The following article appeared in The Western Mail on 19th December 1918.
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Ivor, his wife Maud and daughter Molly were victims of the 'Spanish Flu', a pandemic which spread rapidly at the end of World War 1 and killed hundreds of thousands of people.
Ivor was the son of a butcher in Barry in South Wales. He ran his own drapery business before the War and married Maud Williams in 1912. Their daughter Molly was born 2 years later. Ivor enlisted with the Royal Field Artillery and served in France as a Gunner with the 63rd Division Ammunition Column.
Following research by Steven John of the West Wales Memorial Project, Ivor was accepted for commemoration by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in 2019 just over 100 years after his death, and his name was added to the CWGC website.
