Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Arfon
- Town
- Bangor
- County
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 21st March 1919
Attended by: Captain T. F. Perkins - Unveiled
Date: 11th November 2019
Attended by: Undefined - Rededicated
Date: 11th November 2019
Attended by: Undefined - Show More (2)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 51511
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Current location
On the wall outside the staff office on platform 1.
Bangor Railway Station
Holyhead Road
Bangor
Arfon
Gwynedd
LL57 1LZ
Wales
OS Grid Ref: SH 57551 71644
Denomination: Undefined
- Previous locations
- St Davids Church
Caernarvon Rd
Bangor
Arfon
Gwynedd
LL57 2XZ
Wales
OS Grid Ref: SH 57308 71325
Denomination: Church in Wales
- St Davids Church
- Description
- Wall-mounted black marble tablet with incised red lettering. Red cross at top centre with Union Flag to the left and red flag with letters B.R.I. to the right. Moved to Bangor Station now that St David's Church has closed.
- Inscription
- "LEST WE FORGET"/ IN MEMORY OF THEIR COMRADES/ (Names)/ WHO DIED WHILE SERVING THEIR COUNTRY 1914-1919/ THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY THE BANGOR RAILWAY INSTITUTE BOYS CORPS./ "BE THOU FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH /AND I WILL GIVE THEE A CROWN OF LIFE."
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Cooil, Caesar Alfred
Cooil, John Demtith
Cox, William
Hill, Alexander Scott
Holland, Edgar
Hughes, John Idwal
Hughes, William Samuel
Roberts, Benjamin
Roberts, John Samuel
Roberts, Robert
See details for all 16 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 16
Served and returned: 0
Died: 16
Exact count: yes
Information shown: forenames, surname
Order of information: surname, forename
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: depth 914mm, width 427mm
Materials: Marble - Black
- Tablet
- Condition
- Bangor Railway Institute Boys Corps WW1
- WMO ID: 265795
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 19-02-2020]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Gwynedd Archaeological Trust: archwilio.org.uk/arch/query/page.php?watprn=GAT71571
- Some Bangor Railwaymen - and WW1: Gwreiddiau Gwynedd Roots Hydref/Gaeaf - Autumn/Winter, Cyfrol/Volume 2 - 2019, Rhif/Number 77, p. 53.
- Proposal: Ail-leoli cofeb rhyfel rheilffordd o Eglwys Dewi Sant i orsaf drenau Bangor / Re-location of railway war memorial from Eglwys Dewi Sant to Bangor railway station: diogel.gwynedd.llyw.cymru/swiftlg/apas/run/WPHAPPDETAIL.DisplayUrl?theApnID=C19/0690/11/CR&backURL=Search Criteria > Search Criteria'>Search Results Planning Application Reference Number: C19/0690/11/CR
- Application for Listed Building Consent for removal and relocation of the Railwaymen War Memorial from St David’s Church to Bangor Railway Station: diogel.gwynedd.llyw.cymru/swiftlg/imagetemp/52137-417902.pdf
- Daily Post: www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/bangor-railway-station-could-honour-16669451
- BBC News, 'Bangor rail workers' war memorial is offered new home': www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-49157278
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