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Treorchy Cemetery, Rhondda Valley, South Wales |
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Treorchy Cemetery |
Date Visited: Sunday 30th May 2010 |
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| 1 officer of the Gloucestershire Regiment is buried in this cemetery | |
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2Lt Leslie James
PHELPS is buried in Plot "U".A181. He was commissioned into the Gloucestershire Regiment on 25th June 1918 as a Private of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and after training was posted for service with 8th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment in France. On 20th October 1918 he was serving with the unit when it was stationed west of the River Selle near Haussy. The unit was ordered to advance and capture the high ground to the east of the River. The attack was successful although the unit did lose some men including 2Lt Phelps who was wounded by shrapnel. He was evacuated along the Army Medical Services chain to the UK where he was eventually admitted to the Sir John Ellerman's Hospital, Regents Park, London. He died on 3rd November 1918 of the wounds he received at Haussy. He was buried in Treorchy Cemetery on 7th November 1918 in the Willis family grave, the resting place of his father in law and mother in law. A biography can be viewed her.
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