THE YPRES TIMES
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THE VILLAGE OF MORVAL, SEPTEMBER, 1916.
was then brought into Divisional Reserve for a brief spell, while the 113th and 115th
Brigades followed up the advance.
To-day the graves at Morval remain to remind us of those few days of heroic
fighting and tragic loss. The following officers and other ranks of the 14th Welch
Regiment were buried in the same grave and beneath one wooden cross (now
replaced by separate headstones) in Morval British Cemetery
Capt. T. C. H. Berry, 5th (attached 14th) Welch Regimentaged 26.
Lieut. E. H. Balsom, of Caerphilly also aged 26.
2/Lieut. J. S. Graham, of South Shields aged 23.
2/Lieut. G. Y. P. Jones, of Cardiff aged 23.
Sergt. F. J. H. Hall, also of Cardiff aged 26.
Pte. L. E. M. Matthews, of Hornsey aged 19.
Pte. W. H. Craddock.
of Morval. It is recorded that 200 enemy dead could be counted on the ground."
The 115th Brigade advanced north of Morval, but was unexpectedly checked by
enfilade machine-gun fire from a commanding position on high ground in a gap
which had been created between that Brigade and the 17th Division on the left of
our own 38th Division. In conseqence of the serious position thus created, the
113th Brigade had to pass through and carry out the attack on Sailly-Saillisel,
which eventually fell before their assaults. The 114th Brigade (Welch Regiment)
