Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private R. Griffiths, 1st Battalion Welsh Regiment

1914-15 Star (10788 Dmr., Welsh R.); British War and Victory Medals (10788 Pte., Welsh R.); Memorial Plaque (Roland Griffiths) good very fine and better (4) £200-250

Roland Griffiths was born in Hanley, Staffordshire, lived in Gunnislake, Cornwall and enlisted at Plymouth, originally serving in the Devonshire Regiment. As a Drummer in the 1st Battalion Welsh Regiment, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 28 January 1915. He was killed in action on 25 May 1915, aged 28 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. He was the husband of Lily Mary Griffiths, of Wheal Josiah Cottages, Great Consols, Tavistock, Devon. With copied casualty details and m.i.c.