Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Composite
- District
- Anglesey
- Town
- Llanfechell
- County
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: Monday 27th December 1920
Attended by: DAME MARGARET LLOYD GEORGE
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 24454
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Current location
Junction of Brynddu Road and Crown Terrace
Brynddu Road
Llanfechell
Anglesey
Gwynedd
LL68 0PY
Wales
OS Grid Ref: SH 36938 91226
Denomination: Church in Wales
- Description
- Square Neo-Gothic clock tower surmounted by a figure of a soldier in mourning pose, with head bowed and rifle reversed. Names on polished granite tablets and two additional plaques, commemorating Thomas Brothers and WW2. County coat of arms above inscription.
- Inscription
- FEL Y BYDDO HYM YN ARWYDD YN EICH MYSC CHWI, PAN/ OF YNNO EICH MEIBION CHWI YN OL HYN, CAN DDYWEDYD BETH/ Y MAE Y CERRIC HYN YN EI ARWYDDOCCAU I CHWI./ CYFODWYD Y COLOFN HON CAN DRICOLION LLANFECHELL/ A LLANFFLEWYN I GOFIO AM ABERTH Y DEWRION O'R/ PLWYFI HYM A CWYMPASANT YN Y RHYFEL MAWR DROS/ RYDDID A THRUS EU BRENIN A'U GWLAD. 1914-18./ (NAMES AND ADDRESES)/ THREE BROTHERS FORMERLY OF BRYNDDU/ (NAMES)/ 1939 - 1945/ (NAMES AND ADDRESSES)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Humphreys, Roger H
Jones, John Owen
Jones, Richard J
Jones, Robert
Lewis, Thomas Pritchard
Owen, Owen
Roberts, Owen
Thomas, Owen Vincent
Thomas, Robert Newton
Thomas, Trevor
See details for all 16 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 16
Served and returned: 0
Died: 16
Exact count: no
Information shown: rank,year died,regiment,place of death,forename,manner of death,relationships,additional
Order of information: rank
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Plaques / Panels with names
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Marble
- Memorial
- Condition
- Llanfechell War Memorial
- WMO ID: 139185
- Condition: Fair [last updated on 10-04-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- CLOCK FACES HAVE BEEN RENEWED AT SOME POINT
- Costs
Site: £600
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Gwynedd Archaeological Trust: archwilio.org.uk/arch/query/page.php?watprn=GAT66896
- HOLYHEAD CHRONICLE, FRIDAY 31 DECEMBER 1920.
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