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John Frederick Griffin. 2nd Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Regimental no. 8456. born 5 Oct 1886. died 25 Sep 1914 in a field somewhere in France.

John Frederick Griffin (my Grandad) was born in Birmingham and for whatever reason, moved to Cardiff and was a Corporal in the Welsh Regiment, in the Maindy Barracks in Cardiff.  This information was given as his address at the time of his marriage to my Grandmother, Grace Lilian Rowe, in 1909.  By the time of the 1911 census he was working on the Railways and they were living in Pontypridd, so he must have left the Army.  When war broke out he re-enlisted (or was recalled from the Reserve).  He was shipped out to France, with the Welsh Regiment - 2nd Battalion, in early August 1914.  He left my Grandmother at home with his two daughters, my mother, Lilian Lottie Griffin and her sister Grace Emily.  At this time my Grandmother was heavily pregnant with what turned out to be his third daughter, my Aunty Dolly (Doris Maud), who was born on the 19th August 1914. As he died on the 25th September, 1914, it is unlikely that news of this third daughter would have reached him.  His name is listed on the La Ferte Sous Jouarre War Memorial on the bank of the River Marne.

That sounds feasible - you're probably right.  All the battles featured in dramas or books, always seem to be about the Somme or Dunkirk.  I haven't read any yet that cover the very first 6-8 weeks of the war.  Do you know of any that might be interesting?

Let's hope he wasn't one of the 346.

Sorry to be a thickie - but one of the 346 what???

John Frederick Griffin. 2nd Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Regimental no. 8456. born 5 Oct 1886. died 25 Sep 1914 in a field somewhere in France/Flanders.

John Frederick Griffin (my Grandad) was born in Birmingham and for whatever reason, moved to Cardiff and was a Corporal in the Welsh Regiment, in the Maindy Barracks in Cardiff.  This information was given as his address at the time of his marriage to my Grandmother, Grace Lilian Rowe, in 1909.  By the time of the 1911 census he was working on the Railways and they were living in Pontypridd, so he must have left the Army.  When war broke out he re-enlisted (or was recalled from the Reserve).  He was shipped out to France, with the Welsh Regiment - 2nd Battalion, in early August 1914.  He left my Grandmother at home with his two daughters, my mother, Lilian Lottie Griffin and her sister Grace Emily.  At this time my Grandmother was heavily pregnant with what turned out to be his third daughter, my Aunty Dolly (Doris Maud), who was born on the 19th August 1914. As he died on the 25th September, 1914, it is unlikely that news of this third daughter would have reached him.  His name is listed on a Memorial stone in the La Ferte Sous Jouarre War Cemetery in France.

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