Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Cross
- District
- Dwyfor
- Town
- Porthmadog
- County
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945), First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 25th March 1922
Attended by: Rev J J Evans BA
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 24485
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Current location
Top of Bryn Coffa (Memorial Hill) near entrance to Ysgol Eifionydd
High Street
Porthmadog
Dwyfor
Gwynedd
LL49 9HT
Wales
OS Grid Ref: SH 56669 39265
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Tall rough-hewn Celtic wheel style cross on square plinth with inset name panels, set on top of Bryn Coffa (Memorial Hill), also known as Ynys Galch. The surrounding garden is entered through an archway with "Bryn Coffa" inscribed on it, and the path that climbs to the memorial is marked at 10 foot intervals by marker stones bearing the dates of the World Wars. WW2 names on four free-standing plinths marking the corners of the paved area in which the Memorial stands.
- Inscription
- Entrance gateway: BRYN COFFA (Memorial Hill)/ 1914-1918 1939-1945/ WW1 Memorial - 12 o'clock face: BOED COF BYTH/ AM EU DEWRWAITH DRUD,/ DROS RYDDID BRO, DROS WAREIDDIAD BYD (Let the memory be everlasting of their costly brave work, For the freedom of neighbourhood, the civilisation of the world.) / EIFION WYN./1914 "THERE ARE NO DEAD" 1918/ (Names)/ 6 o'clock face: (Names)/ WW2 Plinths: ER COF (In memory of)/ 1939 - 1945/ LLYNGES FRENHINOL (Royal Navy)/ (Names)/; 1939-1945/ Y FYDDIN (Army)/ (Names)/; 1939 - 1945/ LLU AWYR (Air Force)/ (Names)/; 1939 - 1945/ LLYNGES FASNACH (Merchant Navy)/ (Names)/ Additional inscription: IN MEMORY OF NINETY-SEVEN FALLEN WAR HEROES OF MADOC VALE (Exact location and line spacing unknown)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Anthony, Frank
Ashton, James
Berndtson, Albert
Biddlestone, Albert
Blockley, Richard Barry
Cartwright, Samuel
Casson, Randal Alexander
Coffin, Albert Glyn
Coffin, Ronald Idris
Davies, Ernest Arthur
See details for all 156 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 59
Served and returned: 0
Died: 59
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Service, surname, rank, regiment, forename
Order of information: Undefined - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 97
Served and returned: 0
Died: 97
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, rank, regiment, forename
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Cross
Measurements: height 7014mm
Materials: Granite
- Cross
- Condition
- MADOC VALE HEROES
- WMO ID: 99650
- Condition: Good [last updated on 13-07-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- PLAQUES OXIDISED BUT LEGIBLE
- Costs
Memorial: Land donated by Mr W Morris Jones
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Reference
- Other website: historypoints.org/index.php?page=porthmadog-war-memorial
- South Caernarvon & Merioneth Leader, 9th May 1946.
- Holyhead Chronicle, Friday 31 March 1922.
- Gwynedd Archaeological Trust: archwilio.org.uk/arch/query/page.php?watprn=GAT65250
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