Last month I posted my grandfather's reminiscences about World War I: see http://doubtingmichael.livejournal.com/15079.html. Here's the rest of that interview, about his life down the mines.

Thanks again to history_monk for assistance getting this material ready, and of course to my parents (WINOLJ) for doing the original interview and transcription.

( Cut for length, and because working in a mine was not much better than being in the trenches )

In 1970 my grandfather, Wilfred Watkins, talked to my mother about his life, and she and my father recorded it and transcribed it. He was 16 when World War I started, and already a mine worker in the South Wales valley. I thought today was a good day to post his recollections about what he did in the war.

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