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Wales, as part of the United Kingdom [i], participated as part of the allies in World War I (1914–1918) and the allies in World War II (1939–1945).. Just under 275,000 soldiers from Wales fought in World War I, with 35,000 combat deaths, in particular at Mametz Wood and Passchendaele.
Wales in World War I (1 C, 8 P) Wales in World War II (2 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Wars involving Wales" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
This is an incomplete list of the wars and battles between the Anglo-Saxons who later formed into the Kingdom of England and the Britons (the pre-existing Brythonic population of Britain south of the Antonine Wall who came to be known later by the English as the Welsh), as well as the conflicts between the English and Welsh in subsequent centuries.
The Cardiff Blitz (Welsh: Blitz Caerdydd); refers to the bombing of Cardiff, Wales during World War II.Between 1940 and the final raid on the city in March 1944 approximately 2,100 bombs fell, killing 355 people.
History of the British Army from the Norman Conquest to the First World War (1899–1930), in 13 volumes with six separate map volumes. Available online for downloading; online volumes; The standard highly detailed full coverage of operations. Haswell, Jock, and John Lewis-Stempel. A Brief History of the British Army (2017). Higham, John, ed.
The term Thankful Village was popularised by the writer Arthur Mee in the 1930s; in Enchanted Land (1936), the introductory volume to The King's England series of guides, he wrote that a Thankful Village was one which had lost no men in the war because all those who left to serve came home again. His initial list identified 32 villages.
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Wales in World War II (2 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Military history of Wales" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.