Llangwm 1916 Panel3

Disgrifiad

LOCAL HERO DIES
Phillip Thomas Bevans, King’s Royal Rifle Corps
“Phillip joined the men in the trenches at Ypres in the middle of July, just in time for the Battle of the Somme. He celebrated his 21st birthday on 16th July and his mother sent him a fruit cake and my mother sent him a box of ripe gooseberries. She said she sawed the corner off a Tate & Lyle sugar box, emptied out the sugar and fed the gooseberries in through the hole and closed it with a screw of greaseproof – no cellotape or clingfilm then. Both cake and gooseberries arrived safely. He wrote to his sister Lizzie saying that he had shared them with his friends in the trenches & they had been much enjoyed & that he would be writing to his mother later that day. The telegram arrived in the afternoon of the 16th to say that Philip was missing, presumed dead.”
Beryl Davies
William Palmer died. He was conductor of Galilee Baptist Church and also the village Male Voice Party. July 28th.
Ministerial Visitors – 2 natives of the parish, Rev Charles Lynch and Rev Arthur Skyrme, son of John Skyrme, visited and preached. August 18th.
Trooper D H George, Royal Horse Guards, son of Mr G P George of Nash, succeeded in getting home 1st in the 100 yards boot lacing race in his regimental sports held recently in France. He has been at the front for over 17 months. September 15th.
Edgar Thomas, son of Mr and Mrs David Thomas, Cemetery Road, has been home on a visit from France. Mr Thomas, who was formerly on the staff of “The Guardian,” is now going to a cadet prep school to receive a commission. October 20th.
West Wales Guardian
LLANGWM SCHOOL LOG
May 24th – Schoolchildren are out playing when an airship appears on the horizon. They are so astonished, never having seen anything like it before, that they are allowed to watch it until it disappeared from view about 20 minutes later.
LOCAL SNIPPETS
Church organist at 12 - Miss Louise Morgan (Daughter of Mr and Mrs J Morgan) appointed organist of Wesleyan Church
A ship in dazzle camouflage taken from an airship flying from the Royal Naval Air Station Pembroke.