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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Composite
- District
- Taff-ely
- Town
- Miskin
- County
- Mid Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945), First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 17th April 1920
Attended by: UNKNOWN
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 6776
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Current location
Junction of Hensol Road in the middle of the village
18
Hensol Road
Miskin
Taff-ely
Mid Glamorgan
CF72 8JT
Wales
OS Grid Ref: ST 04655 80867
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Two-stepped base surmounted by plinth and elaborate Eleanor cross with inset carved figures on each of the four faces - soldier, sailor, airman and a nurse. Inscription in white lettering on polished black granite tablets affixed to the sides of the plinth. On two stepped square base Wreath carved in relief above each inscription
- Inscription
- Face 1: THOSE WHO FELL IN THE/ GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919/ (Names)/ THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE/ BLOTTED OUT, THEIR NAMES/ LIVETH TO ALL GENERATIONS Faces 2&3:- THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE/ GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919/ (Names) Face 4: BE THOU FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH/ AND I WILL GIVE THEE/ A CROWN OF LIFE
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Allridge, T
Anstes, F
Anstes, F J
Attwood, L I
Barrett, S
Bart, Sir Rhys William
Bartlett, A
Bartlett, C
Bartlett, J B
Bassett, E
See details for all 63 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 4
Served and returned: 0
Died: 4
Exact count: no
Information shown: rank,regiment,forename
Order of information: Undefined - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 49
Served and returned: 40
Died: 9
Exact count: no
Information shown: rank,regiment,forename,decorations
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Tablets
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Granite - Black - Memorial
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Portland
- Tablets
- Condition
- Miskin
- WMO ID: 152987
- Condition: Good [last updated on 24-04-2019]
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- History
- C LATE 1990'S: ORIGINAL INSCRIPTION CUT INTO BLACK GRANITE TABLETS WHICH WERE THEN AFFIXED TO THE SIDES OF THE PLINTH
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
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