My Mum's family are all from Wales - and I used to love my Grandma's sing-song Welsh accent - they come from the Rhondda Valley area of South Wales - where coal mining used to be prevalent - so most of the men worked down the mines 100 years ago - then the Great Depression forced my Grandpa to move to Chessington in South London (Surrey) - and he joined The Royal Artillery Regiment - and was sent out to India - when it was a British colony initially - then later was in the British Expeditionary Force in France before WW2 - then the Nazi's chased them out of France via Dunkirk - and he was then sent to North Africa and fought at El Alamain - then was at the Anzio landings in Italy - where the British and Americans started the long haul of chasing the Nazi's out of Italy - but he got injured by shrapnel - and had to be sent back to England - to recover in a hospital - we did visit Wales a few times over the years - and the people/family we met were all good people -Hey I'm 5% Welsh!