Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Undefined
- Town
- Talysarn
- County
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: May 1920
Attended by:
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 13389
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Current location
St John's Church (Redundant)
Church Street
Talysarn
Gwynedd
LL54 6HP
Wales
OS Grid Ref: SH 48877 53039
Denomination: Church in Wales
- Previous locations
- Dorothea Quarry
Talysarn
Arfon
Gwynedd
Wales
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined - January 2019 Reported that after the quarry closed they were placed outside St John's Church Talysarn. St John's is now being sold the memorials are with the local undertakers for safe keeping but are to be placed in the Macpelah Cemetery in Penygroes.
Macpelah Cemetery is at SH 47506 53446 LL54 6RH Carmel Road
Local Undertakers Firm
Gwynedd
Wales
OS Grid Ref: Undefined
Denomination: Undefined - Show More (1)
- Dorothea Quarry
- Description
- TABLET SURMOUNTING BRICK BASE WITH GRAVEL ON THE GROUND AROUND IT
- Inscription
- CHWARELAU DOROTHEA. / GOSODWYD YR AWRLAIS UCHOD ER COFFADWRIAETH AM HEDDWCH, AC AM / Y RHAI O'R CHWARELAU HYN A GOLLASANT EU BYWYDAU YN Y RHYFEL MAWR, / 1914 - 1918. / (NAMES) / "BUONT FEIRW I NI GAEL BYW, / MEWN ANGHOF NI CHANT FOD." / H.H.J. PENYGROES. MEDI, 1920.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Brown, James
Dawson, James
Fraser, Henry C
Gillanders, J Erwin
Oliver, Walter H
Rae, John D
Robertson, Thomas
Smith, Joseph
See details for all 8 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 8
Served and returned: 0
Died: 8
Exact count: no
Information shown: surname, year died,place of death,forename,additional
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Undefined
- Memorial
- Condition
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Gwynedd Archaeological Trust: archwilio.org.uk/arch/query/page.php?watprn=GAT71723
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