Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Robert Handel Mendelsohn Griffiths) very fine £40-60

Robert Handel Mendelsohn Griffiths was born in Charminster, Dorset, on 18 May 1897. Living in Weymouth, he enlisted at Woking, Surrey, in August 1913 and served as a Boy in the 3rd Battalion Border Regiment. Called up for service in the Great War, he was killed in a tragic accident on 29 August 1914, aged 17 years, when on his way to join the 2nd Battalion then based at Pembroke Dock.

His Death Certificate states: ‘Was accidentally killed by his head coming in contact with the door of a truck on a Railway siding which was open, he having his head out of the carriage window in which he was travelling.’

He was buried in the Pembroke Dock Military Cemetery. He was the son of George Pryce and Jilly Edith Griffiths of Charminster.With copied Birth and Death Certificates and other research.