ELEY William
Mumbles
William Eley is not named on any Mumbles Memorial.
He died on Saturday 7th January 1922
and was buried on the following Wednesday.
The extract from the Mumbles Press Newspaper, below,
is dated Thursday 12th January 1922
William David Eley and his father John
The Shop Next Door
THE SHOP NEXT DOOR and William David ELEY,
The picture above shows two shops in The Dunns, Mumbles: the Eley the butcher's on the left of the photograph and Harris' next to it, with a woman looking in.
William David ELEY, who joined the Royal Garrison Artillery in 1914, was gassed, contracted trench fever, held in the army of occupation until 1919, to return to his father’s butcher shop in the Dunns, a broken man.
William David ELEY died in January 1922, a victim who died as a consequence of war, but not within its time boundary. Like many others who served, he is therefore not recorded on any war memorial.