A List of Records held at Gwent Archives

Letter to Rose Curtis from Private Will O’Brien, April 1917 Gwent Archives Reference: D5963/1/4/7

A guide to the sources available at Gwent Archives for the

history of the First World War in the former county of

Monmouthshire and surrounding areas

The First World War

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The Outbreak of War

War was declared on 4th August 1914. On that day, Newport Police and dock

officials boarded the German paddle steamer S.S. Belgia which had anchored in the

Bristol Channel near Newport, and arrested the German crew.

National Reservists, trained ex-servicemen, were required to report for duty.

Library (LIB/289) And So to War (the Belgia Incident).

(File compiled by Idris Davies, describing the

capture of the German S.S. Belgia at Newport

by Newport Police on 4th August 1914)

2005

D3213 Photo of Volunteers in Twyn Square, Usk

Aug 1914

D25/409 Book containing names of officers and men of

the no. 18 Division, National Reserve, plus

insets of correspondence

1914

Pictorial/Newport/93 Photo, Parade of National Reservists, Stow Hill,

Newport

1914

Refugees

Belgian refugees began to arrive in Monmouthshire in September 1914. Refugee

communities were established in many parts of the county.

D3293/B/1 Report of the Newport (Mon.) Belgian Refugees

Committee and Forty other Belgian Refugees

Committees in Monmouthshire &

Neighbourhood (printed booklet)

Dec 1915

D314/45, 46, 47 Belgian Refugee Relief Fund, Machen. Minute

book, accounts and correspondence

1914-1918

D2732/ACC2732/53 Blaenavon Co. Ltd. Correspondence file.

(Includes correspondence re Belgian workers,

e.g. 18/4/15 letter describing their living

conditions, and 23/4/15 a copy of a notice to the

workers in French)

1915

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MISC MSS 1487 Report re Belgian refugees at Mathern Palace.

(Photocopy)

1914

CEA 80/6 Griffithstown Mixed School Admission

Register. (Includes Belgian refugees, who lived

at Panteg House; main entries are dated 2nd to

7th December 1914, but entries continue until

December 1915)

1906-1923

Life at Home

By the third year of the war, the Government found it necessary to control the

distribution of food and the increase of food production. County war agricultural

executive committees were appointed, with powers to cultivate agricultural land. A

Ministry of Food was established, and household foodstuffs such as sugar, meat,

butter and tea were rationed.

A340/M2/1 Nantyglo and Blaina UDC, Committee for the

Prevention and Relief of Distress (War Relief

Committee), Minute Book

Aug-Oct

1914

A120/C/219 Caerleon UDC Correspondence file re War

Charities

1916-1917

A120/C/220 Caerleon UDC Correspondence file re War

Charities Act 1916

1926-1927

A510/M2/1 Abergavenny Local Food Control Committee

Minute Book

1917-1920

D4264

(see catalogue for

details)

Ministry of Food publications (The National

Food Journal, Ministry of Food weekly bulletins,

etc.) Also Usk Food Control Committee

correspondence, etc

1917-1920

MISC MSS 1638 Ration books, Newport

1918

MISC MSS 1639 Ration book, Newport Co-op

1918

D586/39 Food ration cards for persons at Upper House

Farm, Grosmont

1918-1919

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DPA 13/88 Royal Proclamation re economy in use of grain

1917

D975/1 Newport Year Book (includes photo of

‚Distribution of Hot Pots, Christmas 1914‛).

1916

CSWBGN/M2/52 Newport Board of Guardians, Emergency

Committee Minute Book

1914-1918

CSWBGN/M2/81 Newport Board of Guardians, Monmouthshire

War Relief Committee, Sub-Committee Minutes

1914

A110/M23/3 Newport County Borough Council, Victoria

Ward Distress Committee Minute Book

1915

D1651/30 Programme, Newport Empire, Charles Street,

Newport

1917

Pictorial/Newport/

90

Photograph of Lloyd George at Shaftesbury

Park, Newport

1917

Public Order

D709/1 Newport Constabulary, Watch Committee

Report Book

1916-1925

D709/47 Newport Constabulary, Police Order Book

1909-1919

D2113/23 Griffithstown Police, General Order Book.

(Home Office and War Office orders on various

wartime subjects e.g. registration, reporting

presence of aircraft, prohibition of photography

in certain areas)

1914-1918

D2113/57 Sergeant's Journal, Griffithstown Police. (Journal

of Charles Nurden referring to apprehension of

deserters etc.) Also see the other journals in this

series

1914-1915

D4834/51 ‘Police Gazette’ including War Office lists of

deserters and absentees

Dec. 1915

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School Records

School Log Books, written by the Head Teacher, are an important source of

information for the events in the school and local area. Volunteers have been listing

these references and it is hoped to make this information available later. Some

examples are listed below.

CEB11/2 Llanfair Kilgedin Church in Wales School

Oct 16 1917. ‚Sent 1 sack of vegetables & 1 sack

of apples to the Navy.‛ Dec 4 1917. ‚Sent to

Director of Propellants 4 cwt. of Horse-

chestnuts.‛ Aug 6 1918. ‚The Head Teacher was

absent attending a Military Camp at Porthcawl.

During the fortnight there he was specially

detailed for a course in bayonet work & physical

training.‛

1899-1920

CEA52/3 St. Dial’s Boys’ School, Cwmbran

Sep 7, 1914. ‚Mr Hood absent having decided to

offer himself, at Newport, as a recruit for Lord

Kitcheners' army.‛ Sep 18th 1914. ‚Mr. Hood

ordered to attend at Newport Barracks and

afterwards to proceed to Ireland.‛ Dec 7 1917.

‚The attendance today is not good. Many boys

absent on account of the distribution of butter at

some shops, there being a great shortage of

some foods.‛

1902-1921

CEA167/7 Blaina Boys’ School

11th Nov 1918. ‚School opened this morning as

usual. 87% present. At 11.30 the Hooters

signalled the signing of the Armistice. A

continuance of fog signals on the railway

emphasised the news. The boys were

immediately marshalled in the front playground

and cheers were given for the Army, Navy, the

Prime Minister‛ (etc)

1903-1925

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War Production

During both World Wars the Blaenavon Company was involved in Government

work. During World War I the works was engaged in the manufacture of shell steel

as one of the Government's "Controlled Establishments".

Henry White & Co. Ltd., Engineers, Pontymister, advertised themselves as

manufacturers of steel, iron, phosphor, bronze and brass castings. They were on the

Admiralty list, Contractors for the Crown, and Agents for the Colonies. Some

employees were eligible to wear a War Service Badge showing that they were

employed on work for War purposes; the badges were accompanied by a card

signed by Lloyd George.

War Service Badge and Certificate, Henry White & Co., Pontymister

D394/B3/- Certificates authorising 23 employees of Henry

White & Co., Pontymister, to wear War Service

badges (together with several badges)

1915-1916

D480/67 Notice to Debenture stock holders of an issue of

stock to be held by the Government as collateral

security for a loan to finance extensions to the

Blaenavon Company’s works (as one of the

Government's "controlled establishments")

1918

A110/C/3168 Newport Borough Council Education file -

record of war work performed in schools

1915-1918

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Military Service

A110/C/3169

Newport Borough Council Education file -

Military Service (Teachers and Pupils). Includes

photographs

1914-1922

D709/57 Newport Constabulary. Correspondence file,

Police and Military Service

1914-1919

D262/21 Monmouth School. List of ‚Old Monmouthians‛

serving with H.M. Army and Navy 1915. Also

circular letter re proposed memorial to Old

Monmouthians who fell during the War, with

particulars, 1919

1915, 1919

D1348/23 Poster giving notice of Abergavenny Borough

Librarian's replacement while he was on active

military service, and warning re misconduct of

"lads"

1915

Letter to Mrs Humphreys of Newport from her son Percy while a prisoner of war

MISC MSS 2074 Letter to Mrs. Humphreys of Newport from her

son Percy while a prisoner of war in Zerbost,

Anhalt, Germany

1918

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D1147/6 War Diary of 10th Service Bn. The South Wales

Borderers (1st Gwents) –typed copy from the

library of Ebbw Vale Literary and Scientific

Institute

1915-1918

D3345/98 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract of account

by Private O.G. Hedges, R.A.M.C., of retreat

from Mons

18/12/1914

D396/329 Account (typescript) of capture, imprisonment

and escape of Cpl. Lovell Jolliffe, 1st Mon. Regt.,

with map (Germany) and photos of Jollliffe. [He

escaped to Holland, arriving at Lutte, near

Oldenzaal]

1915

A320/C/314 Anonymous diary of soldier in France. (The

soldier may have been in the 3rd

Monmouthshire Regiment. The diary describes

his journey from Blaina, Monmouthshire, to the

front line near Ypres - Zillebeke, etc)

1914-1915

MISC MSS 1272/15-

19 and 1272/13

Personal papers of Sgt. Richard Richards of

Ebbw Vale: photograph, letters from France,

newscuttings, discharge and disability pension

papers. Includes (MISC MSS 1272/16) letter from

France, to "Jack" from "Dick" (Richard Richards

of Ebbw Vale, South Wales Borderers) January

1916 describing conditions in the trenches of

Neuve Chapelle. (‚Everything is mud from

head to foot.‛) Also (MISC MSS 1272/13) photo

of Sergeant Richard Richards in group at Heaton

Park, Manchester, 1918 (elsewhere noted,

wounded on 10th July 1916 at Mametz Wood,

Somme, with Welsh Division)

1916-1924

D5963 The Letters of Private William O’Brien (a former

police constable in Abersychan who enlisted in

the Grenadier Guards)

1915-1917

D6360 Oliver Barnes of Pontypool, gunner/bombardier

in Royal Field Artillery, First World War.

Postcards/photographs, barrage tables,

discharge certificate etc

c.1915-1919

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D6313 Audio recordings of Irving H. Jones, soldier of

First World War – 4 hours of recollections.

(Battle of the Somme, Mametz Wood, removal

from war for being under age, court martial,

working reserve, return to the army)

1985-1987

MISC MSS 2108 Photo (?) of group of British soldiers, prisoners

of war

1918

MISC MSS 2142 Photocopies of Army service records of Ben

Augustus Jones, Welsh Regiment of Artillery

1914-1921

MISC MSS 1626 Photos of military funeral, Newport c.1914-1918

D433A/11/1 War Office certificate (copy) re death of Hon.

Arthur Middleton Kinnaird

11 July 1918

D554/91 Diary of Col. J.A. Bradney as Agricultural

Officer, and correspondence

1917-1918

D554/92 Field message book of Col. J.A. Bradney

1917-1918

D554/168 J. A. Bradney photographs. (Also see catalogue

D554 in general)

D554/91 Colours of Welsh Regiment and Welsh Guards

(from papers of Sir Joseph Bradney relating to

1st World War) on silk?

20th century

MISC MSS 1327 Personal reminiscences of W.H. Alderman of

service in Royal Gloucestershire Hussars

Yeomanry in Egypt

1908-1918

MISC MSS 1701/5 Photo of tank "Egbert" and crew at

Aberbargoed. ‚Egbert‛, a ‚Mark IV‛ tank, was

in action at the battle of Cambrai on the Western

Front, and subsequently travelled around

England and Wales as an aid to raising money

for War Savings Certificates to help to fund the

war. In 1919, ‚Egbert‛ was presented to West

Hartlepool as a thank you for raising over

£2,000,000 in War Bonds, and was displayed

there

3/7/1918

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for many years but was sent for scrap metal

during World War II

CEA167/14 Aerial Reconnaissance photograph of German

trenches at Quéant (copy). (Found inside

admission register for Blaina Boys' School. Also

explanatory letter from Imperial War Museum

to Gwent Archives, 1998)

1917

D1348/73 Two Photographs: Senior NCOs,

Monmouthshire Regiment, possibly at Sophia

Gardens, Cardiff, c.1913; large group of Boy

Scouts, Boys' Brigade, Cadets of the

Monmouthshire Regiment, with senior officers,

post-1912

c.1913

D1348/59 Poster appealing for men to join a regiment of

horse (undated, post 1901)

no date

D5948 Honourable Discharge certificate for Private

Ernest Arthur Bond of Cwm (Royal Berkshire

Regiment) – ‘served with honour and was

disabled in the Great War’

1916

DPA 111/68 Panteg Church Scouts Patrols Roll Book with

notes as to fate of the boys in 1st World War

1910-1918

DPA 84/19 Griffithstown, list of servicemen and addresses c.1914-1918

D6349/1 Field Service postcard from J. Marsh (with

records of Powell family of Pontllanfraith)

1918

Local Military Tribunals, National Registration and Exemption from

Military Service

The Military Service Acts, 1916-1918, created tribunals to hear appeals for exemption

from military service. Applications for exemption included the name and address of

the person’s employer and the grounds on which the application was made; these

could include employment in essential trades, financial hardship, or conscientious

reasons.

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CSWBGC/M5/71 Military Service Act 1916: Chepstow Tribunal

Minute Book

1916-1918

A320/C/314, 316-339 Records of Brynmawr Local Tribunal

(Correspondence, register, and case papers)

1914-1918

D4279 Military Tribunal records (Newport,

Aberbargoed and Cwmbran areas). Case records

- Lloyd and Pratt, solicitors (applications for

exemption from military service) for cases heard

by Aberbargoed, Cwmbran, Llantarnam,

Newport, Pontnewydd and County Appeals

Tribunals

1916-1918

D6100/2 Nantyglo and Blaina UDC, Minute Book of

Local Tribunal Committee and Food Control

Committee

1916-1920

LL/COFP/9 Lieutenancy Correspondence on Commission of

Peace (includes lists of members appointed to

Local Tribunals in Monmouthshire)

1911-1919

D3132/68 Circular from 10 Downing Street thanking

tribunals for their efforts during the conflict

with Germany

1919

D4165/64 Certificate of exemption from military service,

Edward Hockey

1917

A320/C/314 Brynmawr UDC correspondence file. (Includes 2

notices re National Registration Act 1915: a

general notice from the Registrar General, and

one by Brynmawr UDC asking for voluntary

assistance in the compilation of the national

register so far as it relates to Brynmawr UD -

'this work can adequately and well be done by

women')

1915

CSWBGM/C/8 National Registration Act 1915: Enumerator’s

memorandum book, parish of Dixton. Printed

instructions, and handwritten list of names.

(With miscellaneous papers of Monmouth

Board of Guardians Assessment Committee)

Aug. 1915

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Support for the Forces

Ambulance presented by Lady Llangattock and the Ladies of Monmouthshire

A510/C/294 Photograph of ambulance presented by Lady

Llangattock and the Ladies of Monmouthshire

for use in France

1915

D1583/282/2 Notice re motor ambulance cars for the army in

France (with letter 10 Jan 1916). (With records of

Nantyglo & Blaina Ironworks Co. Ltd)

1915

D396/328 Chepstow and District Prisoners of War Fund.

Instructions from J. Lawrence to Bert Lewis re

contents of parcel to be sent and preparation of

the "big room" for a meeting

11/11/1915

D3349/1 Cwm Patriotic Fund Registration Book

1914-1918

D314/48, 49 Machen Reception Committee for returning

servicemen, Minute Books and letters re war

memorial

1915-1922,

1934-1935

D1447/1 Newport Savings Committee, Minute book

1916-1919

A110/20B/253 Newport Fire Brigade Drill Book including (at

back of volume) register of ‘attendances on

wounded soldiers’ 1916-1918 (firemen are

named, but not soldiers)

1911-1933

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D4165/63 Letter from E.S. Williams (soldier) to Primrose

Hockey thanking her for gifts sent to front line

1915

A230/M2/13 Pontllanfraith Prisoners of War and Emergency

Fund Minute Book

1916-1924

D385/95, 96 Rogerstone Sailors and Soldiers Reception

Committee, correspondence and accounts

1916-1933

D385/9,10 Rogerstone Sailors and Soldiers Reception

Committee and War Memorial Committee

Minute Books

1917-1932

D385/14 Rogerstone Sailors and Soldiers Reception

Committee, draft minutes

1919-1921

Absent Voters’ Lists

These were compiled under the Representation of the People Act 1918 to allow

postal voting for service men and women absent on war service. The voters were

registered at their usual home address. The details given included regiment or ship

(etc.) and service number.

C/ABSENT

VOTERS

Absent Voters' Lists for the Parliamentary

Constituency of Monmouthshire (Abertillery,

Bedwellty, Ebbw Vale, Monmouth and

Pontypool divisions). A name index is available

for the Monmouth division.

[The Newport area is not included; these returns

are held by Newport Reference Library]

1918-1935

Hospitals

On the outbreak of war, beds for wounded soldiers and sailors were allocated by the

Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, and Pontypool Hospital. The first wounded

soldiers to be admitted were Belgians. As the war continued, the number of beds

available increased but this affected the facilities available for civilian patients. The

Newport Section of the 3rd Western General Hospital, Cardiff, was established at

Woolaston House (part of Newport Workhouse) under the control of the Territorial

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forces. Red Cross Hospitals and Convalescent Homes were also established

throughout the county.

CSWBGB/M2/35 Bedwellty Board of Guardians, Military

Occupation and Auxiliary Hospital Committees

1918-1920

CSWBGB/M5/68 Bedwellty Board of Guardians, Ty Bryn

Auxiliary Military Hospital, Admission and

Discharge Book. Begins 30 October 1918. Details

include: name, age, religion, regiment etc.,

regimental no., rank, completed years of service,

disease (e.g. bomb wound, bullet wound,

G.S.W., trench fever), admission and discharge

dates, result (e.g."discharged to duty"). Also see

printed general instructions at beginning of the

book. On the first page, the inmates are all

marked "Ex 3rd W.G.H. Cardiff" indicating they

were transferred from the Third Western

General Hospital, in Cardiff, although there was

also a Newport Section of the Hospital - see

below

1918-1919

D5532 List of military patients attending Gwy House

Red Cross Hospital, Chepstow (not a complete

list of patients at the hospital)

1915-1918

Pictorial/EbbwVale/

15

Photograph of Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron and Coal

Co. staff (including nurses and convalescent

soldiers from Ebbw Vale House Red Cross

Hospital)

1917

CSWBGN/C/25 Newport Board of Guardians, Miscellaneous

papers relating to the military occupation of

Woolaston House, Newport. Including

arrangements for the use of the building,

contract with War Office, and post-war claim for

dilapidation of the buildings

1915-1920

D3345/64 Third Western General Hospital (Newport

Section) (part of the main TA Military Hospital,

Cardiff). Photograph of Commanding Officer,

medical officers and staff. The photo shows

RAMC officers and men, women from Queen

c.June 1918

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Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service,

and Red Cross VAD nurses. See also D3345/63,

letter relating to this. (Part of a collection of Red

Cross and Hospital Records)

D3345/63 Letter from donor re 3rd Western General

Hospital photograph. (See D3345/64)

1995

D3345/89 South Wales Argus. Extract, report of Newport

Board of Guardians' meeting on conversion of

Woolaston House into a military hospital

29/03/1915

D3345/90 South Wales Argus. Extract, report on Char-a-

Banc excursions for wounded soldiers from the

Newport section of the General Hospital at

Woolaston House (St. Woolos Hospital)

11/12/1915

D3345/91 South Wales Argus. Extract, report on arrival of

more wounded soldiers at Woolaston War

Hospital

29/07/1916

D3345/92 South Wales Argus. Extract, report on Australians

leaving the 3rd Western General Hospital for a

new hospital

21/10/1916

D3345/93 South Wales Argus. Extract, report on concert for

sick and wounded at Woolaston War Hospital,

Newport

19/02/1916

D3293/A/9-14 Annual Reports of the Royal Gwent Hospital

1914-1919

MISC MSS 1686 Brynglas House, Newport, as a Red Cross

Hospital: copy photos. (Photocopies, poor

quality)

D3345/60-62 Letter from donor re identification of Baldwin's

Military Hospital as Panteg House. Enclosing

photocopy of drawing from diary dated 7 Feb

1915 and letter of 21 July 1995 to the Curator,

Museum and Library of the order of St John on

Baldwin's Military Hospital and the autograph

album of Miss Mary Bond

1995

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D3345/111 Certified copy of autograph album kept by Miss

Mary Bond V.A.D. with St. John's Ambulance

Brigade, Pontypool Division, with contributions

from wounded soldiers at Panteg House

1916-1919

D3345/67-69 Letter from donor enclosing postcard of

Pontypool Hospital [undated] and The Free

Press of Monmouthshire, 13 Feb 1914, report of

the 10th Annual Meeting, Pontypool and

District Hospital

1995

D3345/86 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract on wounded

Belgian soldiers at Pontypool

30/10/1914

D3345/87 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract of report on

Pontypool & District Hospital meeting of the

annual Court of Governors

12/02/1915

D3345/88 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract of letter of

thanks from Private Henry Lucas, Belgian

soldier, former patient at Pontypool and District

Hospital

18/06/1915

D3345/85 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract on reception

of wounded soldiers

23/10/1914

D3345/94 South Wales Argus. "Notes by the Way", extract

29/07/1916

D3345/95 South Wales Argus. Extract of report on Lord

Llangattock being wounded

04/11/1916

D3345/96 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract of report on

hospital on Western Front being struck by

German shell

13/11/1914

D3345/97 Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract "A Nasty

Dig in the Ribs"

11/12/1914

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The Red Cross

D3293/B/1-6 Monmouthshire Branch (mainly Newport

Division) of the British Red Cross: photocopies

of reports etc. concerning its activities

1915-1918

D3345/82 Photocopy of A Summary of the History and the

Work of the British Red Cross Society

D3345/80 News Review of the British Red Cross Society,

Red Cross Centenary 1863-1963

D3345/81 The British Red Cross Society, 1870-1970. A brief

history and account of current activities.

(Offprint from Health, issue of autumn 1970)

1970

Library (LIB/297) The History of the Red Cross in Monmouthshire

1910-1918, Robin Jones. (Includes chapters on

local hospitals, convalescent homes, Red Cross

depots, motor ambulances, prisoners of war,

Belgian refugees)

1988

War Memorials and Rolls of Honour

Message in a bottle, Penallt War Memorial

Gwent Archives Reference: D6012

D6012 Penallt War Memorial: bottle containing details

of the memorial and list of names

commemorated (found inside the memorial)

1921

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D1348/38 Abergavenny War Memorial: Committee's

recommendations

1919

DPA 19/36 Abersychan parish, roll of honour

c. 1916

D2824/6 War Memorial, Abersychan and Pontypool -

booklet re ceremony, including names inscribed

on memorial

1924

A320/C/152 Brynmawr UDC Clerk’s correspondence file re

War Memorial funds

1926-1950

Library (LIB/267) Caerwent's Book of Remembrance ed. John

Nettleship (photocopy of original volume)

1997

MISC MSS 2047 Name Index to Cwm World War I dead

2002

D6369 List of First World War casualties, Cwm district

(W. J. Powell)

D6387 Book of Remembrance for Ebbw Vale, Beaufort,

Victoria, Waunlwyd and Cwm 1914-1918.

1922

DPA 106/46,47 Plans for entrance gateway to recreation ground

at Govilon (war memorial)

1921

DPA 71/28 Faculty for memorial tablet, Goytre

1921

D420/35 Invitations to unveiling of war memorial at

Graig and order of service

1924

DPA 29/24 Faculty for memorial tablet, Llanarth

1919

DPA 37/18-19 Faculties for memorial tablets, Llandenny

1919

A422/C/3 Llanfrechfa Upper UDC, Papers re War

Memorial

1918-1925

D1970/24 Llanover, names of local men killed in the war

1914-1918

DPA 143/72 Rolls of Honour, Machen parish

1914-1917

D1536/4 Mathern, Correspondence re War Memorial 1919-1942

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D4518/6 Mathern, Correspondence re War Memorial

1920-1996

MISC MSS 2013 Millennium Book of Remembrance, Community

of Mathern, Mounton and St. Pierre

2000

CD (Library/Box 1) Monmouthshire Roll of Honour: casualties and those

who returned. GFHS Newport Branch

D1012/34 New Inn Congregational Church,

correspondence including burial ground

regulations and Imperial War Graves

Commission

1925-1929

D3518/29 Newport Roll of Honour 1914-1918

D1884/73 Newport Roll of Honour 1914-1918

DPA 82/58 St Pauls Church, Newport, Record Book

(includes Roll of Honour)

A230/T/21 Pontllanfraith War Memorial Committee,

memorandum of agreement

1924

DPA 39/57 Faculty for oak altar as war memorial,

Pontnewynydd church

1923

DPA 39/56 Pontnewynydd, memorial tablet to Sapper

E.E.O. Parsons

1917

DPA 94/50 Risca, correspondence with Imperial War

Graves Commission

1936-1937

D385/10 Rogerstone War Memorial Committee Minutes

1923-1932

D385/15 Rogerstone Memorial Committee, draft minutes

1921-1924

D2191/199 Charity Commission Accounts of the War

Memorial Hall Charity, Rumney

1927-1950

Library (LIB/287) Roll of Honour, First World War (Tredegar)

compiled by G. B. Meredith and G Sadler

1999

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DPA 13/73 2 Bn. Mon. Regt., Order of Service for unveiling

and dedication of memorial 1914-1918 at

Trevethin church. (Includes history of the

regiment)

1923

DPA 13/74 Trevethin parish. Order of service and memorial

2 Bn. Mon. Regt. (Includes history of its service

in N.W. Europe)

1951

DPA 13/61 and 66 Plan of regimental war memorial, 2 Bn. Mon.

Regt., in Trevethin church, and faculty for

memorial window

1921

D554/159 Printed booklet, Pozières Memorial, France

(published by Imperial War Commission). - Part

1 containing names "Abbis" to "Breen" including

entry for 2nd Lieut. W. Bradney, Tank Corps,

killed March 1918

1928

D766/56 Memorial booklet, 2nd Bn. Mon Regt

1914-1918

D766/55 Minute Book, War Memorial and Provisional

Committee, 1st Bn Mon Regt T.A.

1919-1929

D1348/60 Poster, Battle of Ypres Memorial Service 1920

Peace Celebrations

D2758/3 (Photocopy) Order of Service for peace

celebration at Carmel Congregational Chapel,

Beaufort. (Contains list of men killed or died of

wounds, from Beaufort, Ebbw Vale and Waun

Llwyd districts)

1919

D396/330 Programme - official peace celebrations,

Chepstow

July 1919

DPA 90/94 Christchurch, Ebbw Vale, Peace Celebrations

programme. (Also includes Roll of Honour for

men killed or died while serving, from Beaufort,

Ebbw Vale and Waunllwyd districts)

1919

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D385/97, 98 Rogerstone, correspondence re Peace

Celebrations, etc

1919

After the War

The watchword now is ‘Reconstruction’

After years of mad destruction

(from a poem about the Monmouthshire County Council election, 1919)

C/LG/C/39 Poem re Monmouthshire County Council

election (in correspondence file)

1919

D1398/23 Caerleon College magazine ‚The Isca‛, memorial

magazine re 1st World War

1920

D43/7229 (M421.3) Statement made by the Clerk of the Subsidiary

Drainage Committee as to arrangements made

between the committee and the Monmouthshire

War Agricultural Executive for the supply of

German prisoners of war to work on the

subsidiary ditches and supplemental drainage

on the Caldicot and Wentlooge levels

1918-1919

D554/176 Photograph albums of Margaretta (‘Madge’)

Bradney including post-war northern France

and Belgium (St. Pol camp, cemeteries, ruins);

transportation of the ‘Unknown Soldier’ on

HMS Verdun; War Office

c.1917-1921

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Books

Library (LIB/1430) A Dictionary of Great War Abbreviations Howard Williamson

1996

Library (LIB/1433) A History of the 38th (Welsh) Division Lieut.-Colonel J. E. Munby

[1920] 1991

Library (LIB/269) Army Records with special reference to Wales (Photocopies) Clive

Hughes 1991

Library (reference

shelf)

Army Service Records of the First World War Public Record Office

(Simon Fowler, William Spencer and Stuart Tamblin) 1996

Library (LIB/1620) Blaenavon and the First World War, 1914-1918. A Welsh Industrial

Town at War, Home and Abroad (Blaenavon Community

Heritage Museum) 2014

Library (LIB/1435) British Battalions on the Somme 1916 Ray Westlake 1998

Library (LIB/274) Call to Arms: a Valley History W.G. Lloyd [Boer War and its

aftermath] 1999

Library (LIB/1448) Charlie’s War, 1914-1918 Keith Heare 2000

Library (LIB/1429) Death Sentences passed by military courts of the British Army 1914-

1924 Gerard Oram (ed. Julian Putkowski) 1998

Library (LIB/1437) Divisional and Other Signs V. Wheeler-Holohan [1920] 1992

Library (LIB/282) First World War Graves and Memorials in Gwent (volume 1) Ray

Westlake 2001

Library (LIB/283) First World War Graves and Memorials in Gwent (volume 2) Ray

Westlake 2002

Library (LIB/1158) Heritage. A History of Ebbw Vale (volume 1) Keith Thomas 2000.

(Includes a chapter about Ebbw Vale House, pp. 145-156, with

a description of its use as a Red Cross Hospital WWI. Includes

photo of Ebbw Vale Co. car taking wounded soldiers for a day

out)

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Library (LIB/1431) History of the Great War. Order of Battle of Divisions: Part 2A; The

Territorial Force Mounted Divisions and the 1st-Line Territorial

Force Divisions (42-56) Major A. F. Becke [1936] 1987

Library (LIB/1465) History of the Royal Gwent Hospital 1839-1948 T. Baker-Jones and

W. J. T. Collins 1948

Library (LIB/285) Honours and Awards. Army, Navy and Air Force 1914-1920 pub.

J. B. Hayward & Son 1979

Library (LIB/666) How to Trace your First World War Ancestors Michael Paterson

(small booklet) 2007

Library (LIB/272) John Williams VC: A biography W. G. Lloyd 1993

Library (LIB/1439) List of British Officers Taken Prisoner in the Various Theatres of War

between August 1914 and November 1918 (Anon.) [1919] 1998

Library (LIB/996) Local Authorities in War-time W. Ivor Jennings (1940, but has

references to earlier legislation)

Library (LIB/1321) Naval Records for Genealogists (Public Record Office Handbook

no. 22) N. A. M. Rodger 1988

Library (LIB/1195) Newport Ghosts and the Great War 1914-1918 David Ashwin 2009

Library (LIB/1440) Officers Died in the Great War 1914-1919: Part I. old and new

armies. Part II. Territorial force. (Anon.) [1919] 1979

Library (LIB/1603) Old Soldiers Never Die Frank Richards

Library (LIB/1480) Peace Celebration at Central Hall, Ebbw Vale 1919 with associated

list of men from the area who died in WWI

Library (LIB/1322) RAF Records in the PRO (PRO Readers' Guide no. 8) Simon

Fowler, Peter Elliott, Roy Conyers Nesbit, Christina Goulter.

1994

Library (LIB/1348) Researching Local History: the Human Journey Michael A.

Williams (see especially pages 22, 28-29, 33-34, 51, 107) 1996

Library (LIB/275) Roll of Honour - a study of the impact of World War One on the lives

of the population of Monmouthshire's "Eastern Valley" W. G. Lloyd

1995

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Library (LIB/1436) Shot at Dawn: Executions in World War One by authority of the

British Army Act Putkowski and Sykes 1989

Library (LIB/280) Some records of the Royal Monmouthshire Militia [background of

militia in Monmouthshire] W. F. N. Noel 1886

Library (reference

shelf)

The First World War. The Essential Guide to sources in the UK

National Archives Ian F. W. Beckett (Public Record Office) 2002

Library (LIB/1426) The Gwent County History. Volume 5, the Twentieth Century C.

Williams and A. Croll (eds.) 2013

Library (LIB/1578) The Hell They Called High Wood: The Somme 1916 Terry Norman

Library (LIB/1434) The Naval Who’s Who 1917 [1917] 1981

Library (LIB/266) The New Imperial War Museum (IWM Guide) 1992

Library (LIB/300) The Royal Gwent and St. Woolos Hospitals, a Century of Service in

Newport Brian Peeling. (Includes a description of the care of

wartime casualties in Newport 1914-1918, pp. 24-28; also

mentions other areas.) 2004

Library (LIB/265) The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) (brochure) 1989

Library (LIB/279) The Story of the Monmouthshire Volunteer Artillery Capt. John

More and Col. W. L. C. Phillips 1958

Library (LIB/1432) The Territorial Force 1914 Ray Westlake 1988

Library (LIB/1484) The Unending Vigil Philip Longworth [The story of the

Imperial/Commonwealth War Graves Commission] 1985

Library (LIB/1232) Usk at War: the town and neighbourhood from earliest times until

1945 Jan Barrow 2006

Library (LIB/1478) World War One; 29 December 1915 [booklet listing 41 casualties

buried at Ferme-Olivier War Cemetery] John Powell 2015

Library (LIB/1616) 'Young Men to Arms!' The First World War in the Crickhowell

District Geoffrey Williams and Ryland Wallace 2016

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Articles

Gwent Local History Journal (G.L.H.)

Library (LIB/557) The Memoir of the final advance and march into Germany 1918, by

Sgt. W .G. Sweet, late 2nd Bn, Monmouthshire Regiment, ed.

Barry Johnson (G.L.H. no. 66 pp. 9-36) 1989

Library (LIB/558) The Tragedy of the Cwmyoy Prisoner, by Cecil Granville (G.L.H.

no. 75 p.25) 1993

Library (LIB/560) First World War Graves and Memorials in Gwent, by Ray

Westlake (G.L.H. no. 100 pp. 63-69) 2006

Library (LIB/560) Sergeant J.H. Spencer of Cwmgelli, Blackwood, by Ray Westlake

(G.L.H. no.102 pp.35-39) 2007

Library (LIB/561) Heroes of the Great War at St Michael and All Angels Church,

Llantarnam, by Ray Westlake (G.L.H. no.104 pp.32-36) 2008

Library (LIB/561) Remembering in Gwent, by Ray Westlake (G.L.H. no. 111 pp.69-

78)

Library The Skenfrith War Memorial 12 December 1920 - 12 December 2010,

by Diana Stainforth (G.L.H. no. 115 pp.55-70)

Miscellaneous

MISC MSS 2121 Research Paper on Chepstow's Gun by Bryan Rendell.

[Chepstow's gun was presented by King George V in

recognition of the bravery of William Charles Williams VC at

Gallipoli. The paper is a history of the gun and the boat from

which it came.] 2007

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USEFUL WEBSITES

The National Archives First World War website

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/first-world-war/

British Library website http://www.bl.uk/world-war-one

BBC – First World War http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww1

Cymru’n Cofio/Wales Remembers http://www.walesremembers.org/

The Western Front Association http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/

Commonwealth War Graves Commission http://www.cwgc.org/

Imperial War Museum http://www.iwm.org.uk/

First World War Centenary http://www.1914.org/

The Great War 1914-1918 http://www.greatwar.co.uk/

No Glory in War 1914-1918 http://www.noglory.org/

Women’s Work 100 http://www.1914.org/womenswork100/

Discover the Legacy of the First World War in Wales (Welsh Archaeological Trusts)

http://www.ggat.org.uk/cadw/first_world_war/index.html

British Red Cross in the First World War http://www.redcross.org.uk/About-

us/Who-we-are/History-and-origin/First-World-War

Caring on the Home Front: St John Ambulance and the British Red Cross

http://caringonthehomefront.org.uk/about/about.htm

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