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.
