The Welsh at Gallipoli by Anne Pedley

Very little has been recorded about the many Welsh men who fought at Gallipoli and, until recently, the part they played has only merited a few lines in the history books, despite the fact that the August landings at Suvla were some of the blackest days of the entire war for North and mid-Wales with many war memorials bearing witness to these losses. As the centenary of the landings grew closer Anne Pedley began to gather as much information as possible about Wales’s part in the campaign and this talk draws on the many accounts that have come to light in that search to ensure that the part these men played in the Gallipoli campaign is not forgotten. Anne Pedley is a retired lecturer and a Trustee of the Royal Welch Fusiliers Museum Trust and an enthusiastic amateur historian of the Great War.