GRIFFITHS George Ernest

Malvern News 20th October 1917:
Mrs Griffiths of Tan House Cottages, Upper Howsell has received a letter from the Enquiries Department of the International Red Cross for Wounded and Missing Soldiers regarding Sniper G.E. Griffiths, Worcestershire Regiment, who has been reported missing for some months. The letter conveys statements from a wounded soldier in hospital, who says that Sniper Griffiths and several other men went over the top at — . They got past the German front line and were still advancing, trying to keep in touch with another Regiment. To this Regiment they called out. An answer came to them to go straight ahead. They did so, and ran right into the Germans, who had evidently called out to them in English and thus deceived them into thinking they were the British regiment. The narrator was wounded, but got back safely. Sniper Griffiths’ party was practically surrounded and his comrades think if alive he must be a prisoner of war. The letter adds no further news.

A photograph of Private G. Griffiths of Malvern Link can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 14th July 1917, available at Worcestershire Archives.

George Griffiths has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on the Arras Memorial.