The recollections of a coal miner and soldier who survived both the Senghennydd pit explosion and the horrors of the World War I trenches, told through the medium of a conversation between him and his grandson, the author.
Introduction
My Earliest Memory
Baron Llangattock of the Hendre
Charles Stewart Rolls
The Garrow
The Shepherd
The Well
Well Cottage
Play
The Fumigation
School
Sewing or Sowing
Church
Pheasants
Cider
Kitchens
Butter
Tarring the Fence
Fruit-picking
Delivery Boy
Leaving the Nest
The Grange Farm
The Gorsety
Sinking a Well
The Old Grey Mare
Hilston Manor
Growing Confidence
Down the Pit
The Night Shift
Valley Life
The Explosion
Windsor Colliery
A Soldier’s Life
Enlistment
Taunton, Aldershot and Woking
Promotion
Sailing for France
Through France
Flanders
The Western Front
No Man’s Land
Over The Top
Respite
Christmas Truce
The Battle of the Somme
Fricourt
The first tanks
Back to Rollestone Camp
Recreation and Romance
Back down the pit
Homes of our own
Strikes
Mine rescue
Area Safety Engineer
The winter of 1947
By car from Wales
Description
The recollections of a coal miner and soldier who survived both the Senghennydd pit explosion and the horrors of the World War I trenches, told through the medium of a conversation between him and his grandson, the author.
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