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Cpl. Ivor Cecil Thomas
British Army Glamorgan Yeomanry
from:Swansea
My father, Ivor Thomas, joined the Glamorgan Yeomanry the day war was declared in 1914. He was sent to France and transferred to the Royal Engineers when policy scattered county regiments among other units to disguise casualty rates.
As a child I met a fellow Yeomanryman, a Mr Williams, then a coal merchant in Porthcawl, who had also served in GY. He had transferred into Transport Corps and ran mule trains in the Balkans where he saw his first Negro, driving a mule train in the opposite direction. Since Cardiff (30 miles away) had a sizeable black population at that time it shows how little people traveled before WWI.