Porthcawl and
 The Great War
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    • August - December 1914
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         L/Cpl John McLaughlin                Private Lionel McLaughlin                2nd Lt Walter Mertz                    Major Charles Morris
        NAME


Major 
Lambert 
John Lewis





Sergeant
Lewis
Curwen
Margam




Sapper
Lewis
Llewellyn John






Fourth Engineer Officer
 Lewis
William Robert




Corporal
Leyshon
Edward James





Corporal
Maxwell                      Harry James      Eglinton





Lance Corporal
McLaughlin
John





Private
McLaughlin
Lionel Frank Thomas




2nd Lieutenant
Mertz
Walter Scott




Private
Morgan
Clifford




Major
Morris
Charles Alan Smith




Lieutenant
Nicholls
Reginald Mortimer



Stoker 1st Class
Ockwell David Robert





Private
Owen
Thomas George


















DATE OF DEATH

20/10/1916







16/07/1916






21/07/1916







28/01/1917







27/07/1918






9/01/1916







21/01/1916






25/09/1915






28/07/1916




24/10/1918






7/05/1917







18/07/1916





13/05/1915






5/08/1917




















AGE


38







37






35







36







42






37







28






23






34




26






21







31





39






24














REGIMENT


Army Service Corps
4th Army
Aux Horse Coy





South African Infantry
3rd Regt
Service No 4924




Royal Engineers
117th Railway Operating
Coy
Service No
150536



Mercantile Marine
S.S Yola
(Liverpool)






Regiment Service Army Pay Corps
Service No
9407




Royal Engineers
33rd Signaling Coy
Service No
100517





Black Watch
(Royal Highlanders)
2nd Bn
Service No 
S/7616



Gordan Highlanders
8th Bn
Service No
S/2167




Royal Engineers




South Lancashire Regiment
2nd Bn
Service No 266138




Bedfordshire Regiment
3rd Bn





Welsh Regiment
2nd Bn




Royal Navy
RFR/DEV/B/3044
H.M.S Goliath
Service No 287111



Welsh Regiment
15th Bn
Service No
44035














           GRAVE


St Pierre Cemetery
Amiens
The Somme
France
Grave Reference
V.A.3



Thiepval Memorial
The Somme
France
Pier and Face 4 C




Salonika (Lembet Road)Military Cemetery
Greece
Grave Reference
277




Tower Hill Memorial, London
Panel Reference






Pontypridd(Glyntaff)
Cemetery
Grave Reference FB 535





Bethune Town
Pas De Calais
France
Cemetery
Grave Reference
IV.H.11


Basra Memorial
Iraq
    Panel Reference
    Panel 25 and 63




Cabaret- Rouge British Cemetery
Souchez
Pas De Calais
France
Grave Reference VII.J.29


Newton Nottage
(St John The Baptist)
Churchyard



Tyne Cot Memorial
West Vlaanderen
Belgium
Panel 92 to 93 and 162 A




Point-Du-Jour Military Cemetery Athies
Pas De Calais
France
Grave Reference
IV.D.16


Heilly Station Cemetery Mericourt-L’abbe
The Somme
France
Grave Reference I.E.16

Plymouth Naval Memorial
Panel Reference 6




Ypres
(Menin Gate)
Memorial
Belgium
Panel 37






















PORTHCAWL ADDRESS


8 Newton Villas, Newton,Porthcawl






"The Louvre",John Street,Porthcawl.





3 Fenton Place, Porthcawl.







"Freshfield House",Esplanade Avenue,Porthcawl.






"Emscote", Esplanade Avenue,Porthcawl.





"Ty Gwyn",
 Mackworth Road,Porthcawl.






9,George Street, Porthcawl






"Fern Cottage",New Road, Porthcawl.





"Hannaston", 
36 Esplanade Avenue,
Porthcawl.


"Commercial Cafe",
John Street, Porthcawl.





"Clevis House", Newton,Porthcawl.






The Pier Hotel,
Esplanade,Porthcawl.




3 Green Meadows
(Father had Nottage Stores)
Nottage,Porthcawl.




16,George Street,Porthcawl.





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