Llwellyn Bassett descends from the #202B Bassetts of Llanelly as follows:
John Bassett
John Bassett (b. 1726) and wife Jane Griffith
John Bassett (b. 1765) and wife Keturah
James Bassett (b. 1790) and wife Jane Griffith
James Bassett (b. 1823) and wife Mary
David Bassett (b. 1855) and wife Mary Ann
Llewelyn Bassett (b. 1888)
Carmarthen Weekly Reporter, 8 Sep 1916
A Llanelly Sapper
Terrible Ordeal in “No Man’s Land”
Sapper Llewelyn Bassett, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Bassett, 30 Gilbert-place, Llanelly who is at the Southport Hospital, having been wounded for the second time, gives a thrilling story of his experience during the “big push.”
“I had,” he says, “a wonderful escape from death, and I can thank the Almighty for my deliverance. I was up at the front position eight days before I was hit, and during that time we had been ‘over the top’ three times trying to take the German trenches. We made a fourth attempt, and this time we took the position and held it. The same night I was sent out to mark a new sap in the front line, and in the vicinity of which the raid was made. It was moonlight, and we could see plainly for a good distance. A risky job it was under such circumstances, but the job had to be done. I went on top and was running when the enemy spotted us and turned his machine-gun upon us. I was hit in the leg and fell like a log and took cover in a shell-hole. My comrades in the party ran back into a sap until things got quiet. There I was, left in “No Man’s Land,” between the lines. I dare not move, as if I made the slightest movement I should have been spotted again and possibly riddled with bullets. Two hours elapsed and then the Germans began to strafe our front line, and the strafing was something cruel close to where I lay. I was soon enveloped in smoke emitted from the bursting shells, and the smell of powder become suffocating. It was a terrible ordeal.
“One shell bust within five yards of me. The concussion deafened me, and I do not know how I saved from shell shock. It was no getting to hot for me, and, crippled though I was, I made up my mind to make a supreme effort to reach the sap under cover of the smoke. Miraculously, I got to the sap all right, and I was helped by me comrades-in-arms down to the first-aid post.”