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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Mr. W. G. Sweet. The oldest of four children, all of whom became well known figures in their native Usk, George Sweet joined the Monmouthshire Regiment (part of the Territorial Infantry Force) in 1912, and served in the 2nd. (Pontypool) Battalion throughout the First World War, until 1919. The memoir was written in 1921, from notes he had made as the events occur- red. He ultimately took over management of the prosperous building firm founded in Usk by his father, and ran it until his death in 1977. Barry Johnson is a lecturer at Gwent College of Higher Education, Caerleon, and secretary of the South Wales Area of the Western Front Association, an organisation which was formed with the aims of furthering interests in the period 1914-18, and perpetuating the memory, courage and com- radeship of those, of both sides, who served their country in France and Flanders during that era. J. Gwynfor Jones Department of History of Wales, University of Wales in Cardiff, P.O. Box 78, Cardiff CF1 1XL. A native of the Conwy valley in north Wales. A Senior Lecturer in Welsh History in the School of History and Archaeology, University of Wales College of Cardiff. A specialist in sixteenth-century Welsh social and cultural history who has published several articles in that field. Is about to publish a new edition of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir's History of the Gwydir Family.