Norman Griffiths, Age 26

Private, 24158, 8th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment).

West Riding Regiment Cap Badge.

Norman was the only son of Enos & Sarah Griffiths and had been born in King Street, Dawley.

By the time of his enlistment he had left the Dawley area with his address being given as Hill Street, Bradley, Bilston where he lived with his wife Marion. He had been a scholar and choirboy at St Leonard's Church Malinslee and had served a butchers apprenticeship at Clayton's butchers of Dawley before moving with his family to Moseley in the Black Country where he worked at Mr J E Downes Butchers in Bilston.

He had enlisted in the Royal Field Artillery in May 1916 before being transferred to the 8th Battalion West Riding Regiment; He had gone to France in September 1916, after being found alone in a dugout on Jan 26th his temperature was found to be a 100 degrees, he passed through a casualty clearing station before being moved to a base hospital at Abbeville where he died on January 31st 1917 from pneumonia.

Norman lies buried in the Abbeville Communal Cemetery in grave II.A.24

Inscription added to head stone by: Mrs. Marion Griffiths

In Ever Loving Memory Of My Dear Husband Who Nobly Sacrificed All For Freedom

WWI Medal Rolls Index Card

Commonwealth War Graves
Buried Abbeville Communal Cemetery

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Victory Medal	British War Medal