Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Obelisk
- District
- Vale Of Glamorgan
- Town
- Cowbridge
- County
- South Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Regimental Memorials
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 1st November 1922
Attended by: Earl of Plymouth - Dedicated
Date: 1st November 1922
Attended by: Bishop of Llandaff - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 6722
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Current location
West side of A48 Cardiff Cowbridge Road
St. Hilary Down
Cowbridge
Vale Of Glamorgan
South Glamorgan
C71 7DR
Wales
OS Grid Ref: ST 01617 73971
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Obelisk with inset inscription panels. Glamorgan Yeomanry Crest on front face.
- Inscription
- TO THE/ IMMORTAL MEMORY OF THOSE/ OFFICERS, N.C.O.S & MEN/ OF THE/ GLAMORGAN YEOMANRY/ WHO FELL IN/ THE GREAT WAR BATTLE HONOURS/ EGYPT 1916 - 1917/ GAZA JERUSALEM/ JERICHO TELL ASUR/ 1917 - 1918/ PURSUIT TO MONS/ FRANCE AND FLANDERS/ SOMME AND BAPAUME/ 1918
- 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 - Regimental Memorials
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Obelisk
Measurements: depth 2700MM, height 12000MM, width 2700MM
Materials: Stone
- Obelisk
- Condition
- GLAMORGAN YEOMANRY OBELISK
- WMO ID: 116559
- Condition: Good [last updated on 08-02-2019]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Illustrated London News - Saturday 11 November 1922 SCIENCE JOTTINGS (photograph) AN INSPIRING LANDMARK FOR SOUTH WALES: THE NEWLY UNVEILED GLAMORGAN YEOMANRY WAR MEMORIAL ON STALLING DOWN. The Glamorgan Yeomanry War Memorial was unveiled on November 1 by the Earl of Plymouth, and dedicated by the Bishop Llandaff. The obelisk stands on Stalling Down, a high moor near Cowbridge, and is visible far and wide. Over the tablet bearing the inscription is the regimental crest. Photograph by E. Aubrey Roberts.
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