Description
1914-15 Star, British War & Victory Medal, General Service Medal, GV, bar Kurdistan, 52525 Private Gwilym Ceiriog Arthur, Royal Army Medical Corps, Welshman from Tywyn Gwynedd.
All medals officially impressed: “52525 Pte G. Arthur. R.A.M.C.”
Confirmed on the medal rolls.
Medals mounted, not correctly but left as the recipient wore them.
Gwilym Ceiriog Arthur was born during 1896 in the town of Machynlleth in Powys, Wales.
He lived most of his life in the town of Towyn in historic Meriothenshire, now known as Tywyn in Gwynedd.
He came to Towyn as early as 1901, where his father George Arthur worked as a Police Constable, the 1901 Census showing the family of 8 living in the Police Station at Towyn.
During World War 1, young Gwilym signed on with the Royal Army Medical Corps, he first saw service entering into the “2b Balkans” theatre of war on 11th July 1915, suggesting that he landed there for service in Gallipoli, the Army having arrived earlier in April.
Having remained on service after the end of the war, he took part in the “Kurdistan” campaign earning the medal and clasp for their service about May to December 1919 in “Mesopotamian Kurdistan” against the Kurdish Rebels.
After the end of the war in Kurdistan he returned back home to his family in Towyn, being shown on the 1921 Census as a Cycle Agent.
In later life he moved to Penygores in Caernarvonshire, shown on the 1939 census as working as a “Cinema Manager”.
He later died in Bangor, Caernarvonshire during 1966.
