A UNIQUE video commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Wales’s most famous Great War poet Hedd Wyn was beamed onto the National Library of Wales building in the run-up to Remembrance Sunday.

Hedd Wyn, the bardic name of Trawsfynydd shepherd Ellis Humphrey Evans, was killed on the opening day of the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917, days only after being sent to the front line as a conscript.

Yr Arwr (The Hero), an epic poem the reluctant soldier had finished just before his death, posthumously won him the Bardic Chair at the National Eisteddfod in 1917.

The video, which involved children from Hedd Wyn’s native village, was specially commissioned by the ScottishPower Foundation.

Linda Tomos, chief executive and librarian at the National Library of Wales, said the event was “a thrilling conclusion to a wonderful programme of outreach work.

“We are very grateful to the Scottish­Power Foundation for generously funding the programme and to Gerald Williams, Hedd Wyn’s nephew, and Yr Ysgwrn for their continuing support,” she added

Pupils from Ysgol Bro Hedd Wyn read his most famous work, Rhyfel (War), and the video included new footage from Hedd Wyn’s home, Yr Ysgwrn, and images relating to the poet and the wider Welsh experience in the Great War provided by both the National Library of Wales and the Snowdonia National Park Authority.

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