Service no. S/783
Corporal, Rifle Brigade, "B" Coy. 12th Battalion
Killed in action on 7 October 1916, aged 40
CWGC: "Son of David and Eliza Rowlands."
Born in Penzance, Cornwall; lived in Clapham; enlisted in Westminster
Remembered at Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Information from the 1901 census
In 1901 David Rees Rowlands, then 27, was living with his uncle (an insurance clerk) and aunt Robert E. and Georgina M. Horley and their nine children at 14 Franconia Road, Clapham. He was working as a solicitor's clerk.
I have not been able to identify Rowlands on the 1911 census.