Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Monmouth
- Town
- Abergavenny / Y Fenni
- County
- Gwent
- Country
- Wales
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Rededicated
Date: Palm Sunday 1998
Attended by:
- Rededicated
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 17566
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Current location
North nave wall
St Mary's Church
Monk Street
Abergavenny / Y Fenni
Monmouth
Gwent
NP7 5 ND
Wales
OS Grid Ref: SO 30096 14144
Denomination: Church in Wales
- Previous locations
- Monmouthshire Asylum/Monmouth Mental Hospital (Later Pen y Fal Hospital)
Sarno Square
Abergavenny / Y Fenni
Monmouth
Gwent
NP7 5JT
Wales
OS Grid Ref: SO 30544 14438
Denomination: Undefined
- Monmouthshire Asylum/Monmouth Mental Hospital (Later Pen y Fal Hospital)
- Description
- Rectangular brass plaque mounted on black board. First World War Memorial with a Second World War name added.
- Inscription
- GWELL ANGAU NA GWARTH (Translation: Better death than dishonour)/ In memory of the following men of the staff/ who fell in the Great War – 1914 to 1918./ (4 Names)/ (Name)/ SECOND WORLD WAR 1939 - 1945
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Evans, William Ernest
Hall, Arthur
Hawker, Arthur Allan
Rollings, Sydney
Williams, John Brinley
See details for all 5 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 4
Served and returned: 0
Died: 4
Exact count: no
Information shown: Forenames, surname, regiment
Order of information: surname - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: no
Information shown: Forenames, surname, service
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass
- Plaque
- Condition
- ABERGAVENNY ASYLUM EMPLOYEES - WW1+2
- WMO ID: 106378
- Condition: Good [last updated on 13-06-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Ray Westlake, First World War Graves and Memorials in Gwent, Volume 1 (Wharnecliffe Books, 2001), p. 21
- Other website: www.stmarys-priory.org/stmaryschurch/history.php (Accessed: 24/09/2021)
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