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Rees David Harris

Rifleman

Service No. S/3066

Age 25

Died on 25 September 1915

Rifle Brigade

PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL

Hainaut, Belgium

Son of Rhys David and Ruth Harris, of Afan House, Seven Sisters, Neath, Glam.

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Alison Phillips

In remembrance of Rhys who like so many others, did not return.

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Henry Harrison

Rees, O valiant heart, who to your glory came ….. your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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Rhys was a miner from Seven Sisters, in the Dulais Valley near Neath. He enlisted in September 1914 and trained at Winchester. In August 191...

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Rees, I do not know the precise circumstances of your death, but, as a former soldier myself, a Sassenach from the English Midlands, doing m...

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