Cwmdeuddwr National School 8
The Great War
The Great War did not affect home life in the way that the Second World War did but many family were stricken with the loss or maiming of a loved one and thoughts of those in Radnorshire must always have been with their kin in France and other theatres of war. For Mr Llewellyn Davies, the long-serving master of Cwmdeuddwr School the beginning of the war brought further staff problems as this entry in the School Log Book from 1914 indicates.
School
Log Book
"Mr Leslie Price, Assistant Master, has enlisted in
the R.A.M.C [Royal Army Medical Corps] with the consent
of the Local Authority & Managers. He will be reinstated
at the end of the war.
Mr Price, although wounded in France, did return to the school
in 1919.
Tragedy and Victory
In May 1916 Mr Davies received
the news which every household dreaded. He entered his tragic
news in the Log Book.
County Archives
R/E/PS/9/L/1
"The Headmaster has received the news that his only
son Lieut. Ralph Llewelyn Davies, Royal Air Force - and Flying
Instructor of pilots at Feltwell, Norfolk, has been killed -
aeroplane accident.
Under the circumstances the managers resolved to close the school
today for the Whitsuntide Vacation - 2 weeks-."
In November 1918 Cwmdeuddwr children joined Rhayader children in a march of victory around the town. For Mr Davies, like many others, victory had come at a terrible price.
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