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World War One archive collection

This section contains interviews with Welsh war veterans and with families of those who fought in World War One.

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Dressed for Battle

Dressed for Battle

9 April, 2007

Burberry has become synonymous with high-fashion style and quality, but this hasn't always been the case.

Man sitting in chair

"We wanted to fight the Germans"

13 November, 1994

"We went to war full of it ... with no knowledge of what it would actually be like."

Soldiers marching

Shellshock

21 January, 1994

We saw men walking about with their eyes open but they couldn't see anything at all - "they weren't living in this world".

Passengers

No return

21 January, 1994

Agnes Greatorex remembers her brothers going off to fight in World War One with the British Expeditionary Forces.

Man with glass

Going back

13 November, 1994

First World War Veteran Ivor Watkins tells a sobering alcohol related story he witnessed in war.

After the war

After the war

1 March, 1961

A veteran from World War One tells his children that his medals are "a symbol of my ignorance".

Before the war

Before the war

1 March, 1961

"A very curious incident happened at Southampton ..."

Man's inhumanity

Man's inhumanity

13 November, 1994

Ivor Watkins from Sketty near Swansea eloquently outlines his memories of World War One.

War veteran

Carnage

13 November, 1994

"You'd wake up ... in the night with a rat nibbling at your ears."

Man sits by fire

From coalface to frontline

13 November, 1994

Fighting "the war to end all wars".


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