Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Stone of remembrance
- District
- Aberconwy
- Town
- Llanfairfechan
- County
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 1980
Attended by:
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 65713
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Current location
A few hundred yards from The Druids' Circle
towards Llanfairfechan.
On top of hillside
Llanfairfechan
Aberconwy
Gwynedd
LL34 6ED
Wales
OS Grid Ref: SH 721 763
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Rough hewn Stone of Remembrance. Slate tablet has dedicatory inscription and list of names.
- Inscription
- TO THE CREW OF/ BACHELOR'S BABY/ B-24J LIBERATOR 429994/ KILLED IN THE CRASH/ JANUARY 7TH 1944/ (Names)
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 5
Served and returned: 0
Died: 5
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, initials of forenames
Order of information: surname for the crew followed by the Dog
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Tablet
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Slate - Welsh - Stone of remembrance
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Tablet
- Condition
- American Liberators
- WMO ID: 225914
- Condition: Undefined [last updated on 11-02-2016]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Bachelor's Baby Memorial www.penmaenmawrmuseum.co.uk/news-content-eng- Penmaenmawr Museum 23rd May 2018 Memorial removed for inspection. An online appeal has raised over £600 and it is hoped to have the memorial re-instated in time for the 75th anniversary of the crash in January 2019.
- Other website penmaenmawr.a-wing.co.uk/index.php?topic=104.0 Website seems defunct.
- North Wales Pioneer 6 February 2022
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