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VC845   James Llewellyn Davies

Name   James Llewellyn Davies   No.   44304 & 31161   POSTHUMOUS

VC Issue No.   845   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Royal Welch Fusiliers, 13th Battalion, C Company

Later   

Now   The Royal Welsh

Rank VC Won   Corporal

Rank End Of Career   Corporal

Place Of Birth   Fronwen, Wyndham, Ogmore Vale, Glamorgan, Wales

Place Of Death   Casualty Clearing Station, near Pilckem, Belgium

Buried/Location Ashes   Canada Farm British Cemetery, Elverdinghe, 5 miles north-west of Ypres, Belgium

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone (CWGC)    Plot/Grave no.   Plot 2, Row B, Grave 18

Gazetted   6 September 1917

VC Presented   20 October 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his widow, Elizabeth Anne and eldest son

Memorials

P  Headstone, Canada Farm British Cemetery, Elverdinghe, 5 miles north-west of Ypres, Belgium

P  Named on War Memorial, Nant-y-moel,  Glamorgan, Wales

Davies Road, Wrexham, Wales

By The Way…

Before the war he was a Miner in the valleys

VC Held By

Regimental Museum of the Royal Welch Fusiliers, The Queen's Tower, Caernarfon Castle, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales

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BORN   16 March 1886

DIED   31 July 1917   AGE   31

VC Won   31 July 1917   AGE   31

Place VC Won   Polygon Wood, Belgium

War/Campaign   First World War 1917