Severns, Zacharias

Name of Researcher / Enw’r ymchwylydd: Mavis Williams
Name of Memorial / Enw’r gofeb: Garden City
Regiment/Catrawd: Royal Welsh Fusiliers 8th Bn.
Service Rank and Number / Rheng gwasanaeth a rhif: Corporal 11523
Military Cemetery/Memorial / Fynwent milwrol: Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery.
Ref No Grave or Memorial / Rhif cyfeirnod bedd: XV M 19.
Country of Cemetery or Memorial / Gwlad y fynwent neu gofeb: Mesopotamia (now Iraq)
Medals Awarded / Medalau a ddyfarnwyd: Victory and British War medals and 1915 star. He was ‘Mentioned in Despatches’.
Date of Death / Dyddiad Marwolaeth: 23 April 1917
Circumstances of Death / Dyddiad ac amgylchiadau marwolaeth:
‘Died of Wounds’ 23rd April 1917
Commonwealth War Grave Certificate / Tystysgrif Bedd Rhyfel y GymanwladView certificate

Zachariah was named on 3 other memorials – the Connah’s Quay War Memorial, Hawarden War Memorial and the memorial screen at St Ethelwold’s Church. Please click on the link to read his story

Flintshire War Memorials