17995 Pte Leyshon Davies, 14th Bn, Welsh Regt

17995 Private Leyshon Davies of the 14th Battalion, Welsh Regiment, was killed in action on the 10th July 1916. He was born in Aberavon and enlisted there, aged 29, on the 30th November 1914. Leyshon was a labourer by trade and stood five feet seven and a half inches tall. He had married Elizabeth Price in April 1911 and the couple had one son - Thomas Henry Davies - born on the 28th January 1915. A second son - Leyshon - would be born on Christmas Day the same year.

Private Leyshon Davies has no known grave and is commemorated on the imposing and sombre Thiepval Memorial on the Somme. He was reported missing on the 10th July 1916 and later presumed to have died on that day.

In July 1919, Leyshon's widow and two infant sons were living at 35 Arthur Street, Aberavon.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC, WO 363)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission