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Ep. 122 – The Welsh Walter Mitty – Marietta Crichton Stuart
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Marietta Crichton Stuart talks about Percy Shuttlewood who served in her grandfather’s battalion during the Great War and she describes as the ‘Welsh Walter Mitty’.
21 April 1917: Pte David John Rees
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David was the youngest son of Samuel Rees (a farmer in 1901 who died later that year) and Margaret (née Haries) Educated Mydrim Council School Age 19 in 1911 he’s working as a miner and living with his cousins (an entirely bilingual family) in Fronheulog, Tycroes, Pantyffynnon. He joined the Pembrokeshire Yeomanry in August 1914 and served w…
The Kinmel Park Camp Riots 1919 by J Putkowski
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55pp. Illustrated. Card covers. Flintshire Historical Society. £2.50. £3.50 by post from Clwyd County Record Office The Old Rectory, Hawarden, Deeside, Clwyd CH5 3NR. ISBN 0 9512776 18. [This review first appeared in the Winter 1989 edition of Stand To! No.27] In early 1919, discontent among Canadian soldiers awaiting demobilisation in Bri…
28 December 1917 : Lily Leaver
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Her parents were Edward (a Hewer from Somerset who died in 1904) and Annie Leaver. On 31 March 1901 Lily was 5 and lived with her parents at 30 Commerce Street, Aberdare, Wales with her parents and eight of her ten siblings. During the First World War Lily was a munitions worker and lived at 119 High Street, Abertridwr, Wales. It would appear…
'Remembered Again' with Peter Metcalfe
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Author and historian Peter Metcalfe will be telling the stories of the men listed on Flint War memorial. Peter has written two books about them: Remembered Again Volume 1 A-H & Volume 2 I-W. He is also on the steering committee of The Flintshire War Memorials team.