Royal Welsh Fusiliers 16th Battalion

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Memorial details

Memorial type: Flag or banner
District: Rhuddlan
Town: St Asaph
County: Clwyd
Country: Wales
Commemoration: Regimental Memorials, First World War (1914-1918)
Lost: Not lost
WM Reference: 17801

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Current location

Cathedral Church of Saints Asaph and Cyndeym
A525 High Street
St Asaph
Rhuddlan
Clwyd
LL17 0RD
Wales

OS Grid Ref: SJ 03890 74302
Denomination: Church in Wales

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Description

Memorial Standards with associated brass plaque

Inscription

THE 16TH BATTALION/ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS/WAS FORMED AT LLANDUDNO/IN NOVEMBER 1914 BY/COL. T.A.WYNNE-EDWARDS V.D./IT SERVED IN FRANCE AND/BELGIUM 1915-1918/./ON NOV 17TH 1918, BEING THE/FIRST BRITISH UNIT TO ENTER/THE VILLAGE OF OBRECHIES/AFTER THE EVACUATION BY THE/GERMANS, IT WAS PRESENTED/WITH A FLAG BY THE COMMUNITY./THIS FLAG TOGETHER WITH/THE KING'S COLOURS WERE DEPOSITED/IN THIS CATHEDRAL IN JUNE 1919/WHEN THE BATTALION WAS /DISBANDED

Inscription legible?

yes

Commemorations

Regimental Memorials
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined

Components

Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass
Flag
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Fabric

Condition

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Trust fund/Scholarship

No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A

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