1914/15 Star to Davies Welsh Regiment KIA Gallipoli.

A single 1914/15 star correctly named to 12533 Private William Davies of the 8th battalion the Welsh regiment.
William was born around 1894 and lived in Neath Glamorganshire, Wales.
8th (Pioneers) Battalion, Welsh Regiment was raised at Cardiff in August 1914 as part of Kitchener's Third New Army and joined the 40th Brigade, 13th (Western) Division which assembled on Salisbury Plain. The 40th Brigade moved to Chiseldon and Cirencester in September 1914. Near the end of February the Division concentrated at Blackdown in Hampshire, in January 1915 they became a Pioneer Battalion. They moved to the Mediterranean from the 13th of June 1915 landing at Alexandria then moving to Mudros by the 4th of July to prepare for a landing at Gallipoli. The infantry landed on Cape Helles between the 6th and 16th of July to relieve 29th Division. They returned to Mudros at the end of the month, and the entire Division landed at ANZAC Cove between the 3rd and 5th of August. They were in action in The Battle of Sari Bair, also known as the August Offensive, was a massive Allied operation during the First World War fought from 6th to 21st August 1915. It involved troops from the British Empire, Australia, New Zealand, and India trying to seize the high ground of the Gallipoli peninsula from the Ottoman Empire. The offensive ended in an Ottoman victory, maintaining the military stalemate.
Sadly, William was killed in action, reported on the 12th August, but he could have died a little earlier, probably around the Scimitar Hill area, in fact at this time the fighting and gunfire was so severe that it set the undergrowth ablaze and many of the wounded were incinerated where they lay.
William Davies is now remembered with honour at the Helles memorial. He was the 21 year old son of William and Emma Davies.
His medal comes with an original Welsh regiment cap badge and a few pages of research including his medal index card, Commonwealth war graves certificate etc.

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