Pvte David John Pritchard 61461 (Efail Fach, Pontrhydyfen)

[Hywyn]

Al

I may be totally wrong but I was under the impression that that reunion was for those who embarked with the Battalion in December 1915 when it first went overseas. David John Pritchard joined them much later as shown by John in post 2 plus fact there are no 61XXX men shown as casualties prior to 61338 E Jones on 4/8/1917.* see edit


There was a booklet about that reunion on EBay recently. IIRC it gave names and address of attendees. I missed out on it. Hopefully it's gone to someone on here!
I have a framed photo of the whole battalion taken in a muddy field Southern England just before emabarkation in 1915.


David
I'd be interested to know the Battalions of the other two on that page please.


Hywyn

edit: looked again. 61488 E Morgan 31/7/1917

[Baconwallah]

If you discover more information, David, please remember to share it here with us.

John

[ap1]

Al

I may be totally wrong but I was under the impression that that reunion was for those who embarked with the Battalion in December 1915 when it first went overseas. David John Pritchard joined them much later as shown by John in post 2 plus fact there are no 61XXX men shown as casualties prior to 61338 E Jones on 4/8/1917.* see edit


There was a booklet about that reunion on EBay recently. IIRC it gave names and address of attendees. I missed out on it. Hopefully it's gone to someone on here!
I have a framed photo of the whole battalion taken in a muddy field Southern England just before emabarkation in 1915.

Yes Hywyn you might be wrong! I don't know.

The picture states " Reunion of the 14th Service Battn Royal Welsh Fusiliers; Llandinam 30th July-4th August 1937". It would seem a strange way to organise a reunion, with potentially guys who joined after the 1915 Embarkation, but fought at Mametz, being excluded!! Its possible, but nothing is stated on the picture, which is all I have to go on.

Someone mentioned to me that Lord Davies held a few reunions. I would be interested in following up on that ebay book. If the owner could be tracked, he/she may provide the list of names.

I've also just noticed an article in The Vault, attributed to me!!! with the strapline:

"Survivors of "A" Company, 14th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers 1st December, 1915, at a reunion meeting at Llandinam, 4 August, 1937" That was not written by me, but perhaps the author of those words has more info?

[Hywyn]

Al

I think that the item you've found in the Vault is what gave me that impression!

I'm not an EBay buff but I wonder if any forum members who know the ins and outs of it could find the booklet it in their archives? Also,it's not going to be the the only one so there may be one at the RWF archives if any of their staff could tell us.. Unpacking at Wrexham starts next week I believe.

Good point about the Mametz men etc who joined after that initial embarkation.

Hywyn
(I'm unnerved about possibly being wrong. I remember it happening once before in the 70s. Took me months to get over it!!)

[darees]

Al

I may be totally wrong but I was under the impression that that reunion was for those who embarked with the Battalion in December 1915 when it first went overseas. David John Pritchard joined them much later as shown by John in post 2 plus fact there are no 61XXX men shown as casualties prior to 61338 E Jones on 4/8/1917.* see edit


There was a booklet about that reunion on EBay recently. IIRC it gave names and address of attendees. I missed out on it. Hopefully it's gone to someone on here!
I have a framed photo of the whole battalion taken in a muddy field Southern England just before emabarkation in 1915.


David
I'd be interested to know the Battalions of the other two on that page please.


Hywyn

edit: looked again. 61488 E Morgan 31/7/1917

Hi Hywyn

I've just sent a PM with the details, together with my email address. If drop me a note, I'll attach the .pdf files I have.

Regards

David

[lyndon]

Hi David, small world, good to see you on here too

its good to see you searching too


speak soon
Lyndon Pritchard (Normans son)