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A number of Welsh veterans of the Gallipoli campaign went on to write poems about their experiences. Among the poems unearthed by historian Anne Pedley were ‘The Heroes of Suvla Bay’ by Sergeant WR Williams, of the 6th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and ‘The Boys of Suvla Bay’ by an unknown author. Anne helped research the…
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One hundred years ago this weekend (April 25, 1915) the Allies launched a land invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey. The plan was to capture Constantinople and take Germany’s ally Turkey out of the war. The landing failed and the battle developed into a stalemate – the trench warfare of the Western Front in…
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Upcoming radio programme for those interested in World War One and Gallipoli in particular: Quarry Boys: The Welsh at Gallipoli To be broadcast on BBC Radio Wales Sunday, April 26 at 12:30pm. Repeated on Monday, April 27 (6.30pm) and Tuesday April 28 (5:30pm) More info here soon.
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Just found a wonderful memory of Cardiff’s historic win at the Twickenham Sevens in the spring of 1939 in an article from Wales Online. The team featured Les Spence and Wilf Wooller who three years later would be captured by the Japanese in Java. Les kept a secret diary (of which a lot more here:…
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“Seventy-five per cent of my life I can keep in a normal context. I have to confess that the 25 per cent is my bogey man… It’s the place where I don’t like to linger for long.” Those are the words of former Methodist minister Jim McWade, in this film made over the course of…
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Telling stories from the Somme to Ypres, the war in the skies and at sea, the series ‘Wales and the Great War’ includes some incredible first person testimony from the Great War. The second programme in the series – ‘Voices from the Front’ – pulls together a range of archive interviews with veterans from the…
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I don’t know if you ‘fight’ cancer, ‘battle’ it, ‘learn to live’ with it, ‘cope’ with it, ‘rage against’ it, ‘deal’ with it, or a combination of them all… …But here’s what Hywel did.
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Six-year-old Brecon Vaughan is to undergo a life-changing operation this week thanks to the generosity of a young man left paralysed after a road accident. Dan Black donated more than £20,000 to Brecon’s fund and helped his family meet the costs of the operation in the United States. Dan’s gift of hope to Brecon marks…
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Described as “explosive” by the Irish Post and an “important” book by the Guardian ‘The Death of Justice’ continues to get five-star reviews on Amazon. This is the inside story of a brutal murder as revealed by Michael O’Brien, one of the men wrongly jailed for more than a decade. The miscarriage of justice which…
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The funny and inspiring Joe Holloway describes life with Tourette’s Syndrome. “In a way, I wouldn’t get rid of it because if I did I wouldn’t be me.” Watch Joe’s film, ‘Tourette’s and Me’, here.
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Greg Lewis 