Commemorating the Battle of the Somme

This is a collection of various items that have been kept and shared by families and archives throughout Wales. They are a visual testament to help us remember and commemorate the largest battle during of the Great War, the Battle of the Somme.

German Bible, picked up at the Somme

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Cymry'r Rhyfel Mawr / Welsh Voices of the Great War

Drawings of the Somme by Howard Lloyd Roberts, July 1916 [image 1 of 4]

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Cymry'r Rhyfel Mawr / Welsh Voices of the Great War

Postcard showing German prisoners, Somme, 1914-1916, front [image 1 of 2]

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Cymry'r Rhyfel Mawr / Welsh Voices of the Great War

A newspaper cutting showing the battle line on the Somme front

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Gathering The Jewels

Sapper Arthur Oscar Kibblewhite

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Cymry'r Rhyfel Mawr / Welsh Voices of the Great War

Letter from Private Hugh Owen to his brother and sister, 24 May 1916 [image 1 of 2]

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Cymry'r Rhyfel Mawr / Welsh Voices of the Great War

Photograph of William Arthur Jenkins (left)

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Cymry'r Rhyfel Mawr / Welsh Voices of the Great War

Photograph of William Arthur Jenkins, front, [image 1 of 2]

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Cymry'r Rhyfel Mawr / Welsh Voices of the Great War

Welsh Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery in retreat after the 1st battle of the Somme

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Y Profiad Cymreig o’r Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf / Welsh experience of World War One

Private Morris Hughes at Eryri Hospital

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Y Profiad Cymreig o’r Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf / Welsh experience of World War One

Trench Art belonging to Walter Crane of the 4th South Wales Borderers Machine Gun Section

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Y Profiad Cymreig o’r Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf / Welsh experience of World War One

Bible of William Henry Thomas, with bullet-hole

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Cymry'r Rhyfel Mawr / Welsh Voices of the Great War

Richard Griffiths

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Arts Connection - Cyswllt Celf

Article about the bravery of William James Lewis

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Cymry'r Rhyfel Mawr / Welsh Voices of the Great War

Pte Albert Gill, Welsh Guards

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Cymry'r Rhyfel Mawr / Welsh Voices of the Great War

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