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The Welsh Book of Remembrance

The Welsh Book of Remembrance

  • [The Welsh Book of Remembrance]
  • File
  • 1928.

This volume is bound in morrocan leather and has gold lettering and lines on the boards and spine. The volume is made up of parchment pages sewn on 5 raised cords. The first page contains the Welsh text "ER CÔF" and the signature, "Edward P", of Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII), and is dated "12 June 1928". The preface contains the following information in gold lettering: "HEREIN ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF WELSH BIRTH AND PARENTAGE AND OF ALL THE MEN BELONGING TO THE REGIMENT OF WALES WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE WAR OF 1914-1918 A:D: THEY ARE COMMEMORATED BY THEIR FELLOW COUNTRY MEN IN THE MEMORIAL ERECTED NEAR BY." The following is noted at the end of the volume: "The work of Graily Hewitt, B.A., LL.B., of Lincoln's Inn, and his assistants Helen Hinkley, Ida D. Henstock, Florence Capey, and Helen Luker. Finished Mar. 1928. Treyford, Midhurst."

Anerchiad cyflwynedig i Dywysog Cymru

  • NLW MS 7265B
  • File
  • 1931

'I'w Urddas Brenhinol Tywysog Cymru fel arwydd fechan o barch ac edmygedd Cymry godre'r Andes, Archentina', being an address, with autograph signatures, presented to H.R.H. the Prince of Wales [afterwards Edward VIII [1894-1972]] in March 1931 on his visit to Argentina by 'The Pioneers of Cwm Hyfryd', ('Colonia 16 de Octubre') in the Welsh colony in Patagonia. Among the signatories are John D. Evans [1862-1943], 'Arloesydd', and Mihangel ap Iwan [d. 1944].