• Extracts from An Uprooted Community

*** Why Epynt? Herbert Hughes remarks that: 'One argument for selecting Epynt was that, because of its "soft", peaty nature, it wouldbe safer for artillery training. Shells would not be impacting on hard rock, rebounding and splintering dangerously. (The range at Trawsfynydd, in Gwynedd, was apparently closed for this reason and Epynt retained.)' (p. 102)

Below is a selection of first-hand testimonies relating to the evictions as well as copies of the documents of requisition.

Comments by Rev J. Dyfnallt Owen in the weekly Union of Welsh Independents' press in protest of the expulsions (p. 98):

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A copy of the document requisitioning land, which the owner had to sign (p. 93):

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A copy of the earliest Requisition Order, dated 4 March 1940 and sent to Mr George Evans, Gilfach-yr-haidd:

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The reminiscences of the evictions by Mr Ronald Davies (as recorded on television in 1972, p. 85). The author of Uprooted Communities, Herbert Hughes, notes the unreliability of first-hand testimony (in the prices recorded for the selling of animals for example), but values his description of the trauma:

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A letter from Mrs Edna Williams (who lived with her parents and two brothers at Llawrdolau), to the Western Mail (3 August 1993) in reply to a published letter by Lieutenant Colonel Roger Hayes, Commandant at the camp:

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The Welsh Nationalist Party considers the evictions an act of tyranny by a larger nation against a smaller one: Download
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