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Tag: Gwent and Powys Army Cadet Force

Caerphilly County Borough’s First World War remembered 100 years on

Friday, August 8, 2014

On August 4, 1914, at 11pm, Britain declared war on Germany.
Commemorations to mark the centenary of the beginning of the First World War, in which an estimated 40,000 Welshmen died, have begun. Richard Gurner reports.

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