A-Z of Services

Mentioned in Dispatches

Britain has been at war on many occasions during the last 150 years.

In the twenty-first century, war comes into our living rooms via news reports on television twenty-four hours a day. Until the twentieth century news from the frontline was limited and until the Second World War newspapers were the main official source of news

This exhibition uses press reports from local newspapers and first hand accounts recorded at the time to tell the stories of how people from Wrexham served in this country’s armed forces in times of war. The reports are taken word for word from newspapers published at the time.

The exhibition focuses on the Crimean War (1853–56), the Boer War (1899–1902), the First World War (1914–1918) and the Second World War (1939–1945).

At the end of the exhibition there is a place kept free for anyone who would like to commemorate their relatives and ancestors’ service during wartime, and to acknowledge local soldiers, sailors and airmen on active service now.

Local newspapers gave very detailed accounts, so only excerpts can be used in this exhibition.

If you would like to know more, you can access records of selected local newspapers since 1857 in the A.N.Palmer Centre for Local Studies & Archives.

We are always keen to accept archival material and memorabilia connected to local people’s service in the armed forces.

Acknowledgements:
W. Alister Williams, John Warburton-Lee, Peter Stubbs, Susan Hughes, the Staff of the A.N.Palmer Centre for Local Studies & Archives, Hughes Design Ltd, and Bark Design

A map showing where the Welsh have fought in Europe is available to download in the following format: