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The soldiers, killed on the same day and buried unidentified, now have names on their graves 100 years on.

Joint investigation leads to the identification of two Welsh soldiers killed on the same day during the Great War.

A combined investigation has enabled the grave of a Flintshire born member of 10th Battalion The Welsh Regiment to be rededicated nearly 105 years after his death. Second Lieutenant Sam Hughes was 25 when killed during trench raids in the La Boutillerie Subsector, south of Armentières in France, on 6 November 1917. He was born in […]

A PENARTH resident turns 100 tomorrow and is set to celebrate on the Penarth clifftops this weekend with visits from her six children.

Updated: 7 Apr 2021, 12:09 A MUM-OF-TWO found stabbed in the neck and chest has been pictured for the first time as her ex-army medic “on-off boyfriend” has been charged with her murder. Emma McArthur, 43, died from her injuries shortly after being discovered near Thatcham, Berks, on Thursday night. 2 Emma McArthur has been described as a "loving mother, daughter and friend" by her heartbroken familyCredit: Thames Valley Police 2 The 43-year-old died from her injuries after being discovered...

05:10 EDT, 7 April 2021 The first picture of a mother-of-two who was found dead at a road junction with stab wounds to her neck, chest and back has been released by police. The body of Emma McArthur, 43, was discovered at a remote road junction near Crookham Common, near Thornford Park Hospital, in Thatcham, Berkshire, around 11.45pm last Thursday. Her on-off boyfriend Christopher Minards, 35, an ex-Army medic, was charged with her murder.  In a tribute released by her family, Miss McArthur ...

The court heard Minards was in an on-off relationship with Ms McArthur.  Prosecution counsel Shane Hauschild said: The victim Emma McArthur was aged 43 years and a mother-of-two children. The defendant and the victim were known to one another, they had met on Facebook in June 2019. Paramedics arrived and administered life support but despite their best efforts the victim was pronounced deceased at 12.47am. The defendant was later arrested on suspicion of murder.  On joining the army Minards w...

Kiskeam man Eugene Callaghan, a Private in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, died on April 1 in the village of Hulluch in northern France. He was among 17 men killed when a tunnel he was digging collapsed when an explosive device was detonated by the enemy in a tunnel underneath the Allied forces. Private Callaghan, who moved from Kiskeam to Wales when he was just seven years of age, was aged just 22 when he died and is known to be buried in Bois-Carre Military Cemetery in Haisnes. A memorial headst...