Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Pillar / Column
- District
- Rhuddlan
- Town
- Prestatyn
- County
- Clwyd
- Country
- Wales
- Commemoration
- Second World War (1939-1945), First World War (1914-1918)
- Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 1920
Attended by: Undefined - Unveiled
Date: 09 November 1952
Attended by: Rt. Hon Nigel Birch OBE MP - Rededicated
Date: 09 November 1952
Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries - Show More (2)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 7157
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Current location
Christ Church
High Street
Prestatyn
Rhuddlan
Clwyd
LL19 9AR
Wales
OS Grid Ref: SJ 06703 82790
Denomination: Church in Wales
- Description
- Eleanor Cross on an octagonal four stepped base, with inset figure of a mourning soldier.
- Inscription
- A.M.D.G. / DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI / 1914-1918 1939-1945 / THEY WHOM / THIS MONUMENT / COMMEMORATES WERE / NUMBERED AMONG THOSE / WHO AT THE CALL OF / KING AND COUNTRY / LEFT ALL THAT WAS / DEAR TO THEM; / ENDURED HARDNESS, / FACED DANGER AND / FINALLY PASSED OUT / OF THE SIGHT OF MEN / BY THE PATH OF DUTY / AND SELF SACRIFICE, / GIVING UP THEIR OWN / LIVES THAT OTHERS / MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM. / LET THOSE THAT COME / AFTER SEE TO IT THAT / THEIR NAMES BE NOT / FORGOTTEN. / CEIR ETO EU GWEL'D / PAN WAWRIO'R DYDD / A'R GWRID YN AROS / AR EU GRUDD.
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Anderson, Thomas
Ash, John
Barnett, William J
Batters, Frank
Batters, George
Bowes, Roy
Bray, George Lld
Cook, Walter Q
Cooke, Charles W
Cooper, Charles
See details for all 66 names - Commemorations
- Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 46
Served and returned: 0
Died: 46
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename,decorations
Order of information: Undefined - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 66
Served and returned: 0
Died: 66
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname,forename,decorations
Order of information: Undefined
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Components
- Plaques
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Bronze - Memorial
Measurements: height 6001 mm
Materials: Stone - Portland
- Plaques
- Condition
- Prestatyn
- WMO ID: 194883
- Condition: Good [last updated on 15-09-2018]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- Bronze plaques replaced wooden ones in 1952. These were stolen in 1995 and the cost of replacing them was £8,000
- Costs
Site: £750
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Sponsorship
- Public
- Reference
- Carter Postcard Collection
- Circulars and newspaper cuttings relating to the memorial are in Flintshire County Record Office ref: D/DM/15
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