Welsh Newspapers site Updated, now includes WW1 period (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Friday, February 14, 2014, 00:30 (3939 days ago) @ winky

The excellent Welsh Newspapers website has just been updated, and significantly for this year the site's coverage has been extended so that many of the titles also now include the First World War.

"More than 200,000 new pages have been added to Welsh Newspapers Online, as we release 27 publications titles from the Library’s rich collection on Welsh Newspapers Online.
The resource now allows you to search and read over 630,000 pages from almost 100 newspaper publications from the National Library’s collection, and this will grow to over one million pages as more publications are added during 2014.
Among the latest titles are Y Negesydd, Caernarvon and Denbigh Herald, Glamorgan Gazette, Carmarthen Journal, Welshman, and Rhondda Leader, not forgetting Y Drych, the weekly newspaper for the Welsh diaspora in America.
The resource also includes some publications that were digitised for The Welsh Experience of World War One project."

The full list of newspapers within the online library is here, with new additions highlighted. http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=4723

Those new additions which may be of particular interest to us include the
Abergavenny Chronicle, Barry Dock News, Brecon County Times, Glamorgan Gazette, Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder, Monmouth Guardian, and the South Wales Weekly Post.
All of these cover the First World War period.

Search this excellent free site from http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/home

Searchers with particular years in mind can use the site's filters so as to only search within that chosen year. As a starter I've just searched "Cinderford", my home town, and have found the following articles which I hope are of interest:

From "The Brecon & Radnor Express", 9th September 1915;

"Notes and Notions.
Among the 1st Herefords reported killed and wounded in the Dardanelles are several men from Radnorshire. They are :-Killed, Private J. W. Turner (Knighton), Private G. Morgan (Rhayader), and Sergeant Raymond (Ross); and wounded, Sergeant G. Stinton (Knighton), Private J. E. Edwards (Builth), Corporal F. Booth and Private Wallace Burgess (Presteign), Private C. E. Evans (Old Radnor), Private C. G. Lane and Private E. Cresswell (Cinderford), and Corporal H. Thomas (Knighton)."

http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/4093820/ART53/cinderford

And, by coincidence from the same title, but 11 January 1917;

"Lloiney Hero.
THE LATE SERGT. W. ADAMS.
A young officer of great courage, daring, and ability, well-known at Lloiney and throughout the Teme Valley, has fallen in France in the person of Sergt. W. Adams who was the son of Mr and Mrs Adams, of Cinderford, Gloucestershire, and the nephew of Mr and Mrs John Jones, The Birches, Lloiney. He had been recommended for the D.C.M which is a clear indication of his valour and heroism. He had only arrived in Canada a short time before war broke out, but he was amongst the first to volunteer for the service of the old country and, after receiving the necessary training, which was completed in England, he was sent to France, where he took part in several hot engagements, ultimately falling in action on November 28th. He was a young man who was very highly respected, and much sympathy goes out to all the bereaved friends and relatives, who are to be congratulated on the fact that their loved one was deemed worthy of the coveted honour of the Distinguished Conduct Medal".

http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/4094455/ART68/Lloiney%20Hero

(NB Lloiney is near Knighton, Powys)

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I wish to take this opportunity to express sincere thanks to Messrs Davies & Drinkwater for their considerable efforts in compiling this site's newest addition, the Forest of Dean WW1 Servicemen database. This is a huge undertaking and it goes without saying that all three of the above Forest soldiers are included. Thanks Martin & David.