David Thomas – Welsh Regiment, Depot
Private David Thomas – Welsh Regiment, Depot David Thomas served as a Private with the Welsh Regiment, Depot , one of the home‑service administrative and training centres responsible for preparing recruits for frontline battalions during the early years of the First World War. His service places him among the many young men who passed through the regiment’s depot system before units were deployed overseas. There are no surviving records that shed light on David’s early life, his parents, or his childhood circumstances. His name appears only in military and burial documentation, a reminder of how many lives of the period remain only partially recorded. David Thomas Cwmgelli Cemetery, Swansea credit - findagrave Death and Burial David Thomas died on 27 March 1915 , during the first spring of the war. His death occurred while still attached to the Welsh Regiment Depot, and he was laid to rest at Cwmgelli Cemetery , where he is commemorated among the earliest military burials of t...
