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The First World War

A List of Records held at Archives

Letter to Rose Curtis from Private Will O’Brien, April 1917 Gwent Archives Reference: D5963/1/4/7

A guide to the sources available at Gwent Archives for the history of the First World War in the former county of and surrounding areas

The Outbreak of War

War was declared on 4th August 1914. On that day, Newport Police and dock officials boarded the German paddle steamer S.S. Belgia which had anchored in the near Newport, and arrested the German crew.

National Reservists, trained ex-servicemen, were required to report for duty.

Library (LIB/289) And So to War (the Belgia Incident). 2005 (File compiled by Idris Davies, describing the capture of the German S.S. Belgia at Newport by Newport Police on 4th August 1914)

D3213 Photo of Volunteers in Twyn Square, Aug 1914

D25/409 Book containing names of officers and men of 1914 the no. 18 Division, National Reserve, plus insets of correspondence

Pictorial/Newport/93 Photo, Parade of National Reservists, , 1914 Newport

Refugees

Belgian refugees began to arrive in Monmouthshire in September 1914. Refugee communities were established in many parts of the county.

D3293/B/1 Report of the Newport (Mon.) Belgian Refugees Dec 1915 Committee and Forty other Belgian Refugees Committees in Monmouthshire & Neighbourhood (printed booklet)

D314/45, 46, 47 Belgian Refugee Relief Fund, Machen. Minute 1914-1918 book, accounts and correspondence

D2732/ACC2732/53 Co. Ltd. Correspondence file. 1915 (Includes correspondence re Belgian workers, e.g. 18/4/15 letter describing their living conditions, and 23/4/15 a copy of a notice to the workers in French)

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MISC MSS 1487 Report re Belgian refugees at Palace. 1914 (Photocopy)

CEA 80/6 Mixed School Admission 1906-1923 Register. (Includes Belgian refugees, who lived at House; main entries are dated 2nd to 7th December 1914, but entries continue until December 1915)

Life at Home

By the third year of the war, the Government found it necessary to control the distribution of food and the increase of food production. County war agricultural executive committees were appointed, with powers to cultivate agricultural land. A Ministry of Food was established, and household foodstuffs such as sugar, meat, butter and tea were rationed.

A340/M2/1 and UDC, Committee for the Aug-Oct Prevention and Relief of Distress (War Relief 1914 Committee), Minute Book

A120/C/219 UDC Correspondence file re War 1916-1917 Charities

A120/C/220 Caerleon UDC Correspondence file re War 1926-1927 Charities Act 1916

A510/M2/1 Local Food Control Committee 1917-1920 Minute Book

D4264 Ministry of Food publications (The National 1917-1920 (see catalogue for Food Journal, Ministry of Food weekly bulletins, details) etc.) Also Usk Food Control Committee correspondence, etc

MISC MSS 1638 Ration books, Newport 1918

MISC MSS 1639 Ration book, Newport Co-op 1918

D586/39 Food ration cards for persons at Upper House 1918-1919 Farm, Grosmont

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DPA 13/88 Royal Proclamation re economy in use of grain 1917

D975/1 Newport Year Book (includes photo of 1916 ‚Distribution of Hot Pots, Christmas 1914‛).

CSWBGN/M2/52 Newport Board of Guardians, Emergency 1914-1918 Committee Minute Book

CSWBGN/M2/81 Newport Board of Guardians, Monmouthshire 1914 War Relief Committee, Sub-Committee Minutes

A110/M23/3 Newport Council, Victoria 1915 Ward Distress Committee Minute Book

D1651/30 Programme, Newport Empire, Charles Street, 1917 Newport

Pictorial/Newport/ Photograph of Lloyd George at Shaftesbury 1917 90 Park, Newport

Public Order

D709/1 Newport Constabulary, Watch Committee 1916-1925 Report Book

D709/47 Newport Constabulary, Police Order Book 1909-1919

D2113/23 Griffithstown Police, General Order Book. 1914-1918 ( and War Office orders on various wartime subjects e.g. registration, reporting presence of aircraft, prohibition of photography in certain areas)

D2113/57 Sergeant's Journal, Griffithstown Police. (Journal 1914-1915 of Charles Nurden referring to apprehension of deserters etc.) Also see the other journals in this series

D4834/51 ‘Police Gazette’ including War Office lists of Dec. 1915 deserters and absentees

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School Records

School Log Books, written by the Head Teacher, are an important source of information for the events in the school and local area. Volunteers have been listing these references and it is hoped to make this information available later. Some examples are listed below.

CEB11/2 Llanfair Kilgedin Church in School 1899-1920 Oct 16 1917. ‚Sent 1 sack of vegetables & 1 sack of apples to the Navy.‛ Dec 4 1917. ‚Sent to Director of Propellants 4 cwt. of Horse- chestnuts.‛ Aug 6 1918. ‚The Head Teacher was absent attending a Military Camp at Porthcawl. During the fortnight there he was specially detailed for a course in bayonet work & physical training.‛

CEA52/3 St. Dial’s Boys’ School, 1902-1921 Sep 7, 1914. ‚Mr Hood absent having decided to offer himself, at Newport, as a recruit for Lord Kitcheners' army.‛ Sep 18th 1914. ‚Mr. Hood ordered to attend at Newport Barracks and afterwards to proceed to Ireland.‛ Dec 7 1917. ‚The attendance today is not good. Many boys absent on account of the distribution of butter at some shops, there being a great shortage of some foods.‛

CEA167/7 Blaina Boys’ School 1903-1925 11th Nov 1918. ‚School opened this morning as usual. 87% present. At 11.30 the Hooters signalled the signing of the Armistice. A continuance of fog signals on the railway emphasised the news. The boys were immediately marshalled in the front playground and cheers were given for the Army, Navy, the Prime Minister‛ (etc)

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War Production

During both World Wars the Blaenavon Company was involved in Government work. During the works was engaged in the manufacture of shell steel as one of the Government's "Controlled Establishments".

Henry White & Co. Ltd., Engineers, Pontymister, advertised themselves as manufacturers of steel, iron, phosphor, bronze and brass castings. They were on the Admiralty list, Contractors for the Crown, and Agents for the Colonies. Some employees were eligible to wear a War Service Badge showing that they were employed on work for War purposes; the badges were accompanied by a card signed by Lloyd George.

War Service Badge and Certificate, Henry White & Co., Pontymister

D394/B3/- Certificates authorising 23 employees of Henry 1915-1916 White & Co., Pontymister, to wear War Service badges (together with several badges)

D480/67 Notice to Debenture stock holders of an issue of 1918 stock to be held by the Government as collateral security for a loan to finance extensions to the Blaenavon Company’s works (as one of the Government's "controlled establishments")

A110/C/3168 Newport Borough Council Education file - 1915-1918 record of war work performed in schools

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Military Service

A110/C/3169 Newport Borough Council Education file - 1914-1922 Military Service (Teachers and Pupils). Includes photographs

D709/57 Newport Constabulary. Correspondence file, 1914-1919 Police and Military Service

D262/21 School. List of ‚Old Monmouthians‛ 1915, 1919 serving with H.M. Army and Navy 1915. Also circular letter re proposed memorial to Old Monmouthians who fell during the War, with particulars, 1919

D1348/23 Poster giving notice of Abergavenny Borough 1915 Librarian's replacement while he was on active military service, and warning re misconduct of "lads"

Letter to Mrs Humphreys of Newport from her son Percy while a prisoner of war

MISC MSS 2074 Letter to Mrs. Humphreys of Newport from her 1918 son Percy while a prisoner of war in Zerbost, Anhalt, Germany

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D1147/6 War Diary of 10th Service Bn. The 1915-1918 Borderers (1st Gwents) –typed copy from the library of Literary and Scientific Institute

D3345/98 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract of account 18/12/1914 by Private O.G. Hedges, R.A.M.C., of retreat from Mons

D396/329 Account (typescript) of capture, imprisonment 1915 and escape of Cpl. Lovell Jolliffe, 1st Mon. Regt., with map (Germany) and photos of Jollliffe. [He escaped to Holland, arriving at Lutte, near Oldenzaal]

A320/C/314 Anonymous diary of soldier in France. (The 1914-1915 soldier may have been in the 3rd Monmouthshire . The diary describes his journey from Blaina, Monmouthshire, to the front line near Ypres - Zillebeke, etc)

MISC MSS 1272/15- Personal papers of Sgt. Richard Richards of 1916-1924 19 and 1272/13 Ebbw Vale: photograph, letters from France, newscuttings, discharge and disability pension papers. Includes (MISC MSS 1272/16) letter from France, to "Jack" from "Dick" (Richard Richards of Ebbw Vale, ) January 1916 describing conditions in the trenches of Neuve Chapelle. (‚Everything is mud from head to foot.‛) Also (MISC MSS 1272/13) photo of Sergeant Richard Richards in group at Heaton Park, Manchester, 1918 (elsewhere noted, wounded on 10th July 1916 at Mametz Wood, Somme, with Welsh Division)

D5963 The Letters of Private William O’Brien (a former 1915-1917 police constable in who enlisted in the )

D6360 Oliver Barnes of , gunner/bombardier c.1915-1919 in Royal Field Artillery, First World War. Postcards/photographs, barrage tables, discharge certificate etc

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D6313 Audio recordings of Irving H. Jones, soldier of 1985-1987 First World War – 4 hours of recollections. (Battle of the Somme, Mametz Wood, removal from war for being under age, court martial, working reserve, return to the army)

MISC MSS 2108 Photo (?) of group of British soldiers, prisoners 1918 of war

MISC MSS 2142 Photocopies of Army service records of Ben 1914-1921 Augustus Jones, Welsh Regiment of Artillery

MISC MSS 1626 Photos of military funeral, Newport c.1914-1918

D433A/11/1 War Office certificate (copy) re death of Hon. 11 July 1918 Arthur Middleton Kinnaird

D554/91 Diary of Col. J.A. Bradney as Agricultural 1917-1918 Officer, and correspondence

D554/92 Field message book of Col. J.A. Bradney 1917-1918

D554/168 J. A. Bradney photographs. (Also see catalogue D554 in general)

D554/91 Colours of Welsh Regiment and 20th century (from papers of Sir Joseph Bradney relating to 1st World War) on silk?

MISC MSS 1327 Personal reminiscences of W.H. Alderman of 1908-1918 service in Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Yeomanry in Egypt

MISC MSS 1701/5 Photo of "Egbert" and crew at 3/7/1918 Aberbargoed. ‚Egbert‛, a ‚Mark IV‛ tank, was in action at the battle of Cambrai on the Western Front, and subsequently travelled around and Wales as an aid to raising money for War Savings Certificates to help to fund the war. In 1919, ‚Egbert‛ was presented to West Hartlepool as a thank you for raising over £2,000,000 in War Bonds, and was displayed there

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for many years but was sent for scrap metal during World War II

CEA167/14 Aerial Reconnaissance photograph of German 1917 trenches at Quéant (copy). (Found inside admission register for Blaina Boys' School. Also explanatory letter from to Gwent Archives, 1998)

D1348/73 Two Photographs: Senior NCOs, c.1913 Monmouthshire Regiment, possibly at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, c.1913; large group of Boy Scouts, Boys' Brigade, Cadets of the Monmouthshire Regiment, with senior officers, post-1912

D1348/59 Poster appealing for men to join a regiment of no date horse (undated, post 1901)

D5948 Honourable Discharge certificate for Private 1916 Ernest Arthur Bond of Cwm () – ‘served with honour and was disabled in the Great War’

DPA 111/68 Panteg Church Scouts Patrols Roll Book with 1910-1918 notes as to fate of the boys in 1st World War

DPA 84/19 Griffithstown, list of servicemen and addresses c.1914-1918

D6349/1 Field Service postcard from J. Marsh (with 1918 records of Powell family of Pontllanfraith)

Local Military Tribunals, National Registration and Exemption from Military Service

The Military Service Acts, 1916-1918, created tribunals to hear appeals for exemption from military service. Applications for exemption included the name and address of the person’s employer and the grounds on which the application was made; these could include employment in essential trades, financial hardship, or conscientious reasons.

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CSWBGC/M5/71 Military Service Act 1916: Tribunal 1916-1918 Minute Book

A320/C/314, 316-339 Records of Local Tribunal 1914-1918 (Correspondence, register, and case papers)

D4279 Military Tribunal records (Newport, 1916-1918 Aberbargoed and Cwmbran areas). Case records - Lloyd and Pratt, solicitors (applications for exemption from military service) for cases heard by Aberbargoed, Cwmbran, , Newport, and County Appeals Tribunals

D6100/2 UDC, Minute Book of 1916-1920 Local Tribunal Committee and Food Control Committee

LL/COFP/9 Lieutenancy Correspondence on Commission of 1911-1919 Peace (includes lists of members appointed to Local Tribunals in Monmouthshire)

D3132/68 Circular from 10 thanking 1919 tribunals for their efforts during the conflict with Germany

D4165/64 Certificate of exemption from military service, 1917 Edward Hockey

A320/C/314 Brynmawr UDC correspondence file. (Includes 2 1915 notices re National Registration Act 1915: a general notice from the Registrar General, and one by Brynmawr UDC asking for voluntary assistance in the compilation of the national register so far as it relates to Brynmawr UD - 'this work can adequately and well be done by women')

CSWBGM/C/8 National Registration Act 1915: Enumerator’s Aug. 1915 memorandum book, parish of . Printed instructions, and handwritten list of names. (With miscellaneous papers of Monmouth Board of Guardians Assessment Committee)

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Support for the Forces

Ambulance presented by Lady Llangattock and the Ladies of Monmouthshire

A510/C/294 Photograph of ambulance presented by Lady 1915 Llangattock and the Ladies of Monmouthshire for use in France

D1583/282/2 Notice re motor ambulance cars for the army in 1915 France (with letter 10 Jan 1916). (With records of Nantyglo & Blaina Ironworks Co. Ltd)

D396/328 Chepstow and District Prisoners of War Fund. 11/11/1915 Instructions from J. Lawrence to Bert Lewis re contents of parcel to be sent and preparation of the "big room" for a meeting

D3349/1 Cwm Patriotic Fund Registration Book 1914-1918

D314/48, 49 Machen Reception Committee for returning 1915-1922, servicemen, Minute Books and letters re war 1934-1935 memorial

D1447/1 Newport Savings Committee, Minute book 1916-1919

A110/20B/253 Newport Fire Brigade Drill Book including (at 1911-1933 back of volume) register of ‘attendances on wounded soldiers’ 1916-1918 (firemen are named, but not soldiers)

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D4165/63 Letter from E.S. Williams (soldier) to Primrose 1915 Hockey thanking her for gifts sent to front line

A230/M2/13 Pontllanfraith Prisoners of War and Emergency 1916-1924 Fund Minute Book

D385/95, 96 Sailors and Soldiers Reception 1916-1933 Committee, correspondence and accounts

D385/9,10 Rogerstone Sailors and Soldiers Reception 1917-1932 Committee and War Memorial Committee Minute Books

D385/14 Rogerstone Sailors and Soldiers Reception 1919-1921 Committee, draft minutes

Absent Voters’ Lists

These were compiled under the Representation of the People Act 1918 to allow postal voting for service men and women absent on war service. The voters were registered at their usual home address. The details given included regiment or ship (etc.) and service number.

C/ABSENT Absent Voters' Lists for the Parliamentary 1918-1935 VOTERS Constituency of Monmouthshire (, Bedwellty, Ebbw Vale, Monmouth and Pontypool divisions). A name index is available for the Monmouth division. [The Newport area is not included; these returns are held by Newport Reference Library]

Hospitals

On the outbreak of war, beds for wounded soldiers and sailors were allocated by the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, and Pontypool Hospital. The first wounded soldiers to be admitted were Belgians. As the war continued, the number of beds available increased but this affected the facilities available for civilian patients. The Newport of the 3rd Western General Hospital, Cardiff, was established at Woolaston House (part of Newport Workhouse) under the control of the Territorial

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CSWBGB/M2/35 Bedwellty Board of Guardians, Military 1918-1920 Occupation and Auxiliary Hospital Committees

CSWBGB/M5/68 Bedwellty Board of Guardians, Ty Bryn 1918-1919 Auxiliary Military Hospital, Admission and Discharge Book. Begins 30 October 1918. Details include: name, age, religion, regiment etc., regimental no., rank, completed years of service, disease (e.g. bomb wound, bullet wound, G.S.W., trench fever), admission and discharge dates, result (e.g."discharged to duty"). Also see printed general instructions at beginning of the book. On the first page, the inmates are all marked "Ex 3rd W.G.H. Cardiff" indicating they were transferred from the Third Western General Hospital, in Cardiff, although there was also a Newport Section of the Hospital - see below

D5532 List of military patients attending Gwy House 1915-1918 Red Cross Hospital, Chepstow (not a complete list of patients at the hospital)

Pictorial/EbbwVale/ Photograph of Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron and Coal 1917 15 Co. staff (including nurses and convalescent soldiers from Ebbw Vale House Red Cross Hospital)

CSWBGN/C/25 Newport Board of Guardians, Miscellaneous 1915-1920 papers relating to the military occupation of Woolaston House, Newport. Including arrangements for the use of the building, contract with War Office, and post-war claim for dilapidation of the buildings

D3345/64 Third Western General Hospital (Newport c.June 1918 Section) (part of the main TA Military Hospital, Cardiff). Photograph of Commanding Officer, medical officers and staff. The photo shows RAMC officers and men, women from Queen

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Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, and Red Cross VAD nurses. See also D3345/63, letter relating to this. (Part of a collection of Red Cross and Hospital Records)

D3345/63 Letter from donor re 3rd Western General 1995 Hospital photograph. (See D3345/64)

D3345/89 South Wales Argus. Extract, report of Newport 29/03/1915 Board of Guardians' meeting on conversion of Woolaston House into a military hospital

D3345/90 South Wales Argus. Extract, report on Char-a- 11/12/1915 Banc excursions for wounded soldiers from the Newport section of the General Hospital at Woolaston House (St. Woolos Hospital)

D3345/91 South Wales Argus. Extract, report on arrival of 29/07/1916 more wounded soldiers at Woolaston War Hospital

D3345/92 South Wales Argus. Extract, report on Australians 21/10/1916 leaving the 3rd Western General Hospital for a new hospital

D3345/93 South Wales Argus. Extract, report on concert for 19/02/1916 sick and wounded at Woolaston War Hospital, Newport

D3293/A/9-14 Annual Reports of the Royal Gwent Hospital 1914-1919

MISC MSS 1686 House, Newport, as a Red Cross Hospital: copy photos. (Photocopies, poor quality)

D3345/60-62 Letter from donor re identification of Baldwin's 1995 Military Hospital as Panteg House. Enclosing photocopy of drawing from diary dated 7 Feb 1915 and letter of 21 July 1995 to the Curator, Museum and Library of the order of St John on Baldwin's Military Hospital and the autograph album of Miss Mary Bond

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D3345/111 Certified copy of autograph album kept by Miss 1916-1919 Mary Bond V.A.D. with St. John's Ambulance Brigade, Pontypool Division, with contributions from wounded soldiers at Panteg House

D3345/67-69 Letter from donor enclosing postcard of 1995 Pontypool Hospital [undated] and The Free Press of Monmouthshire, 13 Feb 1914, report of the 10th Annual Meeting, Pontypool and District Hospital

D3345/86 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract on wounded 30/10/1914 Belgian soldiers at Pontypool

D3345/87 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract of report on 12/02/1915 Pontypool & District Hospital meeting of the annual Court of Governors

D3345/88 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract of letter of 18/06/1915 thanks from Private Henry Lucas, Belgian soldier, former patient at Pontypool and District Hospital

D3345/85 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract on reception 23/10/1914 of wounded soldiers

D3345/94 South Wales Argus. "Notes by the Way", extract 29/07/1916

D3345/95 South Wales Argus. Extract of report on Lord 04/11/1916 Llangattock being wounded

D3345/96 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract of report on 13/11/1914 hospital on Western Front being struck by German shell

D3345/97 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract "A Nasty 11/12/1914 Dig in the Ribs"

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The Red Cross

D3293/B/1-6 Monmouthshire Branch (mainly Newport 1915-1918 Division) of the British Red Cross: photocopies of reports etc. concerning its activities

D3345/82 Photocopy of A Summary of the History and the Work of the British Red Cross Society

D3345/80 News Review of the British Red Cross Society, Red Cross Centenary 1863-1963

D3345/81 The British Red Cross Society, 1870-1970. A brief 1970 history and account of current activities. (Offprint from Health, issue of autumn 1970)

Library (LIB/297) The History of the Red Cross in Monmouthshire 1988 1910-1918, Robin Jones. (Includes chapters on local hospitals, convalescent homes, Red Cross depots, motor ambulances, prisoners of war, Belgian refugees)

War Memorials and Rolls of Honour

Message in a bottle, War Memorial Gwent Archives Reference: D6012

D6012 Penallt War Memorial: bottle containing details 1921 of the memorial and list of names commemorated (found inside the memorial)

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D1348/38 Abergavenny War Memorial: Committee's 1919 recommendations

DPA 19/36 Abersychan parish, roll of honour c. 1916

D2824/6 War Memorial, Abersychan and Pontypool - 1924 booklet re ceremony, including names inscribed on memorial

A320/C/152 Brynmawr UDC Clerk’s correspondence file re 1926-1950 War Memorial funds

Library (LIB/267) 's Book of Remembrance ed. John 1997 Nettleship (photocopy of original volume)

MISC MSS 2047 Name Index to Cwm World War I dead 2002

D6369 List of First World War casualties, Cwm district (W. J. Powell)

D6387 Book of Remembrance for Ebbw Vale, Beaufort, 1922 Victoria, Waunlwyd and Cwm 1914-1918.

DPA 106/46,47 Plans for entrance gateway to recreation ground 1921 at (war memorial)

DPA 71/28 Faculty for memorial tablet, 1921

D420/35 Invitations to unveiling of war memorial at 1924 Graig and order of service

DPA 29/24 Faculty for memorial tablet, Llanarth 1919

DPA 37/18-19 Faculties for memorial tablets, 1919

A422/C/3 Llanfrechfa Upper UDC, Papers re War 1918-1925 Memorial

D1970/24 , names of local men killed in the war 1914-1918

DPA 143/72 Rolls of Honour, Machen parish 1914-1917

D1536/4 Mathern, Correspondence re War Memorial 1919-1942

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D4518/6 Mathern, Correspondence re War Memorial 1920-1996

MISC MSS 2013 Millennium Book of Remembrance, 2000 of Mathern, and St. Pierre

CD (Library/Box 1) Monmouthshire Roll of Honour: casualties and those who returned. GFHS Newport Branch

D1012/34 Congregational Church, 1925-1929 correspondence including burial ground regulations and Imperial War Graves Commission

D3518/29 Newport Roll of Honour 1914-1918

D1884/73 Newport Roll of Honour 1914-1918

DPA 82/58 St Pauls Church, Newport, Record Book (includes Roll of Honour)

A230/T/21 Pontllanfraith War Memorial Committee, 1924 memorandum of agreement

DPA 39/57 Faculty for oak altar as war memorial, 1923 church

DPA 39/56 Pontnewynydd, memorial tablet to Sapper 1917 E.E.O. Parsons

DPA 94/50 Risca, correspondence with Imperial War 1936-1937 Graves Commission

D385/10 Rogerstone War Memorial Committee Minutes 1923-1932

D385/15 Rogerstone Memorial Committee, draft minutes 1921-1924

D2191/199 Charity Commission Accounts of the War 1927-1950 Memorial Hall Charity, Rumney

Library (LIB/287) Roll of Honour, First World War () 1999 compiled by G. B. Meredith and G Sadler

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DPA 13/73 2 Bn. Mon. Regt., Order of Service for unveiling 1923 and dedication of memorial 1914-1918 at church. (Includes history of the regiment)

DPA 13/74 Trevethin parish. Order of service and memorial 1951 2 Bn. Mon. Regt. (Includes history of its service in N.W. Europe)

DPA 13/61 and 66 Plan of regimental war memorial, 2 Bn. Mon. 1921 Regt., in Trevethin church, and faculty for memorial window

D554/159 Printed booklet, Pozières Memorial, France 1928 (published by Imperial War Commission). - Part 1 containing names "Abbis" to "Breen" including entry for 2nd Lieut. W. Bradney, Tank Corps, killed March 1918

D766/56 Memorial booklet, 2nd Bn. Mon Regt 1914-1918

D766/55 Minute Book, War Memorial and Provisional 1919-1929 Committee, 1st Bn Mon Regt T.A.

D1348/60 Poster, Battle of Ypres Memorial Service 1920

Peace Celebrations

D2758/3 (Photocopy) Order of Service for peace 1919 celebration at Carmel Congregational Chapel, Beaufort. (Contains list of men killed or died of wounds, from Beaufort, Ebbw Vale and Waun Llwyd districts)

D396/330 Programme - official peace celebrations, July 1919 Chepstow

DPA 90/94 Christchurch, Ebbw Vale, Peace Celebrations 1919 programme. (Also includes Roll of Honour for men killed or died while serving, from Beaufort, Ebbw Vale and Waunllwyd districts)

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D385/97, 98 Rogerstone, correspondence re Peace 1919 Celebrations, etc

After the War

The watchword now is ‘Reconstruction’ After years of mad destruction (from a poem about the Monmouthshire County Council election, 1919)

C/LG/C/39 Poem re Monmouthshire County Council 1919 election (in correspondence file)

D1398/23 Caerleon College magazine ‚The Isca‛, memorial 1920 magazine re 1st World War

D43/7229 (M421.3) Statement made by the Clerk of the Subsidiary 1918-1919 Drainage Committee as to arrangements made between the committee and the Monmouthshire War Agricultural Executive for the supply of German prisoners of war to work on the subsidiary ditches and supplemental drainage on the Caldicot and levels

D554/176 Photograph albums of Margaretta (‘Madge’) c.1917-1921 Bradney including post-war northern France and (St. Pol camp, cemeteries, ruins); transportation of the ‘Unknown Soldier’ on HMS Verdun; War Office

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Books

Library (LIB/1430) A Dictionary of Great War Abbreviations Howard Williamson 1996

Library (LIB/1433) A History of the 38th (Welsh) Division Lieut.- J. E. Munby [1920] 1991

Library (LIB/269) Army Records with special reference to Wales (Photocopies) Clive Hughes 1991

Library (reference Army Service Records of the First World War shelf) (Simon Fowler, William Spencer and Stuart Tamblin) 1996

Library (LIB/1620) Blaenavon and the First World War, 1914-1918. A Welsh Industrial Town at War, Home and Abroad (Blaenavon Community Heritage Museum) 2014

Library (LIB/1435) British on the Somme 1916 Ray Westlake 1998

Library (LIB/274) Call to Arms: a Valley History W.G. Lloyd [Boer War and its aftermath] 1999

Library (LIB/1448) Charlie’s War, 1914-1918 Keith Heare 2000

Library (LIB/1429) Death Sentences passed by military courts of the 1914- 1924 Gerard Oram (ed. Julian Putkowski) 1998

Library (LIB/1437) Divisional and Other Signs V. Wheeler-Holohan [1920] 1992

Library (LIB/282) First World War Graves and Memorials in Gwent (volume 1) Ray Westlake 2001

Library (LIB/283) First World War Graves and Memorials in Gwent (volume 2) Ray Westlake 2002

Library (LIB/1158) Heritage. A History of Ebbw Vale (volume 1) Keith Thomas 2000. (Includes a chapter about Ebbw Vale House, pp. 145-156, with a description of its use as a Red Cross Hospital WWI. Includes photo of Ebbw Vale Co. car taking wounded soldiers for a day out)

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Library (LIB/1431) . Order of Battle of Divisions: Part 2A; The Mounted Divisions and the 1st-Line Territorial Force Divisions (42-56) Major A. F. Becke [1936] 1987

Library (LIB/1465) History of the Royal Gwent Hospital 1839-1948 T. Baker-Jones and W. J. T. Collins 1948

Library (LIB/285) Honours and Awards. Army, Navy and Air Force 1914-1920 pub. J. B. Hayward & Son 1979

Library (LIB/666) How to Trace your First World War Ancestors Michael Paterson (small booklet) 2007

Library (LIB/272) John Williams VC: A biography W. G. Lloyd 1993

Library (LIB/1439) List of British Officers Taken Prisoner in the Various Theatres of War between August 1914 and November 1918 (Anon.) [1919] 1998

Library (LIB/996) Local Authorities in War-time W. Ivor Jennings (1940, but has references to earlier legislation)

Library (LIB/1321) Naval Records for Genealogists (Public Record Office Handbook no. 22) N. A. M. Rodger 1988

Library (LIB/1195) Newport Ghosts and the Great War 1914-1918 David Ashwin 2009

Library (LIB/1440) Officers Died in the Great War 1914-1919: Part I. old and new armies. Part II. Territorial force. (Anon.) [1919] 1979

Library (LIB/1603) Old Soldiers Never Die Frank Richards

Library (LIB/1480) Peace Celebration at Central Hall, Ebbw Vale 1919 with associated list of men from the area who died in WWI

Library (LIB/1322) RAF Records in the PRO (PRO Readers' Guide no. 8) Simon Fowler, Peter Elliott, Roy Conyers Nesbit, Christina Goulter. 1994

Library (LIB/1348) Researching Local History: the Human Journey Michael A. Williams (see especially pages 22, 28-29, 33-34, 51, 107) 1996

Library (LIB/275) Roll of Honour - a study of the impact of World War One on the lives of the population of Monmouthshire's "Eastern Valley" W. G. Lloyd 1995 - 2 -

Library (LIB/1436) Shot at Dawn: Executions in World War One by authority of the British Army Act Putkowski and Sykes 1989

Library (LIB/280) Some records of the Royal Monmouthshire Militia [background of militia in Monmouthshire] W. F. N. Noel 1886

Library (reference The First World War. The Essential Guide to sources in the UK shelf) National Archives Ian F. W. Beckett (Public Record Office) 2002

Library (LIB/1426) The Gwent County History. Volume 5, the Twentieth Century C. Williams and A. Croll (eds.) 2013

Library (LIB/1578) The Hell They Called High Wood: The Somme 1916 Terry Norman

Library (LIB/1434) The Naval Who’s Who 1917 [1917] 1981

Library (LIB/266) The New Imperial War Museum (IWM Guide) 1992

Library (LIB/300) The Royal Gwent and St. Woolos Hospitals, a Century of Service in Newport Brian Peeling. (Includes a description of the care of wartime casualties in Newport 1914-1918, pp. 24-28; also mentions other areas.) 2004

Library (LIB/265) The (24th/41st Foot) (brochure) 1989

Library (LIB/279) The Story of the Monmouthshire Volunteer Artillery Capt. John More and Col. W. L. C. Phillips 1958

Library (LIB/1432) The Territorial Force 1914 Ray Westlake 1988

Library (LIB/1484) The Unending Vigil Philip Longworth [The story of the Imperial/Commonwealth War Graves Commission] 1985

Library (LIB/1232) Usk at War: the town and neighbourhood from earliest times until 1945 Jan Barrow 2006

Library (LIB/1478) World War One; 29 December 1915 [booklet listing 41 casualties buried at Ferme-Olivier War Cemetery] John Powell 2015

Library (LIB/1616) 'Young Men to Arms!' The First World War in the Crickhowell District Geoffrey Williams and Ryland Wallace 2016

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Articles

Gwent Local History Journal (G.L.H.)

Library (LIB/557) The Memoir of the final advance and march into Germany 1918, by Sgt. W .G. Sweet, late 2nd Bn, Monmouthshire Regiment, ed. Barry Johnson (G.L.H. no. 66 pp. 9-36) 1989

Library (LIB/558) The Tragedy of the Prisoner, by Cecil Granville (G.L.H. no. 75 p.25) 1993

Library (LIB/560) First World War Graves and Memorials in Gwent, by Ray Westlake (G.L.H. no. 100 pp. 63-69) 2006

Library (LIB/560) Sergeant J.H. Spencer of Cwmgelli, Blackwood, by Ray Westlake (G.L.H. no.102 pp.35-39) 2007

Library (LIB/561) Heroes of the Great War at St Michael and All Angels Church, Llantarnam, by Ray Westlake (G.L.H. no.104 pp.32-36) 2008

Library (LIB/561) Remembering in Gwent, by Ray Westlake (G.L.H. no. 111 pp.69- 78)

Library The War Memorial 12 December 1920 - 12 December 2010, by Diana Stainforth (G.L.H. no. 115 pp.55-70)

Miscellaneous

MISC MSS 2121 Research Paper on Chepstow's Gun by Bryan Rendell. [Chepstow's gun was presented by King in recognition of the bravery of William Charles Williams VC at Gallipoli. The paper is a history of the gun and the boat from which it came.] 2007

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USEFUL WEBSITES

The National Archives First World War website http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/first-world-war/

British Library website http://www.bl.uk/world-war-one

BBC – First World War http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww1

Cymru’n Cofio/Wales Remembers http://www.walesremembers.org/

The Western Front Association http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/

Commonwealth War Graves Commission http://www.cwgc.org/

Imperial War Museum http://www.iwm.org.uk/

First World War Centenary http://www.1914.org/

The Great War 1914-1918 http://www.greatwar.co.uk/

No Glory in War 1914-1918 http://www.noglory.org/

Women’s Work 100 http://www.1914.org/womenswork100/

Discover the Legacy of the First World War in Wales (Welsh Archaeological Trusts) http://www.ggat.org.uk/cadw/first_world_war/index.html

British Red Cross in the First World War http://www.redcross.org.uk/About- us/Who-we-are/History-and-origin/First-World-War

Caring on the Home Front: St John Ambulance and the British Red Cross http://caringonthehomefront.org.uk/about/about.htm

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