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Athletic Team,1946,provided by Brian ( Mick ) Watts, seated extreme right of those sitting ( 2nd row )

  We are very pleased that Brian ( Mick ) has penned a synopsis of his time in school, national service and career & life thereafter. All recollections from former pupils are very interesting and much appreciated. Thank You Mr Buckee for accepting me into the Llanelli Grammar School Old Boys. I was a pupil […]

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1947 Llanelli Boys’ Grammar School Athletic Team. Provided by Tom Morgan,(back row,4th from left ) who entered the school 1944.

Message to any person who may be in this photos ,or related to – members of the 1947 Llanelli Grammar School Athletic Team, please comment on Facebook and in particular contact Tom Morgan, back row,5th from right.. or contact secretary@llanelliboysgrammar.org With the Head teacher Mr. T V Shaw is Mr. Tom Jones. Mr. Jones established […]

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CAPTAIN ROY WOOLDRIDGE, FORMER LLANELLI GRAMMAR SCHOOL PUPIL FROM HENDY, WHOSE LIFE WAS SAVED BY FIELD MARSHALL ERWIN ROMMEL, WW2 JUNE 1944.

A former soldier has revealed how a Nazi general spared him from the firing squad in World War Two. Roy Wooldridge, 95, from Hendy, Carmarthenshire, was seized while on a mission in France just before D-Day and taken to Erwin Rommel. The Royal Engineer was brought before Rommel and asked if he needed anything. He […]

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