Lives of the First World War

On the eve of the battle David Lloyd George withdrew his friend Colonel David Davies, to make him his Parliamentary Private Secretary, soon followed by a peerage as the famous Lord Davies of Llandinam. His battalion of Caernarfon and Anglesey pals was placed under the command of the senior major, Robert Mills, of Dolgellau, who had fought in the Boer War. Major Mills was killed in the first wave of the attack. Seventy-one years later his daughter, Mrs Peggy Evans-Jones, of Blaenau Ffestiniog, and son Richard Mills, of Gerrards Cross, were in a North Wales coach party, arranged through the Daily Post, for the unveiling of a striking Red Dragon memorial to the Welsh Army at Mametz.

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