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