August 4th 2014 marks 100 years since the outbreak of World War One. Millions of soldiers from Wales and the rest of the UK enlisted to fight in the conflict, which lasted for four years between 1914 and 1918.
Lynda Osborne tells ITV News about the remarkable story of her Grandfather Robert Phillips, who escaped from a German prisoner of war camp during the First World War. Robert managed to escape and make his way back to Wales, where he arrived on Christmas Day 1916.
Lynda, from Hengoed in the Rhymney Valley, has spent years researching his story in time for the World War One commemorations on August 4th.
People across Wales are switching off their lights for an hour this evening and lighting a candle of remembrance.
ITV Wales correspondent Richard Morgan writes about his experience of researching the stories behind those killed in the Great War
All in one place: See some of ITV Wales's reports marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War here.