I came across this site and found it most interesting and helpful: Cymru 1914 - The Welsh Experience of the First World War cymru1914.org/en/home regards Megan Roberts

Diolch, Megan I had not seen that before and it has found newspaper items I had not seen before at the LLGC site. I was looking for any record of the only relative I know of who fell in Europe in the Great War, one Heber Thomas, lost in October 1917 (Passchendaele), 2nd Lt in the Buffs. He was my Taid's second cousin. I found a remarkable number of items about him and his family. His father was Rev David Thomas, who is buried in his home parish of Llangynfelyn but was a peripatetic Methodist minister who had also been in Dolgellau and Denbigh. What was really remarkable was that one newspaper article recording Heber's death even had a photo (awfully poor reproduction and quite useless but the surprise was to see it at all!). Sadly the old boy was in hospital in London when the boy died. The father then lasted only a couple of years. This source has yielded new information, though, including that Heber had two sisters and identified who one was married to, so it provided some interesting new leads. David Canberra On 29 Nov 2013, at 6:26 pm, Megan Roberts <meganroberts.bc@googlemail.com> wrote: > I came across this site and found it most interesting and helpful: > > Cymru 1914 - The Welsh Experience of the First World War > > cymru1914.org/en/home > > regards > Megan Roberts >