Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Stone of remembrance
- District
- Anglesey
- Town
- Benllech
- County
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945), First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 04th August 1922
Attended by: Mrs Lloyd-George, Local Clergy/Dignitaries
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 24443
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Current location
Junction of B5108 and B5025
Near Tesco Supermarket
Benllech
Anglesey
Gwynedd
LL74 8SR
Wales
OS Grid Ref: SH 51842 82871
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Rough-hewn irregular monolith on three-stepped base. Names on dressed marble tablets.
- Inscription
- 1914 - 1919/ CODWYD Y COLOFN/ HOH/ ER GOF/ AM Y DEWRION/ O'R BENLLECH A'R CYLCH/ A ABERTHOOD EU BYWYYDAU/ YN Y RHYFEL MAWR./ (Names and addresses)/ IN MEMORIAM/ PLWYFOLION GOLLWYD YN RHYFEL/ 1939 - 1945/ (Names and addresses)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Cymrian, S S
Dottefell, S S
Evans, Ed
Evans, Humphrey
Evans, Robert
Howdle, J E
Hughes, Hy W
Owen, Edward
Owen, William
Owen, Wm
See details for all 22 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 13
Served and returned: 0
Died: 13
Exact count: no
Information shown: surname,forename,additional
Order of information: surname - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 20
Served and returned: 0
Died: 20
Exact count: no
Information shown: surname,year died,additional
Order of information: surname
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Plaques / Panels with names
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble - Memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Limestone
- Plaques / Panels with names
- Condition
- Benllech Parish
- WMO ID: 131796
- Condition: Good [last updated on 05-04-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Holyhead Chronicle, Friday, 11 August 1922.
- Gwynedd Archaeological Trust: archwilio.org.uk/arch/query/page.php?watprn=GAT58684
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