People - Regiment: South Wales Borderers 12th Battalion

12th (Service) Battalion (3rd Gwent)
Mar 1915 Formed by the Welsh National Executive Committee at Newport as a bantam battalion and then moved to Prees Heath, Shropshire in the Welsh Bantam Brigade.
Sept 1915 Formation became the 119th Brigade of the 40th Division and then moved to Aldershot and then Blackdown.
02.06.1916 Mobilised for war and landed at Havre and engaged in various actions on the Western Front including;
1916
The Battle of the Ancre.
1917
The German retreat to the Hindenburg Line (March), The capture of Fifteen Ravine, Villers Plouich, Beaucamp and La Vacquerie, The Cambrai Operations.
1918
The Battle of St Quentin, The Battle of Bapaume, The Battle of Estaires, The Battle of Hazebrouck.
10.02.1918 Disbanded in France.