neville pritchard
24-01-2012, 20:03
This story was written in the Caernarvon & Denbigh Herald---A Correspondence writes:- The other day I visited Mr Joseph Tate Williams,29 Assheton Terrace Caernarvon, who has been bed ridden for four and a half years.
I found him very cheerful despite his infirmity,Mr Williams is a native of Caernarvon, being now 65 years of age,He was bought up in Siloh Bach Mission,Like many other boys who fought in the Great War.
I gleaned the following information from him: He enlisted in the Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1885 his Regiment was drafted to India where it remained for four years. Among the officers was Lieut Roberts (Who became Field Marshal Lord Roberts),Lieut Charles Dobbell (now General Dobbell). He was attached to the expedition which was sent to the Black Mountains in1891.
In 1894, his time having expired he returned to this country. In 1898 he went to visit his mother,s family in America and when the American Spanish War broke out in that year he joined the U.S.Army. He served all through that war. He also served with the U.S. Army in the Philipine Island War. He was then drafted to China, where the Boxer Rebellion was in progress, that was in1902. In 1903 he was invalided out of the U.S.Army on pension. In 1907 he returned to this country. In 1917 he was at Bodfa, Llangefni
And from there proceeded to London, where he was attached to the U.S. Red Cross Detachment,He was in charge of the billeting Quarters of the U.S. troops till the end of that War. He has been awarded the following medals= Black Mountains, India Expedition medal 1891, Medal for the first 16,000 men who landed in Cuba in1898: American Spanish War:,Army of Occupation Cuba, Phillipine Islands, and the China Medal Sorry thats all for now, another true story soon.:notworthy:
I found him very cheerful despite his infirmity,Mr Williams is a native of Caernarvon, being now 65 years of age,He was bought up in Siloh Bach Mission,Like many other boys who fought in the Great War.
I gleaned the following information from him: He enlisted in the Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1885 his Regiment was drafted to India where it remained for four years. Among the officers was Lieut Roberts (Who became Field Marshal Lord Roberts),Lieut Charles Dobbell (now General Dobbell). He was attached to the expedition which was sent to the Black Mountains in1891.
In 1894, his time having expired he returned to this country. In 1898 he went to visit his mother,s family in America and when the American Spanish War broke out in that year he joined the U.S.Army. He served all through that war. He also served with the U.S. Army in the Philipine Island War. He was then drafted to China, where the Boxer Rebellion was in progress, that was in1902. In 1903 he was invalided out of the U.S.Army on pension. In 1907 he returned to this country. In 1917 he was at Bodfa, Llangefni
And from there proceeded to London, where he was attached to the U.S. Red Cross Detachment,He was in charge of the billeting Quarters of the U.S. troops till the end of that War. He has been awarded the following medals= Black Mountains, India Expedition medal 1891, Medal for the first 16,000 men who landed in Cuba in1898: American Spanish War:,Army of Occupation Cuba, Phillipine Islands, and the China Medal Sorry thats all for now, another true story soon.:notworthy: