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 Monmouthshire 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).

(File compiled by Idris Davies, describing the capture of the German S.S. Belgia at Newport by Newport Police in 1914.)

2005

D3213 Photo of Volunteers in Twyn Square, Usk Aug 1914

D25/409 Book containing names of officers and men of

the no. 18 Division, National Reserve, plus insets of correspondence

1914

Pictorial/Newport

93

Photo, Parade of National Reservists, Stow

Hill, Newport

1914

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 Refugees Committee and Forty other Belgian Refugees Committees in Monmouthshire &

Neighbourhood (printed booklet)

Dec 1915

MISC MSS 1487 Report re Belgian refugees at Mathern

Palace. (Photocopy)

1914

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

1914-1918

D2732/ACC2732/53 Blaenavon Co. Ltd. Correspondence file. (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.)

1915

CEA 80/6 Griffithstown Mixed School Admission Register. (Includes Belgian refugees, who

lived at Panteg House; main entries are dated 2nd to 7th December 1914, but entries

continue until December 1915.)

1906-1923

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, Newport

1917

D4264 (see catalogue for

individual references)

Ministry of Food publications etc. (The National Food Journal, Ministry of Food weekly

bulletins and other publications. Also Usk Food Control Committee correspondence, etc.)

1917-1920

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

Farm, Grosmont

1918-1919

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

D975/1 Newport Year Book (includes photo of “Distribution of Hot Pots, Christmas 1914”).

1916

CSWBGN/M2/52 Newport Board of Guardians, Emergency

Committee Minute Book

1914-1918

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

1914

Pictorial/Newport 90

Photograph of Lloyd George at Shaftesbury Park, Newport

1917

A320/C/314 Brynmawr UDC correspondence file. (Includes

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').

1915

CEB11/2 Llanfair Kilgedin Church in Wales School, Log 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.”)

1899-1920

Public Order

D709/1 Newport Constabulary. Watch Committee

Report Book.

1916-1925

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

D2113/23 Griffithstown Police, General Order Book.

(Home Office and War Office orders on various wartime subjects e.g. registration, reporting presence of aircraft, prohibition of

photography in certain areas.)

1914-1918

D2113/57 Sergeant's Journal, Griffithstown Police.

(Journal of Charles Nurden referring to apprehension of deserters etc. Also see the

other journals in this series.)

1914-1915

War Production

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

During both World Wars the Blaenavon Company was involved in Government

work. During World War I 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 Henry White & Co., Pontymister, to wear War Service badges (together with several

badges)

1915-1916

D480/67 Notice to Debenture stock holders of an issue

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").

1918

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

1915-1918

Military Service

A110/C/3169

Newport Borough Council Education file - Military Service (Teachers and Pupils).

Includes photographs.

1914-1922

D709/57 Newport Constabulary. Correspondence file,

Police and Military Service.

1914-1919

D1348/23 Poster giving notice of Abergavenny Borough

Librarian's replacement while he was on active military service, and warning re

misconduct of "lads".

1915

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

Wales Borderers (1st Gwents)

1915-1918

D3345/98 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract of

account by Private O.G. Hedges, R.A.M.C., of retreat from Mons.

18/12/1914

D396/329 Account (typescript) of capture, imprisonment

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.]

1915

A320/C/314 Anonymous diary of soldier in France. (The 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.).

1914-1915

MISC MSS 1272/15-19

Personal papers of Sgt. Richard Richards of 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, South Wales

1916-1924

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 her son Percy while a prisoner of war in Zerbost, Anhalt, Germany

1918

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

1918

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

D554/91 Diary of Col. J.A. Bradney as Agricultural

Officer, and correspondence.

1917-1918

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

(from papers of Sir Joseph Bradney relating to 1st World War) on silk?

20th

century

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

1908-1918

MISC MSS 1701/5 Photo of tank "Egbert" and crew at Aberbargoed. “Egbert”, a “Mark IV” tank,

had been in action at the battle of Cambrai on the Western Front, and subsequently travelled

around England 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.

3/7/1918

CEA167/14 Aerial Reconnaissance photograph of German trenches at Quéant (copy). (Found inside

admission register for Blaina Boys' School. Also explanatory letter from Imperial War

Museum to Gwent Archives, 1998.)

1917

D1583/282/2 Notice re motor ambulance cars for the army

in France (with letter 10 Jan 1916). (With records of Nantyglo & Blaina Ironworks Co. Ltd.)

1915

D1348/73 Two Photographs: Senior NCOs,

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.

c.1913

D1348/59 Poster appealing for men to join a regiment of horse (undated, post 1901).

no date

D5948 Honourable Discharge certificate, Royal Berkshire Regiment (Ernest Bond of Cwm)

1916

DPA 111/68 Panteg Church Scouts Patrols Roll Book with

notes as to fate of the boys in 1st World War.

1910-1918

DPA 84/19 Griffithstown, list of servicemen and

addresses

c.1914-

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

Hockey thanking her for gifts sent to front line

1915

D396/328 Chepstow and District Prisoners of War Fund. Instructions from J. Lawrence to Bert Lewis re contents of parcel to be sent and preparation

of the "big room" for a meeting.

11/11/1915

D385/95, 96 Rogerstone Sailors and Soldiers Reception Committee Fund, correspondence and

accounts.

1916-1933

D385/9,10 Rogerstone Sailors and Soldiers Reception

Committee and War Memorial Committee

1917-1932

D385/14 Rogerstone Sailors and Soldiers Reception

Committee, draft minutes

1919-1921

D314/48, 49 Machen Reception Committee for returning servicemen, Minute Books and letters re war memorial

1915-1922, 1934-1935

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 Minute Book

1916-1918

A320/C/320-339 Records of Brynmawr Local Tribunal

(Correspondence, register, and case papers.)

1914-1918

D4279 Military Tribunal records (Newport,

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.

1916-1918

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

1919

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

1917

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 Constituency of Monmouthshire (Abertillery, Bedwellty, Ebbw Vale, Monmouth and

Pontypool divisions). A Name index is available for the Monmouth division.

[The Newport area is not included; these returns are held by Newport Reference Library.]

1918-1935

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

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.

1918-1919

CSWBGB/M2/35 Bedwellty Board of Guardians, Military

Occupation and Auxiliary Hospital Committees

1918-1920

Pictorial/EbbwVale 15

Photograph of Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron and Coal Co. staff (including nurses and convalescent soldiers from Ebbw Vale House Red Cross

Hospital)

1917

CSWBGN/C/25 Newport Board of Guardians, Miscellaneous

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

1915-1920

D3345/64 3rd Western General Hospital: Photograph of 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.

c.June 1918

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

1995

D3345/89 South Wales Argus. Extract, report of Newport

Board of Guardians' meeting on conversion of Woolaston House into a military hospital.

29/03/1915

D3345/90 South Wales Argus. Extract, report on Char-a-

Banc excursions for wounded soldiers from the Newport section of the General Hospital at

Woolaston House (St. Woolos Hospital).

11/12/1915

D3345/91 South Wales Argus. Extract, report on arrival

of more wounded soldiers at Woolaston War Hospital.

29/07/1916

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

21/10/1916

D3345/93 South Wales Argus. Extract, report on concert for sick and wounded at Woolaston War

Hospital, Newport.

19/02/1916

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

MISC MSS 1686 Brynglas House, Newport, as a Red Cross

Hospital; copy photos. (Photocopies, poor quality.)

D3345/60-62 Letter from donor re identification of Baldwin's 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.

1995

D3345/111 Certified copy of autograph album kept by Miss Mary Bond V.A.D. with St. John's

Ambulance Brigade, Pontypool Division, with contributions from wounded soldiers at Panteg House

1916-1919

D3345/67-69 Letter from donor enclosing postcard of Pontypool Hospital [undated] and The Free

Press of Monmouthshire, 13 Feb 1914, report of the 10th Annual Meeting, Pontypool and

District Hospital.

1995

D3345/86 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract on

wounded Belgian soldiers at Pontypool.

30/10/1914

D3345/87 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract of

report on Pontypool & District Hospital meeting of the annual Court of Governors.

12/02/1915

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

District Hospital.

18/06/1915

D3345/85 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract on

reception of wounded soldiers.

23/10/1914

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

29/07/1916

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

04/11/1916

D3345/96 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract of report on hospital on Western Front being

struck by German shell.

13/11/1914

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

11/12/1914

The Red Cross

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

1915-1918

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

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

D3345/81 The British Red Cross Society, 1870-1970. A

brief history and account of current activities. Offprint from Health, issue of autumn 1970.

1970

Library (LIB 297) The History of the Red Cross in

Monmouthshire 1910-1918, Robin Jones. (Includes chapters on local hospitals,

convalescent homes, Red Cross depots, motor ambulances, prisoners of war, Belgian

refugees.)

1988

War Memorials and Rolls of Honour

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

1919

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

D2824/6 War Memorial Abersychan and Pontypool -

booklet re ceremony including names inscribed on memorial

1924

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

1997

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

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

1921

DPA 71/28 Faculty for memorial tablet, Goytre 1921

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

1924

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,

Community of Mathern, Mounton and St. Pierre

2000

D1012/34 New Inn Congregational Church, burial ground regulations and Imperial War Graves Commission

1925-1929

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,

Pontnewynydd church

1923

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

1917

DPA 94/50 Risca, correspondence with Imperial War Graves Commission.

1936-1937

D385/15 Rogerstone Memorial Committee, draft minutes

1921-1924

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

1927-1950

Library (LIB 287) Roll of Honour, First World War (Tredegar)

compiled by G.B. Meredith and G Sadler.

1999

DPA 13/73 2 Bn. Mon. Regt., Order of Service for

unveiling and dedication of memorial 1914-1918 at Trevethin church. (Includes history of 2 Bn Mon Regt.)

1923

DPA 13/74 Trevethin parish. Order of service and memorial 2 Bn. Mon. Regt. (Includes history

of its service in N.W. Europe.)

1951

DPA 13/61 & 66 Plan of regimental war memorial, 2 Bn. Mon.

Regt., in Trevethin church, and faculty for memorial window

1921

D554/159 Printed booklet, Pozières Memorial, France. Part 1 containing names "Abbis" to "Breen" (published by Imperial War Commission).

1928

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

D766/55 Minute Book, War Memorial and Provisional

Committee, 1st Bn Mon Regt T.A.

1919-1929

D1348/60 Poster, Battle of Ypres Memorial Service 1920

Peace Celebrations

D2758/3 (Photocopy) Order of Service for peace

celebration at Carmel Congregational Chapel, Beaufort. (Contains list of men killed or died of wounds, from Beaufort, Ebbw Vale and

Waun Llwyd districts.)

1919

D396/330 Programme - official peace celebrations,

Chepstow

July 1919

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

Beaufort, Ebbw Vale and Waunllwyd districts.)

1919

D385/97, 98 Rogerstone, correspondence etc. re Peace

Celebrations, etc.

1919

After the War

D1398/23 Caerleon College magazine “The Isca”, memorial magazine re 1st World War

1920

D43/7229

(M421.3)

Statement made by the Clerk of the

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 Wentlooge.

1918-1919

Books

Library (reference

shelf)

The First World War. The Essential Guide to

sources in the UK National Archives. Ian F.W. Beckett (Public Record Office)

2002

Library (reference shelf)

Army Service Records of the First World War Public Record Office (Simon Fowler, William

Spencer and Stuart Tamblin)

1996

Library (LIB 1321) Naval Records for Genealogists (Public Record

Office Handbook no. 22) N.A.M. Rodger

1988

Library (LIB 1322) RAF Records in the PRO (PRO Readers' Guide no. 8) Simon Fowler, Peter Elliott, Roy

Conyers Nesbit, Christina Goulter.

1994

Library (LIB 666) How to Trace your First World War Ancestors

Michael Paterson (small booklet)

2007

Library (LIB 1426) The Gwent County History. Volume 5, the

Twentieth Century. C. Williams and A. Croll (eds.)

2013

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

2001

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

2002

Library (LIB 560) First World War Graves and Memorials in

Gwent Article in 'Gwent Local History Journal ' no. 100 p. 63 by Ray Westlake

2006

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

1886

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

1999

Library (LIB 275) Roll of Honour W.G. Lloyd. A study of the

impact of World War One on the lives of the population of Monmouthshire's "Eastern Valley".

1995

Library (LIB 1348) Researching Local History: the human journey Michael A. Williams (see especially pages 22,

28-29, 33-34, 51, 107).

1996

Library (LIB 300) The Royal Gwent and St. Woolos Hospitals, a

Century of Service in Newport. Brian Peeling. (Includes a description of the care of wartime

casualties in Newport 1914-1918, pp. 24-28; also mentions other areas.)

2004

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

1958

Library (LIB 1158) Heritage. A History of Ebbw Vale. (volume 1) 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.

2000

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

2009

Library (LIB 1232) Usk at War: the town and neighbourhood

from earliest times until 1945 Jan Barrow

2006

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

1940

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

1979

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

1991

Library (LIB 265) The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) (brochure)

1989

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

MISC MSS 2121 Research Paper on Chepstow's Gun by Bryan Rendell. [Chepstow's gun was presented by

King George V in recognition of the bravery of William Charles Williams VC at Gallipoli. The

paper is a history of the gun and the boat from which it came.]

2007

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/

Gwent Archives

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Email: enquiries@gwentarchives.gov.uk

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