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Army pay book of Private David John Rogers, Bangor,

  • BMSS/27000.
  • File
  • 1917-1919.

‘Army Pay Book’ (A.B.64 Pt.I) of David John Rogers, Private, Royal Army Medical Corps, of Bangor. Posting and pay entries show active service locations (many at sea) at Malta, Salonika and Murmansk.

Recruiting poster entitled 'Y darn papur',

  • BMSS/29213.
  • File
  • 1914, Dec.

Recruiting poster entitled ‘Y Darn Papur’ is a Welsh version of the famous ‘The Scrap of Paper.’ History of the poster included on wrapping, which reads as follows: Gift of R. H. D. who initiated it and had it produced as Clerk to the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee (R. Humphrey Davies, Museum of Welsh Antiquities, UCNW).

'Rhiwle yn Ffrainc' written by Hedd Wyn,

  • BMSS/23333(a).
  • File
  • 1917.

The letter provides a poet's view of the life 'behind the line' and yet heroically does not reveal the actual horrors of the trenches, but focuses on the few small moments of beauty that the poet finds to contemplate and share with the reader.

Hedd Wyn, 1887-1917

'Yr Arwr' by Hedd Wyn,

  • BMSS/23333(c).
  • File
  • 1917.

A draft of the Eisteddfod Chair winning awdl, in the poet's own hand.

Hedd Wyn, 1887-1917