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Mametz, Red Dragon Memorial
Blacpill School to close . . . copyright -WG Archive
By Carol Powell M A
Oct 10, 1918 'The Master and five of his staff are away with Influenza. . . . Epidemic has spread and orders given to close . . .'
by Kate Jones
They were a focus for grief and loss and also pride
'A great survivor'
'A great survivor'
Jack (John) Dickens 1895-1980
by Patsy Graham
Served in World War One and WW2
by Mark Lewis
William never talked about his service in The Great War. He was badly wounded in France, had become a POW, eventually being repatriated by the Red Cross and subsiquently a patient at Victoria Hall Hospital, Mumbles, very near to his home.
by Joan Jones (née Marshall)
I was brought up with this account of my family’s introduction to Uncle Will, St. Dunstan's Home for blind veterans and to Mumbles.
It is a poignant tale of heartbreak, bravery and enduring friendship
This photograph shows Will John as a volunteer in 1915
by Carol Powell MA
This was a year of sharp contrasts-
by Carol Powell MA
A year in the life of Mumbles
We Remember
We Remember
The Mumbles Casualties Lost In The Third Battle of Passchendaele
The Somme and Mumbles Casualties
This takes you to Mumbles War Memorials
Mumbles Honours our Fallen
Nurses at Victoria Hall Hospital
Red Cross Hospitals in the Mumbles area during the Great War
Caring Within The Community by Carol Powell MA
Victoria Hall was just one of the many temporary hospitals
Commemorating great landmarks in British History
Magna Carta and The Battle of Waterloo
In the Defence of Mumbles & Swansea before 1918
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Mumbles Head peninsular proved an ideal location for defences for the town of Swansea
William Laugharne Morgan - A Family Tragedy by Carol Powell M.A.
W. Laugharne Morgan & Co. was a parcels & delivery business in Swansea & Mumbles. Tragedy was to strike, when both his eldest son and his
nephew (both awarded the MC) were killed in action in 1918
Mumbles Unofficial Memorial
at Nanna Todd's Shop by John Powell
Her window had a display of photographs of the local men who were away serving in the forces for WW1 & WW2.
Oystermouth Council School Roll of Honour by John Powell
and Extracts from School Logbooks of WW1
Mumbles at War
Their names are given within the article
William BOWDEN'S Remembrance Plaque & Poster
Mumbles Honours our Fallen
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