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Places in Wales that tell a story of World War One
Tyn Llan Farm, Bodedern, Holyhead: The Anglesey Bone Setters and the Thomas Splint
Thousands survived WW1 battlefields thanks to the son of a bone setter from Anglesey.
Cowbridge Cattle Market: Animals at War
In 1914, our relationship with animals was different to what it is today.
Caernarfon Prison, North Wales: Jailed for Refusing to Kill
Being an Objector wasn’t an easy option. It meant imprisonment and hard labour.
Monmouth Boys School: Angus Buchanan the Blind VC
During 1914 Momouth Boys School began to feel the effects of Word War One.
Barry Docks: The U-Boats Mission to Starve Britain
By 1914, Barry Docks, had surpassed Cardiff and had become the largest coal exporter.
Barry Town Hall: Wartime Childhood Memories
A collection of wartime childhood memories from people who lived in Barry and the Vale.
Tredegar - Brothers Story Inspires Ballad
True WW1 story of the Bosley brothers of the Monmouthshire Regiment inspires ballad.
Llanelli Town Hall - Blue Plaque for WW1 hero Ivor Rees VC
Llanelli Town Hall - Blue Plaque for Carmarthenshire hero Ivor Rees VC
23 West Street, Newport: Annie's War
Annie Brewer - Wales' Florence Nightingale
Soar Maes Yr Haf Neath: Welsh Chapels Apologise for Backing WW1 Recruitment
Welsh chapels apologise for backing WW1 recruitment
Castle Foundry, Powys: Creating the WW1 Welsh Dragon
Behind-the-scenes with Artist Lee Odishow, during the creation of new WW1 Welsh Dragon
Rhyl Promenade: Military Training turns into Miners’ Strike.
Military training turns into miners’ strike on Rhyl promenade.
Remember the Land Girls: LAAS Training Camp, Glanusk Park, Breconshire
Womens LAAS Training Camp, Glanusk Farm, Crickhowell, Breconshire
Fitzalan High School Cardiff: History Pupils Build WW1 Trench
Fitzalan High School Cardiff: History Pupils Build WW1 Trench
Caernarfon Bay: The Submarine Cover-Up
The tragic H5 Submarine - an untouched 'time capsule' from the first world war
Kinmel Park, Denbighshire: Tragic Fate of Canadian Soldiers
Kinmel Park, Denbighshire: some of the most serious rioting in British military history
Pembroke Dock: Jamie Owen's Grandfather - WW1 Submarine Engineer
Pembroke Dock: WW1 and Jamie Owen's Grandfather
Cwrt-yr-Ala House, Michaelston: Memories of a Garden Boy
Cwrt-yr-ala House, Michaelston: Memories of a Garden Boy Aneurin Cadwlader Williams
33 The Square, Caerleon: Birthplace of Arthur Machen - creator of one of the greatest WW1 Myths
First ever Urban Myth, The Angel of Mons, was invented during WW1
11 Womanby Street, Cardiff: Eye-Witness Account of the 1914 Christmas Truce
A first hand account of the truce between the British and the Germans Christmas 1914.
100 High Street, Rhymney - Home Of The Most Powerful Man in Europe
Dr Thomas Jones, a modest man became one of the most powerful men in Europe during WW1
Christ College Brecon: The Hero Who Inspired War Poets Sasoon and Graves
Christ College Brecon: David Cuthbert Thomas - the hero who inspired Sasoon and Graves
Dyffryn Aled, Llansannan: The Colditz of North Wales?
Dyffryn Aled hall, became a POW camp that many German officers tried to escape.
Former Western Mail Offices, St Mary Street, Cardiff: Cartoonist J M Staniforth
J M Staniforth was the most important Welsh cartoonist of the War.























