Faced with Mametz

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Gorffennaf 1916. Daw Brwydr Coedwig Mametz i ben gyda thirwedd Ffrainc wedi’i rwygo’n sarn. O’r pedair mil o filwyr marw ac anafus, mae’r mwyafrif yn Gymry. Un ohonynt yw’r Preifat Ellis Williams, gwas fferm o Drawsfynydd, ac mae yntau’n ymladd am ei fywyd, wedi i’w wyneb gael ei andwyo gan shrapnel.
July 1916. The Battle of Mametz Wood comes to a pyrrhic end, shells and liquid fire having torn apart the French landscape. Of the four thousand dead or maimed, the great majority are Welsh. Among them is Private Ellis Williams, a Trawsfynydd farmhand. He grasps for life, his face devastated by shrapnel.