66th (East Lancashire) Divisional Train, Army Service Corps.

Awarded the Military Cross in the London Gazette of 1 January 1919.

A New Years Honours award without citation.

Welch was a native of Billington, Lancashire, living in Burnley, Lancashire at the outbreak of war.

The Burnley Express of the 4 January 1919 reported, BURNLEY OFFICER'S MILITARY CROSS. In the New Years Day Honours List of Military Cross awards appears the name of Lieutenant (A/Captain), William Arthur Welch, 66th (East Lancashire) Divisional Train (T.F.), Army Service Corps. He has previously been mentioned in Sir Doulas Haig's dispatch of December 1917, and previous to that had been promoted to Acting Captain and Adjutant. Captain W. A. Welch is the elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Welch, 5, Lawn Street, Thursby Square, Burnley. In the first place he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps under Doctor Callam, and was tranferred from that unit to the Army Service Corps in 1916. He is an 'old boy' of Burnley Grammar School, and before joining up was employed at Burnley in the London City and Midland Bank. For nearly ten years he was secretary of the young men's class in connection with Salem Congregational Church, and is highly esteemed by a large circle of friends.