Age: 30
Regiment/Service: South Wales Borderers, 11th Bn.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Owen, of Bryngwenallt, Dolgelly, Merioneth.
Griffith was killed on 31 July 1917 leading his men in an assault on Pickem Ridge. The South Wales Borderers lost 320 men killed, wounded and missing between 31 July and 2 August. Owen was among the missing; his body not discovered until 24 April 1928.
This was nine months after the inauguration of the Menin Gate, which commemorates 54,620 officers and men 'who fell in Ypres Salient, but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death', of whom Griffith Christmas Owen was thought to be one.
However, not only was Owen's body discovered in 1928 but it proved possible to identify it - from its 'badge of rank and general service clothing Consequently Owen now has a grave in Sanctuary Wood Cemetery, and an inscription chosen by his brother John Llewellyn Owen.
Regiment/Service: South Wales Borderers, 11th Bn.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Owen, of Bryngwenallt, Dolgelly, Merioneth.
Griffith was killed on 31 July 1917 leading his men in an assault on Pickem Ridge. The South Wales Borderers lost 320 men killed, wounded and missing between 31 July and 2 August. Owen was among the missing; his body not discovered until 24 April 1928.
This was nine months after the inauguration of the Menin Gate, which commemorates 54,620 officers and men 'who fell in Ypres Salient, but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death', of whom Griffith Christmas Owen was thought to be one.
However, not only was Owen's body discovered in 1928 but it proved possible to identify it - from its 'badge of rank and general service clothing Consequently Owen now has a grave in Sanctuary Wood Cemetery, and an inscription chosen by his brother John Llewellyn Owen.
Age: 30
Regiment/Service: South Wales Borderers, 11th Bn.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Owen, of Bryngwenallt, Dolgelly, Merioneth.
Griffith was killed on 31 July 1917 leading his men in an assault on Pickem Ridge. The South Wales Borderers lost 320 men killed, wounded and missing between 31 July and 2 August. Owen was among the missing; his body not discovered until 24 April 1928.
This was nine months after the inauguration of the Menin Gate, which commemorates 54,620 officers and men 'who fell in Ypres Salient, but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death', of whom Griffith Christmas Owen was thought to be one.
However, not only was Owen's body discovered in 1928 but it proved possible to identify it - from its 'badge of rank and general service clothing Consequently Owen now has a grave in Sanctuary Wood Cemetery, and an inscription chosen by his brother John Llewellyn Owen.
Regiment/Service: South Wales Borderers, 11th Bn.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Owen, of Bryngwenallt, Dolgelly, Merioneth.
Griffith was killed on 31 July 1917 leading his men in an assault on Pickem Ridge. The South Wales Borderers lost 320 men killed, wounded and missing between 31 July and 2 August. Owen was among the missing; his body not discovered until 24 April 1928.
This was nine months after the inauguration of the Menin Gate, which commemorates 54,620 officers and men 'who fell in Ypres Salient, but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death', of whom Griffith Christmas Owen was thought to be one.
However, not only was Owen's body discovered in 1928 but it proved possible to identify it - from its 'badge of rank and general service clothing Consequently Owen now has a grave in Sanctuary Wood Cemetery, and an inscription chosen by his brother John Llewellyn Owen.
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