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Mumbles Methodist Church Rolls of Honour

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Today, in this renovated, refurbished and thriving building,a modern version of the tablet is set on the wall in the peaceful and atmospheric surroundings of the Church situated on the first floor of the building, which had opened in 1877.

This new plaque commemorates

the Church members lost

This new plaque commemorates

the Church members lost

from both World Wars

The Unveiling of the Roll of Honour Tablet >

in the Methodist Church on 21 October 1920

Great War

1914-1918

Roll of Honour

1939 -1945 Roll of Honour is below

Joseph William HUGHES

# HUGHES Joseph William

Shipwright 1st Class 132399,

Royal Navy, H.M.S. Hawke

Killed in Action aged 53

on 15th September 1914, NORTH SEA

Remembered on the

CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL.

Wife, Vera and two daughters, 56 Woodville Rd.

He received a call immediately war was declared and left at a few hours notice. He was one of 497 men and 26 officers and her captain, who were lost when the ‘HAWKE’ was sunk by a torpedo from the submarine U9.

The Mumbles Press

‘Mr. Hughes first came to Mumbles as a Coastguard and since finishing his time with that service about six years ago, had carried on the trade of a joiner and carpenter.’

One daughter was a local teacher and the logbook records her being given time off after the above events.

Arthur Rhys DANIEL

DANIEL Arthur Rhys

(Daniels on the memorial)

Lance Corporal 287, 1st Welsh Guards

Killed in Action aged 25

on 17th October 1915,

Buried at VERMELLES CEMETERY,

Near Bethune, France

DOB - 7 September 1892

Eldest son of Jabez & Jane Daniel,

'Ty-Gwent', Kings Road,who ran a grocers shop at Castleton Terrace.

He joined the Grenadier Guards on September 17^th 1914,

and was formerly 19285.

Was one of the first recruits when he enlisted in the

Welsh Guards on its’ formation in 1915

On the unveiling of the memorial inside Mumbles Methodist Church, Rev. D.C. Griffiths, the resident Minister paid tribute to Arthur Daniel, 'He was a young man and faithful servant of the Church and remembered him as 'rather reserved and always inclined to look on the more serious side of things.'

DAVIE Donald Hamilton

Private S/12007, 5th Cameron Highlanders

Killed in Action aged 24 on 25th September 1915

Commemorated on LOOS MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING,

(link to CWGC) panel 119 to 124

Father: George Davie, address, 'Normanhurst,' Langland Road, Mumbles, Swansea.

Brother of Quartermaster Sergeant Davie and Private William Davie, both with the Canadians

RADCLIFFE Edgar John

2nd Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps

Died on 20th February 1916, in UNITED KINGDOM

Buried at ST PANCRAS CEMETERY, London

Home address, Mumbles, enlisted Swansea.

Joseph Charles Edward LEACH

# LEACH Joseph Charles Edward Extra details

Medals: Victory, British, 1915 Star. Entered France 2 December 1915

17458, Company Sergeant Major, 14th Bat., Welsh Regiment

Died of Wounds 20 June 1917, 34 years of age

Buried with Honour WEST NORWOOD CEMETERY, Lambeth, London (SE 27)

Grave Row 46. 34327

Born: Battersea. Enlisted: Swansea. Employment: Great Western Railway at Swansea.

# PAYNE Benjamin Ernest

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Corporal 215236, 2/1 Denbighshire Hussar Yeomanry

Died of Pneumonia aged 28 on 20th July 1918

at NORFOLK WAR HOSPITAL, NORWICH.

Buried at OYSTERMOUTH CEMETERY

Son of T.S. and M.A. Payne of Forgefield Terrace, Norton.

He was previously employed by Messrs. Baldwin, Grocers, Mumbles.Enlisted October 1916, into the 24^th Royal Welsh Fusiliers

South Wales Daily Post

Corporal Payne was engaged as a shorthand writer & typist in the Quartermasters’ office stationed at Eccles [sic].

A few days after returning from leave he contracted influenza,

pneumonia supervening.

Horace Ralph STRAWFORD

Soissons Memorial

STRAWFORD Horace Ralph

Private 34718, 4th Bn., Yorkshire Hussars (Alexandra, Princes of Wales' Own). Formerly 3/21725, 68Th T.R. Battn.

(Previously served in the Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding) Regiment no 205800).

Killed in Action 27 May 1918

Lived at Tyr, Nant, West Cross

Enlisted: Swansea. Born: Bristol

Census 1911 records:
Son of Thomas, 51, (Commercial Traveller) & Elizabeth Carter Strawford ,53. Siblings -Arthur Howard, 20: Hilda Bessies, 19: Harold Frank, 17: Leslie Thomas, 8: & Sister-in-law Charlotte Jane, 54.

Herald of Wales & Monmouth Recorder, 13th July 1918

Official information has been recieved by Mr. & Mrs. Strawford, Claremont Villas, Mumbles, that their son, Pte. Ralph Strawford, Queens Own Yorkshire Dragoons has been missing, since May 27th.

Commemorated on SOISSONS MEMORIAL

It is possible that his brother, Arthur Howard Strawford lived at 4, The Dunns, Mumbles Road, in 1926

ROGERS Herbert John

Private 1219, 1st Devon Regiment

Killed in Action aged 19 on 18th November 1915 on THE WESTERN FRONT

Buried in CERISY-GAILLY, MILITARY CEMETERY, The Somme

Son of Thomas 'Tommy' & Alice of 2, Hill Street, Southend

Tommy was Coxswain of the Lifeboat, Friend of Harry Libby

# BOWDEN William Gladstone

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Able Seaman, Nelson Battalion, Royal Naval Division

Died of Shrapnel Wounds aged 18 on 17th November 1916

at the BATTLE OF ANCRE.

Buried at CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY

Son of James and Mrs. J, 4 Rock Terrace

JONES D R Wyndham

Corporal S/2326, 3rd Battalion, Rifle Brigade

Killed in Action aged 24

on 28th December 1916

Buried at PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE, France

Between Bethune and Lens

Grave: 11.B.9

The only son of Lewis and Sarah Ann Jones, of 1, Beaufort Terrace, Blackpill, Swansea, the Blackpill Postman.

SWDP 12 January 1917

Wyndham worked at the tin sheds on Swansea Docks and joined the colours shortly after the outbreak of war. Some months ago he was invalided home with a bullet would in the leg returning to the front in November [1916]. He was very well known and liked in the district and at one time played for the Mumbles association Football Team.

A letter later received from an officer stated that he had been killed by a German Trench Mortar Shell while leaving the trenches.