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53rd (Welsh) Division

   53rd (Welsh) Division was a formation of the Territorial Force. It was formed as the Welsh Division as a result of the reforms of the army carried out in 1908 under the Secretary of State for War, Richard Burdon Haldane and was one of 14 Divisions of the peacetime TF.
1914
The units of the Division had just departed for annual summer camp when emergency orders recalled them to the home base. All units were mobilised for full time war service on 5 August 1914 and moved to their allotted positions at Shrewsbury, Wellington, Oswestry and Fort Scoveston by 11 August 1914. At the end of the month the entire Division moved to Northampton. Several of the Division's units left in the period November 1914 - February 1915. They were gradually replaced by second line units, but these suffered from shortages of arms, slowing training. These units were subsequently replaced in early 1915. The Division received a warning order on 18 November, advising preparation for a move to India, but this was cancelled a week later and eventually the 2nd Wessex Division went in its place. The Welsh Division moved to Cambridge in December.
1915
King George V inspected the Division on 11 February 1915. The Division moved to Bedford in May. On 2 July the Division was ordered to refit for service in the Mediterranean. Leaving the artillery and train behind, the rest of the Division left 14-19 July and embarked at Devonport. Sailing via Alexandria (25-30 July), the ships reached Lemnos 29 July - 7 August. On 9 August units landed at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli. The Division was then involved in the following moves and engagements:

The landing at Suvla Bay
Operations in the Suvla Bay area

The effects of fighting, few reinforcements and the dreadful blizzard of November reduced the Division to just 162 officers and 2428 men (about 15% of full strength). On 11th and 12th of December the Division was evacuated to Mudros and then went on to Alexandria, where it began to arrive 20th of December. The last units reached Wardan three days later.
1916
The divisional artillery rejoined at Wardan 11-22 February 1916.
The Battle of Romani - Palestine.
1917

Ongoing Palestine Campaign Activity
The First Battle of Gaza (158th Brigade only)
The Second Battle of Gaza
The Third Battle of Gaza including the Capture of Beersheba and the Capture of Tell Khuweilfe
The Capture of Jerusalem
The Defence of Jerusalem

1918

Continued campaign in Palestine
The Battle of Tell'Asur
Between 4 June and 29 August 1918 the Division, other than the artillery, was "Indianised", which meant that Indian units arrived to replace most of the British ones. Many of the latter were ordered to France.
The battle of Nablus - Battles of Megiddo

On 26 September the Division was withdrawn for rest and moved back to Tell'Asur. By 12 October it had moved to Ramle, and on 27 October began entraining for Alexandria. It was there when the Armistice with Turkey took effect on 31 October. The first parties to be demobilised left for England on 22 December.The final cadres sailed home from Port Said on 15 June 1919. The Division reformed as part of the Territorial Army in April 1920.
Order of Battle of the 53rd (Welsh) Division
158th (North Wales) Brigade
This Brigade served under command of 2nd Mounted Division between 31 October and 28 November 1915

1/4th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers left November 1914
1/5th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
1/6th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers amalgamated with 1/5th on 2 August 1918
1/7th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers left for 160th Brigade 24 June 1918
1/1st Battalion, Herefordshire Regiment joined from 160th Brigade 24 April 1915, left 1 June 1918
158th Machine Gun Company formed 26 April 1916, moved to 53rd Battalion, MGC 25 April 1918
158th Trench Mortar Battery formed 22 July 1917
4/11th Ghurka Rifles joined 4 June 1918
3/153rd Infantry joined 10 June 1918
3/154th Infantry joined 3 August 1918

159th (Cheshire) Brigade
This Brigade served under command of 2nd Mounted Division between 29 November and 9 December 1915

1/4th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment left 31 May 1918
1/5th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment left February 1915
1/6th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment left November 1914
1/7th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment left 1 June 1918
2/6th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment joined November 1914, left April 1915
2/5th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment joined February 1915, left April 1915
1/4th Battalion, Welsh Regiment joined 17 April 1915
1/5th Battalion, Welsh Regiment joined 17 April 1915, between 8 October 1915 and 20 February 1916 merged with 1/4th to form 4th Welsh Composite Battalion and fully amalgamated 30 July 1918
159th Machine Gun Company formed 20 April 1916, moved to 53rd Battalion, MGC 25 April 1918
159th Trench Mortar Battery formed 28 June 1917
3/152nd Infantry joined 4 June 1918
2/153rd Infantry joined 5 June 1918
1/153rd Infantry joined 2 August 1918

160th (Welsh Border) Brigade

1/1st Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment left February 1915
1/2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment left November 1914
1/3rd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment left February 1915
1/1st Battalion, Herefordshire Regiment left for 158th Brigade 24 April 1915
2/4th Battalion, Queen's joined 24 April 1915, left 31 May 1918
1/4th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment joined 24 April 1915, left 30 May 1918
2/4th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment joined 24 April 1915, left 25 August 1918
2/10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment joined 24 April 1915, left 19 August 1918
160th Machine Gun Company formed 11 May 1916, moved to 53rd Battalion, MGC 25 April 1918
160th Trench Mortar Battery formed 26 June 1917
21st Punjabis joined 26 May 1918
110th Mahratta Light Infantry joined 28 June 1918, left 19 July 1918
1st Cape Corps joined 22 July 1918, left 15 May 1919
17th Infantry joined 6 August 1918

Divisional Troops

2/1st Battalion, London Regiment joined 15 January 1916, left April 1916
2/3rd Battalion, London Regiment joined 15 January 1916, left April 1916
2/2nd Battalion, London Regiment joined 22 February 1916, left April 1916
2/4th Battalion, London Regiment joined 22 February 1916, left April 1916
155th Infantry joined as Divisional Pioneer Battalion, 12 August 1918
53rd Battalion MGC formed at Ain Sinia 15-25 April 1918
Cape Corps Machine Gun Company joined 17 September 1918 and added to 53rd Bn MGC

Divisional Mounted Troops

Welsh Divisional Cyclist Company formed May-June 1915
A Sqn, the 1/1st Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry joined 1 February 1917, left for XXI Corps Cavalry Regiment on 23 August 1917

Divisional Artillery
The Divisional Artillery did not leave England when the Division embarked for service at Gallipoli. It remained at Bedford and was there rearmed. It sailed for France from 20 November 1915 and concentrated near Pont Remy by five days later. Entrainment began on 1 February 1916, embarkation at Marseilles began two days later and by 22 February 1916 the artillery had concentrated at Beni Salama and came once again under command of this Division.

CCLXV (I Welsh) (Howitzer) Brigade, RFA broken up 26 May 1916
CCLXVI (II Welsh) Brigade, RFA renumbered CCLXVII 25 December 1916
CCLXVII (Cheshire) Brigade, RFA renumbered CCLXV 25 December 1916
CCLXVIII (III Welsh) Brigade, RFA renumbered CCLXVI 25 December 1916
Welsh (Caernarvonshire) Heavy Battery, RGA did not sail with the Division; moved independently to France 3 March1916 and joined XXIII HA Brigade
53rd Divisional Ammunition Column RFA

Royal Engineers

436th (1st Welsh) Field Company renumbered on 4 February 1917
Cheshire Field Company left November 1914
439th (2/1st Cheshire) Field Company joined November 1914, renumbered on 4 February 1917
437th (2/1st Welsh) Field Company sailed 4 October 1915, landed at Suvla 24 October and was initially attached to IX Corps, joining Division at Lala Baba 2 December 1915, renumbered on 4 February 1917, left 9 April 1918
53rd Divisional Signals Company HQ and No 1 Section of this Company was attached to 54th (East Anglian) Division at Suvla between 10-23 August 1915; on 15 December 1915 it was ordered to Salonika and joined XII Corps there on 27 December 1915; it landed at Alexandria 21 January 1916 and came back under orders of this Division at Wardan next day
72nd Company, 3rd Sappers & Miners joined 5 August 1918

Royal Army Medical Corps

1st Welsh Field Ambulance left 21 August 1918
2nd Welsh Field Ambulance absorbed into 170 Combined Field Ambulance on 11 September 1918
3rd Welsh Field Ambulance attached to 54th (East Anglian) Division at Suvla between 11-18 August 1915, absorbed into 171 Combined Field Ambulance on 8-11 September 1918
53rd Sanitary Section formed April 1915
113th Combined Field Ambulance joined 3 July 1918
170th Combined Field Ambulance joined 29 August 1918
172st Combined Field Ambulance joined 23 August 1918

Other Divisional Troops

53rd Divisional Train ASC comprising 479, 480, 481 and 482 Companies ASC, the original Train did not sail with the Division. It transferred to join 11th (Northern) Division for service in France.
The units of 29th Divisional Train joined this Division on 17 March 1916, comprising 246, 247, 248 and 249 Companies ASC
53rd (Welsh) Mobile Veterinary Section AVC formed 27 June 1915, did not sail with the Division, embarked 21 March 1916 and rejoined Division 11 April 1916

There is a memorial to the 53rd (Welsh) Division in Ramleh War Cemetery, which is now in Israel.

3rd Jul 1915 Instructions

6th Jul 1915 Equipment

8th Jul 1915 Inspection

13th Jul 1915 On the Move

14th Jul 1915 Embarkation

15th Jul 1915 Embarkation

16th Jul 1915 On the Move

17th Jul 1915 Embarkation

19th Jul 1915 On the Move

22nd Jul 1915 On the Move

25th Jul 1915 On the Move

26th Jul 1915 Refuelling

29th Jul 1915 Arrival

30th Jul 1915 Arrival

31st Jul 1915 Repairs

8th Aug 1915 Advance Party

8th Aug 1915 On the Move

8th Aug 1915 On the Move

8th Aug 1915 On the Move

8th Aug 1915 Orders

8th Aug 1915 Attack Made

9th Aug 1915 In Action

9th Aug 1915 Landings

9th Aug 1915 Landings

9th Aug 1915 Shelling

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11th Aug 1915 Consolidation

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14th Aug 1915 Confusion

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15th Aug 1915 In the Trenches

15th Aug 1915 Poor Communications

15th Aug 1915 In Support

16th Aug 1915 Relief Complete

16th Aug 1915 Information

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17th Aug 1915 Advance

17th Aug 1915 Orders Received

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18th Aug 1915 Trench Work

18th Aug 1915 Instruction

18th Aug 1915 Digging In

19th Aug 1915 Trench Work

19th Aug 1915 Poor Co-ordination

19th Aug 1915 New Line Advanced

20th Aug 1915 Trench Work

20th Aug 1915 Trench Work

21st Aug 1915 Reinforcements

21st Aug 1915 Vigilance

22nd Aug 1915 Trench Work

22nd Aug 1915 Trench Work

23rd Aug 1915 Trench Work

23rd Aug 1915 Relief

24th Aug 1915 Trench Work

24th Aug 1915 New CO

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25th Aug 1915 Line Reorganised

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26th Aug 1915 Quiet

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1st Sep 1915 Holding the Line

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8th Sep 1915 Reliefs

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17th Sep 1915 Holding the Line

18th Sep 1915 Shelling

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9th Oct 1915 Corps Reserve

16th Oct 1915 In Reserve

19th Oct 1915 Rifles

25th Oct 1915 In Reserve

31st Oct 1915 In Reserve

1st Nov 1915 Defences

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9th Nov 1915 Orders Received

10th Nov 1915 Ready

11th Nov 1915 Ready to Move

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16th Nov 1915 In Reserve

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27th Nov 1915 In Reserve

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2nd Dec 1915 In Reserve

3rd Dec 1915 In Reserve

3rd of December 1915 Observation Difficult

4th Dec 1915 In Reserve

4th of December 1915 Patrol

5th Dec 1915 In Reserve

6th Dec 1915 In Reserve

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8th Dec 1915 In Reserve

9th Dec 1915 Defence Work

10th Dec 1915 Defence Work

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12th Dec 1915 Move

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20th of December 1915 Deserter Taken

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31st Dec 1915 In Camp

1st Jan 1916 In Camp

8th of January 1916 Moves

1st Apr 1916 Defences

24th Feb 1917 Reliefs

26th Mar 1917 In Action

27th Mar 1917 Shelling

5th May 1917 Orders

5th May 1917 Brigade Operation Order No. 8.

6th May 1917 For Communication

5th July 1917 52nd Division Order No.62.

24th Dec 1917 Reorganisation

21st Jan 1918 Course

5th Feb 1918 Course Ends

13th Feb 1918 Personnel

21st Feb 1918 Reorganisation

1st March 1918 Defence Scheme.

8th Mar 1918 Hard Fighting

12th of April 1918 Enemy Advances

27th Apr 1918 Orders Cancelled

19th Sep 1918 Attack Made

20th Sep 1918 Attacks Made

12th of November 1918 Report

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Jones John Frederick. Pte. 7th Btn. (d.26th Mar 1917)
Lawrence Frederick George . Dvr. 1st Monmouthshire Bty.
Lenthall Charles. Cpl. 2nd (Welsh) Field Ambulance
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Dvr. Frederick George Lawrence 1st Monmouthshire Bty. Royal Field Artillery

Frederick George Lawrence served with 1st Monmouthshire Battery, 1/4th Welsh Brigade, Royal Field Artillery during WW1.
Stephen Dalton

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Pte. Wifred John Godfrey Mercy Powell 2nd Btn. Monmouthshire Regiment

Wilfred Powell was born in Redbrook near Gloucester in 1890, but around 1895 he moved with his parents Henry and Rose and his sister Annie, to Pontnewydd, Cwmbran where his father worked in the tinplate works. Wilfred married Alice Flippance in 1910 and worked as a haulier underground at Cwmbran Colliery.
Although only 5 feet 3 inches tall Wilfred had joined the 2nd Battalion of the Monmouthshire Regiment, a territorial unit prior to getting married. Pension records say he enlisted on 5th March 1907 but silver war badge records say 16th of March 1909, he was still a part-time soldier when war was declared in August 1914.
The 2nd Battalion was immediately mobilised at Pontypool and then in quick succession moved through Pembroke Dock, Oswestry and Northampton before landing at Le Havre in France on the 7th of November 1914 as part of the 12th Brigade in the 4th Division of the British Expeditionary Force.
Like many others, Wilfred Powell's service records were destroyed by bombing during WW2. Family history tells us he fought with the Monmouthshires at the Second Battle of Ypres in western Belgium in April and May 1915 and that he also spent some time as a tunneller, before joining the Royal Army Medical Corps. The records that do survive suggest that he never formally joined the Royal Engineers as a tunneller but he may well have been attached to the tunnellers as were many men from the Monmouthshires. It's also possible that he was one of the men drawn from the 2nd Battalion who, under Captain Arthur Edwards of Blaenafon, formed the 4th Divisions' Mining Party and exploded the first British mine of the war.
What we do know is that the 2nd Battalion fought in the battles of the Marne, Aisne and Messines in 1914 and in the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915. The 2nd suffered so many casualties in the latter battle that it had to be amalgamated with its sister battalions for several months before its ranks could be refilled.
The photograph shows him wearing his Monmouthshire cap badge, a wound stripe and two service chevrons suggesting it was taken in the late summer or autumn of 1916.
From November 1916 to January 1917 he spent time in Whitchurch hospital recovering from a bought of trench fever.
By the end of 1916 he had transferred to the Royal Army Medical Corps and the 1st Welsh Field Ambulance where he became a stretcher bearer. Silver war badge records show him as being in 1st Welsh Field Ambulance but this unit served with the 53rd Welsh Division in the Middle East? There is no indication anywhere else that he served anywhere other than the Western Front. Family history says that on hearing the gas whistle Wilfred stopped to help an injured soldier with his gas mask before putting on his own and was exposed to gas as a result. He was invalided out the army just two months before the end of the war but due to his injuries he was unable to return to his job at Cwmbran Colliery. Wilfred gave his daughter Francis, born in 1914, the middle name Louvain in memory of the Belgium town that was destroyed by the Germans in the first month of the war. For his service in WW1 Wilfred received the 1914 Star, British and Victory medals, an honourable discharge and a Silver War Badge. He died in 1941 aged 51.
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260391

Pte. William Nelson Rees 9th Btn. Welsh Regiment (d.15th Nov 1916)

William Rees was attested on 5th of August 1914 at Abergavenny Depot, then was recalled to headquarters of the Monmouthshire Regiment at Abergavenny. On 6th August, he went to Pembroke Dock for training as part of the Welsh Border Brigade, and then on 10th August he was sent to training camp at Oswestry. On the 31st, he went for training and equipping to the Northampton race course with the 53rd (Welsh) Division, where they billeted with and were well liked by the local people. In October 1914, he and the 3rd Monmouthshires were sent to Bury St. Edmunds in East Anglia to train on digging trenches and setting up defensive works. On 1st December, they went to Cambridge in January 1915 for rifle training, and on 11th February 1915, they were inspected by King George V.
On 13 February 1915, the 3rd Monmouthshires proceeded by train to Southampton and sailed for France on the S.S. Chyebassa. The next morning, they arrived at Le Havre and proceeded by train to Cassel, where the GHQ of the French Northern Army was located. On 28th February 1915, they left Steenvorde on a fleet of double-decker London buses and went into action in the front lines. During the next seven months, 3rd Battalion participated in the following battles: Messines-Wytschaete Ridge; Wulverghem; Polygon Wood (in which they were attached to the Northumberland Field Company and the 171st Tunnelling Company R.E); Hill 60; Frezenberg Ridge; Hooge Chateau; Vlamertinghe; Poperinghe; Hellfire Corner; Reninghelst; Yser Canal; Caesar’s Nose; Lindenoek; Locre; Kemmel; and Elverdinghe Chateau.
In September 1915, the 3rd Battalion was detached to the 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division as a pioneer battalion and engaged in repairing roads and digging trenches and dugouts. In December, the 3rd Battalion rejoined the rest of the Monmouthshire Regiment, which was encamped at Elverdinghe Chateau. On the 29th December, while on parade there, a large German shell fired from a nearby forest exploded, wounding 30 of the Battalion and killing 39, all of whom are buried at Ferme-Olivier cemetery in Belgium. During the first six months of 1916, 3rd Monmouthshires participated in the following actions: Albert; Brucamps; Candas; Neuville; St. Vaast; Agnieres; Pommier; and Foncquevillers. On the 1st July, the Battalion took part in the Battle of the Somme in support of the 36th Ulster Division’s attack on a German strong-point.
In August 1916, the 3rd Battalion fought at Acheux, Hedin, and Capelle. There were failed attacks on enemy trenches and many casualties, and the Battalion was ordered to retire. At the end of the month, 3rd Battalion heard the unwelcome news that, owing to the difficulty in finding replacements, the unit would be broken up and distributed among other Welsh regiments.
On 24th August, Private Rees learned that he was one of 200 men to be assigned to the new 9th Entrenching Battalion, which had been formed from the remnants of the 3rd Monmouthshires. Then on 20th September, he was transferred to the 9th Battalion, Welsh Regiment. On 15th November 1916, Private Rees was with a bomb and bayonet detachment near Le Sars in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France, when a hidden German machine gun opened up on the detachment. One officer was wounded. Thirty other soldiers were wounded or missing. One of these was Willie, as he was known. His body was never identified. His name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
David Taylor

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Cpl. Charles Lenthall 2nd (Welsh) Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps

With the RAMC, Charles Lenthall made a desert crossing on foot from Cairo to Jerusalem through Sinai and Palestine. He bought a mummified head from a tomb raider. He travelled from Kantara to Jerusalem (with friend Norman Johnston), and was ordered to move to Ali Mind in charge of 4 mule-driven ambulances 1 mile from the front line. For his length of overseas service, Cpl. Lenthall earned four blue chevrons.
Judy Goodfellow

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Pte. John Frederick Jones 7th Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers (d.26th Mar 1917)

John Frederick Jones served with the 7th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers during WW1. He was killed in action on the 26th March 1917, aged 23, and is commemorated in the Jerusalem War Cemetery. He was the son of John Thomas Jones and Jane Jones, of 39, Smithfield St., Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire.
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