WILLIAM GRIFFITHS 

William GRIFFITHS
Rank: Private
Service Number:26432.
Regiment: 1st Bn Cheshire Regiment
Killed In Action Tuesday 5th September 1916
Age 29
County Memorial Birkenhead
Commemorated\Buried Thiepval Memorial
Grave\Panel Ref: Pier and Face 3C and 4A.
CountryFrance

William's Story.

Birkenhead News  30 September 1916

Great Western Railway Man Falls.

Private W. Griffiths, of the Cheshires, and husband of Mrs. Griffiths, 143, Beckwith Street, has been killed in action in France. Before joining the Forces he was employed on the Great Western Railway, and after eleven months’ training he went to France, where he had been in action for six months. He was an old boy of St. Peter’s School, and was 29 years of age.
 

William Griffiths’ photograph and newspaper article by Chris Booth.