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SS Hibernia
Holyhead sailors' desert ordeal
When the HMS Tara was sunk by a German U-boat off Egypt in 1915 a number of her Holyhead crew survived, only to face an ordeal in the Libyan desert.

Dr Meredydd Evans Life as a conscientious objector
In 1939 Meredydd Evans had to defend his beliefs as his friends and family were called up to fight.

Siegfried Sassoon's Military Cross on show at the regimental museum Welch Fusiliers Regimental Museum
A museum in Caernarfon Castle is dedicated to the Literary Regiment's history.


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