Sjt. David O'Flaherty South Wales Bords split pair, vm only

[Jerry B]

Picked up today local to me, a bit bruised but not too expensive and to a NCO in the South Wales Borderers, probably of Irish origin I assume from his name, David O'Flaherty. I have his MIC and he was only entitled to a pair but he did well to reach the rank of Serjeant in that time. I could see his MIC for free on Ancestry as they are free at this time but any other docs are invisible to me.

[ynot]

Are you buying up all the singles you can find to Welsh regiments?

This is all I could find.

Tony

[Jerry B]

Are you buying up all the singles you can find to Welsh regiments?

This is all I could find.

Tony

Thanks Tony.

Sort of! Each medal even a single opens up that door into the recipients past as much as a group does. I will keep an eye out for a chance of a reunite, but with a WM only it is likely that the BWM was melted down for scrap, so all that is left is this perhaps.

The medal roll lists his Bn which means I can get at least some idea of where he served and what actions if any he is likely to have had a part in.

[Jerry B]

The South Wales Borderers
Battalions of the Regular Army

1st Battalion
August 1914 : in Bordon. Part of 3rd Brigade in 1st Division.
Landed at Le Havre 13 August 1914.

1916
The Battle of Albert*
The Battle of Bazentin*
The Battle of Pozieres*
The Battle of Flers-Courcelette*
The Battle of Morval*
The battles marked * are phases of the Battles of the Somme 1916

1917
The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line
The Division was warned to prepare for an operation along the Belgian coast (Operation Hush) in Summer 1917 and several mobile units were attached in readiness. The operation was cancelled when the initial assaults in the Third Battle of Ypres failed to progress as expected.
The Second Battle of Passchendaele**
The battles marked ** are phases of the Third Battle of Ypres

1918
The Battle of Estaires***
The Battle of Hazebrouck***
The Battle of Bethune***
The battles marked *** are phases of the Battles of the Lys
The Battle of Drocourt-Queant+
The battle marked + is a phase of the Second Battles of Arras 1918
The Battle of Epehy++
The Battle of the St Quentin Canal++
The Battle of Beaurevoir++
The battles marked ++ are phases of the Battles of the Hindenburg Line
The Battle of the Selle
The Battle of the Sambre, in which the Division fought the Passage of the Sambre-Oise Canal

The Division was selected to advance into Germany and form part of the Occupation Force at Bonn.

[paul kennedy]

No service record on Find My Past. I found the same on Ancestry.