Welsh Regt

[Soren]

Hello All,

Whilst touring Bedford Hse Cemetary, one headstone grabbed my attention:

Name: EDMONDS

Initials: C P

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment: Welsh Regiment

Unit Text: 1st Bn.

Date of Death: 20/02/1915

Service No: 14958

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Enclosure No.4 VII. AA. 49.

Cemetery: BEDFORD HOUSE CEMETERY

This chap was in the same regt as my Gt Uncle who is on the Menin Gate, and died in the same day. Gt Uncle: Pte 10312 Patrick Thomas Staunton 10312, 1st Bn Welsh Regt, died Ypres Saturday 20th Feb 1915.

From memory, I understood that 95 soldiers of thw Welch Regt died and were missing on that day.

The Germans had stormed a trench known as Y trench, when a couter-attack was launched they were repelled, but without further casualties.

I thought they were all missing, but then I suppose that they may have been buried and then the war ravaged the land they were laid to rest in??

Soren