Memorial details

Memorial type
Wall
District
Newport
Town
Newport
County
Gwent
Country
Wales
Commemoration
First World War (1914-1918)
Lost
Not lost
WM Reference
38222

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Current location

Described as built into the wall of a supermarket in a side street.
Powells Place
Stow Hill
Newport
Newport
Gwent
NP20 1TP
Wales

OS Grid Ref: ST 31042 88016
Denomination: Undefined

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Description
Marble tablets on a brick wall. Regimental Crest at left, Welsh Dragon at right. Tablet at left records restoration. At extreme left a low relief sculpture of the 2nd Battle of Ypres.
Inscription
HERE STOOD STOW HILL DRILL HALL / FROM WHICH SALLIED NEWPORT'S OWN / TERRITORIAL SOLDIERS, THE FIRST (RIFLE) / BATTALION THE MONMOUTHSHIRE REGIMENT, / TO FIGHT FOR BRITAIN AT THE OUTBREAK OF / TWO WORLD WARS / THEY WROTE THE SADDEST YET MOST / GLORIOUS CHAPTER IN NEWPORT'S HISTORY ON MAY THE 8TH 1915, WHEN IN AN HEROIC / STAND AGAIST GREAT ODDS BEFORE YPRES, / THE MONMOUTHSHIRES HELPED TO BAR THE / GERMAN FROM THE CHANNEL PORTS. / OF THEIR STRENGTH OF 500, ONLY 129 OFFICERS AND MEN SURVIVED. Additional tablet at left: THIS MEMORIAL / WAS RESTORED ON / THE CENTENARY OF THE 2ND / BATTLE OF YPRES / WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF / CADW / THE HERITAGE LOTTERY FUND/ THE WAR MEMORIAL TRUST/ AND THROUGH/ PUBLIC DONATION / (Final line not recorded)
Inscription legible?
yes
Commemorations
  • 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
  • Wall
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Brick
  • Plaques
    Measurements: Undefined
    Materials: Granite
Condition
Trust fund/Scholarship
No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A

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