Summary 949 – Men identified with service number (+3 this month) 742 – Confirmed ’08 service numbers (+3) 86 – Men identified without service number (-1) 40 – Portraits (+13) 23 – Descendants contacted July was an important month for the project, I took the decision to shift my focus Read more…
Summary 946 – Men identified with service number (+8 this month) 739 – Confirmed ’08 service numbers (+8) 86 – Men identified without service number (+1) 27 – Portraits (+5) It’s been a bit of a roller-coaster this month. Its felt that some weeks I’ve made great progress and others, Read more…
Summary 938 – Men identified with service number (+9 this month) 731 – Confirmed ’08 service numbers (+10) 85 – Men identified without service number (+85) 22 – Portraits (+1) June was a really productive month with progress in a wide range of areas. Highlights included: Review of post WW1 Read more…
Update 929 – Men identified 721 – Confirmed ’08 service numbers 21 – Portraits confirmed Its been a bit of a slow month as I’ve needed to focus on finding a new job. That said, progress has included uploading the Rees Williams photo album, another trip to the National Archives, Read more…
March was another productive month with progress being made on a number of fronts. National Archives I was lucky enough to have the time for a trip to the National Archives in Kew. My aims were two-fold, to look for the surviving officer service records of the men of the Read more…
Its been another productive month where I’ve mostly focussed on finding new service records on Findmypast which I’ve subscribed to thanks to some great advice (the indexing is so much better). This has led to finding another 70 men and another 30 new service records, bringing the grand total of Read more…
In January, I’ve had a lot of time to focus on the project – I’m in-between jobs so I’ve made a lot of progress. The biggest step forward was putting the searchable Nominal Roll on-line, complete with basic pages showing the information that I’ve found for each man. In total, Read more…
Its taken some time (and quite a bit of head scratching), but I’m pleased to say that the new Nominal Roll is now up and running. The roll can be accessed from the main menu by clicking on ‘The Men’, then its the first choice. The first page for the Read more…
Apologies if you’ve been trying to get in touch. The contact form was not working. It’s now fixed. But I did not receive any messages previously sent, so please could you send them again. Thanks, John.
Welcome to the 1st Welsh (Howitzer) Brigade website. My goal for this new site is to identify and remember the almost 1,640 brave men of Swansea, Briton Ferry, Neath and Morriston who volunteered to serve in the ranks of the 1st Welsh (Howitzer) Brigade between 1908 and 1916. I’m launching Read more…