This is a work in progress by Grangetown Local History Society - an online memorial of local casualties of World War I, which we are preparing to mark the centenary of the war's outbreak in 1914. Most of the names appear on the memorial in Grange Gardens. If you have any details, family information or photos of descendants, please get in touch with us by emailing grangetownwar@yahoo.co.uk.

Name Grave index Service/battalion Rank Death/age Address and biog/family detail (Maritime casualties in blue)
ADAMS, Frederick James CWGC 2759154 Royal Naval Reserve, HMS Imelda; Deckhand 1065/DA, d 13 Sept 1918 d 13 Sept 1918, Son of the late Frederick James and Margaret Adams
ALEXANDER, Lewis CWGC 175711 Welsh Regiment 9th Battalion Private 46295 d 21 October 1918, aged c34 Brought up in Clive Street, son of a pilot; became a greengrocer at Abertwsswg near Blackwood
ALIMOOR, Thomas Robert CWGC 2978911 Mercantile Marine S.S "Forestmoor" (London) Ship's Cook d 6 October 1917, aged 37 Husband of Jane Bowen Alimoor (nee Carter), of 41, Allerton St., Grangetown, Cardiff, born Bombay. He was one of 22 who died when his ship was sunk by a German U-boat carrying a cargo of copper ore to Dublin from Huelva, north of Morocco
ALLSOPP, William Joseph CWGC 261411 Welsh Regiment 9th Battalion Lance Corporal 30072 d 26 Oct 1915, France b 1897, 81 Sea View (Ferry Rd), Grangetown, son of ship repairer James; an errand boy in 1911, one of nine children. Lived in Tyneside/Co Durham for some of his childhood, while his father worked as a miner.
ANDERSON, Andrew Juiles CWGC 2978996 Mercantile Marine S.S "Woolston" (London) Donkeyman 4 May/1918, age 48. Son of the late Peter and Maria Anderson; husband of Mary Jane Anderson (nee Keir), of 245, Penarth Rd., Cardiff. Born in Denmark (it may have been Amsterdam, he lived in Llanmaes Street in 1901). He was one of 19 crew lost when his ship carrying sulphur, having just left Syracuse for Messina, was sunk by a German U-boat.
APPLEBY Harry CWGC 738791 Cheshire Regiment 9th Battalion Private 65691 d 25 March 1918, aged 19; Son of John - gas works stoker - and Emma Appleby, of 8 Bradford St., Grangetown, Cardiff.
ARKELL, Ernest John CWGC 1644254 Welsh Regiment 1st/5th Battalion Private 241836 d 26 March 1917, aged 41 Son of John Arkell; Oxfordshire-born, worked with his brother Frederick as a manager at family drapers at 53 Holmesdale Street..
BARNETT, Reginald John Martin CWGC 926727 1st (Royal) Dragoons Corporal 6328. d 12 Nov 1914 at Ypres, aged 27; Son of Richard and Kate Barnett, of 16 Cymmer St. Enlisted in the RFA. and served in India and there transferred. to 1st Royal Dragoons and served in South Africa, before joining the Bechuanaland Police; he rejoined his Regiment on outbreak of war in 1914. His younger brother George, a carpenter, also served in the war as a RE carpenter, joining a year after Reginald's death.
BARROW, Arthur CWGC 586520 Welsh Regiment 15th Battalion L/Corporal 23852 d 9 October 1918, aged 26. Born in Cogan (Penarth), b1892; eldest of 10 children living with parents William, a docks labourer, and mother Emily at 21 Sevenoaks Road.
BARRY, William CWGC 698605 Royal Welsh Fusiliers 8th Battalion Private 18122 d 19 Aug 1915, age 29, at Gallipoli Son of John and Catherine Barry, of 9 Thomas St.
BEER, Archibald Robert CWGC 2979463 Mercantile Marine SS "Paddington" (London) Second mate d 21 July 1917, age 19. Son of Richard Arthur and Augusta Beer (n e Morland), of 68, Clive St, Cardiff. The Paddington was a Cardiff-owned on a voyage from Cartagena to UK with Admiralty cargo & passengers, when she was sunk by a German U-boat, 250 miles west from Fastnet. A total of 29 people were lost
BELL, William CWGC 2759175 Welsh Regiment 2nd Battalion Corporal 12346 d 30 Jan 1917, age 38, buried in Cathays cemetery Husband of Mabel Frances Brackley, of 19, Bromsgrove St., Grangetown, Cardiff. He was Sunderland born and his wife from Co Durham, they had a child William in 1909, and he worked as a labourer. He had also served with the Army (8th Hussars) in the Boer war previously, joining in 1898 and later as a reserve.
BETHELL, Albert SydneyValentine CWGC 844859 South Gloucester Regiment 12th Battalion (Service, Bristol) Private 260421 d 10 October 1917 in Belgium, aged 21 Worked for his father Sydney, a baker, living at 20 Bradford St. Born in Gloucester.
BIANCARDI, Edward Charles CWGC 2759179 Army Service Corps M.T Private M2/120753. d 3 Nov 1917, aged 36, at Lansdowne Rd military hospital in Cardiff and buried in Cathays Married to Annie Gwendoline (Kinsey), with two children, aged nine and two; son of Isidore and Annetta Biancardi, of Alexandria, Egypt; living at 19, Coedcae St., Grangetown, Cardiff. A fitter by trade. Records show he had been discharged in January 1916.
BIRD, William CWGC 2746529 Royal Field Artillery 57th Reserve Battery Gunner W/4444 died 8 April 1918, age 32, buried in Birkenhead Son of William and husband of Elizabeth Bird, of 24 Somerset St.
BLAKE, Albert John CWGC 439712 Royal Field Artillery "D" Battery. 121st Brigade Sergeant 4357 d 19 August 1917, age 26, buried at West-Vlaanderen, Belgium Son of Albert, a smith,and Alice Blake of 13 Ludlow St.
BOHLIN, John Edward CWGC 646295 Welsh Regiment 1st/5th Battalion Private 49833 d 9 Sept 1918, aged 32, died in Egypt, buried in Jerusalem. Lived at 124 Paget Street; he was living with wife Ellen at 30 Eldon Rd (Ninian Pk Road) in 1911 and was a sea fireman.
BOTWOOD, William Harold CWGC 469690 Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Howe Bn. R.N. Div. attd. 190th Light Trench Mortar Bty. Royal Field Artillery Able Seaman Wales/Z/1858 d 13 Sept 1916, age 19, buried at Barlin, France One of nine children to Charlotte and the late Henry Botwood, of 8 Wedmore Rd., Cardiff; William had left school and become a milk boy at 14.
BRACKLEY,Thomas CWGC 928772 Royal Welsh Fusiliers 1st Battalion Serjeant 9939 d 30 October 1914, aged 23; buried at Ypres. Family lived at 6 Hewell Street and later 59 Kent Street, father George and mother Ellen, Thomas was a smith.
BRADFORD, Frederick Daniel CWGC 3054118 Royal Marine Light Infantry Plymouth Bn. R.N. Div Private PLY/16853 d 28 June 1915, age 19; memorial in Turkey Son of Frederick and Mary Ann Bradford, of 2 Tynant Street. Eldest of seven surviving children, a plumber's assistant.
BRADLEY, Owen Edgar CWGC 654127 Royal Engineers 6th Mounted Brigade Signal Troop Pioneer 103141 d 12 October 1918, age 23; buried in Haifa cemetery in Palestine Son of John Frederick (stonemason) and Clara Georgina Bradley, of 6 Devon Street. Penarth-born and an office boy. Joined up aged 19 in June 1915, transferred from India to Egypt in May 1918..
BRYANT, Sidney Doggett CWGC 3043243 Royal Naval Reserve HMS "Prize", Deck hand 10534DA d 14 Aug 1917, age 23, killed in action with German submarine in Atlantic, north west of Ireland - all 27 crew were lost. Husband of Elizabeth Mary Bryant (Cottiero) of 247, Mynachdy Rd, Mynachdy, Cardiff, who he married in 1914. His widowed mother Elizabeth lived at 51 Stockland Street, where he lived before his marriage - he was a clerk in a steam packing warehouse.
BRILEY, David CWGC 1648912 Welsh Regiment 11th Battalion Lance Serjeant 15071 d 18 Sept 1918, age 27, Salonika, Greece. Son of William Cooper Briley (boilermaker) and Mary Hannah Briley, of 39 (or 42) Pentre Street. He was a ship's boilermaker.
BROCKWAY, Fred CWGC 929225 South Wales Borderers 1st Battalion Private 6637 d 31 October 1914; aged 33. Born in Bristol, a docks labourer, lived at 78 Oakley Street with his wife Joannah - they married in 1909 and had lost a child by 1911.
BROCKWAY, William CWGC 2759197 Royal Fusiliers 44th Garrison Battalion Private G/110846 d 23 Oct 1918, aged 33; buried in Cathays Cemetery He may have lived at 62 Hewell Street with his sister Annie and her husband William Carne; a docks labourer; both his parents were dead.
BROWN, Fred CWGC 62293 Royal Army Medical Corps 22nd Field Ambulance Private 9174 d 16 May 1915, age 25, died of wounds, buried in Bethune, France. Son of Edwin (steam crane driver) and Elizabeth Brown, of 5, Clare Rd, formerly of 76 North Clive Street and 12 Warwick St.
BROWN, Henry George NOT FOUND South Wales Borderers, 6th Battalion Private 41710 d 9 Apr 1918 - poss age 19 Prob of 102 Holmesdale St, son of James (joiner) and Jane Brown.
BUCKNELL, Bertie Frederick Veyseyl CWGC 187762 Welsh Regiment, 17th Battalion 48198 d 25 Nov 1917 at Cambrai France Left a widow Alice Beatrice Bucknell (Corbey, m July-Sept 1917); had been a baker; formerly Coedcae Street and Paget Street, widow in 155 Clare Rd
BURGESS, Windsor James CWGC 2759204 Welsh Regiment 19th Battalion Private 31552 d 10 March 1917, age 20 A baker's boy, one of 10 children to Thomas and Margaret Burgess, of 46 Kent Street, Grangetown; lately 50 Coveny St., Splott, Cardiff.
CALLINAN, Thomas Spencer CWGC 316717 Royal Welsh Fusiliers Regiment, 19th Battalion Private - 73708 d 15 December 1917, c aged 19, France b 1898 and lived in Cathays; his father Thomas was a tailor and died before him.
CAREY, George Christopher CWGC 2865528 Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve H.M.S "Gloucestershire" Able Seaman Wales 3/1089. d 7 April 1916, age 23, accidentally drowned on Gloucestershire; body not recovered for burial. Brought up at 16 Amherst Street, Grangetown, son of dock worker John and Honorah Carey; latterly living at 11 Alice St., Docks, also Louisa Street, Docks; in 1911 a shipping clerk living with his parents in Adelaide Street.
CASPER, Henry Louis CWGC 1542663 Royal Munster Fusiliers 1st Battalion Private 3384 d 9 Sept 1916, aged 35 At the time of his death was living at 107 Clive Street and worked at Messrs White and Wilson spring mattress makers in Grangetown, married with two children; in 1911, was a labourer living at 82 Penhaved St, Grangetown with his parents; listed as son of Annie Casper, of 31 Sophia St., Docks, Cardiff, and the late Joseph Casper (a French-born sailor). He had two brother both privates in the Army too - George in the Cardiff Pals Battalion and William in the Cheshire Regiment.
CAVANAGH NOT FOUND Welsh Regiment Lieutenant    
CAVEILL, John Charles (Not CAVIEL) CWGC 1628343 South Wales Borderers Private d 10 November 1917, age 31 Husband of Winifred Caveill, of 17 Amherst St, Grangetown, Cardiff. In 1911, he was a bobbin winder at Gripoli. His father George was a coal trimmer from 119 Clive Street.
CHAPPELL, Alfred CWGC 697048 Royal Irish Fusiliers 6th Battalion Private 15628, d 15 August 1915, aged 19 Lived at 38 Redlaver St, Grangetown with his father, a coal trimmer; he was an engine cleaner after leaving school
CHERE, Richard CWGC 2977513 Mercantile Marine SS Landonia (London) Steward d 21 April 1918, Son of Hannah Chere and the late Henry Chere; husband of Eleanor Chere (nee Gibbs), of 46 Merches Gardens, Grangetown, Cardiff. Born at Cardiff. In 1911. was living at 52 Corporation Rd with wife and baby daughter. He was on board a cargo ship 27 miles NW of Strumble Head, Pembse, when it was torpedoed by the U91 en route from Bilboa for Glasgow with a cargo of iron. He was one of 21 lives lost
CHIPLEN, Frederick (Not CHIPLIN) CWGC 434620 Royal Horse Artillery & Royal Field Artillery "D" Battery in the 121st Brigade Bombadier 2331 died 4 Nov 1916, aged 27 son of Elizabeth Reeves (formerly Chiplen), of 42, Picton Place, Canton, Cardiff, and the late James Chiplen.
CHISLET, R NOT FOUND Royal Engineers Sapper    
CHRISTENSEN (spelt CHRISTENSON) (Tom) Thomas Patrick CWGC 3054211 Royal Marine Light Infantry with the Plymouth Battalion Royal Naval Division Private d 8 May 1915, no information received as to location of grave Enlisted Bristol 11 August 1914, son of Charlie (a Swedish-born able seaman. then docks labourer, originally from Gothenbury) and Annie Christensen, of 49, Thomas St., Grangetown, Cardiff. One of two sons who fell - two youngest of three sons. A printer's assistant.
CHRISTENSEN, Peter CWGC 1606601 Welsh Regiment 1st Battalion Private 13390 d 28 April, 1915, age 22, Zonnebeeke, Flander Son of Charles and Annie Christensen, of 49, Thomas St., Grangetown, Cardiff. One of two sons who fell. He worked as a naval stoker before the war.
CLARGO, Frederick William CWGC 1628778 Lancashire Fusiliers 17th Battalion Private 25777 died 22 October 1917, age 21 Son of Charles Henry Clargo, of 73, Corporation Rd., Grangetown, Cardiff, a master butcher, who also lived earlier at 112 Paget Street.
CLEAL, John CWGC 2759218 Royal Navy H.M.S "Iphigenia" Stoker (1st Class) SS/114982 d 24 April 1918, aged 24. The stoker on HMS Iphigenia died of his injuries on a hospital ship, the day after an attempt to sink three ships filled with concrete at Zeebrugge. John Cleal, 24, had served in the Navy for six years and it is believed he lived in both Clive Street and 19 Holmesdale Street. In 1911, he was a mill labourer. He had postponed his wedding to volunteer to take part in the raid. Eight Victoria Crosses were awarded, but the casualty rate was high with more than 200 killed and a further 300 wounded. Buried at Cathays Cemetery in renovated grave.
CLEVES,Sidney Nicbollis CWGC 275972 C Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) 114th Company Private 25260 d 11 March 1918, age 25. Son of William and Florence Cleves, of 35, Kent St., Grangetown, Cardiff.
COCKS, Joseph Montgomery CWGC 2759221 Royal Field Artillery Gunner 41551 d 11 Sept 1918, age 36 Son of Joseph Cocks; husband of Alice Cocks, of 3 Bromfield St., Grangetown, Cardiff. Brought up at 13 Corporation Road, his father a retired shipping agent; he worked as a railway clerk and porter before joining the Army before the War, by 1911. Had a son born in 1913. His Army records said he had a "steady sober hand and was reliable" He contracted "French fever" in 1917, was invalided back to England in January 1918, with heart trouble. Had been discharged as physically unfit a month before his death.
COLEMAN, James Mark CWGC 315103 Machine Gun Guards 4th Battalion Private 62 d 5 December 1917 age 29, buried at Metz. Son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Coleman, of 38, Wellington St., Canton, Cardiff
COLLINS, Cornelius J CWGC 2759225 Welsh Regiment 1st/7th Battalion Company Sgt Major 290210 d 19 April 1918 Son of Johanna and the late Cornelius Collins; husband of Kathleen Mary Collins, of 70, Pentre Gardens, Cardiff. Born at Cardiff, lived at 67 Stockland St, one of 13 children and was a grocer's assistant in 1911. Buried at Cathays Cemetery.
COLLINS, Frederick William. CWGC 758556 Dorsetshire Regiment 6th Battalion Private 3/8108 d 1 November 1916, age 24. Son of Mrs. Sarah Ann Collins, of 45 Stoughton St, Grangetown, Cardiff
CONDON,Stephen CWGC 1641890 East Lancs Regiment Private, 33119 d 22 August 1918, age 23, Lived at 58 Staughton St, Grangetown - mother Mary widowed, one of seven children; born in Waterford, Ireland.
CONNORS, Roderick CWGC 1459396 Australian Infantry Force Private, 1933 d 5 September 1916, Pozieres, France b 1888, lived at 7 Corporation Rd, his father Michael an Irish-born boiler maker
COOKSLEY, Albert CWGC 434819 Royal Field Artillery "A" Battery. 64th Brigade Corporal 13342, d 4 October 1917, age 23. Son of Samuel and Sarah Cooksley, of 66, Cornwall St., Cardiff. A shop assistant in a tead merchants in 1911, his father was a general store keeper.
CORBEY, John not Corby NOT FOUND Welsh Cyclists Regiment. There was a 7th (Cyclists) Battalion of the Welsh Regiment Private Died in Cardiff in 1920. b 1896, an assistant at a ship's chandlery in 1911, lived with mother Beatrice at 112 Clare Road - earlier at 10 Kent Street; father William.
COTTIER (alias COCOLO), Henry CWGC 841456 Loyal North Lancs Regiment 2nd/5thBattalion Private 245096 d 26 October 1917, aged 19 Joined up in 1916, arrived in Le Havre in February 1917. Lived at 37 Knole Street, Cardiff, son of Nicholas, alias Nicholas Cocolo; mother was Annie. He was 5ft 5 ins tall, according to his record
CRICHTON-STUART Lord Ninian Edward CWGC 62599 Welsh Regiment, 6th Battalion Commanding 6th Bn. formerly Lt., Reserve of Officers, Scots Guards Lt Col d 2 Oct 1915, age 32 Second son of John Patrick, 3rd Marquess of Bute, K.T., and Gwendoline, Marchioness of Bute; husband of Lady Ninian Crichton-Stuart (now the Hon. Mrs. A. H. M. Ramsay), of 87, Lancaster Gate, London. MP for Cardiff 1910-1915 and Justice of the Peace for County Fife. He was killed in action on 2 October 1915, while leading the 6th Welsh in a night attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, near La Bassée. Eldon Road in Riverside was re-named Ninian Park Road after the war.
DARBY, Ivor Augustus CWGC 49426 Cheshire Regiment 9th Battalion Private 53187 d 4 May 1918, age 32 Son of the late Henry and Martha Darby, of 81 Clare Rd., Cardiff; husband of Florence Annie Darby, of 38 Cairns St, Cathays, Cardiff - they married in 1905. In 1901, he was a butcher's errand boy, his father a mason's assistant.
DARROCK, Elmer Robert CWGC 4010493 Royal Marine Light Infantry H.M Yacht "Warrior" Private PLY/15645 d 19 October 1918, aged 23; buried in Arlington USA Born 19 Dec 1894, he served on HMS Highflyer from April 1917 until his death in October 1918. He "died of disease" - believed to be a flu epidemic, while working on an escort vessel off Nova Scotia. Son of Mrs. S. Darrock, of 5, Maitland Place, Grangetown, worked as a railway lamp porter for Great Western until 1911.
DAVIES,David CWGC 2759248 Royal Engineers "G" Depot Company Corporal 31381 d 24 October 1919, age 42, buried at Cathays Cemetery b 1877, Husband of Laura Davies, of 83 Penarth Rd.
DAVIES, Herbert Edward CWGC 3045985 Royal Naval Reserve H.M.S "Hughli" Lieutenant d 26 April 1919, age 26 b April 1893, son of Benjamin and Louisa. Davies, a grocer, of 11 James St., Cardiff; he was a marine apprentice. He was one of two seamen to buried in France - 19 crew were lost when the salvage ship struck a mine off the Belgian coast in April 1919.
DAVIS, Albert Henry Ezra CWGC 35885 Devonshire Regiment 1st Battalion Private 20498 d 1 July 1916, age 38 b 1884, was living at 47 Cornwall Street in 1901 as a horse tram driver; in 1911, was husband of Agnes A Davies of 20 Plasnewydd Rd., Roath, and a general laboure, with three children.
DAVIES, Frederick Henry   Royal Navy HMS St.George/ HM Motor Lighter K58, a trimmer d 1 Nov 1916; killed or died by means other than disease, accident or enemy action, buried inAnglo French Millitary Cemetery, Lembet Road, Salonika, Greece b 26 Aug 1888; Father: Frederick Davis, 42 Ferndale Street, Cardiff, formerly of 118 Clare Road, hs father was a stoker on a steamship.
DEAN, William   Highland Light Infantry, 52nd Training Reserve Battalion, Acting Sergeant, TR/2/200 Died at home 14 May 1917 Building labourer living at 30 Stoughton Street, Grangetown, with wife Martha in 1911
DEANS, Robert Silvester CWGC 523846 Canadian Infantry Force, 3rd Pioneer Batt, Private, 180567 d 29 Sept 1916, aged 25; buried at Albert near Somme b 1891, next of kin, father Robert Silvester Deans, 109 Clive Street, Grangetown, a coal trimmer - Robert was one of seven suriving children.
DENHAM,Charles CWGC 511106 Rifle Brigade - alt King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 11th Bn. Private 22952 d 24 November 1916, Of kidney infection at a casualty clearing station in France. A warehouse porter, lived at 13 Devon Place with his widowed mother Ellen. Born 1895. Son of Ellen and the late Frederick Denham, of Cardiff, Glam.
DE VINE, James Arthur Forrest CWGC 2978442 Mercantile Marine S.S "Duckbridge" (Newcastle) First Mate d 22 Feb 1916, age 50 A master mariner, son of Elizabeth de Vine and the late John de Vine; husband of Phoebe Constance de Vine (nee Gammell), of Church Lodge, East Challow, Wantage, Berks. Born at Aldershot. + No idea of his Grangetown links but was a seaman so could have worked out of Cardiff at some point
DICKENSON, T CWGC 901329 Royal Engineers attd. Director General Transportation Sapper WR/301324 d 4 August 1920, buried in Cologne, Germany  
DILLON, Joseph Edward CWGC 456479 [ Kings Liverpool Regiment, 17th Battalion; formerly 136697, Royal Field Artillery. Private; 41175 d 29 Apr 1918, Flanders, buried Voormezeele, Belgium b 1894. Lived at 108 Holmesdale St, Grangetown, he had been a porter at a lady's outfitter in 1911. Father Thomas - had worked on a ship - mother Lily, who worked in cigar factory. Married Ruth Edwards in 1913 and had two children, who would have been aged five and three when he died.
DOWSE, Herbert Cyril Surtees CWGC 2978609 Mercantile Marine S.S "Cardiff" (Cardiff) Mess Room Steward d 10 Jan 1918, age 24 Son of Esther Octavia Dowse (nee Richards), of 38 Cornwall St., and the late Albert Henry Dowse. In 1911, was an errand boy living in Craddock St, Riverside
DRAKE, Ivor Edward CWGC 615360 Welsh Guards 1st Battalion Corporal 1215 d 24 August 1918 b 1891 Barry Dock, his parents Thomas (d 1895) and Emma, originally living in Holmesdale Street. By 1901, Ivor was living at 144 Clive Street. He had nine siblings.
DRISCOLL,Cornelius CWGC 33493 Durham Light Infantry 1st/6th Battalion Private 79985, d 9 April 1918, aged 23. b 1895, enlisted aged 19. Father Cornelius Driscoll, 44 Hereford Street. His parents were in 1911 living at 11 Madras St and in 1901 living 30 at Thomas St
DRISCOLL, Edward Cornelius CWGC 33493 Royal Welsh Fusiliers 2nd Battalion, Formerly 642, Royal Army Medical Corps Private 39579 d 23 Apr 1916, buried at Cambrin, Calais B 1889, boarded at 30 Hereford St in 1911, occupation a collier; his mother was a widow and he was brought up in the docks.
DRURY, Robert CWGC 1610634 Lincolnshire Regiment 1st Battalion Private 7001 d 4 June 1915 b Lincoln
DRURY,W.C NOT FOUND Mercantile Marine S.S "Baynesh" Seaman    
DRYLAND, Alexander CWGC 2978663 Mercantile Marine S.S "Boscastle" (West Hartlepool) Cook and Steward d 7 April 1918, aged 49 - one of 18 who died off Pembrokeshire. b 1869, husband of Elizabeth Dryland (formerly Donoghue, nee Pinn), of 22, Saltmead Rd., Cardiff. Born at Liverpool. He had three stepsons. The cargo ship Bocastle was sunk 14 miles off Strumble Head, when she was torpedoed and sunk by submarine. 18 lives lost
DUGGAN, Fred Seaforth CWGC 50914 Highlanders "B" Company. 9th Battalion Private S/9626 d 6 June 1917, age 24 Son of dock labourer Harry and the late Kate Duggan. of 38, Ferndale St., Grangetown, Cardiff. In 1911, he was an apprentice case maker in an iron foundry

DUNGEY, John Not Duncey

CWGC 513412

Gloucester Regiment,1st Battalion Private d 13 Sep 1915, aged 34, born Cardiff, enlisted Bristol. Son of the late William (b Pill, Bristol) and Annie Dungey. He had already joined the regiment by 1901; his father William, a pilot's helper, lived at 59 Hewell Street at this time and at 3 Ferry Rd in 1911.
DUNSCOMBE, Alfred CWGC 1630603 Royal Field Artillery 85th Battery. 11th Brigade

Brigade Gunner 136702

d 14 April 1918, age 25 Son of James and Mary Dunscombe of 160 Penarth Rd; husband of Mary Dunscombe, of 18 Pentrebane St. He worked as a deal carrier in the docks, his father was an engine driver.
EDWARDS, Edward CWGC 1742086 King's (Shropshire Light Infantry) (not King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry) L/Sergeant 27336, Formerly 24070 d 19 Sep 1918, aged 24 In 1911, living as junior clerk at 18 Bromfield St, Grangetown, son of John (blacksmith) and Esther Edwards, later of 16 Turbeville Pl, Canton.
ENNIS, Joseph CWGC 1611621 Welsh Regiment 1st Battalion Private 22572 d 8 May 1915, age:39 Son of Joseph and Mary Ann Ennis; husband of Emily H. Ennis, of 65 Kent St, Grangetown, Cardiff. Originally from Cinderford, Glos.
EVANS, Charles William Clarke CWGC 194713 Welsh Regiment 16th Battalion Private 24107 d 5 April 1916 b 1875, Cardiff, married Jane in 1907, with four children William, Charles, Henry and Georgina; lived at 5 Cornwall Street and worked as a stoker
EVANS, D NOT FOUND Welsh Regiment 3rd Battalion Private   David Evans b 1891, d 6 Oct 1918, aged 27,enlisted Cardiff No 10631 Son of Hananiah and Sarah Evans, of 19, Ann St., Gadlys, Aberdare.
EVANS, Griffith Walter CWGC 2865886 Royal Navy H.M.S "Indefatigable" Stoker (1st Class) SS/114644 d 31 May 1916, age 21 Son of Emily Evans, of 52 Somerset St, Grangetown and the late J. F. Evans. One of 1,017 crew lost on the battleship when she sank at Jutland. See also
EVANS, David Charles CWGC 872588 South Wales Borderers Private d 11 April 1918, aged 36 Son of David and Victoria Evans; husband of Edith Evans, of 110 Clive St., Grangetown, Cardiff; in 1911 was a coal merchant at 29 Penhevad St.
FEHRENBACH, Alfred Percival Douglas CWGC 77041 Welsh Regiment 19th Battalion Private 31818 d 12 July 1916, age 31 Son of Alfred and Mary Jane Fehrenbach of 80 Clive Street, later 42 Woodville Road. His brother Ernest John also fell. He was a deal carrier in the docks, his father a watchmaker. One of nine surviving children.
FEHRENBACH, Ernest John CWGC 751453 Welsh Guards 1st Battalion Private 2929 d 7 March 1917, age 28 Son of Alfred and Mary Jane Fehrenbach of 80 Clive Street (also before 64 Court Road and 124 Clare Rd), later 42 Woodville Road, Cardiff. He was a carpenter in a joinery works. Husband of Beatrice Edith Maud Fehrenbach (nee Williams, m 1911) , of 59 Beda Rd, Canton. His older brother Alfred also fell.
FISH, David Henry CWGC 1612384 Royal Irish Rifles 8th Battalion Private 42869 d 8 August 1917, age 32 Husband of Alice Maud Mary Fish, of 56 Hewell St., Grangetown. A ship's painter, who in 1911 lived at 64 Oakley St with his wife and two daughter; b in Sevenoaks Street
FLAHERTY, John Patrick CWGC 2886617 Mercantile Marine "Luciline" (London) Fireman and Trimmer d 13 March 1917, age:23 (Served as McCARTHY). Son of William and Ellen Flaherty, of 110 Cornwall St, Grangetown, Cardiff. The tanker Luciline was attacked by a U-boat and suffered 15 casualties, en route from New York to Le Havre. According to his obit in the Echo he also served with the Royal Engineers before becoming a fireman on a government transporter. Brother of William Flaherty, who died in France in November 1918 (see below)
FLAHERTY, William CWGC 501109 Royal Army Medical Corps 332nd Company Driver T4/037088 (31st Field Ambulance) d 28 Nov 1918, age 21, buried Etaples, France Son of William and Ellen Flaherty, of 110, Cornwall St., Grangetown. His father was in the 1911 Census listed as having paralysis - he had died by the end of the war; he was one of five children. They had lived in Barry for a time, also 33 Hereford Street. A trimmer's help, he enlisted in December 1914, claiming to be 19 years, eight months but was possibly only 17. He was 5ft 7ins tall and became a driver. His records say he was attached to the field ambulance when he became ill on 20th November 1918 and died at 26th Hospital at Etaples in France of bronchial pneumonia, just over two weeks after the war ended. He was the brother of John Flaherty (killed at sea, above)
FLYNN, John CWGC 3043523 Royal Naval Voluteer Reserve S.S "Stanhope" Able Seaman Wales Z/2741 d 17 June 1917, age 19 Son of John (a seaman/fireman) and Annie Flynn, of 13 Madras St., Grangetown; one of four surviving children of seven.
FORGAN, Albert CWGC 1632207 Grenadier Guards, 1st Battalion Private d 12 Oct 1914 (not 1917) Prob: Albert Jessie Forgan, b 1891, Hockworthy, Devon; a journeyman butcher living in Weston-super-Mare in 1911.
FRANCIS, Frederick William CWGC 393019 Welsh Regiment 16th Battalion Lance Serjeant 23787 d 25 October 1918, age 22, buried at Botley in Oxford Son of Albert and Annie Francis, of 179 Penarth Rd., (before that 54 North Clive St). He was a boot finisher; his father was a cycle dealer. His elder brother Albert was also killed six months before.
FRANCIS, Albert Charles CWGC 93732 Welsh Regiment 24th Battalion Private 290295 d 18 April 1918, age:23 Son of Albert and Annie Francis, of 179, Penarth Rd, Cardiff. He was an apprentice nickel plater; his brother Frederick was also killed, leaving one surviving child out of four.
FRY, William John Ashley CWGC 62935 Royal Field Artillery "C" Battery. 75th Brigade Driver 25314 d 20 Sept 1915, aged 22 B Penarth 1893, poss a mason's helper, eldest of seven children living at 220 Warwick St
FRY, Edward James CWGC 839355 Royal Army Service Corps 44th Field Ambulance Driver 372124 d 12 Oct 1917 b 1897, lived at 144 Clive St, apprentice gas fitter, one of 10 children. Killed in action, returned to his mother Caroline Fry were letters and a religious book. His father was a gasworks labourer, previously of 106 Paget St.
FRY, William John Henry CWGC 508434 Dorsetshire Regiment 1st Battalion Private 3/8148 d 24 April 1915, age 23 Son of John Henry and Mary Ann Fry of 12 Somerset St., Grangetown, Cardiff. Poss a mason's helper, eldest of seven children living at 220 Warwick St in 1911
GATSCIAS Samuel (Not Catsies) CWGC 839684 Royal Welsh Fusiliers Regiment Private 70171 d 26 Sep 1917 Born in Bristol, 1879, address given as Cardiff.
GILES, Joseph Eli (not Ely) CWGC 314749 Army Service Corps No. 1 Coy. 12th Div. Train Driver T2/9864 d 17 August 1918, age 20 b 1897, son of George and Jane Giles, of 85 Saltmead Rd (Stafford Rd), one of seven surviving children; his father worked as a labourer
GILES, Lewis Howell CWGC 243804 Royal Engineers 38th Division Signal Company Sapper 249443 d 12 October 1918, age 24 Son of John Giles, of 45 Stockland St - a retired police sergeant; in 1911 he worked as an engine cleaner with the GWR, living at home in 44 Saltmead Road.
GILLESPIE, Frank CWGC 748488 S Staffordshire Regiment, First Battalion (Not South Wales Borderers) Private 13057 . d 1 July 1916, buried in Somme Born 1894, lived at 36 Knole St as a seaman in 1911, the eldest of 10e brothers and sisters and father Robert. Married Agnes O'Callaghan in Jan-March 1916.
GILLIS, John William CWGC 930938 Welsh Regiment, 2nd Battalion, Lance Cpl, 7253

d 30 October 1914, age 30

Husband of Caroline Tucker (formerly Gillis), of 60 Dorset St, Grangetown, Cardiff. Not on memorial.
GLYNN, William Norman CWGC 1742868 Somerset Light Infantry 12th (West Somerset Yeomanry) Battalion Private 6489 d 2 Sept 1918, age 31 Son of Irish-born Joseph Glynn, of 34 Love Lane, Cardiff, and the late Catherine Glynn; husband of the late Sarah Ann Glynn. They were living at 33 Ordell Street, Splott, in 1911, with a stepdaughter; William was a mason's labourer. + Not clear on his Grangetown connections.
GOODFELLOW, Edward George Millard CWGC 1581524 Royal Field Artillery "A" Battery. 330th Brigade Gunner 138097 d 21 March 1918, Somme, aged 29 B 1889, believed to be living at 46 Clive St in 1901, sone of George, a ship's stoker and mother Alice
GOODLAND, Hubert Tow CWGC 73003 Royal Welsh Fusiliers 17th Battalion Private 54046 3 Sept 1918, age 33, buried at Varennes B 1886. Son of Edward and Playina Goodland, of 100 Clive St., Grangetown. Hubert was a mason's labourer. His father worked at the gas works.
GOODWIN, Edward CWGC 429132 Welsh Regiment 16th Battalion Company Serjeant Major 23108 d 23 May 1917 B Liverpool
GOODWIN, George CWGC 840255 Welsh Regiment 16th Battalion Private 23232 d 27 Aug 1917, age 37, buried West-Vlaanderen, Belgium Son of Annie Fitzpatrick (formerly Goodwin), of 53 Atlas Rd., Canton, Cardiff, and the late George Goodwin; residence Dinas Powys.
GRIFFITHS, Hubert D CWGC 1581790 Royal Irish Rifles 1st Battalion. formerly (14176) Army Service Corps Rifleman 47286 d 21 March 1918, aged 26 Son of Edward and Annie Griffiths, of 14 Amherst St, Grangetown.
GULMAN,J NOT FOUND Welsh Regiment 2nd Battalion Private    
GUPPY, Alfred William CWGC 788078 Welsh Regiment 2nd Battalion Private 39673 d 23 Sept 1916, Somme

b Bristol c1884-86, living at 68 Saltmead Rd with his wife Susan and three young sons; working as a wood carver for a furniture makers. He was brought up at 49 Court Road and 31 Stoughton Street with his father Samuel, a wood turner, and mother Ellen.

HABERFIELD, Charles CWGC 2000723 Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 6th Battalion Private 48850 d 1 Nov 1918, age 24; buried at Pas de Calais Son of Joseph and Alice Haberfield; husband of Florence Bessie Haberfield (nee Warry) of 77 Ferry Rd., Grangetown - they married in 1915. He was living in Hunter St, Docks, and working as a stationer's shop assistant in 1911; at 36 Penhaved Street, Grangetown in 1901..
HALE, William Edward CWGC 873598 Welsh Regiment 18th Battalion Private 28089 d 13 April 1918, aged c19 Prob: b1898, lived at 5 Andrews Terrace, Ferry Rd with mother Kezia and father William, a gas stoker, previously lived at 15 Holmesdale Street.
HALL, James CWGC 530150 Welsh Regiment 24th Battalion Private 61612 d 23 Aug 1918, age 26 Son of the late Johnson and Margaret Hall, of 63 Clive St., Grangetown. James was a grocer's assistant in 1911, living with his widowed mother and family including his brother-in-law Josiah Hall, a master mariner.
HALL, Marshall Henry CWGC 189837 Lancashire Fusiliers 1st Battalion. Private 27093 d 5 November 1918, age 20, buried in Nord, France B 1898, son of Marshall W Hall, a sailor/boatman, of 110 Corporation Rd, Grangetown; formerly 33 Cornwall St (Road). His mother Eliza Ann was originally from Lancashire.
HANCOCK, Alfred Sidney CWGC 1764609 Lancashire Fusiliers Private 282110 d 23 April 1918 B 1895?
HANDCOCK, C NOT FOUND Royal Garrison Artillery Gunner   There is a HANCOCK Richard John CWGC 476299 Royal Garrison Artillery, Gunner 123907. d 1 Dec 1917 in Egypt. b 1882, a council sewage inspector living with his wife and young son at Church Cottage, Lavernock.
HANNAM, George Clarence CWGC 2936123 Royal Field Artillery "A" Battery. 48th Brigade Gunner 168364 d 23 Nov 1917, age 23 B 1893. son of Henry (Harry) Arthur and Elizabeth Ann Hannam - once living at 7 Mildon Terrace (Clive St, Grangetown), later 32, Eisteddfod St., Temperance Town. Formerly 4 Eldon St (Ninian Park Road), Riverside, his father a watchmaker and jeweller who became a school attendance officer; and mother ran a grocer's shop. George was a store worker in a brewery.
HARBEN, George CWGC 456616 South Staffordshire Regiment, 8th Service Battalion Private 13701 d 27 Aug 1915 b 1895, a messenger boy in 1911, he lived with his father Sidney, a joiner, and mother Mary at 98 Clare Road.
HARDY, Reginald Herbert William CWGC 389812 Welsh Regiment Lieutenant d 4 Nov 1918 at Bangor military hospital, age 29, buried St Mary's in Caldicot


b 16 Dec 1888, Heatley, Cheshire, son of John William and Emma Sophia Hardy; husband of Annie Hardy (m 1908), of 11 Pentre Gardens, Grangetown, they had a daughter Vera; previously living in Clive St, in 1911 he worked as a railway goods clerk with GWR.

HARRIS, Albert John CWGC 538979 Welsh Regiment 16th Battalion Private 23446 d 4 Feb 1916, age 18 Son of Edward and Louisa Harris, of 68, Oakley St., Grangetown, Cardiff. Second eldest of 12 children. His father (b 1874) was a Swansea-born mariner. Albert was posted to France on 4 December 1915; his death was exactly two months later. He is buried at the military cemetery in Merville and he is also commemorated on his father's gravestone in Cathays Cemetery. Albert's obituary in the Echo included: "Tender sincere thanks to all friends for kind letters and expressions of sympathy in their recent great sorrow." He was a cousin to William H and Samuel John Long (see below)
HARRIS, John CWGC 429146 Welsh Regiment 16th Battalion Private 54200 d 23 May 1917, age 26 Son of the late James and Amelia Harris, of 41, Ferry Road, Grangetown, Cardiff. A labourer at crown patent fuel, he lived with his widowed mother in Adeline St, Splott in 1911.
HARRIS, Clifford Thomas CWGC 2759323 Welsh Regiment 3rd Battalion Private 13561 d 8 Feb 1915, age 38 - died at home, buried in Cathays Son of Walter and Helen (Ellen) Harris. Brought up at 4 North Street, son of a Bridgwater-born labourer, moved to Avoca Place and onto Lincoln St in Canton. Worked as a gas works stoker.
HARRIS, W NOT FOUND Lancashire Fusiliers Regiment Private  
Check: Maurice Walter Harris, d 7 Jul 1916, 27092, 10th Batallion
HEINS, (Abraham) Ernest CWGC 1613675 East Lancs Regiment 7th Battalion Private 36698 d 1 Aug 1917, age 30 One of five sons of Albert Louie (a house painter) and Eliza Heins, of 36 Kent Street, Grangetown; husband of Sarah Caroline Heins, of 24, Wilfred St., Kenyon Lane, Moston, Manchester; living in Stockport in 1911 as a house painter.
HENDERS, John CWGC 483285 3rd Dragoon Guards (Prince of Wales' Own) Private D/9671 d 31 May 1915, buried West-Vlaanderen, Belg

B 1891 Sheffield, lived at 45 Stoughton Street, Grangeown (1901), later at No 30 with father John, a railway labourer. Died a day after being wounded. A builder's labourer, 5ft 9ins

HENDERSON, Percival Storey CWGC 791194 London Regiment (London Scottish) "B" Coy. 1st/14th Battalion Private 5193 d 1 July 1916, age:20 Son of Priscilla Stone Henderson, of Grange Gardens, and the late Robert S. Henderson, a ship repairers' clerk, previously of 67 Pentrebane Street and 66 Stockland Street..
ERRING, Edwin Erwyn CWGC 555963 Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) 46th Battalion Private 128899 d 4 Oct, 1918, age:21 Son of Albert and Elizabeth Herring, of 9, Eldon Rd., Cardiff; husband of Gertrude Rix (formerly Herring), of 58, Court Rd., Grangetown, Cardiff.
HIDA, S NOT FOUND Mercantile Marine S.S "Raven" Steward d 14 March 1918 The American steamship A A Raven was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB55 on March 14th 1918, off thé Scilly Islands.
HIGGINS, Harold CWGC 1753767 Welsh Regiment 17th Battalion Lance Corporal 25343 d 25 Nov 1917 Awarded a Military Medal. b 1897, lived at 55 Paget St, one of 10 children, his father Joseph was a Channel pilot. Previously lived at Cymmer St
HILL, George Frederick CWGC 2740175 Welsh Regiment 13th Battalion Corporal 64214 d 30 Aug 1918 Living at at 38 Hereford St, a labourer, married to Florence, 1912, with four children, the last born in Aug 1917, one died aged one of pneumonia two months after his father was killed. Had been promoted to corporal two months before he was killed. He was 5ft 5 ins.
HOOLEY Thomas John [Not HODEY]   Royal Navy H.M.S "Indefatigable" Able Seaman, 235562 d 31 May 1916 b 4 Apr 1889. Died at the Battle of Jutland, body not recovered. He was already in the Navy in 1911. His mother was Mary Hooley. 3 North St, Grangetown, Cardiff; he was brought up in Thomas Street
HOLDHAM, Frederick CWGC 1614523 Royal Garrison Artillery "X" 16th T.M Battery Battery Gunner 46912 d 18 June 1916, aged 29 at Ypres b 1887, lived at 106 Cornwall Street, a docks labourer, married to Leah, with daughter Selina
HOLLYMAN, Arthur Sidney CWGC 837008 Royal Welsh Fusiliers 1st Battalion Private 235552 d 26 Oct 1917, age 34 b 1883, son of the late John Samuel and Mary Kate Hollyman. In 1911, lived with his widowed mother at 16 Devon Street. She had died during the war and before he did and his next of kin was his brother John, who lived in Maindy. A Bristol-born shoemaker, who enlisted in April 1916. He was 5ft 4.5 inches tall
HOLMAN, Edward Clifford CWGC 621036 Welsh Regiment 2nd Battalion Lance Corporal 44819 d 21 Jan 1918, aged 24 b 1894, son of Edward and Emily J. Holman, of 111 Clive St., Grangetown, earlier 20 St Fagans Street. In 1911, he was a collier's boy, one of nine children born to a coal trimmer
HOOPER, William Walter CWGC 1614807 Dorsetshire Regiment 1st Battalion Private 3/8178 d 5 May 1915, age 24 Son of Devon-born Hugh Hooper (horse driver), 12 Sussex St., Grangetown, Cardiff. He was a road sweeper, one of four surviving children.
HOOPER, William J CWGC 617244 Royal Engineers, Inland Water Transport Acting Corporal WR/313664. 72770 d 18 Oct 1918. b 1892, a horse driver/general cargo worker living at 9 Holmesdale Street with wife Elizabeth Ann Hooper when enslisted; 5ft 41/2. Son of coal dealer William Hooper of Clive Street. Died from pneumonia in military hospital in Dunkirk.
HOPKINS, Herbert Maurice CWGC 567794 Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry 2nd/4th Battalion Corporal 202836 d 25 Nov 1917, age 22 b 1895, son of Hopkin Hopkins (a horse driver), of "Trelawny," Hastings Place, Cornerswell Gardens, Penarth. Born at Cardiff. In 1911, lived in 18 Penarth Rd and worked as a barber's assistant.
HORSEY, Alfred John CWGC 335362 Welsh Regiment 24th (Pembroke and Glamorgan Yeomanry) Battalion Private 56807 d 18 Sept 1918, aged 20


b 1897, son of Mrs. Mary Jane Horsey, of 65, Clive St., Cardiff. Previously lived at 62 Oakley St. His father Henry worked as a porter in the timber trade. One of nine surviving children.

HOWE, Charles W CWGC 596929 South Wales Borderers 5th Battalion Sergeant 5/18284 d 14 March 1916 b 1899, Gileston, Glamorgan. Residence given as Grangetown. Brought up at 16 Leckwith Rd
HUGHES, S.J NOT FOUND Welsh Regiment 13th Battalion Sergeant    
HUXTABLE, Charles CWGC 437848 Welsh Regiment 16th Battalion Private 23038 d 24 March 1917 b Devon 1883, a docks labourer who lived at 9 Kent St, Grangetown with wife Agnes (married 1904, in 1911 they had three children who had all died)
HUXTABLE, William John CWGC 794757 Welsh Guards 1st Battalion Lance Corporal 160   b Bristol 1894, a docks labourer; in 1911 he lived with his grandmother at 28 Ferry Road; his parents had lived at 169 Clive Street
For HUZZELL see UZZELL          
JAMES, Henry CWGC 641441 Welsh Regiment 1st/5th Battalion Private 15324 d 4 May 1917, age 22, Egypt b 1896, one of seven children to (William) Edward and Hannah James, of 17 Bromsgrove St. Worked as a priner's assistant.
JAMES, A NOT FOUND Welsh Regiment 19th Battalion Private   (There is an Albert James, b Canton d 12 Jul 1916 No 30479 CWGC 795451
JAMES, E NOT FOUND Welsh Regiment 2nd Battalion Private   CHECK PrivateService No:11752 Date of Death:16/07/1916
JARVIS, J NOT FOUND Mercantile Marine S.S "Freshfield" Seaman Gunner d 5 Aug 1918? Freshfield, on a voyage from Messina to Taranto, was sunk by the German submarine UC-25, off Capo Colonna. Three persons were lost
JENKINS, Arthur CWGC 37369 Welsh Regiment 2nd Battalion Private 39342 d 23 Aug 1916, age 24 b 1892, son of John and Hannah Jenkins, of 54, Stoughton St (Jubilee St), Grangetown, Cardiff; husband of Violet Jenkins. Brother of Walter John Jenkins below, who died in 1918. Living at 165 Clive St in 1911.
JENKINS, Walter John CWGC 1633416 Royal Guernsey Light Infantry 1st Battalion (Channel Islands Militia) Private 1945 d 21 March 1918 Prob 165 Clive St, b1888, unnable to work in 1911 due to infirmity - brother of Arthur above.
JENKINS, Thomas Frederick 'Fred' (not T.E) CWGC 591353 Welsh Regiment Major d 26 Feb 1919, age:36, in France b 1883 in Aberavon to father Tom and mother Alice Louisa; a school teacher at Grangetown Boys School; he was married to Louisa and lived at 12 Ryder St and later 128 King's Road, Canton at the time of his death, leaving £417 in his will. According to Grangetown Boys School records, Mr TF Jenkins was "gazetted as a second lieutenant and chief musketry officer to the Cardiff Battalion in March 1915 and was "for some months" on the staff of the Hythe School of Musketry as an instructor. In the May, he was promoted as First Lieutenant and acting adjutant to the 16th Battalion (City of Cardiff) Welsh Regiment. Capt T Fred Jenkins then visited the school in July 1917.
JENNINGS, Henry CWGC 484396 Welsh Regiment 1st Battalion Lance Corporal 13362 d 18 April 1915, age 35 Husband of Florence B. Jennings, of 37, Aberystwith St., Splott, Cardiff. B Bridgwater, Somerset; aged about 35 when he died; a gas operator who lived in Amherst St with his wife
JENSEN, Jens Christian CWGC 2976566 Mercantile Marine "Liffey Maid" Master d 25 Aug 1917, age 56 Husband of Lilly Lavinia Jensen, of 10, Alfreda Rd., Whitchurch, Glam.
JOHNS, Thomas George CWGC 871849 East Lancashire Regiment 11th Battalion Private 30466 d 12 April 1918 b Swansea 1898, lived at 65 Saltmead Rd (Stafford Rd), Grangetown. Father Hopkin Johns, a labourer. Previously lived at 34 Coedcae St, shortly after his birth.
JOHNSON, Alfred CWGC 335730 Welsh Regiment 11th Battalion Lance Corporal 15334 d 21 Sept 1915, age 24


Son of Isaac and Selina Johnson, formerly of 56 Corporation Rd, father a greengrocer; parents later living at 27 Tylcha Wen Crescent, Tonyrefail, Glam. Born in Cardiff, later living at 23 The Avenue, Tonyrefail and working as a an engine man below ground in a colliery.

JONES, Ivor George CWGC 1574816 London Regiment (Post Office Rifles) 1st/8th Battalion Rifleman 371938 d 21 May 1916, aged 19 b 1897, enlisted in Barry. Lived at 113 Clive Street, a telegraph messenger. His father George a bus driver at the Queen's Hotel
JONES, Mortimer CWGC 2759379 Rifle Brigade 3rd Battalion, buried in Cathays Cemetery Serjeant Z/743, aged 27 d 15 Oct 1918 - died of wounds at home B 1891, lived at 1 Cornwall Street; son of Maria Jones. A ship's painter/repairer, like his father William; one of seven children.
JONES, Henry John CWGC 42983 Royal Munster Fusiliers 2nd Battalion Acting Corporal 1168 d 6 October 1918, age:31 Husband of Daisy Florence Jones, of 7, Burt St., Docks, Cardiff.
JONES, W G NOT FOUND Royal Welsh Fusiliers Regiment Private    

JONES, William Norman

CWGC 1633952 Royal Welsh Fusiliers 1st Battn Private 15604 d 1 Oct 1917  
JONES, Philip Edward CWGC 1744387 South Wales Borderers 10th Battalion Private 49589 d 2 Sept 1918, age 19


Son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Jones, of 100, Clive St., Grangetown, Cardiff.

KEENAN, Ivor CWGC 2281732 The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 1st/5th Battalion Private 29147 d 1 Oct 1918, aged 19 B 1899, one of eight children to Elizabeth Keenan of 18 Redlaver Street, Grangetown, Cardiff, and the late Richard Henry Keenan, a coal trimmer. Brought up in Coedcae Street.
KINSON, Arthur CWGC 869273 Royal Welsh Fusiliers 13th Battalion Private 54324 d 10 March 1918, age:36 b 1882-85, son of William Kinson, a docks labourer of 12, Hewell St., Grangetown. Arthur was working as a docks labourer too.
KITCH, Arthur CWGC 265999 Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) 2nd Battalion Private 84688 d 15 Aug 1918, age 20 B 1898, son of Somerset-born Dan and Bessie Kitch, of 25, Durham St., Grangetown, Cardiff. Elder brother Charles (b1890) also served in war in Somerset Light Infantry. Their father worked in a flour mill.
LANDER, Alfred CWGC 782343 Worcestershire Regiment 4th Battalion Private 40651 d 23 April 1917, aged 23 b 1894, lived at 14 Hereford Street with his widowed mother Clara; an apprentice engraver in 1911.
LARSEN, Thomas Bert CWGC 1618303 King's Own Shropshire Light Infantry 5th Battalion Private 14938 d 25 Sept 1915, at Ypres b 1885, lodged at 27 Holmesdale St in 1911, working as a railway checker, with his wife Annie and young children Thomas George and Eva. His Norwegian-born father ran a boarding house in Bute St and he started work as an errand boy in the port.
LAUGHARNE, William Thomas CWGC 491750 The Buffs (East Kent Regiment) 7th Battalion Private G/13230 d 13 Oct 1917, age 23 b 1893, son of Benjamin (customs officer) and Esther Laugharne, of 118 Mardy St. Also lived at 9 Penhaved St in 1911. William was a law clerk in 1911.
LAWRENCE, Andrew CWGC 535769 Welsh Guards No.2 Company. 1st Battalion Private 155 d 29 Jan 1917, age 25 Son of Andrew and Mary Lawrence, of 31 Ferry Rd., Grangetown, Cardiff.
LEAWORTHY, J.J NOT FOUND South Staffordshire Regiment Private    
LEE, Thomas Charles ("Charlie") CWGC 2912207 Monmouthshire Regiment 1st Battalion Rifleman 230279 d 8 Oct 1918, age 21 Son of John Lee, a mason's labourer of 102 Cornwall St., Grangetown, Cardiff and wife Ada (formerly 71 Cornwall St). Working as an errand boy in 1911 and known as "Charlie".
LETTON, Frederick .John George CWGC 183547 Cheshire Regiment 1st Battalion Private 53669 d 21 Aug 1918, age 19 Son of George Henry, a corn warehouseman, and Lavinia Letton, of 1, Compton St., Grangetown; previously 21 Somerset St. He was a horse driver when he enlisted at the age of 18 in 1917. His record showed he was 5ft 3 ins tall; he was once punished for having dirty quarters. He left eight brothers and sisters.
LEWIS, Rees CWGC 1618896 Welsh Regiment 1st Battalion Private 9819 d 8 May 1915, age 27, Ypres Son of Mary Lewis of 31, Monmouth St and the late William Lewis. Also served 3.5 years in Egypt and India.
LEWIS, Reginald Alfred CWGC 800494 Welsh Regiment 9th Battalion Private 14093 d 23 July 1916, age 22 Son of George and Emily J. Lewis, of 42, Knole St
LEWIS,Samuel John CWGC 3059587 Mercantile Marine S.S "Boscastle" (West Hartlepool) Master d 7 April 1918, age 44 Son of William and Susan Lewis, of Brixham, Devon; husband of Matilda Lewis, of 220, Corporation Rd., Cardiff.
LEWIS, J.A CWGC 450457 South Wales Borderers 5th Battalion Private 29792 d 13 April 1918, age 29 Son of David and Mary Lewis, of Cardiff; husband of Beatrice Lewis, of 64, Upper Kincraig St., Roath, Cardiff.
LEWIS, Augustus CWGC 2759402 West Kent Regiment, 7th Battalion Lance Corporal d 22 July 1916, buried Cathays b 1890 Pembrokeshire (St Clears, Carmarthenshire), living at 7 Ferry Road, Grangetown in 1911 with his brother Willie Richard Lewis, working as a casual labourer.
LIGHTFOOT, James CWGC 539136 Welsh Regiment, 16th Battalion Private, 24211 d 21 May 1916 son of Mr. J. Lightfoot, of 21 Wedmore Rd., Grangetown, Cardiff. * Not on memorial?*
* LINHAM, Frank CWGC 1619041 Dorsetshire Regiment 1st Battalion Lance Corporal 10709 d 3 May 1915, aged 18 b 1897 Springbourne, Hants and enlisted in Bournemouth; was working there as a gardener when he enlisted * Not sure of Grangetown connection
LLOYD, Jubilee John 'Jack' CWGC 1619168 Welsh Regiment 2nd Battalion Private 8476 d 29 Oct 1914, aged 27 b 1887, husband of Mary Amelia Lloyd (nee Clarke, married 1913). In 1911, was billeted with the Welsh Regiment in Egypt. Son of stone mason Hugh Lloyd, of 71 Paget Street; brought up at 17 Hewell St
LOCKYER, Levi Amos CWGC 1619237 Welsh Regiment 1st Battalion Private 13246 d 25 May 1915, age 18 Son of George Henry and Bertha Ann Lockyer, of 35 Redlaver Street; worked as an errand boy with a ship chandler in 1911. Only son of Devon-born parents, his father a coal trimmer in the docks. He was brought up in North Clive Street - had five sisters.
LONG, Samuel John CWGC 3046382 Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve S.S "Beacon Light" Leading Seaman Wales Z2838 d 19 Feb 1918 b 1898 Killed in action with a submarine near the butt of Lewis. son of Samuel and
Mabel Long, of 7, Earl St., Cardiff; his brother William was also killed while serving in the Royal Navy reserve (see below)
LONG, William Henry CWGC 3043881 Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve H.M.S "Vanguard" Able Seaman Wales Z/1185 d 9 July 1917, age 22 b 1895, son of Samuel and Mabel Long, of 7, Earl St., Cardiff; husband of Clara Novello Long, of 22, Angelina St., Cardiff. Was a dock labourer in 1911. His brother Samuel (above) was three years younger and they were among seven surviving children living at 34 Oakley St in 1911.
LONN John William CWGC 2866591 Royal Navy H.M.S "Defence" Able Seaman J/24423 d 31 May 1916, age 18 - Battle of Jutland b 15 Feb 1898, son of Minnie Leah Lonn, of 14 Kent Street. Brought up in Andrews Terrace, Earl Street. His father John was a German born merchant seaman from Hamburg; he was the eldest of six children. Among 903 crew to perish when the ship was destroyed at the Battle of Jutland - it exploded after being hit by German fire.
LUSCOMBE, Charles Henry CWGC 1746220 Welsh Regiment 13th Battalion Corporal 23347 d 27 Aug 1918, age 31

Son of Charles Henry and Selina Luscombe; husband of Mary Ellen Thomas (formerly Luscombe) of 15, Oakley Street. They were living at 5 St Fagans Street in 1911, having just married. Charles was working as a fitter's helper in a ship repair yard. His widowed mother had lived in Bromsgrove St.

MACEY, Edwin Walter (NB: Not MACEY G.W) CWGC 3077435 Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), 7th Battalion Corporal, initially a Private, Formerly 631, Welsh Horse, G/24775 d 29 May 1917 b 1898; lived at 12 Cambridge St, the son of a postman
MAGGS, Christopher James CWGC 1634210 Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Anson Battalion. R.N Division Able Seaman R/2947 d 26 October 1917, age 30 Husband of Mrs E. J. V. Maggs, of 29 Dorset Street.
MAIN, Joseph Leslie CWGC 691315 Gloucester Regiment Corporal 10399 d 8 Aug 1915 in Gallipoli; Also listed as Joseph Henry Main. b 1889 lived at 104 Holmesdale Street with his uncle, he was a docks labourer, his late father Thomas was a mariner.
McGUINESS, John Patrick CWGC 3043922 Royal Naval Reserve H.M.S "Carnarvon" Stoker 22015    
MARSHALL, Frederick Richard CWGC 166778 Devonshire Regiment 8th Battalion Private 10895 d 30 Sept 1915, France/Flanders, buried at Chocques Born in London, poss 1878. Worked at Grangetown gas works.
MARSHALL, S.J NOT FOUND Mercantile Marine S.S "Westgate" Engineer   SS Westgate was a British cargo steamer.. On the 7th Janaury 1919 she sailed from Barry for Malta with a cargo of coal and went missing with 35 casualties.
MARTIN, Alfred CWGC 261953 Welsh Regiment 16th Battalion Private 23532 d 8 March 1916, age 22 One of 14 children to Frank and Martha Martin, of 22 Devon Place, Grangetown; his London-born father a dock's labourer on steam ships; a labourer and husband of Annie Poole (formerly Martin), of 52, Daniel St., Cathays, Cardiff.
MARTIN, William CWGC 805130 Welsh Regiment 19th Battalion Serjeant 31389 d 10 July 1916, aged 38 Prob b 1878, North Shields, Tyneside - living at 69 Marion St in 1911, with wife Margery and young children George and Margery; worked as an iron turner
MATHER, James.John CWGC 519498 Bedfordshire Regiment 4th Battalion Private 43743, Formerly 45600, S Wales Borderers. d 30 Aug 1918, age 32 Son of William and Annie Mather, of 182 Clive St., Grangetown, Cardiff; husband of Martha Richards (formerly Mather), of 35, Harrowby St., Docks, Cardiff. Worked as a printer's labourer in 1911 and lived at 87 Ferry Rd.
MAYNARD, Horace CWGC 73338 Welsh Regiment 19th Battalion Lance Corporal 23441 d 18 July 1918, aged 23 b 1895, lived at Ferry Road (No 7 and previously No 81), his widowed mother Mary Ann had nine children
MAYNE, William Benjamin CWGC 503959 Lancashire Fusiliers 1st/8th Battalion Private 307300 d 31 Oct 1918, age 30 Son of (Elizabeth) Susan Mayne, of 9, Bradford St., Grangetown, working as a butcher's assistant; husband of Emily Mayne, of 81, Wyererne Rd., Cathays, Cardiff.
MCARTHY, D NOT FOUND Welsh Regiment 16th Battalion Private    
McCALLUM, Norman Stewart CWGC 3059860 Mercantile Marine S.S "Joseph Chamberlain" (West Hartlepool) First Engineer d 18 Sept 1917, age:26 Son of Daniel and Annie McCallum; husband of Mabel Helen McCallum (nee Berry), of 8, Grange Gardens. The SS Aiwen (formerly known as the Joseph Chamberlain) was on a voyage from Arkhangelsk to Dieppe with a cargo of timber, was sunk by a German submarine 50 miles off Muckle Flugga. Among 18 peeople who died..
MCFARLANE, George CWGC 734943 Highland Light Infantry 10th Battalion Private 12459 d 25 Sept 1915 Prob b 1892 Cardiff, living at 195 Penarth Road with Scottish parents - credit draper father John and mother Jessie in 1911.
MCLAREN, David.L CWGC 2759421 Royal Naval Reserve H.M.S "Ashtree" Sub-Lieutenant d 21 July 1918 -illness Husband of Emily McLaren, of 41, Romilly Rd. West, Victoria Park, Canton, Cardiff.
MELEAN, John CWGC 2759430 Tank Corps "A" Coy. Depot Private 302500 d 22 Feb 1919 in Southampton b 1881, lived at 145 Clive Street, married to Madeline and had nine children; a ship repairer/labourer. He was brought up at 21 Oakley St, where his father was Norwegian and his mother Irish. Buried at Cathays Cemetery. Family story: He died of pneumonia in hospital - his wife had travelled to see him but arrived too late. She brought up their children and lived in the house until her death in 1969, aged 91.
MILLER, Nicholas CWGC 83240 Royal Fusiliers 24th Battalion Private 7519 d 18 April 1918, age 19 Son of Nicholas and Annie Miller, of 1, Lucknow St ("The London Style Inn").
MORGAN, Charles Henry NOT FOUND Royal Navy H.M.S "Marlborough" Able Seaman (also on memorial as Stoker) d 31 March 1916 b 5 Dec 1895, lived at 29 Thomas St with mother Elizabeth. One of two men killed when the ship was hit by a torpedo at the battle of Jutland. Body not recovered. With the Royal Navy volunteer reserve.
MOULD, John William NOT FOUND Royal Navy R.F.A Eng Lieutenant   In Oct 1917 was serving as a temp engineer sub lieutenant on the Wave, in the Royal Navy Reserve, b 1881, lived at 23 Amherst Street, in 1901 was a ship's fitter.
MUNCK, Peter J CWGC 2759450 Welsh Regiment 3rd Battalion Corporal 24158 d 27 April 1918, aged 31 at home b 1888, when he enlisted in the Cardiff Battalion he was living at 2 Chester Street, married Flora Davies in 1909 and working as a labourer. They had three surviving children Ellen Margaret, Rosie and Norah - the youngest born in 1915, son John had died. He was born in Newport and lived in 1901 with his widowed mother Ellen Mary Munck, a washerwoman, in Ebenezer Terrace. His records show he was promoted to corporal in Dec 1915. Of "good character" but was discharged in March 1918, suffering from turberculosis and died in Newport a month later. He is buried at Cathays Cemetery. His records show he spent eight months in France in 1916 before coming home in August, until his death - he also suffered from a rectal abcess.
MURPHY, Daniel CWGC 2743804 Royal Munster Fusiliers Private, 2627 died at home 2 Jan 1916 and buried in Cork (Poss 18 Durham Street, engine driver in gas works, b 1891, son of Cork-born man)
MURRAY, James CWGC 556965 Welsh Regiment 16th Battalion Serjeant 23031 d 7 July 1916, aged 21 b 1894, lived in Penarth and worked as a gardener in 1911. (NB: It's not James Murray, b 1877 of Warwick St)
NEILSON,C.A NOT FOUND Welsh Regiment 16th Battalion Lance Corporal    
NEWBY, Thomas CWGC 647713 Welsh Regiment 24th (Pembroke & Glamorgan Yeomanry) Battalion Serjeant 320513 d 1 Dec 1917, age 39 b 1880 Lampeter, son of John and Elizabeth Newby, of Cardiff; husband of Maud Mary Newby, of 16 Corporation Rd - in 1911 they had two children Thomas and Maudie. Family say Thomas and his two brothers were masons by trade and worked as coal trimmers at Barry Docks when war broke. His two brothers also served in the war - John, and William (b 12 April 1878), a mason, also served in the Glamorgan Yeomanry and signed up for more service after the war.
NOAD, Augustus .Joseph CWGC 2759454 Royal Navy, HMS Millbrook Leading Signalman d 27 Feb 1919, of disease. b 11 Sep 1896, seaman. Buried in Cardiff cemetery; son of Alfred Noad, painter and picture framer of 2 Sevenoaks St, Grangetown; wife: Olive May Noad, 21 Smith Street, Splott Cardiff - also lived at Broadclyst, Devon.
NORMAN, A NOT FOUND Glamorgan Yeomanry Trooper    
NOYES, John CWGC 832441 Welsh Regiment 9th Battalion Private 52991 d 15 April 1918, aged 32 Prob: b 1886, lived at 5 Clive Street in 1911, worked as a self-employed hairdresser, married to Frances and had a daughter. Formerly of 64 Hewell Street, where his father was a blacksmith's assistant.
NOYES, John CWGC 2943370 Royal Field Artillery "D" Battery. 52nd Army Brigade Driver 118316 d 11 Oct 1918, aged 20 b 1897, lived at 15 Madras St, youngest son of labourer Thomas and Rachel Noyes - previously of 10 Thomas St..
O'CALLAGHAN, Patrick Hugh CWGC 2759462 Royal Field Artillery 2nd Welsh Brigade Ammunition Column Driver 1095 d 9 Nov 1917, age 20, buried in Cathays on 16 Nov When he enlisted he lived at 81 Saltmead Rd and worked as an engine cleaner for the Cardiff Washed Coal Co. Son of James Bernard and Edith O'Callaghan, of 64 Court Rd., Grangetown. Records show he was discharged in Sept 1914 after an accident in Shrewsbury which led to swelling and retinal damage, but his eyesight had already been failing. By the following October was totally incapaciated and receiving an Army pension.
O'LEARY,W.J NOT FOUND Royal Navy H.M.S "Vivid" Eng Navigator    
OLIVER,W NOT FOUND Royal Navy H.M.S "Taff" Seaman    
OLSEN, T NOT FOUND Royal Navy H.M.S "Gosamer" Seaman    
O'SHEA E (See SHEA Edward) NOT FOUND Welsh Regiment 9th Battalion Private    
OSMOND, Henry CWGC 594420 Devon Regiment "A" Company. 9th Battalion Private 14614 d 3 Oct 1915, aged 29 Enlisted in Cardiff. Son of Mr. W. H. and Mrs. B. Osmond, of Tiverton; husband of Lucy E. Osmond, of 8, Chapel St., Tiverton.
OWENS,William CWGC 1560200 Welsh Regiment 2nd Battalion Private 24696 d 9 May 1915, age 27 b 1888, husband of Ethel Owens, of 2, Bromfield St., Grangetown, Cardiff.
PACKER, George William CWGC 96752 Royal Garrison Artillery 113th Battery Acting Bombadier 348213 d 15 Oct 1917 b 1890, fruit salesman, living at 48 Dorset St, with father Frederick, a flour mill labourer, one of six children.
PARKER, George.Charles CWGC 438674 Cheshire Regiment 10th Battalion Private 260122 d 26 April 1918, age 38 b 1880 Bridgewater, a stableman, son of George and Elizabeth Parker; husband of Sarah Ann Parker, of 63 Kent St., Grangetown, Cardiff. They married in 1902, by 1911, they had three young children.. .
PARSONS,William Arnold Thomas CWGC 1755816 PROB: Welsh Regiment 16th Battalion Private 26492 d 25 Nov 1917, aged 29 b 1888, lived at 13 Bradford Street, Grangetown, with father William, a docks labourer and mother Mary.
PARTRIDGE, Thomas CWGC 179246 Welsh Guards 1st Battalion Private 1521

d 27 March 1918, aged 24

Prob: b 1893, lived at 15 Ferry Road, a docks labourer, who lived with his father Alfred
PASLEY, William Ewart CWGC 513069 South Lancashire Regiment 4th Bn. attd. 1st/4th Bn. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment; Royal Army Medical Corps Second Lieutenant d 17 June 1918, aged 23

b Cardiff 1894, married Dorothy Marshall, December 1917 - Dorothy Pasley, died in May 1921, a widow, aged 26, at her father's house in 154 Clive Street.

 

PATES, Alexander CWGC 485522 Welsh Regiment 1st Battalion Private 8891 d 26 Oct 1914 b 1888 Aberdeen; had already joined the Welsh Regiment by 1911 - his family once lived at 73 Hewell St, where his Irish-born father George was a docks labourer (1901) and later a night watchman at a park, in 1911 he lived at 17 Ferry Rd
PAYNE,A NOT FOUND Royal Army Service Corps Driver    
PAYNE, Robert CWGC 297324 Mercantile Marine S.S "Llongwen" (Cardiff) Donkeyman d 18 July 1916, age 61 Poss the oldest Grangetown casualty of the war - son of the late John and Eliza Catherine Payne; husband of Anna Elizabeth Payne (nee Van Hoof), of 5, Bromfield St., Grangetown, Cardiff. Born in London. The ship was on a voyage from Naples to Barry, when sunk by the German submarine U-39 (Walter Forstmann), 90 miles n/e of Algiers. He was one of 14 persons were lost.
PEARSON, James Richard CWGC 2905081 Welsh Guards, 1st Battalion Private 1517 d 28 Jan 1917, at home b 1890, born at 11 Amherst St and lived at 26 Oakley St with father Richard, a dock labourer and mother Isabella
PERRY, John Inkerman CWGC 18990 Welsh Guards 1st Battalion Lance Corporal 1907 d 5 Sept 1918, age 22 Son of George and Agnes Perry, of 27, Cornwall St., Cardiff.
PHILLIPS, Windsor CWGC 2759487 Welsh Regiment 11th Battalion Private 14139 2 July 1915, buried at Cathays

b 1897, lived at 43 Amherst St in 1911, with father John, a shipwright and wife Ellen; he was an errand boy for a newsagent.

PIMM, H NOT FOUND Australian Infantry Force Private   Check William Henry Pimm, 1420 d :19 May 1915 at Gallipoli. Regiment/Service:Australian Infantry, A.I.F; poss b 1892, son of boatman from Pomeroy St in Docks).
PLAIN, Percy Joseph William CWGC 475260 Royal Field Artillery "A" Battery. 267th Brigade Gunner 730535 d 6 May 1918, age 22 Son of Joseph and Annie Plain, of 55, Penhevad St., Grangetown,
PORTEOUS, George Robert CWGC 1560687 Welsh Regiment 2nd Battalion Private 13379 d 5 May 1915, age 18 Son of George and Annie Porteous, of 218, Clive St., Grangetown
PORTER, W.S CWGC 2759492 North Staffordshire Regiment 9th Battalion Private 50065 d 10 Oct 1918, age 26 Husband of Hilda Beatrice Porter, of 57 Ferry Rd., Grangetown, Cardiff. Born at Cardiff.
POWER, Richard CWGC 2973561 Mercantile Marine S.S "Mary Baird" (West Hartlepool) Mate d 18 May 1917, age 45 b 1873, son of the late Morris and Martha Power; husband of Sarah Catherine Power (nee Davies, b 1874), of 40, Dinas St., Grangetown. Born at Porthcawl. In 1911, he lived at 38 Coedcae St - they had a daughter Annie, born 1902. On steam ship - one of seven lives lost when it struck a mine hit by a U-boat.
PRESTON, Charles Alexander CWGC 2759497 Royal Navy H.M.S "Q.7 Ship's Steward Assistant M/15991 d 16 Jan 1918 Son of William and Dorothy Preston, of 95, Paget St., Grange, Cardiff.
PRICE,G NOT FOUND Essex Regiment Private    
PRICE,A.E (Henry Edward) CWGC 723685 Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) Private 9651 Prob: d 20 Sep 1914 Prob: b 1883 Leominster, Hereford, enlisted at Chesterfield and lived in Cardiff
PRIEST, C NOT FOUND Royal Navy H.M.M.S No.7 Stoker    
PURNELL, Thomas CWGC 2895035 Royal Garrison Artillery 68th Heavy Battery Gunner 112246    
QUANCE, Clifford Thomas CWGC 115742 Royal Irish Fusiliers 6th Battalion Serjeant 15623 d 15 Sept 1915, age:19 in Malta b 14 Nov 1896, son of Robert (a haulier) and Maud Quance, of 13, Paget St., Grangetown, formerly 76 Holmesdale St. Had worked as a cleaner at Cardiff railway station
REED, William CWGC 1652032 Welsh Regiment 11th Battalion. "D" Company Lance Corporal 15475 d 18 Sept 1918, age:25 in Salonika Hull-born son of Florence Reed, of 101 Marion St., Splott, Cardiff, and the late William Reed. He was an enameler at a plate works; lived at 53 Ferry Rd in 1911, his father was a grocer
REED, (Nicholas) Adam Trute CWGC 2867088 Royal Navy H.M.S "Indefatigable Armourer's Crew M/12279, second engineer

d 31 May 1917, age 24 - body not recovered

b 16 Aug 1896, lived at 37 Holmesdale St. son of the late David and Mary Rees. Born at Pembrey, Carmarthenshire. His father was a shipyard worker, who was living at 4 Bromfield St when he died. Adam was working as an errand boy in 1911. HMS Indefatigable was sunk on 31 May 1916.
REED, Sydney Francis CWGC 428053 Welsh Regiment 23rd Battalion Private 44668 d 5 Feb 1920, age 29, Gallipoli/Turkey b 1891, son of Henry George and Elizabeth Reed, of 96 Holmesdale St., Grangetown, Cardiff. Born at Bridgewater, Somerset. Buried at Haidar Pasha Cemetery, Istanbul. His father was a dry dock labourer.
REES, David Edmunds CWGC 3031914 Mercantile Marine S.S "Camelata" (Swansea) Second Engineer    
REES, Leslie Harold CWGC 1587284 Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) "C" Coy. 10th Battalion Private 74189 d 21 April 1918, age:21 Son of John and Emma Rees, of 33, Corporation Rd., Cardiff. His father was an engine fitter.
REES, George.Herbert CWGC 273885 Rifle Brigade 3rd Battalion, (The Prince Consort's Own) Rifleman 290 d 14 October 1914, of wounds Residence Ely?
REES, George Richard Francis CWGC 285123 Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Anson Bn. R.N. Div Leading Seaman Bristol Z/145 d 1 October 1918, aged 21 Son of James Francis, a labourer, and Kate Elizabeth Rees, of 169a, Clive Street, Grangetown. In 1911, his mother had eight children, six of them had died.
REGAN ,D CWGC 165502 Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 2nd/5th Battalion Private 244882  


Son of Jeremiah and Margaret Regan; husband of Edith Regan, of 7, Grove Terrace, Llandow, Cowbridge, Glam.

REGAN, James CWGC 687474 Royal Munster Fusiliers, 7th Battalion Private 1414 d 9 Aug 1915 Gallipoli Born 1883, poss of 73 Cornwall Street, in 1911 lived with wife Mary and three young children, a coal trimmer. On memorial, husband of Mary Gibson (formerly Regan), of 70 Raglan St., Newport, Mon. Mary Regan married Charles Gibson in autumn 1916.
RENWICK, George CWGC 520386 Military Police Corps Military Foot Police Lance Corporal P/5193 d 19 Oct 1917
age: c30
B 1885, son of Andrew and Caroline Renwick, of 3 Bradford St, Grangetown, formerly 20 Ludlow St; husband of Emma Barrett (formerly Renwick, married in 1911), of 5, Plantation Rd., Abercynon. His mother was a widow, mother of eight and born in Co Kerry, his late father a shipwright, born in Sunderland. George was the fourth son and the first to be born in Cardiff after the family moved from the north east of England. He enlisted in Mountain Ash.
RICH, Alfred F CWGC 1551122 Welsh Regiment 19th Battalion Private 31352 d 11 July 1916, aged c43 B 1872, Nether Stowey, Somerset, worked at Grangetown Gas Works for 17 years, lived at 50 Wedmore Rd; married to Gwenllian (nee Evans), with five children. Educated at Grangetown Council School and was a keen athete (walker), according to his obit. Family story: Killed whilst removing barbed wire during the Battle of the Somme, Mametz Wood, France.
RICH, Douglas Tom CWGC 25424 King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry "D" Company. 9th Battalion Private 14851 d 28 April 1918, aged 20 B 19 March 1898, son of Alfred and Annie Rich, of 64 North Clive St., Grangetown. His father was a police constable. Douglas worked on the railways for Great Western as a teenager as a call boy from 1913 before joining the Army in September 1914.
RICHARDS, William Henry CWGC 239798 Welsh Regiment 17th Battalion Private 46293 d 24 April 1917
age 35
B Cardiff. Husband of Mrs. M. L. Richards, of 66 Somerset Terrace, Windmill Hill, Bedminster, Bristol.
RICHARDS, Charles French CWGC 328132 Gloucestershire Regiment 2nd/4th Battalion; 2/4th (City of Bristol) Battalion, Territorial Private 3803 d 5 July 1916, aged 24 B 1892, son of Mrs Amy Richards, a mother-of-10, of 14 Clare Rd., Cardiff. Charles worked with his younger brother Albert as a butcher's assistant before the War. His father John, was a self-employed haulier and before that a blacksmith.
RICHARDS,W.H NOT FOUND Royal Defence Corps Private    

RIDDICK, Henry

CWGC 172178 Somerset Light Infantry 8th Battalion Private 16314 d 3 July 1916, age 19 b Bedminster, Bristol, enlisted in Cardiff. Son of Mrs Emma Riddick, of 54 Stoughton St., Grangetown, Cardiff. Poss working with his older brother at 14 in coal mining in Pontypool in 1911.
RIDLAND,W.C NOT FOUND Machine Gun Corps Private    

REID, Peter

CWGC 623768 Welsh Regiment 11th Battalion Corporal 14857 d 14 Sept 1916, age 22, Salonika, buried Karasouli, Greece B 1893, son of Mr and Mrs. Alexander Gow Reid and Martha Reid of 13, Llanbradach St., Cardiff. Native of West Hartlepool. Lived for a time at 65 Kent St. Poss working as a cook in Llandrindod Wells hotel in 1911.
REID,William.Coventry CWGC 2742611 Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) 1st Battalion Private 109063 d 29 May 1918, age 19 Son of George and Florence Seaward Reid of 4, Grange Gardens, Cardiff. Born at Cardiff. Formerly of 45 St Fagan's St, his father a ship repairer. Enlisted in May 1917, and was in the Army for just over a year, when the family lived in 53 Llanmaes St and he worked as a customs clerk. They had moved to Grange Gardens when he died - two days after being reported missing. He had left the UK after training in March 1918. 5ft 41/2 inches tall

ROBERTS, John B

CWGC 334785 Welsh Regiment 11th Battalion Private 14651 d 18 Sept 1918, age 30 Son of Thomas Bliss Roberts and Ellen Roberts. Native of Cardiff.

ROBINSON, L

NOT FOUND Welsh Regiment 2nd Battalion Private    

ROBINSON, W T

NOT FOUND Royal Field Artillery Gunner    
ROSEWARNE, William Pearcey CWGC 479003 Welsh Regiment 18th Battalion Private 202769 d 15 April 1918, aged 21 b 1897, lived at 8 Knowle Street, worked as an errand boy. His father George, who had six children, worked as a boilermaker's assistant.
RUMNEY, Gideon CWGC 640863 Royal Field Artillery 102nd Brigade Gunner 28358 d 21 Oct 1918, age 25; buried at Montecchio Prcalino, Italy Lived at 157 Clive Street - his father John was a tug fireman; in 1911, youngest of four children, Gideon was a casual labourer in 1911.His brigade had moved to Italy in October 1917 where they fought in the Battle of Asiago and the Battle of Vittorio Veneto.
RYAN, H NOT FOUND London Regiment 2nd Battalion Private    
SAUNDERS,W NOT FOUND Welsh Regiment 2nd Battalion Private   Poss William Saunders CWGC 1561717 d 9 May 1915, Private 14027 - there was a William Saunders living at 41 Allerton St, b 1884
SHAW, Thomas.Walter CWGC 557134 Welsh Regiment "C" Company. 16th Battalion Private 23433 d 7 July 1916, age 22 Son of Laura Shaw, 22, Hewell St.. Born at Cardiff, one of seven children in 1901. His father William was a docks labourer, born in Bristol.
O'SHEA Edward CGWC 1768818 Welsh Regiment 9th Battalion Private 13992 d 25 Sept1915, Loos b 1882, plumber of 34 Llanmaes Street, married to Florrie with two young children

SHECHAN, I

NOT FOUND Welsh Regiment 6th Battalion Private    
SHORNEY, Frederick .Alfred CWGC 1756659 Royal Fusiliers 24th Battalion Private 1126 d 30 Nov 1917, aged 37 b Bedminster, 1880, Bristol. Lived at 33 Rhydlafer St with widowed mother Sarah Ann Shorney in 1891. Husband of Mrs H Thomas, of Vine Tree Cottage, Llanbadoc, Usk, Mon.
SIMMONS, Evan Walter James CWGC 3038473 Royal Navy HMS Queen Mary Ordinary Signalman J/26550 d 31 May 1916, age 18 B St Dogmaels, Cardigan, and brought up in Tenby, eldest of six children to William James Simmons (former coastguard, turned bank messenger) and Elizabeth Simmons, of 39, St. Fagans St., Grangetown, Cardiff.; the battleship was sunk at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916 - she was shelled, exploded and sank quickly in the North Sea, off Denmark - the wreck is a protected war grave. 1,266 crewmen were lost, only 20 survived.

SIMS, Benjamin

CWGC 1647042 Welsh Regiment 1st/4th Battalion Private 201824 d 26 March 1917, age 33 Son of Isabella Sims, of 16, Pentrebane St., Grangetown, Cardiff, and the late Samuel Sims.
SKINNER, Charles David CWGC 263352 Royal Welsh Fusiliers 16th Battalion Private 78325 d 4 Nov 1918, age 19 b 1899, son of Amy Skinner, of 71 Court Rd.

SMALLBRIDGE, C

NOT FOUND Royal Navy H.M.S "Warwick" Private    

SMART, Betram George

CWGC 341758 Royal Garrison Artillery 130th Siege Battery Gunner 84861 d 19 Sept 1918, age:18 b 1900, son of Southampton-born William Thomas and Lucy Jane Smart, of 70 Clare Rd; lived at 16 Cornwall St in 1911. His father worked as a machine engine fitter.
SMITH,William Henry CWGC 572011 Welsh Regiment 15th Battalion Private 23605 d 5 Nov 1918 (Record says b Newport; POSS: there is a WH Smith at 18 Llanmaes St, b 1887, a coal tipper; and one living at 43 Kent St, b 1881, a shipwright, both born Cardiff)
SMITH, T A NOT FOUND Royal Army Service Corps Driver    
SMITH, Francis Henry CWGC 344513 Royal Field Artillery 416th Battery Driver 730243 d 20 Nov 1917, age 20 Son of John and Harriet Edith Smith, of 11 Penhevad St.
SMITH, Cornelius Patrick CWGC 1659455 Royal Welsh Fusiliers 8th Battalion Private 5129 d 9 April 1916, aged 22 Mesopotamia (buried Basra, Iraq) b 1894. Lived at 79 Saltmead Road (now Stafford Rd), an engine cleaner with the Cardiff Railway Co, his father Daniel a coach trimmer

SMITHYMAN, Ernest Henry

CWGC 1748942 King's Own Shropshire Light Infantry 7th Battalion Private 27219 d 11 Aug 1918 b1887, lived at 14 Holmesdale St, worked as a baker; last address was at 3 Coronation St, Aberkenfig, libing with wife Amelia and daughter Catherine
SPARKES, Harry CWGC 3032881 Mercantile Marine S.S "Rosalie" (Cardiff) Third Engineer d 20 Feb 1917, age 31 Son of Mary Sparkes (nee Mason), of 37, Stockland St., Grangetown, Cardiff, and the late Charles Sparkes, a dry dock rigger. Harry was a ship's engineer, one of five survivng children. The SS Rosalie was a John Cory cargo ship travelling from New York to Salonica with a cargo of munitions and oats, when she was sunk by U-boat U-39 just off Algeria. Harry was one of 21 crew lost.
STAFFORD, George Edward CWGC 2759543 Royal Defence Corps 112th Company Private 71145 d 3 Match 1919, London, age 20, buried at Cathays Cemetery b 1899, son of Sunderland-born George and Florence Stafford, of 57 Dorset St. In 1911, he was one of nine surviving children, his father and two elder brothers were all ship's painters. Born at 12 Oakley Street.
STAUBER, John William   Mercantile Marine "Lake Edon" Steward d August 21 1918 Lake Edon, on a voyage from Barry with a cargo of coal, was sunk by the German submarine U-107 (Kurt Siewert), off Newquay. 16 persons were lost. B 1873, married Sarah Stauber 1900, lived at 7 Maitland Place, Grangetown with two children
STEVENS, Joseph Henry CWGC 3033024 Mercantile Marine S.S "Dowlais" (Cardiff) Second Engineer d 3 Dec 1917, age:30 Son of John Wylie Stevens and May Helen Stevens; husband of Ethel May Stephens (nee Evans). Born at Maryborough, Ross-shire.
STEWART, John Henry CWGC 3033057 Mercantile Marine S.S "Ventmoor" (London) Assistant Cook d 14 Feb 1918, age:15

* One of the youngest casualties from Grangetown (see Arthur Brown below) - son of Mary Ann Stewart (nee Hurlow), of 15a, Corporation Road. Cardiff, and the late James Hutton Stewart (b Perth, 1872), lived at 27 Paget Street. Born at Cardiff. Drowned as a result of an attack by an enemy submarine. The cargo streamer was torpedoed UC37, off Skyros in the Aegean Sea and en route from Mudros for Sfax. John was among 21 mariners lost their lives. According to the Echo in March 1918: "This was young Stewart's second voyage. He was an old Court Road schoolboy and was only 15 1/2 years old. Before going to sea he was employed at Windsor slipway."

SUMMERHAYES, Herbert ("Bertie") Stanley Percy

CWGC 814147 Somerset Light Infantry 6th Battalion Private 17510 d 16 Sept 1916, Somme Prob: B 1897-99 Taunton, Somerset, son of widow Maria Summerhayes, worked as an errand boy for a cafe and lived at 79 Ferry Road. Enlisted in Bristol.
SWEET, Robert Jenkin CWGC 2939657 Royal Army Medical Corps 18th Field Ambulance Serjeant 366174 d 9 Oct 1918, age 25 Son of Robert and Annie Sweet, of 95 Penarth Rd., Grangetown. Worked as an assistant to his Somerset-born father in the family baking business. Joined in Nov 1914, promoted to corporal in 1915 - a month in hospital with trench fever - and was acting sergeant from Dec 1917 with the 2nd Welsh Field Ambulance. Records show list of effects: religious book, note book, fountain pen, wrist watch, photos, pocket wallet, 9ct gold ring and pocket knife.
SYMONS, George NOT FOUND Royal Engineers     Poss SYMONS George, Sapper Exmouth, Devon d 2 Aug 1917 enlisted Cardiff 91536
TARR, Peter CWGC 2759555 Welsh Regiment 3rd Battalion Private 2706 d 13 Feb 1915, aged 48, Buried at Cathays Prob: B 1867? Son of Peter and Sarah Tarr, of Cymich, Bridgwater, Somerset. Living at 5 Earl Street, Grangetown at one time, and later at 25 Earl Street and 28 Oakley Street, working as a shipyard labourer and iron worker - married with children. Father was a mariner.
TARR, George Okey CWGC 1760370 Durham Light Infantry 1st/5th Battalion Private 91574 d 27 May 1918, age 19 Son of Margaret Margate (formerly Tarr), of 143, Clive St., Grangetown, Cardiff, and the late William Tarr. Living at 18 Amherst St in 1911, as houskeeper to James Margate; and 69 Hewell St in 1901
TAYLOR, William Albert CWGC 277476 Welsh Regiment 16th Battalion Private 32566 d 21 Oct 1917 Poss: B 1898, son of George Henry Taylor, 48 Holmesdale St
THOMAS, George Edward CWGC 623971 Welsh Regiment 11th Battalion Private d 14 Sept 1916 Parents Ernest J and Mary Jane lived at 2 Vishwell Rd, Canton - *Grangetown connection not known
THOMAS, Arthur CWGC 815594 Welsh Regiment 16th Battalion Lance Corporal 23326 d 7 July 1916 (There is an Arthur Edwin Thomas, b 1888, living at 10 Fermdale St with his wife Florence Edith; her was a ship's riveter),
*THOMAS, William J CWGC 607434 Royal Army Medical Corps 2nd (Welsh) Field Ambulance Private 1477 d 13 Aug 1915, aged 21 at Gallipolo b 1894 Radyr, son of John and Anne Thomas, of 56 Thesiger St., Cathays, Cardiff; he worked as a stationary engine man at a steelworks. * Unsure of Grangetown connection
THOMAS, Owen George (Not E) CWGC 625630 Royal Army Service Corps, 22nd Reserve Park Driver, T2/10835 d 22 Sept 1916, aged 22, of malaria, Greece

b 1894, son of Augusta Thomas, 66 Mardy Street, Grangetown; formerly of Cathays Terrace

THOMAS, Albert David CWGC 2759559 Royal Field Artillery Acting Bombadier d 9 Jan 1918 at home, buried in Cathays  
THOMAS, Charles Harwood CWGC 269823 Royal Field Artillery Driver 12226 d 2 May 1917, aged 24 b 1893, his father Charles was a glass and China seller and mother was Maria, the family living at 21 Staughton St (Sussex St); 121 Clare Rd in 1911 and 44 Taff Mead Embankment at the end of the war. Charles was believed to be working as a blacksmith in Pembrokeshire in 1911.
THOMAS, John CWGC 641839 Royal Naval Reserve H.M Drifter "Boy Harold" Second Hand 2295SA d3 March 1916, age 39 Husband of Mrs. L. T. Thomas, of 126, Severn Grove, Canton, Cardiff. Born at Milford Haven.
THOMPSON, Charles Hall CWGC 2969137 Mercantile Marine S.S "Persier" (London) Fourth Engineer Officer d 10 December 1917, aged 20 Son of engine fitter Charles Hall Thompson and Margaret Thompson, of 5 York Place, Grangetown, Cardiff. Born at Ulverston, Lancashire. The Persier was on a voyage from Cardiff to Taranto with general cargo and coal and was sunk by the German submarine U-35, 50 miles east of Cape Spartivento in Italy. Thompson was the only person recorded lost
THOMPSON, W NOT FOUND Mercantile Marine S.S "Freshfield" Seaman Gunner  


On 5 August 1918, Freshfield, on a voyage from Messina to Taranto was sunk by the German submarine UC-25 (Karl Dönitz), four miles north of Capo Colonna. Three people were lost

TORRINGTON, Alfred CWGC 3045499 Royal Navy H.M.S "Monmouth" Stoker (1st Class) K/10324 d 1 Nov 1914 Lived in Court Road, pic in South Wales Echo on 25 Nov. Sunk 1 November 1914 at the Battle of Coronel with the loss of around 600 men, the entire crew, after being attacked by the German armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau off the Chilean coast.
TURNER, Frederick CWGC 67280 Welsh Regiment 2nd Battalion Private, Drummer 8919 d 19 July 1916, age 32 b Roath; husband of Mrs. K. Turner, of 23 Dorset St., Grangetown, Cardiff. In Census of 2011, is down in Pembrokeshire as a drummer with the Welsh Regiment, aged 22.
TURNER, F.W.R NOT FOUND Glamorgan Territorials Lieutenant   Prob: Frederick William Turner, b 1891 formerly of 152 Clive St, son of builder and contractor James Edward Turner - one of the sons running the Turner building firm - later living at Lisvane, as civil engineering student
UZZELL, Henry Reed (not HUZZELL) CWGC 905632 Royal Army Service Corps, 911th M.T. Convoy Attd. 29th Motor Amb 334326 d 12 March 1919 in Tehran, Iran, aged 25 b 1894, a cycle builder, lived at 37 Coedcae Street, with crane driver William; brought up in Rutland St.
WAITES, Reginald Meyrick CWGC 202019 Yorkshire Regiment 6th Battalion Private 41701 d 7 Jul 1917, aged 32 b 1884, lived at 7 Hereford St, son of George and Catherine Waites; a haulier; lived with wife Edith Maud Lewis (later Heale) who he married in 1913.
WALES, T.A.L NOT FOUND Royal Navy H.M.S "Bellona"     scout cruiser, damaged 17 December 1914
WALKER,C NOT FOUND Welsh Regiment 3rd Battalion Private   Could be Charles Robert Walker, CWGC 912558 b 1898, d 31 Aug 1917; Welsh Regiment, Private 49693, prob adopted son of Mary Ann Union, 70 Hewell Street in 1911
WALKER, CharlesWelch CWGC 2938893 Yorks and Lancaster Regiment 1st/5th Battalion Private 46601 d 22 Jul 1918 b 1897, family lived at 184 Cathedral Rd, his father a paint manufacturer. Unsure of Grangetown connection.
WALL, John Edward CWGC 576908 Tank Corps 2nd Advance Workshop Serjeant 70036 d 15 Nov 1918, age 29


Son of John and Mary Wall, of Cardiff; husband of Elizabeth Alexander, of 33, Coedcae St., Grange, Cardiff. Married in 1910, he worked as a law clerk. His father was a coal merchant at 40 Holmesdale St and later moved to the docks.

WALSH, Thomas George CWGC 1652384 Welsh Regiment 11th Battalion Private 64085 d 13 Sept 1918, Salonika, aged 28 b 1890, lived at 102 Court Road, his mother was called May
WARREN, William Henry or Henry William CWGC 819426 South Wales Borderers 5th Battalion Private 17966 d 25 July 1916  
WASTERCOTT, David (or Westercott on memorial) CWGC 876585 Gloucestershire Regiment, 2/6th Battalion, Territorials Private 15529 d 28 Aug 1917, aged 35 b 22 Oct 1882, lived at 47 Hewell Street Grangetown Cardiff, docks labourer, married to Clara, in 1911 had three young children David Charles, Mary Louisa and Violet May. In 1901, he lived with his uncle Charles at 24 Hewell St.
WATKINS, Edgar Hayden CWGC 819539 Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) 8th Company Private 9948 d 14 July 1916, age 42 b 1874, son of Thomas and Francis Watkins, of Dinas Powys;; husband of Eliza Rhoda Watkins, of 14 Earl St., Grangetown; an electrician - in 1911, they were living in Splott and had four children under 11.
WEBB, Robert James CWGC 850890 16th (The Queen's) Lancers of Household Cavalry Private 12523 d 23 March 1918, Somme, aged 26 b 1892, lived at 54 North Clive St, Grangetown; in 1911 was a labourer living with his father George Alexander Webb, a fireman in a coal washery, and mother Catherine, the eldest of three children.
WEBBER, Thomas Mayne CWGC 482748 Royal Welsh Fusiliers 24th Battalion Private 60291 d 6 Sept 1918, age 29 b 1888, son of John Mayne Webber. a baker and confectioner, and Eliza Webber, of 6 Grange Gardens, Cardiff. Brought up in James St, Butetown. Also working as a baker with his father.
WELLINGS, Thomas Walter CWGC 639689 Royal Engineers 102nd Field Company Sapper 56512 d 25 Feb 1918, age 30 Son of Clara and the late William Wellings, of 25 Hereford St, worked as a builder's labourer; had two sisters
WELCHMAN, Harry CWGC 46500 Welsh Regiment 9th Battalion Private 46500 d 23 March 1918 Prob: b 1893, Henry Olave Welchman or Welshman, living at 17 Ferndale St, Grangetown, an errand boy for a fruitiers; one of eight children - father Charles a coachman/horse driver; earlier living at 8 Penarth Rd.
WHEELER, Thomas F CWGC 304908 Royal Garrison Artillery 17th Siege Battery Gunner 348414 d 12 Aug 1917, age 33 b 1885, son of Thomas Wheeler, of Van St, Grangetown; working as a horse driver for a brewery in 1911; husband of E. E. Wheeler, of 2, Durham St, Grangetown.
WHITE, Clifford CWGC 876763 Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) 200th Company 2nd Lieutenant d 26 Sept 1917 Promoted from Private in Royal Welch Fusiliers.
* WHITE, Richard James CWGC 554187 Royal Welsh Fusiliers 13th Battalion Serjeant 44398 d 26 Aug 1918, aged 42 b 1876, residence listed as Fulham in London, enlisted at St Swithin's Lane; occupation was a bank messenger. Married Lilian Maude Charlotte White in 1913; daughter Winifred b Nov 1914. * Not sure of Grangetown connection

WICKLEN, Nathaniel

CWGC 2970010 Mercantile Marine S.S "Eskmere" Master d 13 Oct 1917, aged 48 b Gloucester 1869. A master mariner, living at Pomeroy St, Docks in 1911, with his wife Gertrude (b 1883). Coal cargo ship en route from Belfast for Barry was torpedoed by German submarine UC-75 and sank 15 miles off South Stack, Anglesey. 20 lives lost including Master. Owned by H. Greenhalgh, Liverpool.
WIGGINS, Percy CWGC 314953 South Wales Borderers 8th Battalion Private 8/16269 d 7 Oct 1915


b 1892, nephew of Martha Morgan, of 32, Llanishen St., Cardiff; in 1911, was living at 48 Hunter St, Docks and working as a shipyard labourer, living with stepfather Ernest Pimm and mother Letitia.

WILCOX, Thomas Turner (not Wilcott) CWGC 490950 Royal Field Artillery Driver (Gunner) 478 d 17 Jun 1917, buried in Belgium, aged 25 b 1891, grew up at 85 Clive St, with his widowed mother Isabella, a rope factory worker. She later lived at 7 Franklen Street.
WILKINS, Frank CWGC 1750266 Royal Inniskillen Fusiliers 6th Battalion Private 48898; formerly 22535, Welch Regiment. d 4 Nov 1918 b 1894, lived at 113 Clive St Grangetown, an ironmonger's assistant with Elias & Parry; one of 11 children, previously 46 Holmesdale St
WILLIAMS, James Goodman CWGC 280698 Welsh Regiment 9th Battalion Private 14295 d 17 April 1916, age 20 Son of Charles and Sarah Williams, of 54, Oakley St
WILLIAMS, William George CWGC 2759605 Devonshire Regiment Transfered to (100051) Labour Corps Private 53057 d 21 Feb 1919, age 29 Husband of Daisy M. Williams, of I, Ferndale St. Grange, Cardiff.
WILLIAMS, Jesse CWGC 822116 King's Royal Rifle Corps 10th Battalion Rifleman A/3710 d 3 Sept 1916, age 28 Son of Thomas and Martha Williams, of 8, Devon St., Grangetown, Cardiff.
WILLIAMS, Christmas CWGC 41719 Royal Field Artillery Driver 194239
d 4 Oct 1918

b 1886 Merthyr; husband of S. A. Williams, of 43 Wedmore Rd. There was a Christmas Williams, living in Merthyr Vale in 1911 with wife Beatrice Amelia and three children under four, all Cardiff-born. He worked as a plate layer in a coal mine.

WILLIAMS, Charles Edward CWGC 2970073 Mercantile Marine S.S "Nyanza" (Glasgow) Assistant Cook d 29 Sept 1918, age 18

Son of Edward and Eliza Jane Williams (nee Bartlett), of 8, Chester St., Grangetown Cardiff. Born at Cardiff. The ship was sunk by torpedo off the Scottish coast with the loss of 13 lives on a voyage from Cardiff to Archangelsk with a cargo of coal.

WILSON, Nicholas John CWGC 40252 Royal Sussex Regiment 8th Battalion Private G/23737 d 23 Oct 1918, age 19 Son of George Hindmarch Wilson and Sarah Wilson, of 31 Coedcae St; previously of 140 Corporation Road. Hs father was a Newcatle-born engine turner with the railway, eldest of two children.
WINES, Tom CWGC 71620 Royal Engineers 172nd Tunnelling Company Sapper 134794 d 16 July1918, age:29 Son of George and Sarah Ann Wines, of 220 Clive St., Grangetown. Worked as a labourer in the gas works.
WINGSTEDT, Eric A CWGC 87740 Welsh Regiment 16th Battalion L/Corporal 23707 d 24/ October 1916, age:20


Son of Sarah A. Wingstedt, formerly of 49 Corporation Road and 176 Clive St. Later at 36, Longcross St., Roath, Cardiff, and the late Andrew Wingstedt, a mariner. He was a railway porter with GWR before joining the army.

WITHERS, John Henry CWGC 90639 Royal Marine Artillery Siege Guns (Dunkerque) Serjeant RMA/10829 d 28 Dec 1917, age 30 b19 Jan 1887; awarded Croix de Guerre (France). Son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert. Withers, of 17 Bromfield St. He was awarded the French honour for devotion to duty. "He was mentioned in dispatches of the Jutland Battle when serving on HMS Warrior, which put up so gallant a fight." He volunteered for the front in August 1916 and had served 13 years with the Royal Marines, according to his school record. See more
WOODS, Alfred James CWGC 239916 Welsh Regiment 17th Battalion Private 13439 d 19 June 1917, age 24, buried Nord, France Son of William Henry Woods, a bootmaker, of 1 Aber St, Grangetown. Earlier lived at 27 Clare Road. Enlisted in Bargoed, where he had been working as a colliery boy, and living with his uncle William Davies in Gilfach Bargoed..
WOODWARD, Harold CWGC 2970340 Mercantile Marine S.S "Madame Renee" (Newcastle) Second Officer d 10 Aug 1918, age 24 Son of Giles and Sarah Woodward (nee Griffiths), of 15 Pentrebane St., Cardiff. A pilot apprentice, the son of a pilot and the eldest of three sons.
YORATH Charles CWGC 570869 Welsh Regiment 19th Battalion Private 31853 d 11 July 1916 Originally living in York Place, he had also spent time in a children's home - his mother Clare was widowed. He was the great-uncle of the footballer Terry Yorath.
YORATH, W NOT FOUND Welsh Regiment 9th Battalion Private    


Click on the photos above for larger images to see the names on the Grangetown war memorial

OTHER GRANGETOWN MEN WHO DIED in the GREAT WAR (1914-1919)

There are names of men who do not appear on the memorial, but who we are adding here..

ADDICOTT, Evan Benjamin John CWGC 1655030 Royal Field Artillery "C" Bty. 55th Brigade Gunner 136991    
BAGG,Albert CWGC 1750913 Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) 36th Company Private 99832    
BAKER, Walter Henry Victor CWGC 2852730; Royal Navy HMS "Vivid" Leading Signalman 228754;    
BRANCH, William Henry CWGC 767483 Royal Welsh Fusiliers 10th Battalion Private 18351    
BROWN, Arthur Leonard CWGC 2979950 Mercantile Marine SS. Treveal (St. Ives) Mess Room Steward d 4 Feb 1918, age 14 Son of William and Emma Brown (nee Snape), of 2, Bedwas St., Grangetown, Cardiff. Born at West Hartlepool according to the CWGC but Cardiff according to Census. On the 4th February 1918 when on route from Algiers for Barrow the Treveal was torpedoed by German submarine and sunk when off the Skerries, Anglesey, Wales. 33 lost their lives.
CARPENTER, Charles Philip CWGC 1578445 Royal Berkshire Regiment 2nd/4th Battalion Private 38744    
CHAPMAN, Frank Stanley CWGC 418449 Mercantile Marine SS Romford Chief Steward d 10th Feb 1918, 21 or 26, buried in Tunisia b c1897, son of Mrs Chapman of 53 Hereford St, married to Edith and living at 99 Treharris St, Cathays. His cargo steamer was sunk by a mine from German submarine UC-67 near Carthage en route from Barry for Tunis with a cargo of phosphates. He was among 28 lives lost.
COOMBES, William Walter John CWGC 274023 Royal Garrison Artillery 294th Seige Battery Gunner 48013    
DAVIES, F.H CWGC 624577 Royal Naval Reserve H.M Motor Lighter K58 Trimmer 1127/ST    
HALE, Alfred George CWGC 2759320 Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve 2nd Reserve Battalion. R.N Division Able Seaman Wales Z/1481    
HARDING, Frank CWGC 501825 Army Veterinary Corps 12th Veterinary Hospital Private 15286    
HARRIS, John Rundle "Jack" CWGC 2887674 Mercantile Marine SS Avanti (London) 2nd Mate d 2 Feb 1918, age 24 b 1894 Cardiff, son of John Rundle and Emma Jane Harris (nee Tippett), of 68, Pentre Gardens, Cardiff. Lived in Dinas Street in 1911; Jack was a pilot's apprentice and his father a pilot. The Avanti was on a voyage from Bilbao to West Hartlepool with a cargo of iron ore and was sunk by a German submarine off St Alban's Head with the loss of 22 crew.
HOLDER, Leonard CWGC 1614518 King's Shropshire Light Infantry 5th Battalion Private 10871    
JAMIESON, H.F.F CWGC 276601 King's Shropshire Light Infantry 1st Battalion Private 6419    
JONES, Henry Watkin John CWGC 2976738 Mercantile Marine S.S "Beemah" (Whitby) Fireman and Greaser    
LEFEUVRE Edward Thomas Mercantile Marine, SS Glenfruin 2nd Mate d Jan 26th 1918, aged 56 - lost at sea, presumed drowned b 1862, Jersey, master mariner, his wife Mary Jane lived at 83 Grange Gardens; earlier lived at Stacey Rd, Roath. Son of the late Edward and Mary Lefeuvre. The Glenfruin was sighted in the Bay of Biscay when on passage from Seriphos for Ardrossan with a cargo of iron ore - she was sunk by a German submarine.
MANFIELD, Henry James CWGC 109399 Royal Irish Fusiliers 6th Battalion Corporal 13550    
MOLONEY, Arthur CWGC 2972258 Arthur Mercantile Marine S.S "Mavisbrook" (Glasgow) Steward    
PARDINGTON Fred CWGC 286182 Gloucestershire Regiment Private 34617 d 19th January 1918 b Longborough, Glos, lived at 14 Saltmead Rd (Stafford Rd) with wife Harriet (nee Parry, married 1912 - remarried Knight) and two daughters. He had been a porter at the Great Western station; called up in July 1917 and had been in France seven weeks before his death. Living in Rennie St in 1911. Son of William and Mary Ann Pardington.
REED, Thomas 617376 Mercantile Marine H.M Transport "Twilight" Second Engineer    
ROBINS,Henry John CWGC 3032157 Mercantile Marine S.S Treverbyn (St.Ives) Second Mate    
SAUNDERS, William CWGC 653254 Somerset Light Infantry 1st/5th Battalion Corporal 11021    
SIMPSON, J.W CWGC 41231 King's Shropshire Light Infantry 7th Battalion Private 13659    
STORR, George CWGC 1770023 Welsh Regiment 2nd Battalion Private 19404    
THOMAS Ernest James CWGC 490787 Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery Battalion: Territorial Force Gunner 815057/td> d 1 Jun 1917 b Grangetown, son of Mrs Annie Thomas, of 3 St Paul's Rd., Aberavon.
THOMAS, Owen George CWGC Army Service Corps 22nd Reserve Park Driver T2/10835    
TUGWELL, Charles Morgan CWGC Royal Field Artillery 6th "C" Reserve Brigade Acting Bombardier 55795    

WHELAN,J J

CWGC 587393 Royal Engineers 7th Labour Battalion Pioneer 118509