The Royal British Legion Field of Remembrance at Cardiff Castle, Wales, opened to the public on Wednesday 7 November following a special service of Remembrance led by Reverend Canon Stewart Lisk and attended by veterans and representatives of the Armed Forces.   Following the two-minute silence, several individual Remembrance tributes were planted by dignitaries and the Cardiff and Defence Academy Military Wives Choirs performed for the hundreds of people who attended the service.   The Field of Remembrance features more…

  In the year that marks the centenary of the end of the First World War, Cardiff’s Field of Remembrance will open to the public at Cardiff Castle with a special service of Remembrance on Wednesday 7th November.   The Field of Remembrance features more than 6,000 tributes from members of the public to Service men and women, each carrying a personal message to someone that has lost their life during or after the First World War.   The National…

As the nation looks back to commemorate the final months of WW1 leading up to November 11 and the Armistice, primary schools across England and Wales are signing up for projects that will link them with older people in their communities. The Golden-Oldies charity started in November 2007 in the West Country. There are now 160 daytime Sing & Smile sessions supported by an army of volunteers across Southern England, Yorkshire, the Midlands, Devon, Cornwall, Essex and in South Wales,…

On the 12th of March 1917, the British Submarine E49 was lost when it struck a German mine whilst leaving Baltasound, Shetland. The Royal Navy E- Class submarine sank and the wreck now lies 29 m under the sea.  The tragedy is now marked as on of the heaviest loss of navy military during the first World War. Reginald James Wakefield from Cardiff was also on board that day. Reginald joined the Royal Navy on the 3rd of September 1912….

Audiences across Wales and the world will get a chance to see Welsh National Opera’s new opera In Parenthesis this year thanks to a series of cinema screenings and online broadcast of the opera. In Parenthesis, which is commissioned by the Nicholas John Trust with 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War Centenary, is the operatic adaptation of poet, writer and artist David Jones’s epic poem.  Composed by Iain Bell, it remembers David Jones’s personal experience…

Welsh National Opera will commemorate WW1 and the centenary of the Battle of the Somme with a world premiere of a new opera commissioned to mark the company’s 70th birthday.  In Parenthesis is acclaimed British composer Iain Bell’s adaptation of the epic poem by poet, writer and artist David Jones. The work is a remembrance of David Jones’ personal experience as a soldier at the Battle of Mametz Wood. Alongside the staging of the opera, WNO are embarking upon an…

  SCUBA divers have launched an appeal to find relatives of a Cardiff crew member who was killed when their ship was torpedoed by a U-boat in the First World War.   Members of the Severnside branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club (BSAC) have been exploring and investigating the remains of the SS Baygitano for the last three years and recently won an award for their archaeological efforts.   The huge vessel was sunk by U-boat UC-77 during the First…