With Armistice Day this Thursday and Remembrance Sunday three days later, two more QR codes have been placed near war memorials in Meirionnydd.

HistoryPoints.org has placed codes by Tywyn and Arthog war memorials, and people with smartphones can scan them to discover more about the people from there who lost their lives in the war.

Local historians Marisa O’Hara and Dai Sheppard helped collate the information, which is also available on the HistoryPoints website at historypoints.org and searching for ‘Tywyn’ and ‘Arthog’.

There are also several new QR codes along the Wales Coast Path in Meirionnydd relating to the area’s wartime history. One explains how an army camp and prisoner of war camp was located at Neptune Hall.

Did you know a German POW was praised for dashing into the sea to try to rescue a drowning girl?

Find out more by searching for ‘Tywyn PoW and army camps’ at historypoints.org

On the sea wall at Fairbourne are codes for people to read about the hundreds of anti-tank blocks that still line the beach (search ‘Fairbourne anti-tank defences’ on historypoints.org).

Rhodri Clark, editor of HistoryPoints, said: “We’re about to put up QR codes at Tonfanau for people to discover the story of the large Second World War army camp there, thanks to help from Quentin Deakin of Tywyn & District History Society (search ‘Tonfanau army camp’).

“A QR code can be found beside the commando memorial in Aberdyfi (search ‘Aberdyfi Commando memorial) and includes details of individual commandos who were killed in action after training in the Aberdyfi area, information that’s not available on the slate plaques beside the QR codes.”

QR codes can also be found in Pwllheli, this time telling the story of a boating accident there in 1899 (search ‘1899 boating accident Pwllheli’).

There is also one for a boating tragedy at Criccieth (search ‘memorial to drowned boys Criccieth’).