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Title: Private Rowland Williams
Post by: mandywills on Monday 09 March 20 00:09 GMT (UK)

I’m looking for help in finding any info on a Pvt Rowland Williams who possibly died in the war on 18.03.1918.
Private Rowland Williams has a son John Ellis Williams, johns date of death was Dec 14 1976 and before his death owned a doll factory in Ffestiniog, Merionethshire.
John Ellis married Lilian Helen

Title: Re: Private Rowland Williams
Post by: louisa maud on Monday 09 March 20 08:58 GMT (UK)

Good Morning, what are you actually after?

There is attestation papers on Ancestry for Rowland, he possibly joined up aged 36 1917 the Welsh Fusiliers

Rowland and Ellen had 4 children

Married Ellen Roberts18/08/1910

Louisa Maud  born 03/09/1910
Jane Helena 07/03/1912
John Ellis 13/11/1913
David Bryn 02/10/1916

Louisa Maud

Title: Re: Private Rowland Williams
Post by: IMBER on Monday 09 March 20 09:23 GMT (UK)

Is this him?:

https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/540301/williams,-rowland/

Imber

Title: Re: Private Rowland Williams
Post by: hanes teulu on Monday 09 March 20 16:00 GMT (UK)

Y Dinesydd Cymreig, 10 April 1918

BEDDGELERT
(translation)

Died of his wounds - The news came that Private Rowland Williamss, 2, Gwynant Street, Beddgelert has died of his wounds in France. He had been a gardener in the Craflwyd** at one time.

** - an estate in the Beddgelert area

Title: Re: Private Rowland Williams
Post by: CaroleW on Monday 09 March 20 16:14 GMT (UK)

Both John & his brother David are on the 1939 register in Merionethshire.  John’s birthdate on his death reg is 30.11.1913 as on the 1939 register

Are you looking for details of his ancestry?

1901 & 1911 entries from Family Search

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X913-GJK

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7J6-3Q5

Title: Re: Private Rowland Williams
Post by: hanes teulu on Monday 09 March 20 16:24 GMT (UK)

Yr Herald Cymreig, 2 April 1918

Sympathy/Commiseration

Everybody's profound sympathy with Mr David Williams, Ivy House, Beddgelert (formerley of Craflwyn) in his  sickness/misery. The sad news of the death of his brother, Private Rowland, on the battlefield affected him so much he burst a blood vessel. Good to learn he is better.

Fall of a Beddgelert Soldier
A telegram came middle of last week notifying that private Rowland Williams, 2, Gwynant Street, was "dangerously ill, with wounds, in France". He was wounded on 19 March, a serious one, in his leg. Saturday came the sad news he had died.. Before joining the army he was a gardener at Craflwyn. He had many friends in Beddgelert. He leaves a widow and four children, together with brothers and sisters, and numerous family in the area. Profound sympathy for his widow in particular, and the family, in their mourning on account of his loss.