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A German prize war ship, taken during the First World War
  • Bernard Dunphy was the son of Stephen Dunphy, a prominent businessman in Llandudno. Following his period of training on HMS Conway Merchant Navy Cadet School at Rock Ferry, Merseyside, Bernard embarked on a career at sea. He was killed in March 1915 when the auxiliary cruiser 'Byan' was torpedoed by a German submarine while on patrol duty in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland.
Receipt in payment of school fees of Bernard Dunphy, cadet on HMS Conway, 1897
  • The front page of a special edition of the Central Wales News and Radnorshire Standard with the latest reports from the Great War. Published at 6.30 pm on a Sunday evening, 30 August 1914, the paper notes that 'the Navy has accounted for a good 'bag' of enemy warships at very little cost. The German navy gunnery, evidently, is not of a high standard'.
First World War newspaper, Radnorshire, August 1914, front page [image 1 of 3]
Welsh ballad re. the sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine, 8 May 1915, page 1
  • Able Seaman Williams died at Gallipoli in 1915 as he tried to keep a hold of the ropes which formed a bridge between H.M.S. River Clyde and the shore. Thanks to his bravery many of his companions managed to reach the land, even though they were under fire at the time. Williams was killed during this attack but was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross medal.
Memorial for Able Seaman W. C. Williams V. C., died 1915
  • This letter, along with a unique bronze medal, was sent to the family of Able Seaman W.C.Williams of Chepstow, who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery during the landings at Gallipoli in 1917.
Letter from the Imperial Merchant Service Guild to the family of Able Seaman W. C. Williams V. C., 1919