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Arthur Davies

 

 

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1879, Bettws, Shropshire

Knighton, Radnorshire

26th February 1916

Private

10th April 1916

8th October 1917

4926 - Herefordshire Regiment

315200 - 4th Battalion - Monmouth Regiment

315200 - 420th, 48th Provisional Battalion

545719 - Labour Corps - 420th Agricultural Company (there is an error on the CWGC site (transposed numbers) they have his number as 545179)

12th April 1918 - Physically unfit

Nottingham

Cwmgilla Farm, Knighton

Waggoner

2nd May 1919

40

Tuberculosis (TB)

Cwmgilla Farm, Knighton

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

 

Richard Davies

Elizabeth Williams

 

William

Sarah

Martha

Walter

Eva

Edmond

Flora

Anne

Mary

Jessie

 

- 1841

- 1846

- 1865- Radnorshire, Wales

- 1866- Radnorshire, Wales

- 1868- Radnorshire, Wales

- 1870- Bettws, Shropshire

- 1872- Bettws, Shropshire

- 1874- Bettws, Shropshire

- 1876- Bettws, Shropshire

- 1877- Bettws, Shropshire

- 1880- Bettws, Shropshire

- 1886- Bettws, Shropshire

Married 1865 

 

Arthur had contracted Tuberculosis (TB) whilst stationed on the east-coast in 1916/17

 

When he enlisted his weight was given as 111 lb (7 stone 13 pounds,) by the time of his death he weighed just 90 lb (6 stone 6 pounds)

 

He was awarded a war pension to run from 13th April 1918 to 8th July 1919

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