WW1 Roll of Honour, Primitive Methodist Church, Gladstone Street, Blaina

Primitive Methodist Church, Gladstone Street, Blaina

FOR KING COUNTRY AND HUMANITY/

ROLL OF HONOUR/

FOR THE BRAVE MEN WHO HAVE GONE FORTH AT THE CALL OF DUTY/

FROM BLAINA PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH/

TO THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR 1914-1918/

Name	Rank	Service	Remarks
Barber Sidney	Private	April 1917 – Jan 1919	Cheshire Reg
Barber James	Private	April 1917 – Feb 1919	Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Coles William	Private	May 1914 – Sept 1917	Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Coles Frank	Private	April 1918 – Dec 1918	Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Dowdeswell George	L.Corp	Sept 1914 – Jan 1919	Royal Army Med Corps Wounded 1916Mentioned In despatches
Dowdeswell Cuthbert	Gunner	Jan 1916 – Feb 1919	Royal Naval DivisionTorpedoed Feb 1918
Fowler Fred	Private	Dec 1914	Kings Shropshire Light InfMissing presumed K.I.A
Fowler Frank	Private	May 1918 – Dec 1918	Tank Corps
Fletcher Tom	Private	April 1918 – Feb 1919	Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Graves Tom	Private	May 1918 – Jan 1919	Mons Reg.
Grist Leonard	Private	Dec 1914- Feb1919	Royal Field Artillery
Green Sidney	Able Seaman	Aug 1914	Royal Navy
Hughes Fred	Private	Sept 1914 – Oct 1918	Welsh Reg.
Hughes Arthur	Private	Jan 1915	Welsh Reg K.I.A.
Hopkins Tom	Private	July 1917 – May 1919	Employment Coy
James Albert	Private	April 1918 –Dec 1918	South Wales Borderers
Jones William	Gunner	Jan 1911 – Jan 1919	Royal Field Artillery Wounded Nov 1917
Jones William	Gunner	March 1917 – Feb 1919	Royal Field Artillery
Morgan Victor	Gunner	Jan 1915 – Dec 1917	Royal Field Artillery
Morgan Phillip	Gunner	Jan 1915 – Jan 1919	Royal Field Artillery
Morgan Frank	Gunner	Jan 1915 – Jan 1919	Royal Field Artillery
Pitman Bert	Private	Aug 1914 –1916	MonShire Regiment K.I.A.
Parfitt Herbert	Private	Sept 1917 – Dec 1918	Somerset Light Infant
Sainsbury Percy	Private	Jan 1917	Kings Liverpool Reg
Short Herbert	Dvr	Nov 1917 – Jan 1919	Royal Army Service Corps M.T.
Weekly Edward J	Private	Sept 1914 _ May 1918	Welsh Reg.
Webber Cyril	Private	July 1918 – Dec 1918	Worcester Regiment
Wilkins Arthur	Private	July 1917 – Sept 1918	South Wales Borderers
Sainsbury Arthur	Private	Nov 1917 – Dec 1918	Royal Air Force
Smith Jacob	Stoker
Basham Joseph	Private	Nov 1909 – June 1916	Monmouths Regiment Wounded March 1915
Shaw William	O.B	April 1918 – March 1919	Royal Navy
Farringon William	Private	April 1918 – Dec 1918	Welsh Guards

NOT ONCE OR TWICE IN OUR ROUGH ISLAND STORY/

THE PATH OF DUTY WAS THE WAY TO GLORY/

Location

Nantyglo & Blaina (17)

People

Albert James (1)

Arthur Hughes (1)

Arthur Sainsbury (1)

Arthur Wilkins (1)

Bert. Pitman (2)

Cuthbert Dowdeswell (2)

Cyril Webber (1)

Edward J Weekly (1)

Frank Coles (2)

Frank Fowler (1)

Frank Morgan (1)

Fred (1)

Fred Fowler (2)

George Dowdeswell (2)

Herbert Parfitt (1)

Herbert Short (1)

Hughes (1)

Jacob Smith (1)

James Barber (1)

Joseph Basham (1)

Leonard Grist (2)

Percy Sainsbury (1)

Phillip Morgan (1)

Sidney Barber (1)

Sidney Green (1)

Tom Fletcher (2)

Tom Graves (1)

Tom Hopkins (1)

Victor Morgan (1)

William Coles (1)

William Farringon (1)

WILLIAM JONES (2)

William Shaw (1)

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The Roll of Honour in the photo is for The Salvation Army Citadel in Abertillery not the Primitive Methodist in Blaina.
By Jill Jones (06/02/2026)

WW1 Roll of Honour, Primitive Methodist Church, Gladstone Street, Blaina

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