pfmcintyre Posted 24 October , 2014 Share Posted 24 October , 2014 Hello everybody This is a bit of a needle in a haystack request, but I was recently told the story of a group of six or seven black students who had come to Cardiff to study, who decided to sign up together to fight in WW1. I am really keen to find out who these men were and what happened to them - I wonder if anybody else knows of this story or could shed any light on who these men might have been. If you have any information at all, it would be very gratefully received - please email me at pamela.mcintyre@bbc.co.uk. With many thanks Pam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scalyback Posted 24 October , 2014 Share Posted 24 October , 2014 Western mail or Cardiff uni archives may have something. http://cymruww1.llgc.org.uk/files/2013/01/Project-Content-for-blog_v14-english.pdf Scoll down Cardiff uni archives and student papers to be digitised. There is a thread on here about soldiers of colour. Within that there is mention of a few black soldiers from the 16th Battalion(City of Cardiff) Welsh regiment. However I belive they may be from tiger bay rather than academic background. EDIT for hitting post before finishing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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