People in Llangollen around the time of WW1
Playing snowballs on the canal – winter 1915
Thomas Roberts (1896 – 1917), son of William Roberts (Gwilym Ceiriog).
1917 A young woman in nurses uniform with a personel note on the back “With best Christmas wishes. To Mona From Norah – 1917” Photograph taken by Percy Clarke
1914 – Edwin Williams raking hay with the old type rake.
1915 – Preparing sheep for washing at Plas Eglwyseg L-R Emlyn Evans, Francis Roberts (front), William Evans, Jim Roberts and Ellis Williams. Lady in the background unnamed.
Returned soldiers after the 1st World War in the Grapes Hotel.
1917 – Harry Augustus Thomas was a Goat Major with the Welsh Fusiliers during the First World War. He was a stonemason by trade and lived at 4 Green Lane. He died in April 1938. The stonemason business is still in the family, run by his grandson, and the family still lives in Green Lane.
Women workers “Forestry – Fedw Ddu 1918” on back.
Requisitioning of horses
