Pte Jack Davies, 1/6 Welsh Regiment & Labour Corps
Details of holder's service and that of the regiment:
His service records do not appear to have survived and, in view of his transfer to the Labour Corps he appears on their medal roll (which does not, in my experience, generally record previous battalions served with.) However, reference to the appropriate piece of the 1/6th (Territorial Force) Battalion, Welsh Regiment medal roll indicates that 266327 Pte Arthur James Jones, and 263329 Cpl Brinley Richards both commenced their active service with the 1/6th (Glamorgan) battalion, the Welsh Regiment, as did 266323, 266324, 266335 and 337 albeit under different numbers in some cases. This strongly suggests that Pte Davies went into action with this battalion. This would have been shortly after it became a divisional Pioneer Battalion to 1st Division on 15 May 1916, having worked on lines of communication duties since disembarkation at Le Havre in October 1914, and shortly before the division participated in the Somme offensive of July 1915.
MIC:
Regiment or Corps:Welsh Regiment, Labour Corps
Regimental Number:266328, 597780
Entered France theatre of war 17/5/1916
Home address:
154 High Street
Swansea
Medal roll:
Jack Davies
Private
Labour Corps
597780
Medal condition:
Fine. Some edge knocks and spotting, much gilding lost. On new replacement ribbon.
XVIII
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