When war broke out, my grandfather Emlyn James was a journeyman ironmonger: after finishing his training in Llandrindod Wells, Radnorshire, he had gone to work in one of the mining towns in South Wales. He returned to Llandrindod and with a number of other young men from the town he enlisted in the Herefordshire Regiment on 11 September 1914, just two days before his 20th birthday. || Photograph of volunteers at Llandrindod Wells, before setting off for Hereford to enlist in the Herefordshire Regiment.

This is a post-war badge for Serbian volunteers who participated in any or all of the wars between 1912, which was the First Balkan War, up to the end of the First World War. The Serbian writing on the badge, 'RATNI DOBROVOLJAC', translates as 'War Volunteer'. It was manufactured by the firm of Griesbach and Knaus. || Badge for Serbian volunteers from 1912-1918.

2 brass shell cases with inscriptions about Harry Wells :- Shell one: Originally stamped Polte Magdebury April 1917. Engraved with C.S.M. H. Wells, 3rd King's Own Scottish Borderers 1915 France 1919 The shell case is mottled using a hammer & nail. The reverse contains a plated flower decoration. Shell two: Originally stamped Mar. 2, 1917 Dusseldorf. Engraved with C.S.M. H. Wells, 3rd King's Own Scottish Borderers 1915-France-1919. Sunflower plated on the reverse. || Harry Wells was a company sergeant major in the King's Own Scottish Borderers. He was in France looking after a German Prisoner of War camp there. He built up a friendship with a German POW and gave him cigarettes. The German fashioned two German brass shells into decorative poker holders / vases which he gave to Harry. The contributor (Harry's grandson) describes Harry as a compassionate man who went to church. Harry Wells died in 1967 and is buried in Banbury.