* A thread *
I've been for my daily allocated walk, so what better way of easing some boredom than documenting the outbreak of the 1918/9 Spanish Influenza in the #Aberystwyth area, as told by the Cambrian News at the time.
papuraunewydd.llyfrgell.cymru/home
(The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard 1918/9) 📰
“Fortunately it would seem its (🇪🇸🦠) influence is not as bad now as a fortnight ago; with promising signs of improvement in the majority of areas."
.... (tbc).
He died on 06/12/18 aged 26 – and buried at Solesmes Cemetery, not far from Cambrai. See CWGC site:
cwgc.org/find-war-dead/…
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