Roath War Memorial

JOSEPH XUEREB Private, 6th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment (Service Number: 15009) Born in Malta. Married daughter of the manager of the Wimbourne Hotel. Lived in Eclipse St. Killed in action on 14/2/1917, aged 26. Remembered on Basra memorial.

Today marks the 85th anniversary of the death of Frank Gaccon, killed in Newport Rd during a bombing raid on Cardiff. He was former Captain of Cardiff RFC and in WWII Commander of the Auxiliary Fire Service. Buried in Cathays Cemetery. @cardiffrugbymus roathlocalhistorysociety.org/2019/11/10/rem…

Latest Addition to the Roath Virtual War Memorial:- WILLIAM ROBERT BLACK (1902-1943) Able Seaman, S.S. Clarissa Radcliffe, Merchant Navy

Latest addition to Virtual War Memorial: John Roberts b.1888,Conway. Lost at sea 1917 when the S.S. Cymrian, a coal shop heading to Dublin, was torpedoed by a U-boat and sunk in the St. Georges Channel on 25 Aug 1917. Mentioned on mother’s headstone in Cathays Cemetery.

Latest addition to virtual war memorial: Cpl Edgar Wood MM. RFA. Grew up in Splott. Railway fireman. Injured Battle of the Somme. Died of wounds at the Military Hospital in Manchester. Buried in Cathays Cemetery. Named on Splott War Memorial.

Captain Arthur Tudor Thomas, grew up on Cog Farm, Sully. Attended Penarth County School the year it opened. Worked for Inland Revenue, moved to Mafeking Rd. Served with Glamorgan Yeomanry attached to Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Died France from wounds on 29 Sep 1918. @StanwellSchool

Robert Pendrill Thomas. Third Engineer, S.S.Bayronto, Merchant Navy. b. 1888 Moriston. 1911 census: lodging in Cardiff with brother-in-law Prof. D.Evans. d.1918. Name spelt incorrectly on Pembroke Terr memorial in Cardiff (building up for sale). @CWGC

Simon Vickers Johnson, was father of Betty Campbell, Wales's first black head teacher. He was born in Jamacia. He was a greaser in the Merchant Navy. d. 13 Sep 1942, when S.S. Ocean Vanguard was torpedoed off Trinidad.

Corporal John Charles Russell, Army Pay Corps, of Inverness Place died of TB in GlanEly Hospital in 1919. He is buried at Cathays CEmetery. A CWGC marker has recently been added to the grave.

2nd Lieut Harry Bladon, 4th Battn, Welsh Regiment. Lived in Glenroy St, attended Albany Rd Sch. After school he became Private Secretary to Lord Glanely, the ship owner William Tatum. Died of wounds on 1 Sep 1918 on Western Front. Buried at the Morval British Cemetery, France.

CECIL JAMES THOMAS Chief Officer, S.S. Arlington Court, Merchant Navy (Service Number: 214458) 1900-1939. Lived at Glantowy Dairy, Waterloo Gardens. Attended Marlborough Road School and Howard Gardens. Remembered on memorial in Tabernacle Welsh Baptist, The Hayes.

JOHN NAPIER SMITH Civilian Casualty John Napier Smith b.1894, attended Albany Rd School & Howard Gardens. Appointed Deputy City Treasurer in 1933. Air raid warden and a member of the Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Association. Died on 31/7/1942, aged 48. Cathays Cemetery (plot L4058)

Latest addition: EDWARD ALEXANDER McLEA Second Officer, S.S. Menin Ridge, Merchant Navy (Service Number: 147731). Served all his life in the Merchant Navy. Survived being torpedoed three times in WWI but killed in Oct 1939 when the Menin Ridge was torpedoed of Gibralta.

One of the more unusual additions to the Roath Virtual War Memorial. 2nd Lieut Harold Jones, Royal Defence Corps, murdered Christmas night 1917, in an altercation on James St, Docks, died later that night in King Edward VII Hospital, Newport Rd. The case remains unsolved.

Help please! I just can't find Harold Jones who is on the St Martin's WWI plaque, Albany Road, Roath, Cardiff.

Philip Harold Jones, Private, 11th Bttn, Welsh Regiment (Service No. 34208) b.1896 in Aberavon. lived in Inverness Pl and then Kimberley Rd. Attended Roath Pk Prim then Howard Gardens. Served in France then Salonica, Greece. KIA 10 Sep 1916, aged 20.

Lance Corporal ERNEST McLEA 10th Bttn, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, b.1896 Attended Albany Rd School and later worked as a railway telephone clerk. KIA 13 Apr 1918,France, aged 21. On St Edward’s war memorial. His older brother Edward McLea was killed in WWII.

FREDERICK WILLIAM GAINEY Pioneer, 151st Field Company, Royal Engineers (Service Number: 67438) b. Cardiff in 1895. Lived in Elm St then Blanche St. Worked s a jobbing gardener. He was KIA on 1 May 1916 aged 20. Buried at the Rue-du-Bacquerot (13th London) Graveyard, France.

Reggie Thomas, Keppoch St, attended Albany Rd School, went on to work in Lloyds Bank, Roath Park (now Nero). Second Lieutenant, South Wales Borderers. KIA 24/11/1917, age 19. Tabernacle Baptist memoial.

The latest addition to our Roath Virtual War Memorial is Cpl John Jenkins of the Royal Irish Fusiliers. He lived on Byron St and served initially with the 6th bn in the Balkans where he was injured and subsequently with the 1st bn on the Western Front. KIA age 22, on 12 Oct 1916.