The Truth, I doubt if the truth will ever in our life times come into the public domain and I doubt if it will ever become written history but will ever remain the folk lore Free Wales Army as romantic a myth one day as the other heroes of mists of Cymru. From Gwerin Owain to the Red Bandits of Dinas Mawddwy, Rebeccites and Scotch Cattle to the 'night riders' of Meibion Glyndwr, all now part of a fast disappearing Welsh Nationalist 'Dream of Freedom'. Whatever, I have my truth and others have theirs but lets not get too caught up in worrying the bones of that old carcass of Cymru, instead lets get creative with some 'Alternate History' and let posterity consider be it fact, fiction or fantasy.
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So, what if? following FWA Commandant in Chief Cayo Evans surrendering FWA arms to the Special Squad established to hunt down Freedom Fighters of the Welsh Resistance to the Investiture of an Englishman as Prince of Wales, Command Dennis Coslet led a military hard line take over, that saw he take command of the FWA. Whilst the PF/FWA sought no more than some ''Barricades & Bobbies'', Paris'68 style street action in Caernarfon during Investiture week in July of 1969, more hard line FWA elements sought action more along lines of the Easter Rising in Dublin 1916 and in Lithuania during 1923.
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What if? this was to be a reality and whilst PF members and other radical patriots broke ranks and continued with their "Barricades & Bobbies" plan to cause chaos to disrupt the Investiture, their ultimate goal being to stop Carlo and entourage et al making it to the Castle, so halting the Investiture. Meanwhile the hard line militarist elements of the Free Wales Army led by Dennis Coslet had taken up positions in Caernarfon Town, from these occupied positions they were preparing for armed action. Upon realising this the authorities had no other option than to order in regiments of the British Army who had been camped in a number of positions around Caernarfon with security issues in mind and the possibility of what was now occurring in Caernarfon town.
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Well at least in this What If? story which I and your good selves may develop along two lines, an account of what becomes known as the 1969 Caernarfon FWA insurrection and secondly what would have been the long term outcome on Welsh History up to present. Also consider doing an Alternate History Time Line as per these fictional events as from 1969 to present day. Indeed, really creative patriots may wish to design alternate stamps and money based on this alternate history, do note post soon on concept and realisation of 'Alternate Money' as the United States of Islam etc.
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See below for some info on the FWA, you can search the web further yourselves and of course view posts in AWNMS Blog (see below) and not least read TO DREAM OF FREEDOM and the soon to be published book: FREEDOM FIGHTERS, see my reveiews in my other blogs: Welsh Remembrancer, The Patriot and Adfywiad Gwladgarol. Please keep in mind fantasy is better than the real thing, no chance of you dieing or getting horribly wounded, something youth never fully appreciates?
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So, what if? following FWA Commandant in Chief Cayo Evans surrendering FWA arms to the Special Squad established to hunt down Freedom Fighters of the Welsh Resistance to the Investiture of an Englishman as Prince of Wales, Command Dennis Coslet led a military hard line take over, that saw he take command of the FWA. Whilst the PF/FWA sought no more than some ''Barricades & Bobbies'', Paris'68 style street action in Caernarfon during Investiture week in July of 1969, more hard line FWA elements sought action more along lines of the Easter Rising in Dublin 1916 and in Lithuania during 1923.
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What if? this was to be a reality and whilst PF members and other radical patriots broke ranks and continued with their "Barricades & Bobbies" plan to cause chaos to disrupt the Investiture, their ultimate goal being to stop Carlo and entourage et al making it to the Castle, so halting the Investiture. Meanwhile the hard line militarist elements of the Free Wales Army led by Dennis Coslet had taken up positions in Caernarfon Town, from these occupied positions they were preparing for armed action. Upon realising this the authorities had no other option than to order in regiments of the British Army who had been camped in a number of positions around Caernarfon with security issues in mind and the possibility of what was now occurring in Caernarfon town.
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Well at least in this What If? story which I and your good selves may develop along two lines, an account of what becomes known as the 1969 Caernarfon FWA insurrection and secondly what would have been the long term outcome on Welsh History up to present. Also consider doing an Alternate History Time Line as per these fictional events as from 1969 to present day. Indeed, really creative patriots may wish to design alternate stamps and money based on this alternate history, do note post soon on concept and realisation of 'Alternate Money' as the United States of Islam etc.
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See below for some info on the FWA, you can search the web further yourselves and of course view posts in AWNMS Blog (see below) and not least read TO DREAM OF FREEDOM and the soon to be published book: FREEDOM FIGHTERS, see my reveiews in my other blogs: Welsh Remembrancer, The Patriot and Adfywiad Gwladgarol. Please keep in mind fantasy is better than the real thing, no chance of you dieing or getting horribly wounded, something youth never fully appreciates?
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Free Wales Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
July, 1969: The Criminal Investigation Department's operation "Cricket" comes to fruition with the arrest of the FWA leadership. ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Wales_Army - 34k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
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Below is a copy of the oldest White Eagle poster, I know of. Done by Toni Lewis I believe. Whatever, it is now in the ALTERNATE WELSH NATIONALIST MOVEMENT & STRUGGLE archive blog, see http://awnms.blogspot.com
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Below is a copy of the oldest White Eagle poster, I know of. Done by Toni Lewis I believe. Whatever, it is now in the ALTERNATE WELSH NATIONALIST MOVEMENT & STRUGGLE archive blog, see http://awnms.blogspot.com
