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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Obelisk
- District
- Rhondda
- Town
- Porth
- County
- Mid Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 01st July 1922
Attended by: LT COL D WATTS MORGAN MP DSO
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 6864
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Current location
Porth County School
Cemetery Road
Porth
Rhondda
Mid Glamorgan
CF39 0BH
Wales
OS Grid Ref: ST 01752 91833
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- PORTH COUNTY SCHOOL FOR BOYS
Porth
Rhondda
Mid Glamorgan
Wales
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined
- PORTH COUNTY SCHOOL FOR BOYS
- Description
- Small obelisk on a square plinth, within a very low walled flower bed inside school hall.
- Inscription
- 1914-1918/ THESE ARE THEY WHO FOR GOD/ AN THEIR COUNTRY JEOPARDED/ THEIR LIVES UNTO DEATH./ (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Davies, C H
Davies, Haydn
Davies, Humphrey
Davies, Robert
Davies, Tom
Edwards, Walter
Elford, Harry
Evans, C Mays
Scary, Haydn
See details for all 9 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 40
Served and returned: 0
Died: 40
Exact count: no
Information shown: surname,forename
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Obelisk
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Obelisk
- Condition
- History
- MEMORIAL "RECENTLY" HAD GARDEN ADDED
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Responsibility
- SCHOOL
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