PROGRAMME 2015 Foreword

First Minister Carwyn Jones Sir Deian Hopkin, It is now almost a year since the start of our national First Minister’s Expert Adviser programme to commemorate the momentous on the First World War events of 1914-1918. On 4 August 2014, we The range of events and activities which commemorated the outbreak of war with a national began in August last year to commemorate service in Llandaff Cathedral which ended with the the outbreak of the First World War struck a symbolic extinguishing of a candle. Later in the same powerful chord with the public. Hundreds of month, I had the privilege of unveiling the striking thousands of people, of all ages, participated in new memorial in Langemark to all those of Welsh the events which were organised nationally and descent who took part in the conflict. This moving locally and there is clear evidence that people ceremony exemplified the inclusive way in which are now far more aware of the significance and I hope our programme will develop over the coming impact of the First World War than hitherto. year. I am proud that we were able to support the Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum in developing a As we move to the next phase of partnership with Germany, and Belgium commemoration there will be opportunities to create an exhibition on the of to reflect on the way the war, and the 1914. Over a thousand children will be undertaking consciousness of war, changed a century ago. learning activities associated with the exhibition at 1915 was the year when the relentless scale and Bodelwyddan Castle, Denbighshire during 2015. intensity of the war became apparent, not least the Gallipoli campaign in the Dardanelles which I have been struck by the enthusiasm of schools ended in tragic failure and its centenary will be and communities to investigate their own local remembered not only in Australia and stories. Innovative digital educational resources New Zealand, where there is a particular have been made available and more are planned. resonance, but in Wales as well. Meanwhile many Cadw is supporting the repair of our educational projects which have been launched and many vibrant community projects have been to deepen our understanding of the impact supported via the Heritage Lottery Fund. of the war on communities across Wales will In 2015, the Gallipoli campaign will be at the continue and will bear fruit in the coming year, forefront of our commemorations where so many while preparations will continue for important Welsh lives were lost. The impact of this loss on commemorative events in 2016 and beyond. local communities, particularly in , In remembering the events on the battlefield a is an important story for our commemoration hundred years ago, we will also reflect on their programme. I look forward to another very busy impact on culture, music and the arts as well as year. My thanks go to the many individuals and on the economy and society generally. organisations who are continuing to ensure that this commemorative period enriches us all. Contents

Schools’ First World War projects 02 The Welsh at Gallipoli 12 A snapshot of First World War commemorative Anne Pedley details the Welsh involvement at projects undertaken by Welsh schools using Gallipoli, including the ‘Blackest Day for North £1,000 grants provided by the Welsh Government Wales’ during the First World War. Department for Education and Skills. Amgueddfa Cymru ‑– 14 The Royal Welch Fusiliers and 04 National Museum Wales the Christmas Truce Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales Lieutenant-General Jonathon Riley recounts are focusing their activities on the experience of the Royal Welch Fusiliers’ involvement in the living through war and the themes of loss and 1914 Christmas Truce, and tells us about the remembrance. Christmas truce exhibition. Remembering the First World War 16 Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart 06 at the National Library of Wales and the The National Library of Wales is commemorating Dr Jonathan Hicks recalls the life and death the impact of the First World War in Wales in an of a First World War officer. inclusive and accessible way through an integrated programme of digital projects and online Posters of the First World War 08 resources. Anna Evans talks about South West Wales Museums’ centenary First World War project Sources of Funding 18 ‘Posters of the First World War: passion, - First World War Projects propaganda and pattern to influence a nation’. Advice about organisations that can offer grants and other funding support for those who are 2nd Lieutenant Jesse Spyer and the 10 planning a project to commemorate the forgotten war in Macedonia centenary of the First World War in Wales. Imperial War Museums have two albums of photographs covering the service of Jesse Spyer Events 20 with the 7th Battalion in Events listings for 2015. the Salonika Campaign.

(front cover) The second battalion of the in the trenches, (top, second right) Bivouac camp of the 7th Battalion, South Wales Borderers just Le Bizet, April 1915. This photograph was taken by Captain Evelyn Byrde of the 2nd outside the town of Kukus (Kilkis) in northern Greece, summer 1916. © IWM (HU Monmouths. © Courtesy of The Regimental Museum of The , Brecon 088205) (top left) Physical training at Military Camp, c. 1917. Courtesy of Amgueddfa Cymru (top right) ‘St David’s Day’ poster. Courtesy of Camarthenshire County Museum – National Museum Wales (top, second left) Soldiers of the 38th (Welsh) Division in France 1916. © Regimental Museum of the Royal Welsh WG24296 Crown Copyright 2015 Ysgol Maes Garmon, Mold In October 2013 the First Minister announced funding of £850,000 to ensure an educational legacy from the commemoration of the centenary of the First World War, enabling secondary schools in Wales to apply for a £1,000 grant to develop innovative projects to commemorate the First World War. Schools have been given the freedom to interpret the project as they wish.

Thanks to a £1,000 Welsh Government grant and also The experiences gained by pupils have not only raised to some Heritage Lottery funding, pupils of Ysgol their understanding of the First World War, but they Maes Garmon have been on an extraordinary journey have also developed skills such as numeracy and to raise awareness of the First World War and its literacy, enquiry, interpretation and chronology. legacy. Their project has focused on the effects of the war on the people of north east Wales. Pupils have engaged in research, filming for a ‘The project has made the war relevant to documentary and contributing stories for a book, us as a school and I feel privileged that we Ysgol Maes Garmon, reflections on the will contribute something to the community First World War. by publishing a book, DVD and holding Items collected include soldiers’ diaries, letters, an exhibition in Mold. It is important we postcards, photographs, medals, newspaper articles remember the war and learn lessons from and maps. A replica First World War tank was built what happened a century ago.’ by Year 10 pupils and the artist Cefyn Burgess helped Lowri Brown - Year 8 pupils create a commemorative tapestry. A highlight of the project was an exhibition at the (above) Physical Training at Military Camp, c. 1917. © Courtesy of Amgueddfa Cymru – Daniel Owen Centre in Mold, attended by more than National Museum Wales (below) First World War school project – Ysgol Maes Garmon, Mold, Flintshire. 600 people. © Ysgol Maes Garmon

2 Fitzalan High School, Cardiff To mark the First World War Centenary in 2014, Fitzalan High School decided to embark upon an ambitious, permanent project to give pupils a greater understanding of soldiers’ experiences.

With the help of Matthew Ward of History Needs World War. They will document their research and You, the History Department decided to build a create a digital database. replica First World War trench, which would act as Year 9 pupils from Darland High School in Wrexham both a teaching resource and a memorial. are researching the contribution miners from Gresford Pupils were responsible for much of the design Colliery made during the First World War, and will and construction of the trench, with donations of create an archive from their research linking with local materials, a £1,000 grant from the Welsh Government museums. and help from staff. Pupils from Woodlands High School in Cardiff Kian Gibbs, 12, who joined the building team, said: worked with two musicians from Welsh National ‘I would have been scared to be in the trench with Opera to research songs from the First World War to grenades being thrown in and friends dying in compile a medley which they then performed with front of you.’ the WNO, invited guests and the school choir in June 2014. The department also organised a day of activities, with pupils released from the timetable for a day. As well as For further details on school projects please visit the trench and a re-enactor, tissue paper poppies were www.walesremembers.org/projects made, statistics were reproduced on a big chart of poppies, artefacts were investigated, and First World War music played. Pupils in the Design and Technology Department made crosses with laminated poppies each inscribed with a local soldier’s name. ‘We made this trench to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the First World War, to remember those who sacrificed their lives to fight for their country and freedom’, said Jake Holmes. Other Projects Pupils from Llangatwg Community School in Neath (above) First World War school project Fitzalan High School, Cardiff. © Fitzalan High School are researching the stories of the 700+ men and one (top) Soldiers of the 38th (Welsh) Division in France 1916. © Regimental Museum of woman from the Neath area who took part in the First the Royal Welsh

3 The Royal Welch Fusiliers and the Christmas Truce

Lieutenant-General Jonathon Riley tells a familiar and much mythologised story

As Christmas 1914 approached, The War Diary of 2nd Royal Welch On the German side, 21-year-old there were moves towards some Fusiliers and C. I. Stockwell’s Lieutenant Johannes Niemann was sort of truce or armistice. Pope personal diary report the events of commanding a platoon of the 3rd Benedict XV proposed the idea in the morning of 25 December: Battalion of the 133rd Regiment: early December and the Germans “Both sides got a bit “Everywhere hand-shakes accepted almost at once, with the venturesome and looked over were given. Then there were proviso that everyone else did the the top; then a German started exchanges, everything, what same. That was a forlorn hope, but to walk down the tow-path everybody just had with himself: in all armies there were preparations toward our lines. Later the tobacco, chocolate, schnapps, for the troops’ Christmas. 2nd Germans came boldly out of order ribbons and many more.” Battalion the Royal Welch Fusiliers their trenches, but our men were Accounts of the truce began to were ordered into the line at the forbidden to leave theirs, so they village of Frelinghien on the appear in the press. The London threw out tins of bully, and plum Daily News and the New French/Belgian border on 25 and apple jam etc. . . . the Saxons November. In front of the village Times broke the story on 31 were shouting, ‘Don’t shoot. We December; pictures followed in the of Frelinghien, commanding A don’t want to fight today. We will Company of 2nd Royal Welch Daily Sketch, Daily Mirror and Daily send you some beer.’ I climbed Graphic and a steady stream of Fusiliers, was 35-year-old Captain over the parapet and shouted, Clifton Inglis Stockwell, who had articles and features ran on until the in my best German, for the end of January. Official reaction to been commissioned in 1899. On opposing Captain to appear. We the other side was the machine- the events was firmly disapproving. finally met and formally saluted. Sir John French wrote: gun company of the 2nd (Silesian) We agreed not to shoot until the Jaeger-Battalion which was following morning.” “When this was reported to me serving with 133rd Saxon Infantry I issued immediate orders to Regiment, commanded by the prevent any recurrence of such 39-year-old Baron Friedrich von conduct, and called the local Sinner. commanders to strict account.” In spite of official attempts to crack down, there was a second, shorter, truce at Christmas 1915 involving the Royal Welch Fusiliers. There was little, if any, attempt at a truce in 1916 and none whatsoever in 1917. Fellow-feeling there might be, a degree of chivalry even, but by the end of the second year of war there was no hope of fraternization.

(left) 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers Side Drum. © The Royal Welch Fusiliers Regimental Museum (far right) Service Dress tunic 1914-1918. © The Royal Welch Fusiliers Regimental Museum (right) German OR’s Field Service cap, said to have been exchanged in No Man’s Land during the Christmas Truce. © The Royal Welch Fusiliers Regimental Museum

4 (above) Frelinghien © Saxon Army Museum (bottom) Map of the trenches at Frelinghien. By kind permission of Lt Gen Jonathon Riley

The Royal Welch Fusiliers This project, made possible by the Regimental Museum Trust (RWF) help of the Welsh Government collaborated with the Saxon Army and the Dulverton Trust, marks Museum, Dresden, Bodelwyddan a defining moment of Welsh Castle Museum Trust, Commune and European history. It is a rare d’Armentières and Commune example of a First World War de Frelinghien in France, and commemorative event that is also Commune Comines-Warneton celebratory, reflecting as in Belgium to create a traveling it does the common exhibit about the truce as well as humanity between a series of events culminating in peoples in the midst a centenary event at Frelinghien of carnage. in December 2014, where the grandsons of those two company commanders, Von Sinner and Stockwell, met in what was then No-Man’s Land.

55 Painting ofPainting Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart in Cardiff Castle. © Cardiff Council Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart and the Battle of Loos Dr Jonathan Hicks recalls the life and death of a First World War officer. The Battle of Loos (25 September to 18 October At the age of 22 Lord Ninian joined the 1st Battalion 1915) was the first action seen by the newly formed of the Scots Guards, but on his marriage left for a Welsh Guards battalion. While often associated career in politics. in England with the death of Rudyard Kipling’s A Unionist, he won the Cardiff seat from the Liberals only son and in Scotland with enormous in December 1910 and was to be the fifth of the six casualties, the battle also claimed the life of MPs who died during the war. a notable Welsh figure. From 1911 he had been the commanding officer of In Cardiff ’s Gorsedd Gardens, opposite National the 6th Battalion of the Welsh Regiment, a territorial Museum Cardiff, stands an impressive bronze force recruited in the Swansea area. sculpture of a Great War infantry officer. Sculpted in 1917 by Sir William Goscombe John, it depicts Lord In August 1914 the men volunteered for overseas Ninian Crichton-Stuart, the second son of the third service and on 28 October 1914 departed from Marquess of Bute. Lord Ninian is shown looking back Swansea Drill Hall. They were the first Welsh towards the family home of Cardiff Castle. Territorial Battalion to serve overseas. The inscription on the statue’s plinth reads: During their first months in France the battalion Lord Ninian Edward Crichton Stuart Member of Parliament were in lines of communication before going into the for Cardiff Cowbridge and Llantrisant Lieut-Colonel 6th Batt trenches near Kemmel in July 1915. In late September Welsh Reg – Territorial born 15th May 1883 fell in France at 1915 they were in the Reserves for the first phase the Battle of Loos fighting bravely for his country 2nd October of the Battle of Loos and, after a journey of sixteen 1915. hours, were sent into the trenches opposite the 6 , a formidable strongpoint, which Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart’s coffin was initially placed had been captured by the British on 25 September and in a vault in Béthune Town Cemetery, but following then continuously fought over. damage during the spring of 1918 it was buried in the On the evening of 1 October the 6th Battalion, together cemetery itself. with the 1st Welsh, were part of an attack on nearby For over forty years veterans from his battalion came Little Willie trench, part of which they captured. With on the anniversary of his death to pay their respects at ammunition running short and a fierce German counter- his Cardiff statue, and the Old Comrades Association attack underway, early on 2 October the 6th began continued until 1968. digging a sap trench to connect the British forward line For almost a hundred years the ground of Cardiff City with the men in the section of captured trench which Football Club carried his name, as in 1910 he had acted was now surrounded by the enemy. By the afternoon as a guarantor for the new ground. the sap was still short and the ammunition almost exhausted, so the order came to evacuate the captured He is still remembered trench, blocking it so that the Germans could not follow. by the Ninian Stand at Accounts vary as to how Lord Ninian was killed, but the new stadium, as it is possible that while supervising the evacuation he well as in the name stood on the fire step and was shot through the head by of a nearby primary a sniper. school. Another version, refuted by the battalion’s officers, was written by a survivor, Sergeant Russell, who stated:

Painting ofPainting Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart in Cardiff Castle. © Cardiff Council ‘When our Colonel, Lord Ninian Stuart, was told that Major Browning was left in the trench he nearly went frantic, as they were bosom friends. By leading us to another attack to try and save Major Browning, our Colonel lost his own life. Standing up to lead his men, Lord Ninian was shot in the head by a sniper’s bullet and died, instantly.’

‘For almost a hundred years the ground of Cardiff City Football Club carried his name, as in 1910 he had acted as a guarantor for the new ground’

Dr Jonathan Hicks is grateful for the assistance of Lord Ninian’s granddaughter, Marietta Crichton- Stuart, in the preparation of this article.

(right) Statue of Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart in Gorsedd Gardens, Cardiff. © Welsh Government 7 BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT

Anna Evans outlines an exciting posters project South West Wales Museums’ centenary First World War project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Welsh Government, centres on a new and exciting touring exhibition, ‘Posters of the First World War: passion, propaganda and pattern to influence a nation’, which offers an excellent chance for visitors to view a significant collection of original, rarely seen, First World War posters.

Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire, Swansea and The project, funded by the Welsh Government and Pembrokeshire Museums formed a partnership in the Heritage Lottery Fund, has been a great success 2009 to develop co-ordinated, self-directed learning and the group are now extending the partnership resources across their four main sites, supported by to deliver a high-quality touring exhibition and an educational website hosted by a specially devised public engagement programme focusing on themes character called Medwyn the Mole: derived from Carmarthenshire Museum’s outstanding www.medwynsmuseums.co.uk. collection of original First World War posters. The Touring Exhibiton

Each partner will host an exhibition of 31 full sized, The partner museums are committed not just to framed, original posters. opening their doors for the exhibition, but also to This family-focused touring exhibition will offer a engage young people and school pupils. The original lively museum experience that explores propaganda, posters offer exciting opportunities to present recruitment, the Home Front and the cost of war, visitors with thought-provoking questions related to impacting on the emotions and senses as well as citizenship, mass communication and the influence the intellect. The inclusion of ‘Activity-hubs’, with of the media. Looking at them as not just historical hands-on tactile items, will ensure that there is artefacts, but as examples of how design and media something for all visitors. The exhibition will also can influence people, can build a bridge between offer access to material for a more ‘expert’ audience, past and present. providing opportunities for people who wish to explore deeper levels of information.

Dates Carmarthenshire: April —– May 2015 Swansea: July —– Sept 2015 Pembrokeshire: October 2015 —– January 2016 Ceredigion: February —– April 2016

8 (above) These posters have been sourced from the ‘Posters of the First World War: passion,propaganda and pattern to influence a nation’ exhibition. Courtesy of Camarthenshire County Museum. (background) Medwyn yn Cofio / Medwyn Remembers. © South West Wales Museums Showcasing the voices Creating and showcasing Learning resources of young people unique artworks and school visits In order to ensure that young Using the posters as a catalyst people have a chance to get for creativity, young people will A free learning pack for involved, the South West Wales create a series of panels and KS2 / KS3 will be available Museums partnership has sound recordings that voice in April 2015 to support appointed a Youth Engagement their personal responses to museum visits and classroom Facilitator. The facilitator, the posters and war in general. activities inspired by the Anna Evans from ‘annacelf ’, These will be exhibited as a First World War poster will work in partnership with unique immersive temporary collection, encouraging Youth Services in North installation at community pupils and teachers to Pembrokeshire, Swansea, venues across the four counties, question and challenge each Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion ensuring that every individual’s other about their perceptions to invite youth groups in each voice can be shared with a wider area to respond to the original audience and offering local of war. The content will posters and take part in a series communities an insight into the complement the extensive of multi-media art workshops unique ‘voices’ of their young collection of resources that will enable young people to people. Digital examples of already available on the Hwb voice their perceptions of war in the original artworks will also by offering creative hands- creative and stimulating ways. be showcased as collections on on activities that focus on With the First World War poster the People’s Collection Wales exploring views, attitudes collection as a central focus, website. and perceptions of war. young people will be able to If you or your group would References to local history express, share and challenge like to get involved in the youth and the stories of individuals their perceptions of war. Those engagement project contact: in each county will help taking part will be encouraged Anna Evans pupils to contextualise the to use contemporary imagery, [email protected] posters and their impact in references from their own life 07779270082 their own communities. experiences, as well as historical sources to respond creatively to the poster exhibition. 9 2nd Lieutenant Jesse Spyer and the forgotten war in Macedonia

Imperial War Museums have two albums of photographs covering the service of Jesse Spyer with the 7th Battalion South Wales Borderers in the Salonika Campaign.

Spyer, a native of Reading, joined soldiers could expect little comfort it is unsurprising that he took the Berkshire Yeomanry on 15 beyond a bivouac or dugout in group and individual portrait September 1914. He was employed a ravine or on a hillside. Jesse’s photographs of officers and men, as organist at the Royal Military photographs also show something including sergeants, signallers, College Chapel, Sandhurst, and on of what was in Salonika: the cafes, stretcher bearers and company 10 March 1915 was commissioned waterfront and historic buildings, commander, Captain E L Lloyd. as a 2nd Lieutenant in the including the famous White Men of the battalion’s pack mule Hampshire Regiment. He served at Tower. Prior to 1918, leave passes transport section are also pictured Gallipoli before being evacuated to to the city were rarely granted with their charges. Lack of roads hospital in Egypt. In April 1916 he to other ranks. Instead the army in Macedonia made the mule a was posted to the 7th South Wales made its own entertainment with key form of transport by which Borderers (SWB) in Macedonia. sports and concert parties. In his forward units were supplied photographs Spyer captures men with everything from food to At its peak the British Salonika of the 7th SWB preparing for a ammunition. Also of interest are Force (BSF) numbered over boxing match and members of three photographs showing men 150,000 men and formed part of a the 22nd Divisional Concert Party, of ‘C’ Company training in the use multi-national force. The campaign ‘The Macedons’. He also took two of gas masks. It is almost was fought in Macedonia along ‘action’ shots of soldiers a 250-mile front stretching from the Adriatic Sea to the mouth of the River Struma, and the Allies’ main opponent was the Bulgarian

Army. In support of the Bulgarians were German, Austro-Hungarian and Turkish forces. For much of the campaign British troops held 70 miles of front running from the River Vardar in the west to the mouth of the Struma. As Spyer joined the 7th Battalion in late April 1916, his photographs begin by documenting the battalion’s move north from Salonika that summer and include certain these were taken soon street scenes in Kukus (Kilkis) and after the Bulgarians’ first major a view of the unit’s bivouac camp swimming and diving in a pool use of gas during 17–18 March outside the town. The humble formed by damming a stream 1917. 7th SWB suffered casualties bivouac tent features in many running through Vladaja Ravine of five men killed, 37 wounded of his photographs illustrating a near Doiran. and 80 lightly gassed, ‘C’ Company common experience for front line As Spyer served as a platoon being worst affected. The old-style troops in Macedonia: when at rest, commander in ‘C’ Company, PH helmets then in use proved 10 ineffective and box respirators The absence of photographs were quickly issued. Spyer’s front surrounding these momentous line photographs show troops in events might be explained by trenches alongside the River Vardar prints in one album covering and at Doiran, including one print productions of showing a forward post near a ‘The Chocolate Soldier’ at key Bulgarian position known as the 22nd Divisional theatre Petit Couronné. Separating the during Christmas 1917 and trench lines at this point is the deep in June 1918. These indicate Jumeaux Ravine and he managed to that Spyer was seconded to take a number of photographs here the theatre and therefore during a patrol in No-Man’s-Land. missed the fighting at Interestingly, Spyer’s photographs Doiran. Perhaps we include no coverage of the Second have his prowess as an Battle of Doiran (18–19 September organist to thank for the 1918). During this action 7th SWB survival of his photographic distinguished itself in an attack record of the war in Macedonia.

on the main Bulgarian defences, (top right) Men of the 7th Battalion, South Wales Borderers enjoying a swim during the summer of becoming the only British battalion 1917. © IWM (HU_088193) & PC 1202 & 7908-25 in the Salonika Campaign to be (below) Bivouac camp of the 7th Battalion, South Wales Borderers just outside the town of Kukus awarded a Croix de Guerre, and the (Kilkis) in northern Greece, summer 1916. © IWM (HU 088205) battalion’s commander, Lieutenant (left) A pavement cafe in central Salonika opposite Visit www.1914.org the Hotel Angleterre. British, French and Serbian Colonel Daniel Burges, was soldiers occupy the tables and pass by in the street. awarded the . © IWM (HU_088208) & PC 1202 & 7908-25 Take part in the global commemoration to mark the First World War Centenary Find out what’s happening near you: • Local activities ‘When at rest, soldiers could • Nationwide events expect little comfort beyond a bivouac or dugout in a ravine or on a hillside.’

11 The Welsh at Gallipoli Anne Pedley details the Welsh involvement at Gallipoli, including the ‘Blackest Day for North Wales’ during the First World War.

(above) Wounded British soldiers about to embark on a hospital ship at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 1915. © IWM (Q13388)

By 1915 it was clear that the war wounded, a day of remembrance, lost three officers and thirteen would not be ‘over by Christmas’ instigated as early as 1916, ensured men; by the end of the week the and to break out of the deadlock that the men who lost their lives casualties were over 50. The 2nd of it was decided would never be forgotten. One South Wales Borderers would to open up a third front in hundred years later ANZAC Day, remain at Helles until evacuated in addition to the Eastern and 25 April, is commemorated by January 1916. By the end of the Western theatres of war. Australians and New Zealanders all Gallipoli campaign, 576 men of Early on in the year the First Sea over the world. the regiment would lie on the Lord, Winston Churchill, revealed It is often forgotten that for the Gallipoli battlefield. that a new campaign would be Welsh, Gallipoli saw some of the Worse was to come in August launched in the Middle East to blackest days of the entire war, 1915, when it was decided attempt to secure control of the especially the August landings at that an attack further north at Dardanelles and pave a route from Suvla Bay when the 53rd [Welsh] ANZAC and Suvla Bay would the Mediterranean to the Black Sea, Division went into action. succeed where the landings at allowing access to our ally Russia. The Commonwealth War Graves Helles had failed to dislodge the 2015 will be the centenary of the Commission records the large Turkish army from the Gallipoli Gallipoli campaign, immortalised number of men from Welsh peninsula. The attack was in the memories of the people regiments who are buried or planned to begin on 6 August of Australia and New Zealand commemorated at Gallipoli – and 1915, when the 4th South Wales whose men formed the famous this figure does not take into Borderers and the 8th Royal Australian and New Zealand Army account the many Welshmen who Welch Fusiliers would go into Corps (ANZAC). Both countries served with other military units. action with the 13th Division. A few days later the 53rd [Welsh] were young nations with small On the first day of the landings populations, and, with casualties of Division, including men of the at Helles in the South, the 2nd 5th, 6th and 7th Royal Welsh over 11,000 dead and nearly 25,000 Battalion South Wales Borderers 12 Fusiliers and the 4th and 5th Welsh Regiment, would attack at Suvla Bay. The 4th South Wales Borderers and the 8th Royal Welsh Fusiliers landed at ANZAC on 6 August and were tasked to capture the high points of the Sari Bair Ridge in order to join up with the attacking forces The casualties at Suvla Bay further north at Suvla. were particularly felt in north and The battalion took part in the fierce mid Wales as the 5th, 6th and 7th fighting at Russell’s Top and the Royal Welch Fusiliers were local ‘By the end of the battle for Hill 60 and men from Territorial battalions. Small town Gallipoli campaign, the 40th Brigade supported the 3rd and village war memorials bear Brigade, Australian Light Horse, witness to these losses. For north 576 men of the famous for their charge at Wales it was one of the blackest 2nd South Wales The Nek the following day. The days of the whole war. Commonwealth War Graves By the end of 1915 over 1,300 men Borderers would Commission records 461 deaths who served with Welsh regiments lie on the Gallipoli from these battalions between 4 at Gallipoli were dead. The August and 16 August. campaign fizzled out and all the battlefield.’ At Suvla, all five Welsh battalions troops on the Gallipoli peninsula were evacuated between December (top left) Helles Memorial, Gallipoli. © Marietta Crichton- went into action on 10 August and Stuart the losses were horrific. Between 1915 and January 1916. (top right) Suvla Bay, Gallipoli. © Alun (below) On 25 April 1915, British, Australian and 10 and 16 August the Royal Welch The Welsh fought bravely at New Zealand troops landed on a series of beaches around the tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula in support of the Royal Gallipoli but are rarely mentioned Navy’s attack on the Dardanelles. Here at V Beach, the Fusiliers lost 165 officers and British suffered particularly heavy casualties. Dead and men and the Welsh Regiment 116 in any histories. They should not be wounded can be seen on the boats and by the water’s edge, while survivors shelter on the beach. © IWM (Q50473) officers and men. forgotten as the 100th anniversary approaches.

13 Exhibitions, engagement and events Ffion Fielding outlines the Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales programme for 2015.

At Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales we are focusing our activities on the experience of living through war and the themes of loss and remembrance.

the response of the slate-quarrying Exhibitions communities to the recruitment Community engagement Some of our popular exhibitions campaign which preceded and events from last year will be touring to conscription. In September the St Fagans National History other Amgueddfa Cymru museums. challenging dilemmas of the Museum has an extensive ‘Working for Victory – Welsh period will be opened up to debate programme of community Industry and the First World through a dramatic production, engagement and family activities War’ will be at Big Pit National and local schools and the public planned for the year ahead. Coal Museum in Blaenafon from will be encouraged to respond October 2015. July will see the launch of the St and participate. A film of the Fagans Castle trail, telling the story There will also be some brand production will provide a learning of the Castle during the war and its new exhibitions. From January to resource for schools. use as a hospital. A programme of October 2015, the National Roman In Big Pit National Coal Museum, talks and family activities is planned Legion Museum in Caerleon will throughout the year which will show ‘Death at a Distance’, which the focus will be on the experience shine a light on this hidden history. explores the experience of the of ordinary miners recruited to soldier in ancient and modern the front line as expert tunnellers St Fagans has also been working times through the development in the exhibition ‘When Dai closely with military communities of artillery warfare across the became Tommy’, from February past and present to gain a modern ages. The to September 2015. Community soldier’s perspective on the objects will focus on recruitment in ‘For groups have been involved from the period that we have in our Freedom and For Empire’ which throughout in collecting and collections. In spring and summer opens in July 2015. This looks at sharing these stories. a team of curators will be working

(below) Women employed to unload railway wagons of pig iron at Pontardawe Steel Works. By November 1918, one in ten steelworkers was a woman. © Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales

14 Exhibitions, engagement and events

(above) Female staff on Cardiff Tramways: new uniforms had to be designed for female staff employed on railways and tramways who replaced men in non-essential jobs. © Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales

with military communities in both north and south Wales, collecting Digital legacy their responses to our collections, to be included in our new gallery In 2015 work will continue on a new A full publication schedule can spaces after redevelopment. Another online digital database of objects in be found on exciting project is our partnership the Museum’s collections from the http://addysg.llgc.org.uk/ww1 First World War. with Music Theatre Wales and the We are also launching on twitter Royal Welsh College of Music and As part of Wales’ commemoration @dyddiadurkate, a day by day Drama, ‘Make an Aria’. Serving programme, the Welsh Government diary of an ordinary woman, military personnel and students commissioned the National Library sharing the details of her life on from the college have already been of Wales and Amgueddfa Cymru – the home front in a rural Welsh- studying objects from the period National Museum Wales to develop speaking community in Sarnau, together, and from this students north Wales. Kate donated her will compose music for a diary to Amgueddfa Cymru in performance at the Museum the 1960s. We will be tweeting a in July 2015. short entry from the diary every day throughout the year and will The St Fagans National History (below) Women employed to unload railway wagons of pig iron at Pontardawe Steel Works. By November 1918, one in ten steelworkers was a woman. © Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales be asking for any extra Museum’s community engagement information that could help us and events programme is funded gain an understanding of her life. in part by a grant from the Armed Forces Community Covenant Fund, who are supporting the redisplay bilingual education resources for and digitisation of the Armed Welsh schools. These are cross- Forces collections and associated curricular and contain audio, video, programming as part of a major images and texts about the First redevelopment project at St Fagans. World War. They include suggested Throughout the year with the help lesson plans and links for use of our natural scientists, Amgueddfa against the Literacy and Numeracy Cymru and our visitors will be Framework. sowing, swapping and harvesting (above) ‘Make an Aria’ – students, soldiers and curators poppy seeds in a programme of working on the project. © Amgueddfa Cymru – National activities in our urban meadow Museum Wales outside . 15 Remembering the First World War at the National Library of Wales The National Library of Wales is commemorating the impact of the First World War in Wales in an Digital learning resources inclusive and accessible way through an integrated The contents of Cymru1914.org are also being programme of digital projects and online resources. repurposed for use in two exciting digital education These resources are freely available, allowing those projects on the First World War that the Library is who cannot travel to the Library to work with our rich currently leading. collections and providing a lasting legacy for research, teaching and community engagement. Wales at War Wales at War is a project to develop a learning Accessing our documentary heritage and heritage activity for schoolchildren in Wales, The Library’s flagship digital archive of the First World supporting them to develop biographies of the fallen War, Cymru1914.org, was launched in November 2013 of the First World War as listed on their local war and contains over 200,000 pages of Welsh archives memorials. and special collections. The material has been brought The project – funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, together from the collections of local and university the Welsh Government Department for Education archives across Wales, as well as the Library, to reveal and Skills and the Armed Forces Community the often hidden history of the War and its impact on Covenant – aims to engage young people in historical all aspects of Welsh life, language and culture. research via a dedicated website and app, which will include:

16 Remembering the First World War at the National Library of Wales

• a biography and memorials builder to help The digital learning resources are published schoolchildren research the personal lives online in various formats and include primary and service histories of those Welsh men and and secondary sources from Library and Museum women who died in the conflict; collections. The project also includes a digitisation • a ‘Theatres of War’ reference resource element. Among the interesting items for (with a timeline, virtual trench/battleship, and digitisation are the Flintshire Roll of Honour, a primary and secondary sources) depicting where huge manuscript that includes information about Welsh service personnel fought during the War. every soldier from Flintshire that served in the War; and a substantial set of maps, including a detailed The project works in collaboration with the trench map of Mametz Wood. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales, the Commonwealth War The resources can be viewed and downloaded Graves Commission, the Royal Navy and schools from Hwb through https://hwb.wales.gov.uk/ -> across Wales, and will co-operate with various Resources -> First World War: Education Project. organisations and local communities in a growing You can learn more about recent developments partnership. by following @ww1education on Twitter, or by visiting http://addysg.llgc.org.uk/ww1. These For further information see www.walesatwar.org and resources will also be displayed on the Library’s www.llgc.org.uk, or follow @walesatwar on Twitter. stand at the Urdd Eisteddfod in Caerphilly, and The First World War Education Project there will be a small exhibition on Wales and the First World War in our Education Room The First World War Education Project is funded by throughout the year. the Welsh Government Department for Education and Skills and is a partnership between the Library Collectively remembering the War and Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales. It is fitting that during the centenary of the First The project produces digital learning resources that World War items from the collections of the enable young people in schools across Wales to National Library of Wales will be digitally available understand how Wales and the world changed as a to all, free of charge, thus encouraging reflection result of the First World War and to view the peace on how the War transformed life throughout conferences from a Welsh perspective. Wales and creating a meaningful legacy for future generations.

(bottom left) ‘Anibyniaeth sydd yn galw am ei dewraf dyn’, Dated 1914-1918. Courtesy of Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – National Library of Wales (bottom left) ‘We’re both needed to serve the guns.’ Dated 1915. Courtesy of Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – National Library of Wales (top left) ‘New scale of separation allowance.’ Dated 1914-1918. Courtesy of Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – National Library of Wales (top right) Dowch gyda mi, fechgyn!’ dated 1914. Courtesy of Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – National Library of Wales (middle) Who made these little islands the centre of the greatest and most powerful Empire the world has ever seen?’ Dated 1915. Courtesy of Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – National Library of Wales 17 Cymru’n Cofio Wales Remembers 1914 - 1918

Sources of Funding −First World War Centenary Projects © National Library of © Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru Wales

If you are planning a project to commemorate the First World War Centenary in Wales, here’s some Young Roots Heritage Lottery Fund advice about organisations that can offer grants The Young Roots programme is for projects that and other funding support. engage young people, aged 11 to 25, with heritage in the UK. Grants of more than £10,000 and up to Heritage Lottery Fund, First World War: £50,000 are available to fund partnerships of heritage ‘Then and Now’ Programme and youth organisations to help young people shape and deliver their own projects in safe environments. The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) ‘First World War: www.hlf.org.uk Then and Now’ programme is providing grants of £3,000 to £10,000 for communities to mark the Cadw - Grants for War Memorials in Wales Centenary of the First World War. Developed in partnership with the War Memorials Funding is available to help groups, communities Trust, this scheme will help to safeguard memorials and organisations mark the Centenary by exploring, for future generations, with grants of up to 70% conserving and sharing the heritage of the of the eligible costs (up to a maximum of £10,000) First World War from memorials, buildings and available for conservation and repair. sites, to photographs, letters and literature. It’s a rolling In addition to this scheme Cadw also offer other programme which means you can apply anytime grants to contribute towards the costs of repairing and applications are assessed in eight weeks. and restoring historic assets as well as match funding Visit their website for application forms, guidance community, local authority and third sector led projects. and examples of projects For more information and guidance, visit the Help, www.hlf.org.uk Advice and Grants section of the Cadw website: or email: [email protected] www.cadw.wales.gov.uk Our Heritage Programme − Heritage Lottery War Memorials Trust Fund Grants are available to repair and conserve war The Our Heritage Programme is for any type of memorials from the War Memorials Trust. The Trust project related to national, regional or local heritage in can also advise on appropriate conservation methods. the UK. Grants are available for more than £10,000 and up to £100,000, applications are welcomed You can find further details on the War Memorials from not-for-profit organisations, private owners Trust website: www.warmemorials.org or of heritage (including individuals and for-profit telephone: 020 7233 7356. organisations) and partnerships. www.hlf.org.uk

18 Each school is able to decide how best they can do Memorials Grant Scheme this, and they could also work with other schools and Additional help may be available through this scheme undertake collaborative projects. Schools interested in run by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport applying, should e-mail: in Wales and England, which refunds VAT incurred [email protected] in the construction, repair and maintenance of to receive a grant application pack. memorials. In addition to the public bodies listed here, private You can find further details on the memorials grant charities or commercial businesses may be prepared scheme website: www.memorialgrant.org.uk or by to support commemorative projects, especially if telephone: 0845 600 6430. they are directly related to the charity or business enterprise itself. CyMAL – Museums, Archives and Libraries Online help in finding grant-giving bodies is provided Wales by www.grantnet.com and the Charities Aid Fund CyMAL provide a number of grants to promote the publishes a regular Directory of grant-aiding trusts, delivery of high quality services by museums, archives often available at local libraries. and libraries in Wales which may include projects relating to the First World War Centenary. These Fund-raising requires imagination and persistence: grants can only be accessed by Accredited museums, there is no limit to the number of potential sources. archives and libraries, and there is an annual call for Good luck. applications. Discover more about how Wales is remembering the For more information visit the CyMAL section of First World War and other ways you can get involved the Welsh Government website: www.gov.wales Topics, www.walesremembers.org Culture and Sport, CyMAL, Grants.

Federation of Museums & Galleries in Wales Small Grants Scheme Under this scheme grants are offered up to £5,000 to Museums in Wales, twice a year, with priority given to supporting smaller projects. Successful projects include conservation and specialist equipment, outreach and lifelong learning projects, development of partnership working and professional advice. Museums must be Accredited and be a member of the Federation. For more information visit the Grants page of: www.welshmuseumsfederation.org

Arts Council Wales If a project has a cultural or artistic dimension it may be possible to apply for support from the Arts Council of Wales www.artswales.org.uk They also offer advice on how to apply for funding and give details of a number of other sources of funding available to arts organisations and individuals.

Schools Thanks to new funding from the Welsh Government, every secondary school in Wales has the opportunity to apply to receive up to £1,000 to develop creative and innovative projects to commemorate the First World War.

19 Events The Welsh Government is not responsible for events arranged by external organisations, individuals or groups. Some events may require booking or involve an entry fee. Please contact the event organisers directly for details.

of its staff and students. The London. The exhibition draws on NOVEMBER 2013 digital exhibition drew heavily on a host of artefacts, photos and material digitised as part of the stories from the Museum’s rich 28 Nov 2013 – 11 Nov 2018 The Welsh Experience of the Collection, relating to regiments The Great War and the Valleys First World War online digital like the Royal Welch Fusiliers, Online Exhibition archive, which was also launched the South Wales Borderers and Merthyr Tydfil at the event (please see the Welsh Regiment. www.walesremembers.org/the-national- www.merthyrww1.llgc.org.uk/en/ Regiments from Wales played library-of-wales-launches-the-welsh- a vital role in all stages of the items/show/13 experience-of-the-first-world-war/). During an event at The College First World War, and visitors Merthyr Tydfil on Thursday, JUNE 2014 to the exhibition will learn 28 November 2013 John Griffiths more about the stories and AM, the then-Minister for 18 Jun 2014 – 4 May 2015 experiences of the troops who Culture and Sport launched The Wales Goes to War: National Army fought. Displays will look at Great War and the Valleys digital Museum Reports for Duty in how the battalions from the Royal Welch Fusiliers, the South exhibition, created by historian Cardiff Dr. Paul O’Leary of Aberystwyth Wales Borderers and the Welsh Firing Line, Cardiff Castle Museum University. The exhibition looks Regiment were among the first to at a series of specific events in of the Welsh Soldier, Cardiff be sent to France in August 1914. Merthyr Tydfil and the Cynon Castle, Cardiff, CF10 3RB The 2nd Battalion of the Royal Valley but also addresses how we www.cardiffcastlemuseum.org.uk Welch Fusiliers also took part in the famous Christmas Truce in can commemorate the diverse • Special exhibition will 1914. and controversial set of events commemorate the regiments that occurred during 1914-18. of Wales’ role during the Wales Goes to War will also put It details the harrowing Great War the wartime experiences of Welsh regiments into the context experience of war in the • Photos and stories bring their of the Great War as a global trenches but also documents the unique war experience to life opposition to war and the impact war, exploring the South Wales • Exhibition created in of the conflict on civilian life. Borderers’ involvement in the partnership with Firing Line - The ‘home front’ is an important , a Cardiff Castle Museum of the part of the exhibition. It draws German-held port in China. Welsh Soldier attention to how women’s lives Seeking to bring to life the were changed by the war and An exhibition exploring the personal experiences of Welsh how controversial events like unique role played by the soldiers on the front line, the the miners’ strike of July 1915 regiments of Wales during World exhibition focuses on day-to-day were reported. It also sheds light War One opened in Cardiff experiences such as letter writing, on the ‘spy scare’ of 1914 and during summer 2014. looking at the quick and effective the arrival of groups of Belgian Wales Goes to War is brought postal service run by the Royal refugees. to Firing Line, Cardiff Castle Engineers between the Western Dr. O’Leary’s online presentation Museum of the Welsh Soldier Front and Britain. will remain at The College by the Merthyr Tydfil for the benefit (NAM), based in Chelsea,

20 JULY 2014 AUGUST 2014 SEPTEMBER 2014 15 Jul 2014 - 31 Oct 2015 1 Aug 2014 – 11 Nov 2018 Sept 2014 – Oct/Nov 2018 10:00am - 4:30pm Traveling Exhibition – and the Great War Exhibition: A Lost Generation “Gwent in the Great War” Exhibition Roderic Bowen Library and Various locations in Gwent Holyhead Maritime Museum, Archives, University of Wales www.walesremembers.org Newry Beach, Beach Road, Trinity Saint David, Lampeter, Organised by the Western Front Holyhead, , LL65 1YD Ceredigion, SA48 7ED Association Gwent branch, and www.walesremembers.org www.uwtsd.ac.uk/rbla/ in Partnership with CyMAL ‘Holyhead and the Great War’ An exhibition of archive material and Gwent Archives. Exhibition telling the story of St David’s This traveling exhibition will Display boards and exhibition College through the Great War. be displayed at a variety of covering Holyhead’s experience locations across the county of over 4 years of war. Will mirror Gwent during the four year events of the Great War as they 19 Jul 2014 – 6 Jun 2015 commemorative period. affected Holyhead. Newport and the First World War Contact: [email protected] Location: Main Museum building or 01291 425638 and Art Gallery, Date: Sept 2014 – Oct/Nov 2018 Newport, NP20 1PA Holyhead Mariners Memorial www.newport.gov.uk/museum 2 Aug 2014 – 1 Jul 2015, Physical memorial to all Twitter: @newportmuseum 10:00am – 5:00pm Holyhead Mariners lost at sea. An exhibition commemorating the “Our Duty to Bear”: The First Construction of memorial hard work, commitment and sacrifice containing the anchor from the made by the people of Newport World War and Caerphilly County Holyhead ship HMHS Anglia during the First World War both at Borough lost in 1915. home and fighting abroad. Winding House, Cross Street, Location: Adjacent to Museum New Tredegar, NP24 6EG Date: September 2014 21 Jul 2014 – 30 Jun 2015 www.your.caerphilly.gov.uk/ Re-publication of book 10:00am – 5:00pm windinghouse/content/welcome ‘Holyhead and the Great War’ A Call to Remember To mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World Republication and sale of book National Slate Museum, Llanberis, War, our next major exhibition written in 1920 describing Gwynedd, LL55 4TY will explore how the War affected Holyhead’s experience during www.museumwales.ac.uk/slate/ men, women and children in the Great War. visit Caerphilly County Borough. Location: Museum and community How do we remember and how From the experiences of local Date: 23 May 2014 should we commemorate war? men who fought on the Western Holyhead War Memorial From personal acts such as putting Front and beyond, to all those Website construction. flowers on a grave or a photo on who remained on the home Completion of website providing the wall to public memorials such front back in South Wales, biography of all from Holyhead as village and church the exhibition will explore the lost during the Great War. services, the act of remembrance impact of the War on the local is something that touches us area through carefully curated https://sites.google.com/site/ all. This exhibition makes an objects, images, film and sound. holyheadwarmemorial19141918/ appeal across slate quarrying Contact: Date: October 2014 communities for information [email protected] about how we remember the Tel. 01443 822 666 War and its influence on Website: people’s lives. www.windinghouse.co.uk

(background image) HMS Cornwallis firing at Turkish positions after the evacuation of Anzac and Suvla. HMS Cornwallis was the last ship to leave Suvla Bay on 20 December 1915. © IWM (Q13682) 21 NOVEMBER 2014 1 Jan 2015 – 31 Dec 2015 24 Jan 2015 – 9 May 2015 Flintshire War Memorials Exhibition: What’s New?: 15 Nov 2014 - 30 Apr 2016 Flintshire Recent Acquisitions 9:00am – 5:00pm www.flintshirewarmemorials.com/ National Library of Wales In Remembrance of our WW1 Flintshire War Memorials are www.llgc.org.uk Heroes & Heroines researching and recording the An exhibition which brings Llyfrgell Llandysul, Ceredigion, Great War Memorials of the together some of the recent Llandysul, SA44 4QS Flintshire area. If you would like treasures to arrive in the Library’s www.hanesllandysulhistory.co.uk to get involved, or for further ever growing collection. Being The story of some of the details of events in the Flintshire shown for the first time, these 390 men and women from area, please visit the website: items celebrate the diversity of the area who served in the www.flintshirewarmemorials.com the Library’s collections. First World War. or follows us on Includes: Twitter: @namesonstone Our exhibition contains DRIVER JOHN PARRY photographs, clippings from Papers of John Parry newspapers and memories from 11 Jan 2015 - 14 Apr 2015 (1888-1965) of Derwen, relatives. Denbighshire, relating to The Christmas Truce 1914 – Limited exhibition space means his service as a Driver in the that we can only show a small and beyond Royal Field Artillery in France number. Please look in our Bodelwyddan Castle, Bodelwyddan, and Belgium during the First Archive Folders where you will Near Rhyl, Denbighshire, LL18 5YA World War. This is one of the see the information which we www.bodelwyddan-castle.co.uk richest surviving collections of have found. papers relating to the war-time During the Christmas of 1914 experiences of an ordinary Volunteer researchers are a series of unofficial ceasefires serving soldier. It includes Driver continuing to work on this occurred along the Western Front Parry’s diaries for 1917 and 1918, project. If you have additional in Europe. Soldiers from both and various documents relating information on those shown sides of the war met in No Man’s to his enlistment, training and here, or about anyone we have Land; they shared stories, tokens demobilisation, together with not yet recorded, please make of friendship, they even played a propaganda leaflets dropped contact and we will be pleased to football match. This extraordinary over the battlefields of France. include this in our Archive. event never happened again. Contact hanesllandysul@gmail. NLW ex 2865 ‘The Christmas Truce 1914 – com and beyond’ explores a truce that took place between members of 31 Jan 2015 – 15 Oct 2015 JANUARY 2015 the Royal Welch Fusiliers and the 10:00am – 5:00pm Royal Saxon Regiment. With an Death at a Distance Jan 2015 – Dec 2015 overarching theme of peace and National Roman Legion Museum, Exhibition: First World War reconciliation, the exhibition also High Street, Caerleon, NP18 1AE Education Project examines other aspects of trench life such as dark humour, art and www.museumwales.ac.uk/roman/ National Library of Wales poetry, with an additional section visit Education Room on unexpected ways the war How weapons for long range impacted on life at home. www.llgc.org.uk fighting such as the catapulta and A small exhibition showcasing The exhibition is a partnership archery have changed from the some of the images used to create between museums and archives in Romans to the First World War. resources for the National Library Wales and Germany, supported by Also examining the consequences of Wales and Amgueddfa Cymru the Welsh Government and The of this form of warfare on the – National Museum Wales’ First Dulverton Trust. soldiers who fought. World War Education Project.

22 the Gallipoli Campaign which 23 Apr 2015 FEBRUARY 2015 began in April 1915, to tie in with a talk on Gallipoli to be held WWI Gallipoli Editathon 11 Feb 2015 - 11 Dec 2015 at the central library on 11 April. National Library of Wales Workshops: Life of a RWF Tommy The display also features local www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Sessions for Schools connections to the sinking of the User:Jason.nlw/WWI_Gallipoli_ Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum, Lusitania in May and other events Edit-a-thon Caernarfon Castle, Caernarfon, of 1915. This is part of Swansea Libraries’ ongoing series of talks Coinciding with the Gallipoli Gwynedd, LL55 2AY and displays commemorating commemoration, this editathon www.rwfmuseum.org.uk WW1. will bring together members of We are offering FREE the public, experts and NLW workshops for schools about Please ask at your local library staff to create and enrich content WW1. The whole class can dress for details. relating to the Gallipoli campaign up as WW1 Tommie and handle of the First World War on real and replica artefacts from Wikipedia (English and Welsh). that period. APRIL 2015 Contact us for more details on 11 Apr 2015 2:00pm – 3:00pm 24 Apr 2015 1:05pm 01286 673362 or by email on John White ‘ The Gallipoli [email protected]. Talk: ‘The Welsh girls are good Campaign’ fighters’: women’s work in Wales Swansea Central Library, Civic during the First World War 14 Feb 2015 - 6 Sept 2015 Centre, Oystermouth Road, National Museum Cardiff Swansea, SA1 3SN 9:00am - 5:00pm www.museumwales.ac.uk/ Exhibition: When Dai became www.swansea.gov.uk/libraries cardiff/visit/ Tommy Free Local Studies Talk, Thomas George, Researcher at Discovery Room, First Floor, Big Pit National Coal Museum, Cardiff University, explores the Swansea Central Library Blaenafon, Torfaen, NP4 9XP different kinds of jobs women This talk by Gallipoli expert John did and their varying experiences www.museumwales.ac.uk/bigpit/ White, who has visited the scene of work during the First World visit/ of the landings many times, will War and the immediate post-war A look at the personal stories commemorate the hundredth period. How did women perceive of miners who went to war anniversary of the beginning their work, and what was the as tunnellers. It will draw in of the campaign. He will look reaction of others in society? communities by asking their at how an audacious plan to families for personal stories from shorten the war went badly all fields of war. wrong, and look in particular at 24 Apr 2015 2:00pm the contribution of Swansea and Event: ‘Two Shropshire Roses in MARCH 2015 Welsh servicemen to the fierce No Man’s Land’ fighting in the Dardanelles. 2 Mar 2015 – 31 May 2015 National Museum Cardiff 10:00am - 4:00pm www.museumwales.ac.uk/ Swansea in The First World War – 21 Apr 2015 – 31 May 2015 cardiff/visit/ Assault on Gallipoli Exhibition: ‘The Christmas Truce’ Dr John Kenyon reads from the First Floor, Swansea Central diaries of two sisters who served National Museum Cardiff Library, Civic Centre, Oystermouth in hospitals on the Western Front www.museumwales.ac.uk/ Road, Swansea, SA1 3SN in the First World War. cardiff/visit/ www.swansea.gov.uk/libraries The Christmas Truce: Remembering A display of contemporary the spontaneous ceasefires that newspaper articles, photographs occurred along the Western Front in and other material focusing on Europe.

(background image) Soldiers at Trawsfynydd Military Camp, North Wales. Courtesy of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales 23 24 April 2015 6:00pm – 7:30pm 7 May 2015 - 10 May 2015 25 May 2015 - 29 May 2015 Event: Royal British Legion 1:15pm – 10:30pm Event: ‘Slings and Arrows’ unveiling of the Every Man Site Visit – “In the Footsteps of the National Roman Legion Museum Remembered Statue Monmouthshires and Gwents” www.museumwales.ac.uk/roman/ St Mary’s Street, Cardiff Tour of Ypres, Belgium visit/ www.britishlegion.org.uk/about- www.monmouthshire.gov.uk/ Have a go at archery and make us/the-legion-near-you/legion-in- wp-content/uploads/2013/12/ your own working model of a wales and WFA-MONS-TRIP.pdf catapult. Suitable for all ages, this event complements the ‘Conflict - www.everymanremembered.org/ Join members of the Western Death at a Distance’ exhibition. The Royal British Legion is Front Association Gwent working with the Commonwealth branch on a trip to the battlefields around Ypres and War Graves Commission to keep 25-30 May 2015 alive the memory of those who the Somme associated with the fell in the First World War, for Monmouthshire and Gwent National Library of Wales at the future generations. The Legion units, including the location Urdd Eisteddfod would like every single man of the decimation of the Urdd Eisteddfod Maes, Caerphilly Monmouthshire Regiment on and woman from across the www.llgc.org.uk Commonwealth who fell to be 8 May 1915. The National Library of Wales’ individually commemorated by Contact: [email protected] stand at the Urdd Eisteddfod those alive today. This is your tel. 01291 425638. will draw visitors’ attention to chance to take part in a truly resources created as part of the historic and incredibly significant National Library of Wales and act of Remembrance. 9 May 2015 11:00am - 4:00pm Amgueddfa Cymru – National The 24th April is an opportunity Activity: meadow seed swap and Museum Wales First World War to Remember the lives of those poppy seed sowing Education Project, and the Wales at from Wales who fell during the National Museum Cardiff War app. Gallipoli Campaign following the landings on 25th April 1915. www.museumwales.ac.uk/ The unveiling of the EMR statue cardiff/visit/ 26 May 2015 - 29 May 2015 outside the Royal British Legion’s Bring your seeds along to swap 11:00am - 1:00pm and Pop-in centre in Cardiff will be with other gardeners and help 2:00pm - 4:00pm Wales’ official marking of that sow poppy seeds in our new Family activity: ‘Food and War’ event. Urban Meadow. Make a poppy seed ball to take home. St Fagans National History Museum

MAY 2015 15 May 2015 7:30pm www.museumwales.ac.uk/ stfagans/visit/ 4 May 2015 – 12 Jul 2015 Talk: Walking the Battlefields 11:00am - 5:00pm Did they really eat stewed rat in The Old Co-operative, Maen Alaw, the trenches? How does stuffed Exhibition: Lusitania and War Penmaenmawr, Conwy tomato or chestnut curry sound Propaganda www.penmaenmawrmuseum. for an evening meal? Find out Powysland Museum co.uk/ about the sort of food people ate during the First World War www.walesremembers.org A PowerPoint presentation and even have a go at making For further information contact about the battlefields of the some yourself. the curator on 01938 554656 or Somme and advice on traveling, [email protected]. accommodation and how to prepare and research a trip to walk in the footsteps of our ancestors who fought in the First World War.

24 JUNE 2015 20 Jun 2015 21 Jun 2015 Welsh Guards ‘WAAT 4 Challenge’ Welsh Guards ‘Denbigh Sprint Jun 2015 – Dec 2015 Brecon Triathlon’ WWI Editathon www.wg100.co.uk/wg100/ Denbigh, Denbighshire Location to be confirmed Sign up to the WAAT 4 www.wg100.co.uk/wg100/ www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Challenge, a 30/40km navigation The Welsh Guards triathlon User:Jason.nlw event in the Brecon Beacons. team will be entering this sprint This editathon will bring together Join up in a team of at least 4 triathlon as a training exercise for members of the public, experts and take on the challenge at your events later in the summer. Feel and NLW staff to create and own pace. This event is part of free to sign up and get involved – enrich content relating to the ‘WG100’. it is a sprint distance triathlon so First World War on Wikipedia ‘WG100’ is taking place between the distances are not huge. This (English and Welsh). June and September 2015 in 19 is a great event for beginners. different countries; by the end of This event is part of ‘WG100’. the project over 200 soldiers and 1 Jun 2015 - 31 Aug 2015 For further details on ‘WG100’ a host of veterans and members please see the 20 June 2015 10:00am - 4:00pm of the Regimental family will ‘WAAT 4 Challenge’ event. Swansea in The First World War – have completed a marathon. Heroes at War Participation by anyone who Swansea Central Library, Civic has a connection with the Welsh 22 Jun 2015 – 26 Jun 2015 Centre, Oystermouth Road, Guards is positively encouraged Welsh Guards ‘The Dragon’s Back Swansea, SA1 3SN – there are so many ways to get Race’ involved with WG100. For www.swansea.gov.uk/libraries Conwy details of how to apply please A display of contemporary visit www.wg100.co.uk/join-in-with- www.wg100.co.uk/wg100/ newspaper articles, photographs a-marathon/ The Dragon’s Back is one of the and other material focusing on hardest multi-day marathons in the military exploits of local To celebrate this year’s centenary, the world, covering a distance of people. This is part of Swansea the Welsh Guards will be running 300km to Llandeilo in five days. Libraries’ ongoing series of talks over a hundred marathons across Two elite runners from the Welsh and displays commemorating 19 countries. Guards will be taking part and WW1. will need your support every step 20 Jun 2015 of the way. The race follows the 6 Jun 2015 and 7 Jun 2015 mountainous spine of Wales; if Welsh Guards ‘Snowdon Trail 11:30am, 1:00pm and 2:30pm you live close to the route, come Marathon’ and cheer them on! This event is Family event : Wartime Horrible Llanberis, Gwynedd part of ‘WG100’. History Stories www.wg100.co.uk/wg100/ For further details on ‘WG100’ National Waterfront Museum, This trail marathon is not for please see the 20 June 2015 Swansea the fainthearted (although it ‘WAAT 4 Challenge’ event. www.museumwales.ac.uk/ does include a half marathon swansea/visit option!). The Welsh Guards will 27 Jun 2015 Meet a time-traveling soldier to be putting forward four runners hear tales from the trenches, and to compete in the elite event; sign Welsh Guards ‘Midnight Mountain handle some wartime artefacts. up and take part or come along Marathon’ and support. This event is part Brecon, Powys of ‘WG100’. www.wg100.co.uk/wg100/ For further details on ‘WG100’ please see the 20 June 2015 ‘WAAT 4 Challenge’ event.

(background image) sections of the 6th Battalion, the Welsh Regiment. © Regimental Museum of the Royal Welsh 25 Another Brecon marathon, this and we urge you to get involved. 6 Jul 2015 - 10 Jul 2015 time with a twist: the marathon More to follow on this, look out starts at 1730 and runners must Trail, talks and tours: St Fagans for updates on the WG100 blog. complete the race by midnight. Castle and the First World War This event is part of ‘WG100’. This event is part of ‘WG100’. St Fagans National History For further details on ‘WG100’ For further details on ‘WG100’ Museum please see the 20 June 2015 please see the 20 June 2015 www.museumwales.ac.uk/ ‘WAAT 4 Challenge’ event. ‘WAAT 4 Challenge’ event. stfagans/visit/ A week of tours and talks to 20 Jul 2015 – 31 Jan 2016 coincide with the launch of the JULY 2015 St Fagans Castle Trail. This trail Exhibition: ‘For Freedom and For 2 Jul 2015 – 4 Jul 2015 will uncover the hidden histories Empire’ of St Fagans Castle and gardens National Slate Museum, Llanberis Welsh Guards ‘Wales Marathon during the First World War, Weekend’ and is supported by the Armed www.museumwales.ac.uk/slate/ Tenby, Pembrokeshire Forces Community Covenant visit/ An exhibition looking at the www.wg100.co.uk/wg100/ grant scheme. response of the slate quarrying A 2.4 mile swim on Friday, communities to the recruitment followed by a 112 mile cycling 7 Jul 2015 campaign which preceded sportive and culminating with conscription, exploring why these Performance: ‘Make an Aria’ the Wales Marathon on the communities found it difficult Sunday. Sign up to one or all of St Fagans National History to respond as was expected these events which take place Museum of them. in the beautiful setting of the Pembrokeshire countryside. Join www.museumwales.ac.uk/ in with the selected few from stfagans/visit/ the Battalion that are taking part. Experience newly composed AUGUST 2015 This event is part of ‘WG100’. arias, written in response to the 1 Aug 2015 2:00pm - 3:00pm First World War collections and For further details on ‘WG100’ the story of the St Fagans Red Gwilym Games, ‘The Bowmen and please see the 20 June 2015 Cross VAD Hospital, being The Angels of Mons – A Legend of ‘WAAT 4 Challenge’ event. performed at locations across the The Great War’ site. The Make an Aria project is Swansea Central Library, Civic 4 Jul 2015 - 4 Oct 2015 a collaboration between Music Centre, Oystermouth Road, Theatre Wales, the Royal Welsh Swansea, SA1 3SN Exhibition: ‘Poppies for College of Music and Drama, Remembrance’ St Fagans National History www.swansea.gov.uk/libraries In August 2014 the town of National Waterfront Museum, Museum and the Armed Forces Community Covenant grant Mons in Belgium commemorated Swansea scheme. the beginning of the war and www.museumwales.ac.uk/ the by a huge 3D swansea/visit/ light and sound display focused Investigating the link between 10 Jul 2015 around the theme of angels. the cultural uses of poppies for Welsh Guards ‘Mountain Biking In Northern Ireland a new war memorial featuring the angels of remembrance and the science of Marathon’ biodiversity – the study of plant Mons has just been erected. All and animal species in the natural Bala, Gwynedd this shows how the wild rumours environment. www.wg100.co.uk/wg100/ of angels descending from Details are yet to be published heaven and saving British troops but we will be undertaking a at the Battle of Mons which mountain bike marathon in Bala spread in Britain in the spring of 1915 still resonate today.

26 A key role was played by the War. A nationwide search for Welsh writer Arthur Machen and photographs, helped by historical SEPTEMBER 2015 his short story, “The Bowmen”, societies, war memorial projects, Sept 2015 – Jan 2016 which Machen claimed inspired county archives and volunteers to all these stories. “The Bowmen”, find over 10,500 photos of the Exhibition: ‘Working for Victory – first published in a newspaper RWF who were lost in the First Welsh Industry and the First in September 1914, was World War. Help us reunite the World War’ published in a bestselling book in Regiment by bringing these boys Big Pit National Coal Museum, August 1915. home. Blaenavon In this illustrated talk expert Each man commemorated on www.museumwales.ac.uk/bigpit/ Gwilym Games will look at the centenary of his death at the visit/ how these strange tales inspired Museum. sermons, pamphlets, songs and The tens of thousands of Contact us on 01286 673362 or Welshmen who went to fight in even a film in 1915, and explore on rwfmuseum1@btconnect. why some people in Britain Europe were supported by many com if you can help us or if you thousands more who worked in were so ready to believe angels need more information fought for them and why some essential industries, often joined still believe it today. Was there by women for the first time. This display looks at what they any basis to the stories at all or 8 Aug 2015 and 9 Aug 2015 are they the product of wartime produced, how it contributed to hallucinations, rumours or even Family activity: The Quarry Boys the war effort and the impact of British propaganda? Penmaenmawr Museum the war on Welsh industry. www.penmaenmawrmuseum. co.uk Sept 2015 – Jan 2016 3 Aug 2015 - 5 Aug 2015 Join us to commemorate the 11:00am – 1:00pm and Exhibition: ‘When Dai became ‘Quarry Boys’ who went into Tommy’ 2:00pm - 4:00pm action on 10 August 1915 at , Dre-fach Family activity: Suvla Bay with a weekend of Felindre ‘Postcards and war’ activities for all the family. For more information, visit our www.museumwales.ac.uk/wool/ St Fagans National History Facebook page or contact the visit/ Museum museum. A look at the personal stories www.museumwales.ac.uk/ of miners who went to war as stfagans/visit/ tunnellers. Design your own postcard and 11 Aug 2015 - 14 Aug 2015 imagine writing home from the 11:00am - 1:00pm and trenches or to a soldier at war. 2:00pm - 4:00pm OCTOBER 2015 Family activity: ‘Music and war’ 8 October 2015 6:00pm St Fagans National History 5 Aug 2015 – 11 Nov 2015 Lecture: ‘The Life and Death of Museum Exhibition: Faces of WW1 Lieutenant Colonel Lord Ninian www.museumwales.ac.uk/ Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum, Crichton-Stuart’ stfagans/visit/ Caernarfon Castle, Caernarfon, Cardiff Castle Find out how music was used to Gwynedd, LL55 2AY keep people’s spirits high during www.cardiffcastle.com/whats-on/ www.rwfmuseum.org.uk the First World War and have a In , Lord Bute’s Collecting and displaying the go at making some home-made brother Lord Ninian, was killed details and photographs of instruments. in action on the Western front. every Royal Welch Fusilier This lecture by his grand- who fell in the First World daughter Marietta Crichton- Stuart reveals some of her

(background image) Men of the 1st Glamorgan, 265th (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, 53rd (Welsh) Division, c.1916. Courtesy of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales 27 research into this courageous and humane member of the NOVEMBER 2015 JANUARY 2016 Bute family. 7 Nov 2015 10:50am Jan 2016 – Apr 2016 Remembrance Service Exhibition: War in Welsh Literature 16 Oct 2015 – 20 May 2016 St Fagans National History Hengwrt, National Library of 10:00am – 5:00pm Museum Wales Exhibition: www.museumwales.ac.uk/ www.llgc.org.uk ‘War, What is it good for?’ stfagans/visit/ The exhibition will look at war National Roman Legion Museum, Annual service to remember the literature, including the First High Street, Caerleon, NP18 1AE fallen, at the Newbridge War World War. Memorial at St Fagans National www.museumwales.ac.uk/roman/ History Museum. visit 1 Jan 2016 – 16 Jan 2016 An exhibition that considers RNLI Exhibition: Hope in the the good and the bad that 8 Nov 2015 Great War comes out of war. From culture 11:00am - 1:00pm and Port Eynon Village Hall and medicine to technological 2:00pm - 4:00pm advances spanning the centuries http://rnli.org/aboutus/ Family activity: ‘Making Poppies’ from the Roman period to the historyandheritage/Pages/hope- First World War there are lots St Fagans National History in-the-great-war.aspx of things that might never have Museum The RNLI’s Hope in the Great War happened if we hadn’t gone to www.museumwales.ac.uk/ exhibition commemorates the war. stfagans/visit/ centenary of the First World War. Commemorate Remembrance Touring RNLI museums, lifeboat 27 and 29 Oct 2015 Sunday by making your own stations and partner museums, poppy. 11:00am - 1:00pm and it honours the courage and 2:00pm - 4:00pm determination of those who saved lives in a time of great Family activity: DECEMBER 2015 conflict. Communities have come ‘Medicine and War’ together to create interactive 5 and 6 Dec St Fagans National History displays and engaging artwork, Family activity: funded by Arts Council England. Museum ‘Christmas and War’ www.museumwales.ac.uk/ This is an ideal way for families St Fagans National History and young children to learn stfagans/visit/ Museum about the astounding work of Find out about the important www.museumwales.ac.uk/ RNLI volunteers during the First role medicine played during the World War. First World War and how the stfagans/visit/ war itself changed the face of Find out how Christmas was the medical world. The activity celebrated during the First 16 Jan 2016 – 9 Apr 2016 will take place in St Fagans World War on the Front Line Castle which was itself used as a and Home Front. Have a go at Exhibition: Remembering for hospital during the war. making wartime decorations and Peace (Book of Remembrance Christmas cards. Find out about First and Second World Wars) the Christmas football game of National Library of Wales 1914 that brought soldiers together across the lines of the trenches. www.llgc.org.uk

28 This exhibition will display the two physical Books of Remembrance alongside their digital copies. It will explore the impact of the two wars on Wales, and how this led people to work for peace.

30 Jan 2016 – 28 May 2016 Exhibition: Efforts and Ideals Gregynog Gallery, National Library of Wales www.llgc.org.uk This exhibition displays all 66 works from the 1917 print portfolio The Great War: Britain’s Efforts and Ideals, commissioned by the Ministry of Information. Divided into ‘Ideals’ and ‘Efforts’, these lithographs provide a broad and fascinating representation of Britain’s war objectives, military activities and effort on the Home Front. Some of the best known British artists of the period contributed to the series including Augustus John, Frank Brangwyn, William Rothenstein and C.R.W Nevinson. This exhibition is touring from Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales.

FEBRUARY 2016 9 Feb 2016 – 5 Mar 2016 RNLI Exhibition: Hope in the Great War Tenby Museum, Pembrokeshire http://rnli.org/aboutus/ historyandheritage/Pages/hope- in-the-great-war.aspx The RNLI’s Hope in the Great War exhibition commemorates the centenary of the First World War. For further information, please see the 1 Jan 2016 – 16 Jan 2016 event.

(background image) Soldiers of the 38th (Welsh) Division in France 1916. © Regimental Museum of the Royal Welsh 29 ‘Who made these little islands the centre of the greatest and most powerful Empire the world has ever seen?’ Dated 1915. Courtesy of Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales