The Welsh at War: Through Mud to Victory: Third Ypres and the 1918 Offensives by Steven John

Author:Steven John [John, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Military / General
ISBN: 9781526700360
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2018-05-29T23:00:00+00:00

Another casualty of the abortive raid of 10 May was the 28-year-old Lance Corporal John Frederick Parry, a native of Llanwrig, Montgomeryshire and the son of David and Elizabeth Parry. His parents ran the Brynawel Hotel in Aberystwyth prior to the war, and it was at Aberystwyth that Parry enlisted into the 15th Welsh. He was hit in the thigh by machine-gun fire during the initial advance on the morning of 10 May, shattering his fibula. A chaplain with the 38th (Welsh) Division, Reverend J. Parry-Brookes, wrote to his parents to tell them that he had spoken to their son while he was being carried from the battlefield by two stretcher-bearers and that he was very cheerful.

Sadly, Parry died just hours later of his wounds while being treated at the military hospital at Doullens and was buried at Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No. 2 with full military honours. The hospital chaplain, R.N. Burns, wrote to his parents to inform them of their son’s death, telling them that he had suffered very little.

While his fellow Welshmen were being destroyed by their own artillery within the dark confines of Aveluy Wood, to the north another Welshman, Private James Skone (36224) of the 2nd Welsh, became the fifteenth Welshman to be executed during the war.

The grave of Private James Skone (36224), 2nd Welsh, of Pembroke.

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