{"id":7638,"date":"2011-12-06T13:48:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T13:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=7638"},"modified":"2011-12-06T13:48:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T13:48:48","slug":"cardiff-castle-celebrates-welsh-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2011\/12\/06\/cardiff-castle-celebrates-welsh-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff Castle celebrates Welsh soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Firing Line Museum honors Welsh soldiers of past and present<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff Castle\u2019s The Firing Line Museum is currently displaying its latest exhibition, A Soldiers Story. The temporary exhibition opened 10 October and will close 9 January 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition is displaying stories about the Welsh soldiers who have fought and contributed toward some of history\u2019s biggest wars. The exhibition archives stories of soldiers dating back to the Battle of Waterloo, all the way up to Welshman who are serving in Iraq.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/12\/Adams1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7811\" title=\"Adams1\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/12\/Adams1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/12\/Adams1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/12\/Adams1-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7811\" title=\"Adams1\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/12\/Adams1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/12\/Adams1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2011\/12\/Adams1-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sergeant John Adams who fought in the Battle of Waterloo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Museum Curator Rachel Silverson explains that she wanted the exhibition to provide visitors with personal, individual stories, \u201cA Soldier&#8217;s Story is about the people rather than the regiments they were in, it&#8217;s the individual stories that makes them more interesting and gives you a feel for the characters of our Welsh soldiers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Firing Line Museum honors Welsh soldiers of past and present &nbsp; Cardiff Castle\u2019s The Firing Line Museum is currently displaying its latest exhibition, A Soldiers Story. 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The exhibition archives stories of soldiers dating back to the Battle of Waterloo, all the way up to Welshman who are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":7814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1671,1672,1673,1674,664,1675,1676,1677,1678,1679],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-1st-kings-dragoon-guards","tag-a-soldiers-story","tag-alfred-riley","tag-battle-of-waterloo","tag-cardiff-castle","tag-herbert-pennington","tag-iraq-war","tag-john-adams","tag-the-firing-line-museum","tag-welsh-soldiers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cardiff Castle celebrates Welsh soldiers - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2011\/12\/06\/cardiff-castle-celebrates-welsh-soldiers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cardiff Castle celebrates Welsh soldiers - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Firing Line Museum honors Welsh soldiers of past and present &nbsp; Cardiff Castle\u2019s The Firing Line Museum is currently displaying its latest exhibition, A Soldiers Story. 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