Notes
The school website (see References) provides the extra service, name and death details and provides this brief biographical detail: 'Robert Gwydir was born to a Welsh family in Longford, Ireland in 1867 and was at Douai (France) 1878-1884. He was ordained in 1891, taking the name Father Basil. He taught at Douai
School before being transferred to the mission at St David’s, Wales, where he was admitted to the circle
of Welsh Bards, sat on the Board of Swansea Hospital and played a prominent part in local education. He went down with the hospital ship HMHS Rohilla which sank off Whitby. Having been on deck, he went below to care for a patient called Nicholson, a Royal Marine. He became the first chaplain to die in the War.
Cemetery: Belmont Abbey'.