I was more Patriotic Front than Free Wales Army but I put up this post deliberately with recently made up fotos, it never was quite like this but it's my tribute to 'Old Comrades' who did not make it to 2009. FWA Commandants Cayo & Coslett wanted an FWA in first place based on the 1916 Irish Volunteers, others more as the 'Old IRA', myself was thinking more as the Israeli Haganha. Whatever, an Investiture of an English Prince of Wales caught up with us and before we could do very much Organising, Training and Arming nine of us were seized on the 26 February 1969 and imprisoned, following a long trial three of us were sentenced to further imprisonment. The rest as they say is history but disputed history, for further information see my other blogs: As WELSH REMEMBRANCER, THE WELSH PATRIOT and ALTERNATIVE WELSH NATIONAL MOVEMENT & STRUGGLE History Archive.
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Many believe that the FWA was too ''Right Wing'' and should have gone left, as a Progressive & Popular National Liberation Front, at the time a solitary Anarcho - Syndicalist was attempting to sway FWA Volunteers towards something akin to James Connolly' Irish Citizen Army but it came to nothing. But what if it had? Go see my ASSYRIAN ROD alternate Welsh History Blog to consider such possibilities.
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Gethin 'Iestyn' ap Gruffydd.
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(PF Gen Sec 1967 - 69 & erstwhile FWA Volunteer)
