National Library of Wales Archives and Manuscripts

Operation Order (Secret) between 4 battalions on the battlefield (Belgium, around Pilckem),

BMSS/39622.
File
1918, Aug. 4.

Part of Papers of Major W.P. Wheldon,

Locations; command to clean up trenches and dugouts; command to complete burials.

Photograph of "A" Company 11th (Service) Battalion South Lancashire Regt.,

BMSS/26534.
File
1915.

Black and white photograph (mounted) taken outside the PJ Hall of the University, Bangor.

Photograph of Hedd Wyn.

BMSS/17272.
File

Part of R. Silyn Roberts Papers,

Photograph of Major Wheldon with 3 other men in uniform [officers?], France,

BMSS/39640.
File
n.d.

Part of Papers of Major W.P. Wheldon,

Photograph of Major Wheldon with 3 other men in uniform [officers?], in a field cemetery, France,

BMSS/39641.
File
n.d.

Part of Papers of Major W.P. Wheldon,

Photograph of UCNW Football Team, 1913 – 1914,

Part of U.C.N.W. (University College of North Wales) Collection of Papers relating to the First World War,

Photograph of the College Football Team, including names. 15 men, all of which (except 1) served in the War. 4 died. -- Attached : the names of those who died.

Postcard : ‘30 Inns of Court O.T.C. Berkamsted’,

BMSS/39639.
File
n.d.

Part of Papers of Major W.P. Wheldon,

From Major Wheldon to Mrs. G.M. Wheldon, Rhyl.

Poster: “North Wales Heroes’ Memorial – Visit of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, 1st November 1923”,

Part of U.C.N.W. (University College of North Wales) Collection of Papers relating to the First World War,

"Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales, Roll of Service, 1914 – 1917",

Part of U.C.N.W. (University College of North Wales) Collection of Papers relating to the First World War,

Corrected to June 30, 1917.

'Record of War Service' Staff and Students,

Part of U.C.N.W. (University College of North Wales) Collection of Papers relating to the First World War,

(i.) Official copy; (ii.) Draft copy.

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).

Repatriation of Belgian refugees; Caernarfon and District,

BMSS/4589.
File
1918-1919.

Part of Bangor Miscellaneous Collection.

Government regulations, correspondence, lists (names, addresses, occupations). Illustrative of personal and administrative difficulties.

'Report of Departments as to National Service' UCNW,

Part of U.C.N.W. (University College of North Wales) Collection of Papers relating to the First World War,

Departments: Physics, Chemistry, Agriculture, Forestry, Mathematics, Latin, English, German, Philosophy, Hebrew, Zoology, History. Also the work of the Women of the College.

Report of the 'Committee Appointed to Consider Questions respecting the College Roll of Service',

Part of U.C.N.W. (University College of North Wales) Collection of Papers relating to the First World War,

Report of the work of the College during the Great War,

Part of U.C.N.W. (University College of North Wales) Collection of Papers relating to the First World War,

War lectures; Officer’s Training Corps; Accommodation provided.

'Rhiwle yn Ffrainc' written by Hedd Wyn,

BMSS/23333(a).
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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