Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Lamp or lighting
- District
- Newport
- Town
- Caeleon
- County
- Gwent
- Country
- Wales
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 3672
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Current location
Garden of Remembrance
High Street
Caeleon
Newport
Gwent
NP18 1AG
Wales
OS Grid Ref: ST 33800 90700
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Lamp on carved pillar with drinking fountain below. Plaques with the names of men from Caerleon, Caerleon Ultra Pontem, Ponthir and Llanhennock. Unusual listing of areas for this part of Wales. 'Ultra Pontem' is Latin and relates to that part of Caerleon on the Newport side of the River Usk.
- Inscription
- IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE. / THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED BY THE INHABITANTS / OF CAERLEON 7 DISTRICT / TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN WHO FELL / IN THE GREAT WAR / 3 other plaques: (Names) 5th plaque: and also in affectionate memory of those who fell 1939-1945 2 other plaques: (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Baulch, Percy
Berrow, Samuel
Bolton, Alfred
Brewer, Edmund
Cooke, Richard
Cording, Albert
Cording, Arthur
Daleymount, Sidney
Danks, Benjamin
Defries, Mervyn
See details for all 55 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 58
Served and returned: 0
Died: 58
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Rank, forename, initial, surname, regiment, additional
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 33
Served and returned: 0
Died: 33
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Lamp or Lighting
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Pillar
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Plaques
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze
- Lamp or Lighting
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
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