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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Meirionnydd
- Town
- Blaenau Ffestiniog
- County
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 12th November 1920
Attended by: Mr Thomas Jones, Westminster
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 24514
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Current location
On East wall
left of altar.
St David's Church
Church Street
Blaenau Ffestiniog
Meirionnydd
Gwynedd
LL41 3HB
Wales
OS Grid Ref: SH 69828 45976
Denomination: Church in Wales
- Description
- Marble tablet mounted on a slate
- Inscription
- ER GOGNIANT I DDUW AC ER COF ANNWYL/ AM Y BECHGYN O EGLWYS ST. DEWI/ A GWYMPASANT YN Y RHYFEL MAWR/ 1914 - 1918/ (Names)/ "HUNANT MEWN HEDD"
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Edwards, Matthew
Evans, Thomas R
Jones, George H
Jones, John S
Jones, William
Lighfoot, James
Robert, John
Roberts, Jean
Roberts, Robert F
Williams, Hugh G
See details for all 13 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 13
Served and returned: 0
Died: 13
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Surname, forename, regiment
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- First World War memorial
Measurements: height 840mm, width 1070mm
Materials: Marble - Backboard
Measurements: height 940mm, width 1170mm
Materials: Slate
- First World War memorial
- Condition
- St David's Parishioners WW1
- WMO ID: 246520
- Condition: Good [last updated on 05-05-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Holyhead Chronicle, Friday 12 November 1920.
- Gwynedd Archaeological Trust: archwilio.org.uk/arch/query/page.php?watprn=GAT71433
- Evans, Nansi, Jones Eleri, Rhestr Cofebion Blaenau Ffestiniog Ffestiniog Trawsfynydd a Maentwrog. Porthaethwy Ynys Môn Anglesey: Cymdeithas Hanes Teuluoedd Gwynedd, 1998.
- ROBERTS, M. S., LEST WE FORGET
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