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New Quay Heroes. Bombardier GEORGE FOWLER, M.M., Intimation was received on April 8th that Bom- bardier George Fowler, Tower Hill, was killed in action on March 27th. He was awarded the Military Medal about six months ago for gal- lantry in action. He leaves a widow and three children. (Photo: Brooks, New Quay.) Signaller TUDWAL HERBERT, Machine Gun ° Corps, only son of Mrs. Herbert, 3, Lewis-terrace, who was killed in the recent heavy fighting. Signaller Herbert was twenty-three years of age and before enlisting was employed at the London Provincial Bank, Carmarthen.

I Aberystwyth Corporal. Oorporal J. DA VIES, formerly compositor at the "Cambrian News Office and for two years before the war was maker-up at the "Advertizer" Office, Oswestry, where his wife and two children now reside. He joined the colours in February, 1915, and went to France in December of the same year where he took part in 1916 in the battles of the Somme and contracted trench fever and suffered from shell shock. He subsequently was sta- tioned in Ireland when he again went to France. When coming home from Ireland he was on the "Bathmore" when she collided with a trawler in the Irish Sea.

Comforts for Fighters. THOSE ENCOURAGING CARDS. Appended are extracts from letters received by R.S.M. Fear from Aber. men serving abroad in acknowledgment of parcels:— Seaman-gunnner E. J. Davies, R.N.—It is very ni. think that our Aber. friends are thinking j the boys on the field _nd on sea. I shall i] pleased to become a member of the Y.M.C.A. Seaman T. Burke, R.N.—The little card enclosed is appreciated. We are at present on a rough job: but we have to put up with it until war is finished. I am sure you at home wish this terrible war had come to an end, the same as we do. I shall be glad to become a member of the Y.M.C.A., wishing you every success in the noble work. Seaman R. A. Jones, R.N.—I do hope that no Aber. boys will go under in this great push. It is very good of Aber. friends to think of the boys. God is good to me and 1 put all my trust in Him. Seaman-gunner J. Pugh, R.N.—The cigs. arrived at the right moment. We have just returned after a rough trip. I am pleased to hear of the success of the Y.M.C.A. and I hope the time is not far distant when we shall be able to meet there, if we are spared to return to dear old Aber. May God give you health and strength to carry on with the good work you are doing. Stoker W. E. Davies, R.N.—I am pleased to hear that the Y.M.C.A. is so well thought of by all the Aber. boys and friends. I thoroughly enjoyed myself when on leave there every even- ing, and especially the Saturday evening per- formances which i think are well carried out by the members. I wish. to thank you for the kind words on card which I shall never forget. I am glad to say I am pretty fair at present. May God bless you all. Sapper B. L. Williams, Salonika.—You can imagine what a rush there was for the parcel when it arrived. We cannot procure Blighty cigs. here. Your encouraging words on cards are appreciated and I keep them all for the future. I feel certain that when this terrible struggle is over and the boys are home again you will he glad of a strong arm which will withstand the handshakes of gratitude from the recipients of your parcels. I shall be pleased to become a member of the Y.M.C.A. where I hope to spend a pleasant time. Driver T. L. Oliver, Italy.—When the parcel arrived the boys said Taffy has g.)t some n.ore cigs." We enjoyed a jolly 00d smoke, as nothing beats a Blighty cig. I hope vim will succeed in get-ting a -lall in -nsmory < f our dear lads who have laid down their lives. Private J. S. OwTen, France.—Thanks for the kind words on card. I met two Aber. boys just before we left the last place we were in —one from Penparke and the other, Davies. from Cambrian-street. I hope this terrible struggle will soon be over, so that we can again return to dear old Aber. The weather has changed to wet again and there is plenty of mud to paddle through. I read in the "Cam- brian News" of your suggestion of a memorial hall, which I hope will be successful. I was glad to see also the good work you did !n having a military funeral for a soldier wlio served here who otherwise would have been buried by the poor law authorities. Glad to say I am in the best of health. Sapper R. D. Jenkins, France-T shared the contents of parcel with the bovs. T hope that, you and the good friends of Aber. are in good health. We are having lovely weather at present. We have been expecting Fritz over. He will get a welcome reception when he does. I am glad to know of the good work you are doing, and especially for the Rink site for a

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Felinfach Officer Killed. Second-Lieutenant, EVAN JAMES DAVIES, 1st Welsh Guards, Son of the late Mr. Evan; Davies and Mrs. Dav les, Park House, Felinfach, and brother of Miss Lewis, Abermeurig; killed in action.

iDinas Mawddwy Soldiers. i Private WILLIAM GRIFFITHS, I I Private RICHARD GRIFFITHS, Private HUGH GRIFFITHS, Sons of Mr. and Mrs. Griffiths, Red Lion, Dinas Mawddwy. Pte. Wm. Griffiths, who was before the war a watchmaker in King's Lynn, joined the army in llay, 1916. After six months train- on ing at Felixstowe, he went, to France, and has been through most of the pushes. He has had a few "touches"—a fragment of a shed once denting his hat. He is married and has three children. He came home on leave on the 23rd of December, 1917. Pte*. Richard Griffiths emi- grated to Australia some years before the war, and came over to this country with the. Aus- tralian Light Infantry. He has seen much active service, and is now in the Australian Motor Transport. Pte. R. Griffiths was recently awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre for dis- tinguished services. He has twic- been home. Ptf). Hugh Griffitlis enlisted last December, and is now stationed with the R.W.F. in Kinmel Park. He is the youngest of the three brothers and was, in civil life, a tfaction-driver on muni- tion work.

Tregaron Canadian. Private JACK D. JONES, London House, Tregaron. He came over in 1916 with a Canadian contingent and has seen twelve months service in France.

Rheidol Valley Soldier. I Private EVAN BENJAMIN, Son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin, Glvn Rheidol, attached to a labour battalion, and has been in the army about twelve months, most of which time has been spent in hospitals in France and England. He is now stationed at Oswestry.

Glandyfi Patriot. I Driver DAVID JONES, A.S.C., 2, Trefeinion-terrace, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Penybryn. Has been on active service in France for three years and has recently been gassed. Now in hospital at Cornwall. (Photo: Cuiliford, Aberystwyth.)

Wales at the Front. THE DIVISION'S APPETITE. With the Army Service Corps: Stories of Narrow Ecapes: Mine Craters at Messines. (By the Special Correspondent of the "South Wales Daily News at the Front). (Copyright). (Concluding Article). The Welsh Division possesses a prodigious appetite. "Give me," I said to an Army Service Coro transport officer, an approxi- mate estimate as to its daily and weekly consumption." He plunged into lightning calculations on a sheet of paper. After a moment's pause he replied, About forty tons of foodgtuife per day, or 280 tons per week." But this d'oes not in any way represent all that the Army' Service Corps uivisional Train have to shift, for in addition to this thirty-five tons of fuel per day, or 245 tons per week, have to be supplied to the Division. Besides many powerful motor lorries several hundred horses are employed in the carrying of the footstuffs from rail-heads to the distributing centres for the various units in the division. The Army Service Corps is a branch of the service that too often receives far less than its due. They may be hewers of wood and drawers of water, but their work is of as vital import- ance as that of the infantry in the- trenches or of the gunners at their batteries. The work brooks of no delay. If an army is to be efficient it must be fed well and regularly. To the attainment of this end the Divisional A.S.C. is the chief contributor. The Welsh A.S.C. Divisional Train officers are quartered at a comfortable little chateau near the cpntre of the divisional area stand- ing in the midst of a large and fertile garden, and approached from the main road by an avenue of chestnut trees. "The work of the Corps goes on easily enough when we are under present conditions," said the C.O. to me in the course of a chat, but it's a differ- ent matter when the Division is on the move every few hours and orders have to be given and countermanded and redrafted con- tinually and when to do this you have to scour miles and miles of unfamiliar country on a dark night. We had such an experience at Mametz, which was one that none of us will ever forget, for it meant endless worry and trouble and work for thirty or forty hours at a stretch. On that occasion, despite our utmost care our transport horses were so absolutely done up that some of them when waiting on the roads actually laid down in their harness, and yet, added the Colonel, in a tone of satisfaction, "we didn't lose a single animal." I spent a busy morning with the Welsh Divisional T ain, and saw the whole organ- isation from the rail-head to the distribu- tion to the various units. In the process I came across many Welshmen. At one of the distributing centres I met Capt. Lambert, of the well-known firm of auctioneers of Porthcawl, who has been with the Division since its formation. Another of the original officers with whom I chatted was Lieutenant Taylor, of Neath. Yet another was Major Wynn Thomas, a son of the historian of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. The Adjutant of the A.S.C. Welsii Divisional Train is a nephew of Professor Henry Jones of Glasgow, while a former oflicer who has been closely associ- ated with the train but who has now left them, is Captain J P. Jones of Merthyr. I have never seen horses look in better condition thtn those which I saw in the Welsh Divisional A.S.C. On each of the A.S.C. dumps I visited was posted up tne notice, "Pick up every nail you see and put it in the box. Your horse would do it if he could, but he cannot.' This is but char- acteristic of the way in which the horses are cared for in fvery possible manner. From the Commanding Officer of this unit I heard many interesting stories about the men. "Altogether," he said, "our men have

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shown the most wonderful coolness on many occasions. One morning our drivers were going to the rail-head station for stores when heavy shelling was going on in the vicinity. One shell fell.about eighty yards in front of them on the road which they were travelling. Some in- fantry, who were also going the same road, took hasty shelter. Our driver was amused at this, and shouted out chaffingly to the infantry, "You fellows haven't got the pluck of cock- lice. I'll show you how to do it, for you think the A.S.C. are no good." And lie forthwith drove his waggon right through in safety to the rail-head. "During the big push north orf Ypres," con- tinued the Colonel, "volunteers were asked WA aCt *st-ret-cher-bearers for the K.A.M.C. We soon formed up twenty-one men who did splendid work and three of them won the Military Cross." On another occasion at a certain place in the forward area the Welsh Divisional A.S.C. Train had to camp near cross, roads which were frequently shelled, but during the time they were there they never had a casualty. One day," said the Colonel, "the Head- quarter Company men were on parade when a big shell hit a 1 ^use about eighty yards from us, and the explosion carried a heavy beam into the air, and it fell between the two rows of men on parade, and not one was touched. Another night in the same locality a Boche shell smashed the forage shelter to bits, and the guard were rescued uninjured from be- neath the debris. Three yards away was a waggon and when next morning one of our officers was leaving he looked into the waggon and found ttwo of our men who had been asleep inside it and who had never been awakened!" Another story I heard was one concerning a sergeant major who hails from Porthcawl. A divisional farm had been started in the for- ward area on a spot that was regarded by the natives as too dangerous for cultivation and the Sergeant-Major, being an experienced agriculturist, was selected to run it. It was very shell-holey sort of ground, but the Ser- geant-major undertook to grow things, and he was given a smali staff to assist him. On several occasions the farm was shelled heavily, but he stuck to his work like a hero. One day things became so hot that some of the men bolted. The Sergeant-major got very wild and, throwing down his tools, he gave chase, caught them, and made them fall in on parade and go back again to work. The result [ of the way the N.C.O. kept at his food pro- duction under fire from the enemy's guns was that- the Welsh Division was kept in potatoes, cabbages, and other fresh vegetables for many months. On another day of our tour we drove thirty miles through bitter frost fog to Wytschaete and Messines, and walked across the ridge in which in June of last year the Welsh once more helped to make history. The scenery of this district was much more undulating than most of that in the Welsh divisional area, and it vividly recalled bits of the lower Usk Valley amound Penpergwm. Messines is very much more like the Welsh idea of a ridge than Pilkem. The thick fog which overhung the ground on the occasion of our visit prevented one from getting an adequate idea of the lay of the land, but we were able to visit the vast mine craters in the neighbourhood of Nag's Head where the Welsh had prior to the fight carried out extensive mining work. There are some half dozen of these craters, the huge size of which is eloquent testimony to the work done by the Welsh tunnelling companies which were raised during 1916 in the colliery districts of Glamorgan and Monmouth mainly as the result of a crusade by Captain Edward Gill, the Welsh miners' leader, who afterwards won the M.C. at Mametz. To-day the whole surface of that part of the ridfje has been churned into great craters, but Nature is already beginning to re-assert herself, and the barren waste which the arts of war had created is becoming clothed with Vegetation once agllin,

j ——— (Continued from previou column.) Y.M.C.A. which will be a fine place in which to spend the winter evenings. Corporal M. Griffiths, France-I was pleased to hear of your scheme to build a memorial hall on the site of the Rink. I feel sure the Aber. friends will support it with the same goodwill as they have done for all good things in the past. I am still in the forward area; but I am all right and in the best of health. Corporal O. H. Day, France.—We are having bad weather at present. I do not know when I am coming home: but I hope it will not be long before I do. We have had a rough time with Fritz; but we are giving him what he is asking for. i do not think this affair will last much longer. Pr;.vitti, J. M. Evans, France.—The other night while 1 was in the Y.M.C.A. here having a cup of tsa, two Aber. boys cauEt in—D. Rice and Albert Davies. 1 was very glad to meet them and we had a long t-ilk about the good work you are doing at Aber. The boys here I cannot understand why their towns do not send them parcels as Aber. does. Tell all our kind friends of Aber. not to worry about the war. We shall win all right; but we must have faith and ask God to help us. I hope the Y.M. is going on all right.. Driver J R Lewis. France-I shall he glad to become a member of the Y.M.C.A. We are having grand weather here now, quite a. change from the mud and rain which we have had. I have not come across an Aber. boy for a I good while. It cheers me up a bit when T come across one of the old town boys. I am glad to say I am in good health. Driver T. Edwards,, France.—Tt gives us heart here to think that the people at home are still thinking of us and showing their kindness. A little smoke now and again keeps our spirit up. May God bless you all. Sapper R. M. Clarke, Fr-.tnce.-I cannot ex- press in words how thankful T am for the encouraging card which you send with com- forting words. It bring-s back sweet recollec- I tions of the dear old home and friends which 1 am living in hopes of seeing shortly. I also appreciate you good work at home with the Y.M.C.A.. which I am sure will prove a great success. Kind regards to all at Aber. Sapper E. R. Jones France-It is good of the kind Aber. friend* t., think of the boys. We have been busv lately and the boys are giving IF rih a hard time of i4 —T am thankful to say so far I am afe. 1 hups T shall i?t health and ¡ strength to pull through all right. Acknowledgments have also been received from S-:imen-gunnors M. Hopion. W. D. James. R.N. Seamen David Lewis, Robert Humphreys, R.N.: Stokers Jenkin D. Davies. E. W. Ellis, R.N.: Private W. R. Thomas, Salonika: Drivers Morgan Jones, .John G. Jones, Italy: Rifleman J. D. Jenkins, and Private W..1. Jones, France. Contributions. Amount already acknowledged (Christmas, 1915), 9146 5s.: amount abeadv acknowledged (weekly). P,951 Is 10Ad. Sir John Williams, Ran. ;9tbl. £ 2; Major L. J. Mathias fl6t.h). 10s; Mrs Penllvn Jones. 41, Povtl,,nd-strec,t 16th) F>< a friend (6th). 5<• Mrs K Willia»"s. Hcddle. 1 lanbodarn-rond (12t'iV 2.s. 6d. Mr. Simons, Cvnlas. South-road i4th' 5>s. 6d.: Mr. E. P. Cox. H'ndsivorth. Penslaise-road (St h). 2s.: vr. S eph"n Evans, organist (5tu>. 2s.: Master Pubprt 41. Portland-street (3r-1). Is.: a friend, 1 C"flt",¡] Foundry emolovees (58th) 10s. Ab»v. Y.M.C.A w-kly tribute (21st), 6s. 5d. Abe- Special Constabularlv Drill (1r: 5< 4.1.. Comoration ('mp!oYe" <114t.h), <1s. 7n.: ¡:'llYIh"Üm Npws" emnlovees illSth). 2s. qI. \fr Fler tri'- Works employees (115th), 2s. 9d.: Mr T-viotdale's employees (126th). 2s.: Mr. David Wntkins' emnlovees (51st), 2s.; total, £ 1,105 14s Thirty-five parcels, which include three n'nv recipients sent thir. w§ek, cost, £ 9 3s lid.; contributions for the week, £ 5 7s. 7d. I