TENBY - WALES
Greenhill School Memorial
Greenhill School Memorial
Gunner Hugh Davies JOHN 3123
Born: St. Florence, Tenby, Wales Enlisted: 25-6-1915, Black Boy Hill, Western Australia Occupation prior to Enlistment: Farmer 7th Australian Field Artillery Brigade Died of Wounds 30-10-1918 aged 26years Resting: St Womar Churchyard, Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom Son of William Davies & Sarah Catherine John Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 15 Also Honoured St. Florence War Memorial |
West Wales War Memorial Project -Hugh was the son of William Davies John and Sarah Catherine John, of Cresselly Shop and had been raised with an uncle at St. Florence. He had migrated to Australia prior to 1914, where he worked as a Farmer. By the summer of 1915 the Australian Imperial Force was making a name for itself during the fighting at Gallipoli. Many young Australians flocked to join the AIF, to take part in this great adventure that the propaganda had promised them, and so on 25 June 1915 Hugh enlisted at Blackboy Hill into the Australian Infantry, after being turned down from the Light Horse. After training, Hugh was posted to the 10th Reinforcements for the 16th Battalion, AIF, and embarked at Fremantle aboard HMT Themistocles on 13 October 1915 bound for Egypt. Early in 1916 the Australian battalions that had fought on Gallipoli were divided up to double the size of the AIF, with half the men going to the new battalions, and the positions being taken up by reinforcements. As a result, Hugh was posted to the 48th Battalion, AIF. His service papers then show a long history of illness, with several spells in hospitals in England over the coming months. In June 1917 he was posted to the 7th Field Artillery Battery, Australian Field Artillery, and in August was shot in the buttocks while fighting at Ypres. Again Hugh was hospitalised, and it was not until February 1918 that he was back in France, but he was soon in hospital ill again. Yet again Hugh returned to action, but was wounded for a second time during October 1918, during the fighting around the Hindenburg Line, and returned home for treatment at the Red Cross Hospital, Sittingbourne. Sadly Hugh too ill here and died of pneumonia on 30 October 1918. He was 26 years old, and was brought home for burial at Minwear (St. Womar) Churchyard, Wales.
Private Joseph Davies JOHN 645
Born: Pembroke, Wales Enlisted: 11-3-1915, Perth, Western Australia Occupation prior to Enlistment: Farmer 28th Battalion Australian Infantry Departed Australia 29-6-1915 Killed in Action: 29-7-1916, France Son of Catherine Ann John, Amberley House, Main St., Pembroke, Wales Honoured: Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France Honoured Australian War Memorial Panel 113 |