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ONLINE > 'The Penmaenmawr Quarry Boys: From Stone to Sand, Suvla Bay, August 1915' with Anne Pedley
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 quar...
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...
ONLINE: 'Nature and the Great War' by Anne Pedley
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Caption: one of the many ravaged landscapes of the Western Front About the talk: This talk introduces the many either who went to war gifted naturalists or else found solace in the natural world from the daily horrors they faced. This talk goes on to explore how people dealt with the less-calming aspects of the natural world such as rats, flies...