Can you help with memorial names?
IN THE offices of the Welsh Government in Cathays Park, Cardiff, there are two war memorials commemorating the deaths of the staff of the predecessor organisations in the First and Second World Wars.
We are researching the names on both memorials, and we’d like some help with the one for the First World War, please. We believe that we’ve traced the majority of the people, but there are some for whom we have no information – these are in bold below. It is these people that we would particularly like to trace, but information on any of the names would be welcome. The names are: WEV (William Ellis Vincent) Bellman R (REGINALD) Blacker CS Brown. There are alternatives: 14622 Private Cecil Stuart Brown, 12th (Service) (Bristol) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment; 12321 / DA Leading Deckhand CS (Charles Shutwell) Brown, Royal Naval Reserve – HM Trawler “Tenby Castle” RJ (Richard John) Bunford FP (Frank Pargeter) Cobden EW Davies. There are alternatives: 65352 Private Evan William Davies, 2nd Battalion, Welch Regiment; Second Lieutenant E W Davies, 1st / 7th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers. G DAVIES. There are 228 entries for G Davies with more than one initial, and 37 entries for G Davies with one initial, on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) website. From this, we think that there are 11 possibilities with definite Welsh connections, who either served with a Welsh regiment or are identified as being from Wales – six of them have both. We’d like to find the right one! RA (Ralph Augustus) Duck SD (Simon Davies) Evans JB Ewen. According to the CWGC website, there are no entries for “J B Ewen” or “JB Ewan”. There are, however, 11 entries for “J Ewen” and five for “J Ewan. None of these has a Welsh connection, either in respect of having served in a Welsh regiment or having a Welsh family connection. The majority of all those listed seem to be Scottish, either having served in a Scottish regiment or having a Scottish family connection. There are two entries for “Ewen” with a different initial(s) with a Welsh connection, and these have been examined but no actual proof has been found. It has also been suggested that this person survived the war which, if true, begs the question as to why his name is on the memorial. AE (Allan Edward) Garth HJ (Henry John) Lake WJ (William Joseph) Lewis OD (Oscar David) Morris JE Mundy. There are alternatives: 18758 Private JE (John Ernest) Mundy, 2nd Battalion, Ox & Bucks Light Infantry; Second Lieutenant JE (Jesse Ernest) Mundy, Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own), attached 2nd / 2nd Battalion, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers). A (ALLAN) Newton JH (James Hywel or Howell) Parry HR Pracey (Henry Reginald Pracy) D Thomas. There are 158 entries for D Thomas on the CWGC website, of whom 142 served with UK forces. Twenty of these are ‘D’ only (ie no other initial(s)). Twelve of these have a Welsh connection, but have not yet been checked. Again, we’d like to find
the right one!
So if you or anyone in your family has any connection with any of the people listed below, please get in touch on phillip.stallard1@outlook.com or on 01633 215753. Phillip Stallard and Harriett Cozens Newport