Glyn Williams writes about the friend and colleague who inspired the young recruits of The Welch Regiment. |
Harold Jones joined the territorial army in 1937 and was called to the colours of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at the outbreak of war. |
Vera Jones spent the war years nursing in the East. Her surviving letters home paint a picture of the conditions. |
Cyril Reynolds from Llandrindod Wells joined the Radnor battery in 1939 and fought on the beaches of Normandy. |
Bede David from Brecon witnessed the shooting down of an enemy aircraft near his childhood home. |
George Holden was among hundreds of children evacuated from Liverpool to the safety of rural Wales. |
A member of the British Expeditionary Force, David Lewis describes a lull in the fighting on the beaches of Dunkirk. |
Sarah Hughes from Aberystwyth remembers a prank she and her sister played on an army convoy. |
After the family home was bombed, Myrtle Parker left London for the Montgomeryshire countryside. |
A child during the war, Patricia Canon Fitzpatrick discovered the buying power of fresh chickens' eggs. |
Fomer Aberystwyth student Caryl Davies recalls the great Alexandra Hall food scandal. |
In the days after Dunkirk, David Lewis from Caersws fell in love with the woman he'd later marry. |
Part of the Cardigan Battery, Iorwerth Lewis saw his first action in El Alamein in October 1942. |
Aran Morris from Borth was on the Russian Convoys, escorting cargo ships across Arctic waters. |
Sixty years after the end of WW2, Aberystwyth held a special commorative street party. |
Doris Shord was born in India and married a British Army Officer. She recounts her passage from India during the war. |
Barbara Morgan recalls the fear she felt as a young girl when she first heard the scream of an air raid siren. |
Joan Jones from Aber lived in Dorset during the war and helped build the Mulberry Harbours for the D-Day landings. |
Lavinia Ruddick talks about how she coped with a young family during the air raids in Manchester. |
Eric Pugh recalls the impact of the war on his childhood years in Hay-on-Wye. |
A signals operator in Llandod's Home Guard, Colin Edwards' father was also in a wartime DJ with a difference. |
The BBC is gathering people's wartime stories from across the United Kingdom. |
Listen to and read about the antics of Mid Wales' Land Girls. |
Margaret Frost ferried Spitfires and Barracudas during the war. |
Stories collected in Ystradgynlais during a special event organised by the Healthy Living Centre. |
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