Oswald was born to William Arthur and Sophia Green of the Foundry, Aberystwyth. He was educated at Jasper House and Aberystwyth University. He held the Royal Humane Society Medal for life saving from drowning. He was always to fore in local sport, excelling in swimming, cricket, golf and particularly football, and was a successful captain of Aberystwyth Football Club before the war. He contemptuously rejected many offers to become professional. A bold trait of Oswald was when any young player received a heavy tackle he always tried to ‘protect them’ and he carried this trait into the battlefields of the Great War.
Oswald was the husband to Winifred Gwendoline Green, of Buchland House, Neath Abbey, Neath. He joined the 9th Battalion of the Welsh Regiment and he took part in the Battle of the Somme, and the Second Offensive of Ovillers-La Boiselle. The village was captured on 1st July 1916 but at a large cost. Oswald was mortally wounded from this assault and he died of his wounds on the 5th of July 1916, in the hundredth week of the war when casualties were rising dramatically, aged 35. He is buried at Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-L’Abbe, France.
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http://somme-roll-of-honour.com/Units/british/9th_Welsh.htm
Edwin Griffiths Jones, Private, 22360, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Edwin was born in Aberystwyth, the son of John and Susannah Jones. He went to Ysgol Sir Ardwyn County School and graduated from Aberystwyth University in 1911, going on to teach geography at the County School. Before the war he lived with his wife, Lily Jones, at 2 Llican Terrace, Great Orme, Llandudno.
He enlisted at Aberystwyth in the 15th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. On the 7th May 1916, a party of his unit was to raid the German trenches at Fauqissart. Edward was wounded in the raid and he died of his wounds after being evacuated to the Hospital at Merville. He is buried and remembered in the Merville Communal cemetery.
Robert Humphrey Davies, Second Lieutenant, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Robert was born in Swansea to the Reverend Evan William and Sarah Davies. Robert was a student of Aberystwyth University, where he met his future wife, Rosa Gwendoline Davies, and the pair lived in Dolgoed, Elm Tree Avenue, Aberystwyth. Robert originally signed up to the Royal Engineers Special Gas Company and served in France from September of 1915.
Robert was commissioned to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers where he saw action at Armentieres. His unit advanced over the River Ancre where there was heavy fighting and he was killed in action here on 23rd August 1918. He was 30 and is buried at Bouzincourt Ridge Ceremony, Albert, France. He is also commemorated in Llanbadarn Fawr with the use of a Cross memorial in respect of those fallen in both World Wars, which was unveiled on 8th January 1921 and was attended by Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Pugh Evans.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/6920_
Blog by Jack Atherton, project volunteer
Sources as cited in the text and also:
https://ww1ceredigion.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/wythnosweek-100-30mehefinjune-6gorffennafjuly-1916/
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