Sergeant William Henry Way; York and Lancaster Regiment. William was born in Tenby in 1892 son of John Lewis Way and Elizabeth Jenkins Way. Older brother of my grandfather James Lewis Way. Grandson of "Bugler" James Smith a veteran of the Victorian Army India campaigns., William  worked as a collier at Lady Windsor Colliery in Ynysybwl prior to the war. He enlisted at Porth into the Yorkshire Light Infantry, but later transferred into the 2nd Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, which had landed at St. Nazaire on 9 September 1914, attached to 16 Brigade, 6th Division. The Division reinforced the BEF on the Aisne, before moving to Ypres, where they fought at Hooge. They fought through much of the 1916 Somme Offensive, and at Hill 70 and the Battle of Cambrai in 1917. They were heavily involved in the desperate defensive period of 1918 after the German Spring Offensive had wreaked havoc on the British Lines, and were in Flanders when William was killed in action on 22 July 1918, aged 26. He is buried in Abeele Aeroplane Cemetery, Belgium.

Helen Way