William Shermer Llewellyn

(1893-1920)


Private 10752. Royal Welch Fusiliers

Died 26 Sept 1920, aged 27, buried at Cathays Cemetery EH. 210.

Son of Philip and Elizabeth Llewellyn, formerly of North Clive Street; husband of Alice Llewellyn, of 91 Saltmead Road. His service records survive - he was a dock labourer when he joined up in 1911 and served in India amd Malta. He was reported missing less than a month after he went to France on 30 October 1914 and was a prisoner of war at Hameln for four years until he was repatriated in 1918. He was then posted to a depot in 1919 and contracted a lung condition, possibly TB

Source : Kind permission of The Grangetown Local History Society