The First World War

A Handlist of Records at Gwent Archives

Sergeant Richard Richards in a group at Heaton Park, Manchester, 1918

This is 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 Bristol Channel 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 in 1914.) D3213 Photo of Volunteers in Twyn Square, Usk 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 Photo, Parade of National Reservists, Stow 1914 93 Hill, Newport

Refugees

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

D3293/B/1 Report of the Newport (Mon.) Belgian Dec 1915 Refugees Committee and Forty other Belgian Refugees Committees in Monmouthshire & Neighbourhood (printed booklet) MISC MSS 1487 Report re Belgian refugees at Mathern 1914 Palace. (Photocopy) D314/45, 46, 47 Belgian Refugee Relief Fund, Machen. Minute 1914-1918 book, accounts and correspondence. D2732/ACC2732/53 Blaenavon 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.) CEA 80/6 Griffithstown Mixed School Admission 1906-1923 Register. (Includes Belgian refugees, who lived at Panteg 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.

D1651/30 Programme, Newport Empire, Charles Street, 1917 Newport D4264 Ministry of Food publications etc. (The 1917-1920 (see catalogue for National Food Journal, Ministry of Food weekly individual bulletins and other publications. Also Usk references) 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 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 Pictorial/Newport Photograph of Lloyd George at Shaftesbury 1917 90 Park, Newport A320/C/314 Brynmawr UDC correspondence file. (Includes 1915 2 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'). CEB11/2 Llanfair Kilgedin Church in School, Log 1899-1920 Book. (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.”)

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 (Home Office 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. 1914-1915 (Journal of Charles Nurden referring to apprehension of deserters etc. Also see the other journals in this series.)

War Production

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

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.

D394/B3/- Certificates authorising 23 employees of 1915-1916 Henry White & Co., Pontymister, to wear War Service badges (together with several badges) D480/67 Notice to Debenture stock holders of an issue 1918 of 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

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. 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".

The Forces

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

D1147/6 War Diary of 10th Service Bn. The South 1915-1918 Wales Borderers (1st Gwents) D3345/98 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract of 18/12/1914 account 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. [Cpl. Jolliffe 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 Regiment. The diary describes his journey from Blaina, Monmouthshire, to the front line near Ypres - Zillebeke, etc.). MISC MSS Personal papers of Sgt. Richard Richards of 1916-1924 1272/15-19 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, Borderers) January 1916. (The letter describes 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). MISC MSS 2074 Letter to Mrs. Humphreys of Newport from 1918 her son Percy while a prisoner of war in Zerbost, Anhalt, Germany MISC MSS 2108 Photo (?) of group of British soldiers, 1918 prisoners of war MISC MSS 1626 Photos of military funeral, Newport c.1914- 1918 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 Welsh Guards 20th (from papers of Sir Joseph Bradney relating to century 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 tank "Egbert" and crew at 3/7/1918 Aberbargoed. “Egbert”, a “Mark IV” tank, had been 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 million in War Bonds, and was displayed there for many years but was sent for scrap metal during the Second World War. CEA167/14 Aerial Reconnaissance photograph of German 1917 trenches at Quéant (copy). (Found inside admission register for Blaina Boys' School. Also explanatory letter from Imperial War Museum to Gwent Archives, 1998.) D1583/282/2 Notice re motor ambulance cars for the army 1915 in France (with letter 10 Jan 1916). (With records of Nantyglo & Blaina Ironworks Co. Ltd.) 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, Royal 1916 Berkshire Regiment (Ernest Bond of Cwm) 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 c.1914- addresses 1918

Support for the Forces

D3349/1 Cwm Patriotic Fund Registration Book 1914-1918 D1447/1 Newport Savings Committee, Minute book 1916-1919 D4165/63 Letter from E.S. Williams (soldier) to Primrose 1915 Hockey thanking her for gifts sent to front line D396/328 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. D385/95, 96 Sailors and Soldiers Reception 1916-1933 Committee Fund, correspondence and accounts. D385/9,10 Rogerstone Sailors and Soldiers Reception 1917-1932 Committee and War Memorial Committee D385/14 Rogerstone Sailors and Soldiers Reception 1919-1921 Committee, draft minutes D314/48, 49 Machen Reception Committee for returning 1915-1922, servicemen, Minute Books and letters re war 1934-1935 memorial

Local Military Tribunals 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.

CSWBGC/M5/71 Military Service Act 1916: Chepstow Tribunal 1916-1918 Minute Book A320/C/320-339 Records of Brynmawr 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) relating to cases heard by Aberbargoed, Cwmbran, Llantarnam, Newport, Pontnewydd and County Appeals Tribunal. D3132/68 Circular from 10 Downing Street thanking 1919 tribunals for their efforts during the conflict with Germany D4165/64 Certificate of exemption from military service, 1917 Edward Hockey

Absent Voters’ Lists

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

C/ABSENT VOTERS Absent Voters' Lists for the Parliamentary 1918-1935 Constituency of Monmouthshire (Abertillery, Bedwellty, Ebbw Vale, 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 Section of the 3rd Western General Hospital, Cardiff, was established at Woolaston House (part of Newport Workhouse) under the control of the Territorial forces. Red Cross Hospitals and Convalescent Homes were also established throughout the county. 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. CSWBGB/M2/35 Bedwellty Board of Guardians, Military 1918-1920 Occupation and Auxiliary Hospital Committees 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 3rd Western General Hospital: Photograph of c.June 1918 the Commanding Officer, medical officers and staff taken outside the Newport section of the hospital (St Woolos Hospital). See also D3345/63, letter relating to this. The Third Western General Hospital (Newport Section) was part of the main TA Military Hospital, Cardiff. The photo shows RAMC officers and men, women from Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service, and Red Cross VAD nurses. Part of a collection of Red Cross and Hospital Records, D3345. 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 29/07/1916 of more wounded soldiers at Woolaston War Hospital. D3345/92 South Wales Argus. Extract, report on 21/10/1916 Australians leaving the 3rd Western General Hospital for a new hospital. D3345/93 South Wales Argus. Extract, report on concert 19/02/1916 for 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. D3345/111 Certified copy of autograph album kept by 1916-1919 Miss 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 30/10/1914 wounded Belgian soldiers at Pontypool. D3345/87 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract of 12/02/1915 report on Pontypool & District Hospital meeting of the annual Court of Governors. D3345/88 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract of letter 18/06/1915 of thanks from Private Henry Lucas, Belgian soldier, former patient at Pontypool and District Hospital. D3345/85 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract on 23/10/1914 reception of wounded soldiers. D3345/94 South Wales Argus. "Notes by the Way", 29/07/1916 extract. D3345/95 South Wales Argus. Extract of report on Lord 04/11/1916 Llangattock being wounded. D3345/96 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract of 13/11/1914 report on hospital on Western Front being struck by German shell. D3345/97 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract "A 11/12/1914 Nasty Dig in the Ribs". 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 1970 brief history and account of current activities. Offprint from Health, issue of autumn 1970. Library (LIB 297) The History of the Red Cross in 1988 Monmouthshire 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

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 Library (LIB 267) Caerwent's Book of Remembrance ed. John 1997 Nettleship (photocopy of original volume) MISC MSS 2047 Name Index to Cwm World War I dead 2002 DPA 106/46,47 Plans for entrance gateway to recreation 1921 ground at Govilon (war memorial) DPA 71/28 Faculty for memorial tablet, Goytre 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, Llandenny 1919 D1970/24 Llanover, 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 D4518/6 Mathern, Correspondence re War Memorial 1920-1996 MISC MSS 2013 Millennium Book of Remembrance, 2000 Community of Mathern, Mounton and St. Pierre D1012/34 New Inn Congregational Church, burial ground 1925-1929 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.) DPA 39/57 Faculty for oak altar as war memorial, 1923 Pontnewynydd 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. D385/15 Rogerstone Memorial Committee, draft 1921-1924 minutes D2191/199 Charity Commission Accounts of the War 1927-1950 Memorial Hall Charity, Rumney Library (LIB 287) Roll of Honour, First World War (Tredegar) 1999 compiled by G.B. Meredith and G Sadler. DPA 13/73 2 Bn. Mon. Regt., Order of Service for 1923 unveiling and dedication of memorial 1914- 1918 at Trevethin church. (Includes history of 2 Bn Mon Regt.) DPA 13/74 Trevethin parish. Order of service and 1951 memorial 2 Bn. Mon. Regt. (Includes history of its service in N.W. Europe.) DPA 13/61 & 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 Part 1 containing names "Abbis" to "Breen" (published by Imperial War Commission). 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.) D385/97, 98 Rogerstone, correspondence etc. re Peace 1919 Celebrations, etc.

After the War

D1398/23 College magazine “The Isca”, 1920 memorial magazine re 1st World War D43/7229 Statement made by the Clerk of the 1918-1919 (M421.3) Subsidiary Drainage Committee as to arrangements made between that committee and the Monmouthshire War Agricultural Executive for the supply of German prisoners of war to work on the subsidiary ditches and other supplemental drainage on the levels and Caldicot and .

Books

Library (reference The First World War. The Essential Guide to 2002 shelf) sources in the UK National Archives. Ian F.W. Beckett (Public Record Office) Library (reference Army Service Records of the First World War 1996 shelf) Public Record Office (Simon Fowler, William Spencer and Stuart Tamblin) Library (LIB 1321) Naval Records for Genealogists (Public Record 1988 Office Handbook no. 22) N.A.M. Rodger Library (LIB 1322) RAF Records in the PRO (PRO Readers' Guide 1994 no. 8) Simon Fowler, Peter Elliott, Roy Conyers Nesbit, Christina Goulter. Library (LIB 666) How to Trace your First World War Ancestors 2007 Michael Paterson (small booklet) Library (LIB 1426) The Gwent County History. Volume 5, the 2013 Twentieth Century. C. Williams and A. Croll (eds.) Library (LIB 282) First World War Graves and Memorials in 2001 Gwent (volume 1) Ray Westlake Library (LIB 283) First World War Graves and Memorials in 2002 Gwent (volume 2) Ray Westlake Library (LIB 560) First World War Graves and Memorials in 2006 Gwent Article in 'Gwent Local History Journal ' no. 100 p. 63 by Ray Westlake Library (LIB 280) Some records of the Royal Monmouthshire 1886 Militia W.F.N. Noel [background of militia in Monmouthshire] Library (LIB 274) Call to Arms: a Valley History W.G. Lloyd 1999 [Boer War and its aftermath]

Library (LIB 275) Roll of Honour W.G. Lloyd. A study of the 1995 impact of World War One on the lives of the population of Monmouthshire's "Eastern Valley". Library (LIB 1348) Researching Local History: the human journey 1996 Michael A. Williams (see especially pages 22, 28-29, 33-34, 51, 107). Library (LIB 300) The Royal Gwent and St. Woolos Hospitals, a 2004 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.) Library (LIB 279) The Story of the Monmouthshire Volunteer 1958 Artillery Capt. John More and Col. W.L.C. Phillips Library (LIB 1158) Heritage. A History of Ebbw Vale. (volume 1) 2000 Keith Thomas. 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. Library (LIB 1195) Newport Ghosts and the Great War 1914- 2009 1918 David Ashwin Library (LIB 1232) Usk at War: the town and neighbourhood 2006 from earliest times until 1945 Jan Barrow Library (LIB 996) Local Authorities in War-time W. Ivor Jennings 1940 (1940 but has references to earlier legislation) Library (LIB 285) Honours and Awards. Army, Navy and Air 1979 Force 1914-1920 pub. J.B.Hayward & Son Library (LIB 269) Army Records with special reference to Wales 1991 (Photocopies). Clive Hughes Library (LIB 265) The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) 1989 (brochure) Library (LIB 266) The New Imperial War Museum (IWM Guide) 1992 MISC MSS 2121 Research Paper on Chepstow's Gun by Bryan 2007 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.]

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 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/

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