posted on 2024-05-12, 21:25authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
Photograph of Colin Hughes delivering an address during the ceremony to dedicate The Mametz Wood Memorial to The 38th (Welsh) Division, on 11th July 1987. The Welsh Dragon Memorial commemorates the attacks on Mametz wood by the Welsh battalions in the period 7th to 12th July 1916, (during the Battle of the Somme). [Photographs by Andrew Davies were printed in a newspaper report on the ceremong by Peter Jones - Western Mail 13th July 1987]