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The Welshman Whose Extraordinary Discovery Ended the First World War
By Ruth Mosalski/ Wales News/ First World War/ Wales Online/ walesonline.co.uk
"Ernest Rollings' discovery shortened the war and saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
He was the modest Neath policeman soldier described as “the man who ended the war”.
Ernest Rollings was a WW1 soldier who thought his part in the war ended when he was shot in the head.
He survived and returned to work as a policeman - but more than a decade later he found out the papers he took from a farmhouse in France contained the information which brought the war to an end.
The plans he recovered from a farmhouse in a French village contained details of “every machine gun post, trench mortar battery and fortified position” of Germany’s impregnable Hindenburg defensive line.
It is estimated the information he found shortened the war by a year and saved 500,000 British lives.
The information the then-25-year-old Lieutenant captured led to one of the last great offensives of the war, and forced an Armistice.
Before that offensive it had been expected to last until 1919...."
Ernest Rollings (Image: South Wales Police Museum)
Richard
By Ruth Mosalski/ Wales News/ First World War/ Wales Online/ walesonline.co.uk
"Ernest Rollings' discovery shortened the war and saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
He was the modest Neath policeman soldier described as “the man who ended the war”.
Ernest Rollings was a WW1 soldier who thought his part in the war ended when he was shot in the head.
He survived and returned to work as a policeman - but more than a decade later he found out the papers he took from a farmhouse in France contained the information which brought the war to an end.
The plans he recovered from a farmhouse in a French village contained details of “every machine gun post, trench mortar battery and fortified position” of Germany’s impregnable Hindenburg defensive line.
It is estimated the information he found shortened the war by a year and saved 500,000 British lives.
The information the then-25-year-old Lieutenant captured led to one of the last great offensives of the war, and forced an Armistice.
Before that offensive it had been expected to last until 1919...."
Ernest Rollings (Image: South Wales Police Museum)
Richard