{"id":422,"date":"2007-02-27T14:51:21","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T13:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/?p=422"},"modified":"2016-05-20T09:10:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T08:10:07","slug":"memorial-38th-welsh-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/2007\/02\/memorial-38th-welsh-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial 38th Welsh Division (Somme)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/a\/monuments\/momugallois.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Face au bois de Mametz ce m\u00e9morial a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9riger pour rappeler le r\u00f4le de la 38th Welsh Division dans la capture de ce bois durant la bataille de la Somme en 1916 et en souvenir du sacrifice de ses soldats.<\/p>\n<p>Le monument repr\u00e9sente un dragon rouge en mouvement, crachant du feu et brisant les barbel\u00e9s.\u00a0Le dragon, \u00ab\u00a0Y Ddraig Goch\u00a0\u00bb en gallois, est le symbole du pays de Galles.<\/p>\n<p>Certains pensent qu&rsquo;il aurait \u00e9t\u00e9 l&#8217;embl\u00e8me de l\u00e9gions romaines pour \u00eatre adopt\u00e9 ensuite par les Gallois comme symbole de la lutte entre les Saxons et les Celtes.<\/p>\n<p>D&rsquo;autres \u00e9voquent une l\u00e9gende qui met en sc\u00e8ne deux dragons l&rsquo;un blanc (l&rsquo;envahisseur)l&rsquo;autre rouge. Selon cette l\u00e9gende le dragon blanc aurait prit la place du rouge dans sa caverne mais une fois lib\u00e9r\u00e9 ce dernier fini par l&#8217;emporter. Quoiqu&rsquo;il en soit c&rsquo;est un symbole fort de la lutte contre tous les envahisseurs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"image_block\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/a\/monuments\/dragongallois1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"425\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Face au bois de Mametz ce m\u00e9morial a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9riger pour rappeler le r\u00f4le de la 38th Welsh Division dans la capture de ce bois durant la bataille de la Somme en 1916 et en souvenir du sacrifice de ses &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/2007\/02\/memorial-38th-welsh-division\/\">Lire la suite <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.photoethistoire.eu\/14-18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}