I have written previously about my great uncle, Robert Victor Davies but not about his older sister, Mary Eleanor who was known to the family as Lallie. During the summer I was going through a box of miscellaneous family photographs with my brother when we came across a locket. On one side it had a…
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The Menin Gate Memorial and Robert Victor Davies
The Menin Gate Memorial is where my great uncle Victor’s name is inscribed as one of the 54,389 men who are commemorated here. When I use the words ‘great uncle’ about someone who died nearly a hundred years ago your mind will probably conjure up an image of an elderly gentleman with Edwardian sideburns. Victor…
Victor’s Family
Robert Victor Davies – 10th June 1897 – 31st July 1917 Victor was born at 10 Clonmel Street, Llandudno on 10th June 1897, the second child in the family. His sister, Mary Eleanor was two years older. His father, Robert Samuel worked as a printer and his mother Mary Grace (nee Pritchard) was from Amlwch.…
Robert Victor Davies – 10th June 1897 – 31st July 1917
He was the uncle that my father never knew, as Dad was born two years after he was killed. My great aunts, Bena and Edie could have told me about him had I known to ask while they were still alive. On a recent Writers trip to the battlefields I went to look for Victor.…