WILLIAMS Harry Radcliffe
Harry Radcliffe Williams
Lancashire Fusiliers,
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Also comemorated on:
The Rood Screen, Great War Memorial, All Saints Church, Oystermouth and The Mumbles Memorial, Southend Gardens.
WILLIAMS Harry Radcliffe
Service number: 282479
2nd/7th Bn., Lancashire Fusiliers
Died on 17 November 1917
Remembered with Honour
TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Passchendaele, Belgium
Born in Oystermouth late September 1880
Enlisted Mumbles
Parents: Thomas (a mariner & oyster fisherman) and Mary, from Laugharne, Carmarthen and lived at 11, Victoria Avenue
Harry was the 4th child of their 8 children, who was working as a Mason by the age of 19
He was the great Uncle of Julia Bennetts-Owen
Family photos below -
Lancashire Fusiliers,, TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Family Photos, from: Julia Bennetts-Owen
Oystermouth Board School circa 1898 - my great auntie Chrissie is second from right on front row.
From: Julia Bennetts-Owen
My grandma, her siblings and parents. They lived in 26 Victoria Terrace.
Harry (HR Williams on Centotaph) died on battlefield in 1917
Maggie - emigrated to South Africa
William - told he was knocked over and killed by Mumbles Railway.
My grandmother Ellen - she worked as a domestic servant at Hill House Cockett where she met my grandfather who was a stable boy.
George - who came back from war profoundly deaf after pulling the gun carriages - his fiancée left him.
Rose - worked in service and married
Thomas - Mariner
Mary nee Hughes - originally from Laugharne
Tryphena - became a domestic nurse and moved to Tonbridge
Chrissie - her fiancé died in WW1 and she never married.
May - who worked at home as a dressmaker and apparently died in a fire there. Haven’t found her death yet.
Does anyone know if I can access the Mumbles cemetery records anywhere?
From: Julia Bennetts-Owen
All Saints' Church, Rood Screen Great War Memorial