3rd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment - first draft at Abergavenny, August 1914

Comments about this page

• Reply

  Charles Percy Evans, a brother of my great grandfather, would be in this image.
  He had only just turned 16 years of age.
  His death at Ypres is recorded as the 11th of May 1915.
  I have a page of a letter he wrote to his mother from the front line, most likely his last.
  The 3rd Mons suffered catastrophic losses from April 24th- May 11th as they were bombarded by German shelling and faced direct infantry assaults.
  The 3rd Mons were left decimated, of the 1020 men who arrived with Percy in Feb 1915, only 134 men survived.

  By Paul Davies (12/09/2024)