The First World War
A Handlist of Records at Gwent Archives
Sergeant Richard Richards in a group at Heaton Park, Manchester, 1918
This is 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 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)
D3213
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 in 1914.)
Photo of Volunteers in Twyn Square, Usk
2005
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 October 1914. Refugee
communities were established in many parts of the county.
D3293/B/1
MISC MSS 1487
Report of the Newport (Mon.) Belgian
Refugees Committee and Forty other Belgian
Refugees Committees in Monmouthshire &
Neighbourhood (printed booklet)
Report re Belgian refugees at Mathern
Palace. (Photocopy)
D314/45, 46, 47
Belgian Refugee Relief Fund, Machen. Minute
book, accounts and correspondence.
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.)
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.)
CEA 80/6
Dec 1915
1914
1914-1918
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
A120/C/219
A120/C/220
A510/M2/1
Nantyglo and Blaina UDC, Committee for the
Prevention and Relief of Distress (War Relief
Committee), Minute Book
Caerleon UDC Correspondence file re War
Charities
Caerleon UDC Correspondence file re War
Charities Act 1916
Abergavenny Local Food Control Committee
Minute Book
Aug-Oct
1914
1916-1917
1926-1927
1917-1920
D4264
(see catalogue for
individual
references)
MISC MSS 1638
MISC MSS 1639
D586/39
DPA 13/88
D975/1
CSWBGN/M2/52
CSWBGN/M2/81
D1651/30
Pictorial/Newport
90
A320/C/314
Ministry of Food publications etc.
(The National Food Journal, Ministry of Food
weekly bulletins and other publications. Also
Usk Food Control Committee correspondence,
etc.)
Ration books, Newport
Ration book, Newport Co-op
Food ration cards for persons at Upper House
Farm, Grosmont
Royal Proclamation re economy in use of grain
Newport Year Book (includes photo of
“Distribution of Hot Pots, Christmas 1914”).
Newport Board of Guardians, Emergency
Committee Minute Book
1917-1920
1918
1918
1918-1919
1917
1916
1914-1918
Newport Board of Guardians, Monmouthshire
War Relief Committee, Sub-Committee
Minutes
Programme, Newport Empire, Charles Street,
Newport
Photograph of Lloyd George at Shaftesbury
Park, Newport
1914
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
1917
1917
Public Order
D709/1
D709/47
D2113/23
D2113/57
Newport Constabulary. Watch Committee
Report Book.
Newport Constabulary. Police Order Book.
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.)
Sergeant's Journal, Griffithstown Police.
(Journal of Charles Nurden referring to
apprehension of deserters etc. Also see the
other journals in this series.)
1916-1925
1909-1919
1914-1918
1914-1915
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
CEA52/3
CEA167/7
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.”
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.”
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.)
1899-1920
1902-1921
1903-1925
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/-
D480/67
A110/C/3168
Certificates authorising 23 employees of
Henry White & Co., Pontymister, to wear War
Service badges (together with several
badges)
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").
Newport Borough Council Education file record of war work performed in schools
1915-1916
Newport Borough Council Education file Military Service (Teachers and Pupils).
Includes photographs.
Newport Constabulary. Correspondence file,
Police and Military Service.
1914-1922
1918
1915-1918
Military Service
A110/C/3169
D709/57
D262/21
D1348/23
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.
Poster giving notice of Abergavenny Borough
Librarian's replacement while he was on
active military service, and warning re
misconduct of "lads".
1914-1919
1915, 1919
1915
The Forces
Letter to Mrs. Humphreys of Newport from her son Percy while a prisoner of war
D1147/6
War Diary of 10th Service Bn. The South
Wales Borderers (1st Gwents)
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. [Cpl. Jolliffe escaped to Holland,
arriving at Lutte, near Oldenzaal.]
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.).
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. (The letter
describes 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).
A320/C/314
MISC MSS
1272/15-19 and
1272/13
1915
1914-1915
1916-1924
MISC MSS 2074
MISC MSS 2108
MISC MSS 1626
Letter to Mrs. Humphreys of Newport from
her son Percy while a prisoner of war in
Zerbost, Anhalt, Germany
Photo (?) of group of British soldiers,
prisoners of war
Photos of military funeral, Newport
1918
1918
c.19141918
D554/91
Diary of Col. J.A. Bradney as Agricultural
Officer, and correspondence.
1917-1918
D554/92
D554/168
Field message book of Col. J.A. Bradney
J. A. Bradney photographs. (Also see
catalogue D554 in general)
Colours of Welsh Regiment and Welsh Guards
(from papers of Sir Joseph Bradney relating to
1st World War) on silk?
1917-1918
Personal reminiscences of W.H. Alderman of
service in Royal Gloucestershire Hussars
Yeomanry in Egypt.
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 million in War Bonds, and
was displayed there for many years but was
sent for scrap metal during the Second World
War.
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.)
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.
Poster appealing for men to join a regiment of
horse (undated, post 1901).
1908-1918
D554/91
MISC MSS 1327
MISC MSS 1701/5
CEA167/14
D1348/73
D1348/59
20th
century
3/7/1918
1917
c.1913
no date
D5948
Honourable Discharge certificate for Ernest
Bond of Cwm (Royal Berkshire Regiment)
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.19141918
Support for the Forces
Ambulance presented by Lady Llangattock and the Ladies of Monmouthshire
A510/C/294
D1583/282/2
D396/328
D3349/1
D314/48, 49
D1447/1
D4165/63
Photograph of ambulance presented by Lady
Llangattock and the Ladies of Monmouthshire
for use in France
Notice re motor ambulance cars for the army
in France (with letter 10 Jan 1916). (With
records of Nantyglo & Blaina Ironworks Co.
Ltd.)
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.
Cwm Patriotic Fund Registration Book
Machen Reception Committee for returning
servicemen, Minute Books and letters re war
memorial
Newport Savings Committee, Minute book
Letter from E.S. Williams (soldier) to Primrose
Hockey thanking her for gifts sent to front line
1915
1915
11/11/1915
1914-1918
1915-1922,
1934-1935
1916-1919
1915
A230/M2/13
Pontllanfraith Prisoners of War and Emergency 1916-1924
Fund Minute Book
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
Rogerstone Sailors and Soldiers Reception
Committee, draft minutes
1917-1932
D385/14
1919-1921
Local Military Tribunals 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.
CSWBGC/M5/71
Military Service Act 1916: Chepstow Tribunal
Minute Book
1916-1918
A320/C/314, 316339
D4279
Records of Brynmawr Local Tribunal
(Correspondence, register, and case papers.)
Military Tribunal records (Newport,
Aberbargoed and Cwmbran areas). Case
records - Lloyd and Pratt, solicitors
(applications for exemption from military
service) relating to cases heard by
Aberbargoed, Cwmbran, Llantarnam,
Newport, Pontnewydd and County Appeals
Tribunal.
Lieutenancy Correspondence on Commission
of Peace (includes lists of members appointed
to Local Tribunals in Monmouthshire)
Circular from 10 Downing Street thanking
tribunals for their efforts during the conflict
with Germany
Certificate of exemption from military service,
Edward Hockey
1914-1918
LL/COFP/9
D3132/68
D4165/64
1916-1918
1911-1919
1919
1917
Absent Voters’ Lists
These were compiled under the Representation of the People Act 1918 to allow
postal voting for service men and women still serving abroad. 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 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.
Photograph of Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron and Coal
Co. staff (including nurses and convalescent
soldiers from Ebbw Vale House Red Cross
Hospital)
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
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 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.
1918-1919
Pictorial/EbbwVale
15
CSWBGN/C/25
D3345/64
1917
1915-1920
c.June 1918
D3345/63
Letter from donor re 3rd Western General
Hospital photograph. (See D3345/64.)
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-aBanc 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.
South Wales Argus. Extract, report on
Australians leaving the 3rd Western General
Hospital for a new hospital.
South Wales Argus. Extract, report on concert
for sick and wounded at Woolaston War
Hospital, Newport.
Annual Reports of the Royal Gwent Hospital
Brynglas House, Newport, as a Red Cross
Hospital: copy photos. (Photocopies, poor
quality.)
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.
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
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.
Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract on
wounded Belgian soldiers at Pontypool.
29/07/1916
D3345/92
D3345/93
D3293/A/9-14
MISC MSS 1686
D3345/60-62
D3345/111
D3345/67-69
D3345/86
1995
21/10/1916
19/02/1916
1914-1919
1995
1916-1919
1995
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.
South Wales Argus. Extract of report on Lord
Llangattock being wounded.
29/07/1916
Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract of
report on hospital on Western Front being
struck by German shell.
Free Press of Monmouthshire. Extract "A
Nasty Dig in the Ribs".
13/11/1914
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.)
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.)
D3345/95
D3345/96
D3345/97
04/11/1916
11/12/1914
The Red Cross
Library (LIB 297)
1970
1988
War Memorials and Rolls of Honour
D1348/38
Abergavenny War Memorial: Committee's
recommendations.
DPA 19/36
D2824/6
Abersychan parish, roll of honour
War Memorial Abersychan and Pontypool booklet re ceremony including names
inscribed on memorial
Brynmawr UDC Clerk’s correspondence file re
War Memorial funds
Caerwent's Book of Remembrance ed. John
Nettleship (photocopy of original volume)
Name Index to Cwm World War I dead
Plans for entrance gateway to recreation
ground at Govilon (war memorial)
A320/C/152
Library (LIB 267)
MISC MSS 2047
DPA 106/46,47
DPA 71/28
Faculty for memorial tablet, Goytre
1919
c. 1916
1924
1926-1950
1997
2002
1921
1921
D420/35
Invitations to unveiling of war memorial at
Graig and order of service
DPA 29/24
DPA 37/18-19
A422/C/3
Faculty for memorial tablet, Llanarth
Faculties for memorial tablets, Llandenny
Llanfrechfa Upper UDC, Papers re War
Memorial
Llanover, names of local men killed in the war
Rolls of Honour, Machen parish
Mathern, Correspondence re War Memorial
Mathern, Correspondence re War Memorial
Millennium Book of Remembrance,
Community of Mathern, Mounton and St.
Pierre
New Inn Congregational Church, burial ground
regulations and Imperial War Graves
Commission
Newport Roll of Honour 1914-1918
Newport Roll of Honour 1914-1918
St Pauls Church, Newport, Record Book.
(Includes Roll of Honour.)
Pontllanfraith War Memorial Committee,
memorandum of agreement
D1970/24
DPA 143/72
D1536/4
D4518/6
MISC MSS 2013
D1012/34
D3518/29
D1884/73
DPA 82/58
A230/T/21
1924
1919
1919
1918-1925
1914-1918
1914-1917
1919-1942
1920-1996
2000
1925-1929
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
D385/15
Rogerstone War Memorial Committee Minutes
Rogerstone Memorial Committee, draft
minutes
Charity Commission Accounts of the War
Memorial Hall Charity, Rumney
1923-1932
1921-1924
D2191/199
Library (LIB 287)
DPA 13/73
DPA 13/74
DPA 13/61 & 66
D554/159
Roll of Honour, First World War (Tredegar)
compiled by G.B. Meredith and G Sadler.
2 Bn. Mon. Regt., Order of Service for
unveiling and dedication of memorial 19141918 at Trevethin church. (Includes history of
2 Bn Mon Regt.)
Trevethin parish. Order of service and
memorial 2 Bn. Mon. Regt. (Includes history
of its service in N.W. Europe.)
Plan of regimental war memorial, 2 Bn. Mon.
Regt., in Trevethin church, and faculty for
memorial window
Printed booklet, Pozières Memorial, France.
Part 1 containing names "Abbis" to "Breen"
(published by Imperial War Commission).
1927-1950
1999
1923
1951
1921
1928
D766/56
D766/55
Memorial booklet, 2nd Bn. Mon Regt.
Minute Book, War Memorial and Provisional
Committee, 1st Bn Mon Regt T.A.
1914-1918
1919-1929
D1348/60
Poster, Battle of Ypres Memorial Service
1920
(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.)
Programme - official peace celebrations,
Chepstow
1919
Peace Celebrations
D2758/3
D396/330
DPA 90/94
July 1919
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.)
Rogerstone, correspondence re Peace
Celebrations, etc.
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
other supplemental drainage on the levels and
Caldicot and Wentlooge.
D385/97, 98
1919
After the War
1918-1919
Books
Library (reference
shelf)
Library (reference
shelf)
Library (LIB 1321)
Library (LIB 1322)
The First World War. The Essential Guide to
sources in the UK National Archives. Ian F.W.
Beckett (Public Record Office)
Army Service Records of the First World War
Public Record Office (Simon Fowler, William
Spencer and Stuart Tamblin)
Naval Records for Genealogists (Public Record
Office Handbook no. 22) N.A.M. Rodger
RAF Records in the PRO (PRO Readers' Guide
no. 8) Simon Fowler, Peter Elliott, Roy
Conyers Nesbit, Christina Goulter.
2002
1996
1988
1994
Library (LIB 666)
How to Trace your First World War Ancestors
Michael Paterson (small booklet)
The Gwent County History. Volume 5, the
Twentieth Century. C. Williams and A. Croll
(eds.)
First World War Graves and Memorials in
Gwent (volume 1) Ray Westlake
2007
Library (LIB 283)
First World War Graves and Memorials in
Gwent (volume 2) Ray Westlake
2002
Library (LIB 560)
First World War Graves and Memorials in
Gwent, Article in 'Gwent Local History Journal'
no. 100 p. 63 by Ray Westlake
Some records of the Royal Monmouthshire
Militia W.F.N. Noel [background of militia in
Monmouthshire]
Call to Arms: a Valley History W.G. Lloyd
[Boer War and its aftermath]
Roll of Honour W.G. Lloyd. A study of the
impact of World War One on the lives of the
population of Monmouthshire's "Eastern
Valley".
Researching Local History: the human journey
Michael A. Williams (see especially pages 22,
28-29, 33-34, 51, 107).
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.)
The Story of the Monmouthshire Volunteer
Artillery Capt. John More and Col. W.L.C.
Phillips
Heritage. A History of Ebbw Vale. (volume 1)
Keith Thomas. 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.
Newport Ghosts and the Great War 19141918 David Ashwin
Usk at War: the town and neighbourhood
from earliest times until 1945 Jan Barrow
2006
Local Authorities in War-time W. Ivor Jennings
(1940 but has references to earlier legislation)
Honours and Awards. Army, Navy and Air
Force 1914-1920 pub. J.B.Hayward & Son
1940
Army Records with special reference to Wales
(Photocopies). Clive Hughes
The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot)
(brochure)
1991
Library (LIB 1426)
Library (LIB 282)
Library (LIB 280)
Library (LIB 274)
Library (LIB 275)
Library (LIB 1348)
Library (LIB 300)
Library (LIB 279)
Library (LIB 1158)
Library (LIB 1195)
Library (LIB 1232)
Library (LIB 996)
Library (LIB 285)
Library (LIB 269)
Library (LIB 265)
2013
2001
1886
1999
1995
1996
2004
1958
2000
2009
2006
1979
1989
Library (LIB 266)
MISC MSS 2121
The New Imperial War Museum (IWM Guide)
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.]
1992
2007
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 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/
Gwent Archives
Steelworks Road
Ebbw Vale NP23 6DN
Tel: 01495 353363
enquiries@gwentarchives.gov.uk
www.gwentarchives.gov.uk
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