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ONLINE > 'The Penmaenmawr Quarry Boys: From Stone to Sand, Suvla Bay, August 1915' with Anne Pedley

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The Gallipoli Association presents this online talk from Anne Pedley who will tell the story of a group of volunteers from the Penmaenmawr Quarry in North Wales, who served in the same company of the 6th RWF, in the Gallipoli campaign. The story takes in much of the history of the 53rd [Welsh] Division [the forgotten one] with a murder, the quarry …


ONLINE: Lt. Col. Charles Hotham Montagu Doughty-Wylie with Anne Pedley

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Dick Doughty-Wylie was the archetypal Victorian – he joined the Army in 1889 and almost immediately saw action at Chitral and later at Crete, Sudan, the Boer War, Somaliland and took part in quelling the Boxer rebellion in China.  In later years, he took on a diplomatic role in life, with his wife, Lily, and it was while he was British consul in Tu…