Madam,

This month sees us commemorating the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, a war which left very few families in the countries that took part unaffected.

Cardigan town and surrounding areas paid heavily with the lives of brothers, fathers, sons and daughters who made the supreme sacrifice in the so-called ‘War to end all Wars’.

Albert George Wyatt from the town died on 27 October 1918, two weeks before the guns fell silent on the 11th hour, on the 11th day of the 11th month, leaving a wife and two young sons.

Twenty-two years later, during the Second World War, Albert’s eldest son, Stanley, was lost at sea as a result of enemy action, aged just 26.

He was not the only son from Cardigan to have died in the Second World War whose father had died as a result of the previous world war.

The First World War is not within living memory, as those who took part have since passed away and as such it feels like distant history, although we must never forget.

The Second World War, however, is still within living memory, although fewer and fewer of those who took part or witnessed the events of the 1939-1945 war are still alive.

Having already published a book detailing the men and women from Cardigan town who were lost in the First World War, I am now researching those that were lost in the Second World War. I would therefore be extremely grateful for any information, photographs or stories your readers may be able to provide me in trying to record and tell the story of those from the town and surrounding areas that were lost or served during the Second World War before it passes out of living memory.

I would also like to add that any additional information on those that I have already recorded in my first publication Cardigan Town Cenotaph – Remembering the dead of the Great War 1914-1918 would be gratefully appreciated.

You can contact me on 01239 621083 (evenings) or by email at [email protected]

Yours etc,

David Griffiths, Cardigan.

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