DAVIES, Arthur
| Service Number: | 52 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, Wales, 1883 |
| Home Town: | Broome, Broome, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Pearler |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Warloy-Baillon, France, 29 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension Grave VII. A. 35 , Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension, Warloy-Baillon, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Broome Roads Board WWI Roll of Honour, Broome War Memorial (New) |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Jul 1915: | Involvement Private, 52, 28th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
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| 12 Jul 1915: | Embarked Private, 52, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Arthur was born in 1883, the son of John and Mary Ann Davies, of Penfai, Capel Iwan. Capel Iwan is a small village situated about three miles south of Newcastle Emlyn, Wales. adjoining the parishes of Cenarth and Cilrhedyn.
Births Sep 1883 DAVIES Arthur Newcastle E. 11b 22
Newcastle E. is an alternative name for Newcastle in Emlyn and it spans the boundaries of the counties of Cardiganshire, Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire;
Newcastle Emlyn (Welsh: Castellnewydd Emlyn) is a town on the River Teifi, straddling the counties of Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire in west Wales. It is also a community entirely within Carmarthenshire, bordered by those of Llangeler and Cenarth, both being in Carmarthenshire; and by Llandyfriog in Ceredigion. Adpar is the part of the town that lies on the Ceredigion side of the River Teifi. It was formerly called Trefhedyn and was an ancient Welsh borough in its own right.
He had emigrated to Australia at the age of 24, and worked at Broome, Western Australia as a pearler. He attested at Broome on 5 February 1915 into the 28th Battalion, Australian Infantry. The battalion left Australia on 29 June 1915 aboard the HMAT Ascanius, and moved to Egypt, where it trained for two months prior to landing at Gallipoli on 10 September, as part of the 7th Brigade, 2nd Australian Division. The heavy fighting there was over by then, and the battalion left Gallipoli for Egypt two months later. The 2nd Division moved to France on 16 March 1916, and saw its first major action at Pozières between 28 July and 6 August 1916. Arthur was wounded at Pozieres on 29 July, and was evacuated to the 1/2nd Midland Field Ambulance at Warloy-Baillon, where he died of his wounds later that day. He was 33 years old.
He is commemorated on a brass plaque, which is located inside Capel Ifan Chapel and was unveiled by John Hinds, MP on Friday 1 August 1919.
Capel Ifan is also known as CAPEL IWAN, CAPEL EVAN, CAPEL-IFAN
Capel Iwan Independent Chapel was built in 1723 & rebuilt in 1795. The present chapel was built 1846 & renovated/modified in 1883 to the design of architect John Humphreys of Treforest, then renovated again in 1955.
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