Sergeant 24082, 16th (Cardiff City) Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Killed in action 10 July 1916, during the attacks by the 38th (Welsh) Division, which captured Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme. Born Llanelly, enlisted Penarth, Glamorgan. No known grave. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Pier and Face 7 A and 10 A.

[The Holy Nativity plaque records a Private H A Hunt. Both the St Augustine’s and Penarth War Memorials record a Private E A Hunt, as does the CWGC and SDGW] Private 290900, 15th (Carmarthenshire) Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Killed in action 15 March 1918. Born and resident Cogan, Glamorgan, enlisted Barry. Buried in CITE BONJEAN MILITARY CEMETERY, ARMENTIERES, Nord, France. Plot VII. Row C. Grave 21. Also listed on the main Penarth memorial

Private, 51240, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment). Wounded in action and missing, presumed to have died, 8 May 1915, during a German attack on the weak British defences at Hooge in the salient around the city. Aged 29. Born 17 September 1886 in Penarth, Ga,organ, South Wales. Son of Charles and Mary Jane Jolliffe, of 92, Windsor Road, Penarth, Glamorgan, Wales. Farmer by trade. Single. Attested 16 December 1914 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, aged 28, height 5 feet 8½ inches, weight 168 lbs, chest 39-40 inches, fair complexion, grey eyes, dark hair, religious denomination Church of England. No known grave. Commemorated on YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 10. National Archives of Canada Accession Reference: Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF), RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 4915 - 3. Also listed on the main Penarth memorial

The "Patricias" were a remarkable regiment. Raised in Canada at the start of the war it was a unique force recruited from ex servicemen who had emigrated to Canada. Of its original 1100 recruits almost all had served in the Army or Navy. The regiment arrived in France in the autumn of 1914 by which time it bore the name of Princess Patricia of Connaught, who was the daughter of the Governor General of Canada, Field Marshal Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, and she personally made and presented the regiment with its colours.

On the 8th May 1915 the 27th and 28th Divisions of the British army suffered terrible losses resisting the German offensive. Lyn Macdonald in her book "1915 The Death of Innocence" describes the scene at the end of the day:

"The Patricia’s had four officers and a hundred and fifty men left……

They had fought like lions to the limit of their endurance and beyond it. They were drained and exhausted, and it was time to go. The guns rumbled on but the fire was thinner now for the Germans had relaxed their efforts, as worn out as their opponents by the fearful day.

A young moon rose in the hazy sky above the battlefield. On both sides of the line they were carrying out the wounded and relieving the men who had survived the worst of the onslaught.

When the Patricias’ turn came in the early hours of the morning they dragged themselves thankfully back to assemble behind the trench. In the light of the first streaks of dawn Lieutenant Niven formed them up and placed himself at the head of the column. He was carrying Princess Patricia’s colours. They had not escaped entirely unscathed and the rich red of the banner was smudged and streaked and slightly torn. But the Princess’s colours had stayed in the line throughout the battle and now the colours led the survivors of her regiment out …"

Private 62384, 9th Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Sustained shell wounds to the left leg and abdomen and succumbed to double pneumonia from which he died in United Kingdom 8 May 1918. Born Cogan, Glamorgan, enlisted Penarth. Son of John and Elizabeth Jones, of 123, Plassey Street, Penarth, Attested 6 June 1916 in Penarth, aged 18 years 6 months, Assistant Storekeeper by trade, single, height 5 feet 8 inches, weight 133lbs, chest 34-36 inches. Posted Depot 3 November 1917, 4th Battalion 5 November 1917, embarked for France 1 April 1918, disembarked France 2 April 1918, posted 1st/6th Battalion, posted Depot 27 April 1918, posted 9th Battalion 7 May 1918. Buried at South-East corner of Church in LLANDOUGH (ST. DOCHDWY) CHURCHYARD, Glamorganshire. Also listed on the main Penarth memorial

Private, 11th (Cardiff Pals) Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Killed in action in Salonika 18 September 1918. Born and resident Penarth, enlisted Cardiff. Son of Robert and Mary Macdonald, of 127, Windsor Rd., Penarth, Glamorgan. Buried in DOIRAN MILITARY CEMETERY, Greece. Plot V. Row F, Grave 31. Also listed on the main Penarth memorial

The Pals’ commanding officer, who was wounded, is quoted in the Regimental History, as follows:

" I have never seen a whole battalion more determined in attack… By about 8 am the Battalion had ceased to exist, and no reports came back, and none of the messages I sent succeeded in getting through the storm of machine gun fire. Not a single straggler and very few walking wounded returned from the assaulting companies."

It is worth recording here the circumstances in which the 11th Welsh were raised originally, as it exemplifies the spirit that led men to volunteer. H. H. Asquith, the Prime Minister had suggested that men with the same interest should form themselves into battalions. This suggestion was seized upon in Cardiff, as in many other cities, and in late August 1914 a battalion of professional men, clerks and tradesmen started to recruit under the name of the "Cardiff Commercial Battalion". Every man was who enlisted was expected to bring six friends with him and from this sprang their nickname as the Cardiff "Pals" Battalion.

Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, attached 2nd Battalion [CWGC] or 1st Battalion [SDGW], Welsh Regiment. Killed in action at High Wood, a wood near Bazentin le Petit, France, 8 September 1916. No known grave. Commemorated on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, Somme, France. Addenda Panel 1. Also listed on the main Penarth memorial