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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Obelisk
- District
- Taff-ely
- Town
- Pontyprydd
- County
- Mid Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 6 August 1923
Attended by: Field Marshal Viscount Allenby GCB GCMG etc. Rev. F.R. Williams Chaplain to 5th Battalion the Welch Regiment
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 6784
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Current location
Accessed by a path off Common Road (known as Pontypridd Common)
Coed-Pen-Maen Common
Pontypridd Common
Pontyprydd
Taff-ely
Mid Glamorgan
CF37 4DB
Wales
OS Grid Ref: ST 07790 90303
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- Obelisk with regimental badge on the 12o'clock face surmounting a square stone plinth with a large WW1 tablet and smaller WW2. On the other faces are tablets of the places of engagement all in black lettering. The whole is set on two steps and a base and surrounded by metal railings.
- Inscription
- 6 o'clock face: 5TH BATTALION / THE/ WELCH REGT / THE GREAT WAR / 1914 - 1918 / TO THE / GLORIOUS MEMORY / OF THE / OFFICERS N.C.O.S and MEN/ OF THE / 5TH BATT. THE WELCH REGT. / WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES / FOR KING AND COUNTRY / AND / IN GLORIOUS MEMORY / OF THOSE WHO FELL / IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR / 1939 - 1945 // 3 o'clock face: GALLIPOLI // 9 o'clock face: PALASTINE // 12 o'clock face: EGYPT
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: Undefined
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: Undefined
Died: Undefined
Exact count: yes
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Fence/ Railing
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Metal - Base
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Obelisk
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Plinth
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone - Tablets
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Stone
- Fence/ Railing
- Condition
- 5th Battalion the Welch Regiment
- WMO ID: 242408
- Condition: Good [last updated on 20-08-2019]
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- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Reference
- Wellington Journal & Salisbury News - 11August 1923 - pg.9 col.3
- Carter Postcard Collection
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