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ROBERTS, KATE (1891 - 1985), author were performed by 'Cymdeithas y Ddraig Goch' (The Red Dragon Society) in the Tawe valley during the war. Two of Kate's brothers, Evan and Dei, were soldiers in the First World War; Evan was severely wounded and suffered from the after-effects of those wounds throughout his life, while Dei was wounded and died of dysentery while recuperating in Malta in 1917. He was only nineteen years old. Kate was
WATKIN, WILLIAM RHYS (1875 - 1947), Baptist minister Born 10 December 1875 in Ynys-Tawe, Glamorganshire, one of the six children of William and Barbara (née Rhys) Watkin : the father was one of the Grove family of Swansea, and the mother one of the Rhys's of Tŷ'n y Waun, and the Morgans of Cwmcilie. Professor Morgan Watkin was one of his brothers. He left the school at Pen-clun, Rhydypandy, at 12, and went to work in the local colliery and then in

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