Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Serviceman / Servicewoman
- District
- Ceredigion
- Town
- Aberporth
- County
- Dyfed
- Country
- Wales
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Maker
- Messrs T Jones (Sculptor)
J Thomas Jones (Sculptor) - Ceremony
- Dedicated
Date: 11 Aug. 1922
Attended by: UNKNOWN
- Dedicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 12699
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Current location
HEN GAPEL CEMETERY
Aberporth
Ceredigion
Dyfed
Wales
OS Grid Ref: SN 266 506
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- SOLDIER FIGURE SURMOUNTING BLACK GRANITE COLUMN.
- Inscription
- TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD/ IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR BRAVE AND NOBLE SOLDIERS AND/ SAILORS, FROM THE PARISHES OF BLAENPORTH AND ABERPORTH/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR (1914-18)/ (NAMES)/ THEIR NAMES SHALL REMAIN FOR EVER AND EVER/ AND THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT./ (NAMES)/ THEY GAVE UP THEIR OWN LIVES THAT OTHERS/ MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM/ SECOND WORLD WAR/ (NAMES)/ 1939-45/ IN LOVING MEMORY/ (NAMES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Davies, O J
Edwards, T
Griffiths, T
Harper, W
James, J Selwyn
James, W G
Jenkins, O
Jones, D
Kane, T
Morgan, Tom
See details for all 18 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 18
Served and returned: 0
Died: 18
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank,place of birth
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 16
Served and returned: 0
Died: 16
Exact count: no
Information shown: rank,place of birth
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Column
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Black - Figure
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Carrara
- Column
- Condition
- Blaenporth And Aberporth
- WMO ID: 252909
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 01-01-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Cardigan and Tivyside Advertiser 11th August 1922
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