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers Henry Walter Talbot served with the 9th and 11th Battalion Royal Fusiliers during the Great War. Previous to that he was with the Army Service Corps.
He was a Sergeant with the 11th Battalion Royal Fusiliers serving in Macedonia and on strong recommendation of his commanding officer he returned to England and trained at Gidea Hall, Romford. He passed out on the 31st of July 1917 as a commissioned officer with honour and re-joined the Royal Welsh Fusiliers as 2nd Lieutenant.
When Armistice came he was serving as acting Captain on the Somme with the 9th Battalion.
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Cpl. Richard Llewellyn Davies 9th Btn. Welsh Fusiliers Richard Davies left his native village of Hollybush in the Sirhowy Valley Monmouthshire on the morning of the 5th of August 1914. Three times wounded and twice gassed he survived the whole of the main battles of the Western Front and returned home in January 1919. Of the nine volunteers that left the village with him, he was the only one to return home in 1919. Dick Davies served firstly in the Monmouthshire Regiment and transferred to 9th Royal Welsh Fusiliers in Sept 1916 on the Ancre. He fought in all future major battles with 9th Btn, see his book 'Never so Innocent Again' Published again last year, with much detail of times, places and personalities regarding this fine fighting battalion. This was the chosen title after the diarist Richard Llewellyn Davies often used the expression to relate to his service. "I was never so innocent again after that bloody lot" He often said that.
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Pte Daniel Jones 9th Battalion, C Coy. Royal Welsh Fusiliers (d.28th Jun 1918) Daniel Jones died through starvation in a Prisoner of War Camp in Parchim, Germany. He was my uncle.
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Pte. Frederick Somerton Gunter 9th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers (d.25th Sep 1915) Frederick Gunter was one of three of my fathers older brothers who fought with the Royal Welsh Fusliers, the other two being John Rees Gunter and Gilbert Alexander Gunter. They survived the conflict, though Gilbert died quite young and suffered the effects of gas. The death of Frederick killed their mother as she died shortly after hearing of his death at Loos.
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L/Cpl Edward Davies MM. 9th Btn. Welsh Fusiliers Edward Davies was my Grandfather who I knew very little of as he was very brusque and private person. I was ten when he died. All I can remember is that he had lost half of a little finger through frostbite whilst serving. After the War, he was employed in the Liverpool Corporation Water Department for 54 meritous years, according to a citation that my late father had.
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Never so Innocent Again Richard Llewellyn Davie
A narrative written from the notes and diary of Corporal Richard Llewellyn Davies of the 3rd Battalion of the Monmouthshire Regiment and the 9th Battalion The Royal Welch Fusiliers.He left his native village of Hollybush in the Sirhowy Valley Monmouthshire on the morning of the 5th of August 1914. Three times wounded and twice gassed he survived the whole of the main battles of the Western Front and returned home in January 1919. Of the nine volunteers that left the village with him, he was the only one to return home in 1919.
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