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Wales (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Wales => Merionethshire => Topic started by: *Sandra* on Sunday 30 January 22 11:24 GMT (UK)
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Commonwealth War Graves Commission are appealing for relatives of Captain David Oswald Davies - Royal Welsh Fusiliers - who died 22/5/1917 - buried Llanaber (St Marys) Churchyard.
The private memorial marking the grave of Captain David Oswald Davies no longer provides adequate commemoration. The commission are in the process of producing a new headstone to mark his grave.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KCGP-J17
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David Oswald Davies - Death Date 22 May 1917 Barmouth Merionethshire, , Wales
Probate Date 19 Dec 1917 London. to Albert Barnes Davies (surgeon) £1265 3 s
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPLD-GQ2F
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Captain Davis Oswald Davies - 22 May 1917 (with photograph)
LLANABER (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD
https://astreetnearyou.org/person/671609/Captain-David-Oswald-Davies
https://ww1.wales/other-counties/merionethshire-memorials/barmouth-war-memorial
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David Oswald Davies - 1866 - 1917 (burial 25 May 1917 Llanaber Merionethshire Wales)
Death Aged 51 years. Address - 4 Marine Gardens Barmouth.
Page number: 9
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British Newspaper Archives - Newspaper - Western Mail Count - Glamorgan, Wales. Thursday 24 th May 1917
SOUTH WALES OFFICERS
SOUTH WALES OFFICERS. WELSH FUSILIERS CAPTAIN DIES. Captain D. Oswald Davies, who was attached to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, died at Barmouth on Tuesday. At the outbreak of war he wa.. practising as solicitor at Barmouth and Dolgelly, ind held many public ..................
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1911 free index - Green Hill, Barmouth.
Lizzie Adams 29
Mary Davies 68
David Oswold Davies 42 Boarder. Single. Solicitor.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X7JD-3DQ
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1901 Barmouth and Llanaber Merionethshire.
RG13 Piece 5254 Folio 68 Page 9
Jane Jones 77
Robert W Jones 34
Mary Davies 58 David O Davies 33 Solicitor.
Fredrick Jones 17
Cathrine Jones 42
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X91S-265
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1891 Llangollen Denbighshire.
RG12 Piece 4637 Folio 72 Page 11
Sarah Evans 77 widow.
Mary Davies 48 niece
David Oswald Davies 25 grand-nephew
Myfanwy Roberts 17 servant.
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1861 shows the brother Albert Davies Barnes befoire David Oswald Davies was born.
RG9 Piece 4263 Folio 52 Page 38
David Milton Davies 34
Mary Davies 20
Albert Barnes Davies 3 months
Jane Evans 17
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The brother in 1911 Dulston House, Stroud, Gloucestershire.
Arthur Bunes Davies 50 Surgeon. Emily Jane Davies 46
Muriel Alice Mary Davies 19 Doris Primrose Davies 17
Margaret Muriel Brooks 5
Mary Authur Crick Ward 36
Minna May Blick 22
Edith Austin 16
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X71B-BXR
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Albert Barnes Davies - died 5 Dec 1950 Gloucestershire. Probate Date 17 Apr 1951 Gloucester.
Anc tree for Doctor Albert Barnes Davies - will message - fingers crossed.
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Relative of David Oswald Davies responded.
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As well as the Barmouth war memorial, D Oswald Davies is also commemorated in Dolgellau where he had a solicitor's practice in Queens Square (Llys Owain) in the building which now houses Y Sospan restaurant. As Lt. Davies he led a contingent of 50 Dolgellau men of the 7th Battalion RWF to their HQ in Newtown on 6 August 1914. He was promoted within a month.
I believe he played one game for Wales in 1890, a 5-0 loss to Scotland. The scoreline might explain why he was a 'one cap wonder'.
His father, Rev David Milton Davies a Congregational minister, was a leading light of the movement to disestablish the Anglican church in Wales until his death at a young age. The young DOD was educated at the Congregational School in Lewisham London - a boarding school for the sons of Congregational ministers. Who knew such an establishment would exist?
I have looked for his headstone in Llanaber, in vain. Perhaps soon it will become more obvious.
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I have looked for his headstone in Llanaber, in vain. Perhaps soon it will become more obvious.
South east of church, near east boundary.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/236263330/david-oswald-davies
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