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John’s parents John Frederick and Catherine Jane Griffiths remained in
Wales at Free Trade Hall, High Street, Rhyl.
He had embarked from Sydney on 31 March 1916 on board the HMAT
Star of Victoria bound for Port Said in the Middle East. He and his
Reinforcement group were to help replace soldiers who had become
casualties at Gallipoli.
He arrived in Marseilles, France on 26 May 1916. He was killed in action
on 23 July 1916 at Pozieres only one day after he had joined his Battalion
at the Battle that had commenced the day before his arrival. His memorial
is number 267 at Gordon Dump Cemetery, France. Tudor, at eighteen
years of age may not have fully appreciated the dangers he was to face
when he did arrive at the Western Front. An enthusiastic and youthful
John Tudor Griffiths travelled half around the world only to be killed in
action on his first day of service.
National Archives Collections
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