Rank: Gunner
No: 61241
Birth: abt. 1885
Dead: 13 April 1918
Aged: 33
Regiment: 130th Heavy Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
Cemetery: Namps-au-Val British Cemetery, France
Add Information: Son of Mary Jenkins, of Emlyn House, Cribyn, Llanybyther, Carmarthenshire.
Rhys Rees, Gunner, 61241, Royal Garrison Artillery. Rhys was the son of Mary Jenkins, of Emlyn House, Cribyn, Llanybydder. He enlisted at Lampeter into the Royal Artillery and was posted to France with the 130th Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. The Battery was attached to the Fourth Army and was caught up in German Spring offensive in 1918. The Fourth army suffered terribly in the onslaught and Rhys was one of those who died of wounds received in this terrible part of the war, aged 33 on the 13 April 1918. He is buried in Namps-Au-Val British Cemetery, France.
(Info taken from ww1.wales)
No: 61241
Birth: abt. 1885
Dead: 13 April 1918
Aged: 33
Regiment: 130th Heavy Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
Cemetery: Namps-au-Val British Cemetery, France
Add Information: Son of Mary Jenkins, of Emlyn House, Cribyn, Llanybyther, Carmarthenshire.
Rhys Rees, Gunner, 61241, Royal Garrison Artillery. Rhys was the son of Mary Jenkins, of Emlyn House, Cribyn, Llanybydder. He enlisted at Lampeter into the Royal Artillery and was posted to France with the 130th Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. The Battery was attached to the Fourth Army and was caught up in German Spring offensive in 1918. The Fourth army suffered terribly in the onslaught and Rhys was one of those who died of wounds received in this terrible part of the war, aged 33 on the 13 April 1918. He is buried in Namps-Au-Val British Cemetery, France.
(Info taken from ww1.wales)
Rank: Gunner
No: 61241
Birth: abt. 1885
Dead: 13 April 1918
Aged: 33
Regiment: 130th Heavy Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
Cemetery: Namps-au-Val British Cemetery, France
Add Information: Son of Mary Jenkins, of Emlyn House, Cribyn, Llanybyther, Carmarthenshire.
Rhys Rees, Gunner, 61241, Royal Garrison Artillery. Rhys was the son of Mary Jenkins, of Emlyn House, Cribyn, Llanybydder. He enlisted at Lampeter into the Royal Artillery and was posted to France with the 130th Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. The Battery was attached to the Fourth Army and was caught up in German Spring offensive in 1918. The Fourth army suffered terribly in the onslaught and Rhys was one of those who died of wounds received in this terrible part of the war, aged 33 on the 13 April 1918. He is buried in Namps-Au-Val British Cemetery, France.
(Info taken from ww1.wales)
No: 61241
Birth: abt. 1885
Dead: 13 April 1918
Aged: 33
Regiment: 130th Heavy Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
Cemetery: Namps-au-Val British Cemetery, France
Add Information: Son of Mary Jenkins, of Emlyn House, Cribyn, Llanybyther, Carmarthenshire.
Rhys Rees, Gunner, 61241, Royal Garrison Artillery. Rhys was the son of Mary Jenkins, of Emlyn House, Cribyn, Llanybydder. He enlisted at Lampeter into the Royal Artillery and was posted to France with the 130th Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. The Battery was attached to the Fourth Army and was caught up in German Spring offensive in 1918. The Fourth army suffered terribly in the onslaught and Rhys was one of those who died of wounds received in this terrible part of the war, aged 33 on the 13 April 1918. He is buried in Namps-Au-Val British Cemetery, France.
(Info taken from ww1.wales)
Gravesite Details
Gunner, Royal Garrison Artillery. Age: 33.
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