Emrys WHITLEY

9 Mount Terrace

THURSDAY 30TH OF SEPTEMBER, 1915

Private Emrys Whitley, who has been killed in action while serving with the 1/5th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers in Gallipoli, was a son of Mr. Joseph Whitley, Mount Terrace, Buckley. Another son of Mr. Whitley, who was in the Cheshires, was killed in France some months ago. Private E. Whitley was 21 years of age, and prior to the war was employed by Mr. Sydney Gregory, mineral water manufacturer.

He was a footballer, playing with a Buckley team. His father is an old soldier, having served with the 1st Royal Welch Fusiliers in the Black Mountain and Burma expeditions, and also in the South African War.