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Military memories from North Wales (and a bit further afield!)

A look back over the decades at the Army, including some of the places they visited.

Iolo Griffiths

InYourArea Community, Iolo Griffiths

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Military memories from North Wales (and a bit further afield!)

Fusilier Robert Taylor of Wrexham relaxes with penguins in the Falkland Islands

Gunners Nicholls, Medcalfe and Hendry pose for the camera at Kinmel Park Camp on August 17 1955
Charlton Thomson on horseback.The pips on his sleeve shows that his rank is Captain. With the howitzer, and what seems to be garden walls in the background, this seems to be a training exercise. Probably around the time of the First World War. Can anyone tell us where this photo was taken?
Royal Artillery Territorials, in 1912. With Charlton Thomson, who was originally from Merseyside, but in his latter years resided at Minafon, Dolwyddelan
RSM Roy Blewitt from Hightown and Sergeant Major Glyn Hughes of Llanrhaeadr, with a nine year old boy in Belize, in 1974
Royal Artillery, Boys' Batteries. Inspection of Boys' Batteries RA by Gen. Sir Frank Simpson, G.O.C. in Chief, Western Command, at Kinmel Camp, December 1950
Royal Welch Fusiliers from Wrexham in Gibraltar
A pole carrying race, one of the gruelling training exercises at Kinmel Army Training Camp, in January 1991
Demo platoon of the RWF in Malaya in July 1957
After the Poppy Day service at Wrexham war memorial on November 12 1967, members of the Roya l Welch Fusiliers leave the memorial to march to their barracks at Hightown

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