Edward Callaghan of Newport was the Great Grandfather of Malpas (Newport, Gwent) Councillor Jane Mudd.

He served in the First World War in France, Egypt and Palestine where he died of fever on 9th October 1918.

He appears to have been a very convivial chap as his personal diary contains dozens of photographs of friends he made during his service.

Many were from different regiments, services and countries and many may also have lost their lives during the conflict.

The reproduced postcard (in the photographs) was sent to his wife (probably from a training camp at Farnley near Leeds) in 1915 as it shows a photo of a rather frightened looking Fox that the regiment (the 3/4th Welsh Royal Field Artillery) had brought from Newport, Monmouthshire, as a Mascot.

The first entry in his diary shows that he left Bradford in November 1915 bound for Southampton and Pont-Remy in the Somme area of France.

Otto Grotschel