Mathern War Memorial

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Reference WMO/119057

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Chapel Lane/Bailey's Hay crossroad.

Mathern

NP16 6JR

Wales

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Latin cross
Materials:
  • Stone Limestone
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Grade: II Date Listed: 10 October 2000 Cadw Building ID: 24064 Designed by Eric Francis and H. Avray Tipping the Memorial was Dedicated on Whit Sunday 23rd May 1920. The cost of the Memorial was £290 and came from the Mathern War Charity Fund which was set up in World War One to send comfort parcels to local servicemen on active service. The railings were added at a later date and were paid for from the Fund. The base is of Bramley Fall Stone and the cross is of Hollington Stone. The land on which the Memorial is built was donated by the St. Pierre Estate. The Grade II listing describes the Memorial as follows - Constructed of Bath limestone ashlar in the form of a preaching cross. The base has three diminishing octagonal steps, the cross base is also octagonal as is the tapered shaft. The cross has a moulded base and finials, and chamfered sides.
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TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THOSE OF MATHERN PARISH WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918/1939-1945

Arnold, Robert Private 16953, Royal Marine Light Infantry: Chatham Division. Son of Thomas and Eliza Arnold of Rose Cottages, Mathern. Enlisted 20th January 1911 and died 22nd September 1914 aged 21 presumed drowned by sinking of H.M.S. Aboukir in the North Sea by German submarine U-9 when 527 men died. Commemorated on Chatham War Memorial. Closs, Samuel Percy Private 18544, 'D' Company, 6th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Son of John Maynard Closs (Builder) and Elizabeth Closs, of Mathern. Died 9th April 1916 aged 21 in Mesopotamia. Commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq. Davies, Reginald Private Reginald Davis 14308, 5th Battalion, South Wales Borderers. Son of Robert and Emma Davis (Baker & Grocer, Mathern) Died 30th July 1916 aged 20. Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France. Gibson, Edgar Daniel Private 44579, 8th Battalion Welch Regiment. Son of Robert (Quarry Blacksmith) and Eliza Gibson, Rose Cottage, Pwllmeyric. Died 20th September 1918 aged 25 in Mesopotamia and buried in the Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery Part I, Iraq. Gill, Walter Private 97720, 18th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps. Recorded death 26th October 1918 and buried at St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen. France. Please note: According to three sources, Gill Private 97720 died on 10 December 1917 aged 29 (b 1888) and had a widow Florence, of 23 Symon's St., Higher Broughton, Salford, Manchester and he is buried at Tincourt New British Cemetery. Grimmer, Albert Edward Private 22270, Norfolk Regiment. Died on 4th June 1916 aged 20. Son of Walter and Georgiana Grimmer, of Elm Cottage, Little Ormesby, Great Ormesby, Norfolk. Commemorated on the Arras Memorial in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, Arras, France. Huggett, Wyndham Henry Second Lieutenant, 4th Bn. attd. 10th Bn South Wales Borders. Son of John and Elizabeth Huggett of Ifton Hill Farm. Died 24th April 1916 and buried at La Gorgue Communal Cemetery, Nord, France. Jones, Sydney John Private 352638, 2nd/9th Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Died 9th October 1917 aged 20. Son of William and Laura Jones, of 94, Brecon Rd, Hirwaun, Aberdare. Commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium for the missing in Belgian Flanders. In 1911 William and Laura Jones lived at Moynes Court, Mathern where William was a gardener. Luckett, Christopher John Private 33939, 2nd Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Died 9th October 1916 aged 25. Son of James (Farm Labourer) and Amelia Luckett, of The Row, Mynyddbach. Native of Mathern. Buried at St Sever Cemetery, Rouen, France. Price, George Phillip L\CPL G/69573 The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. Died 21st September 1918. Lived in St Pierre and is commemorated at Vis-en-Artois Memorial, France. Prickett, Christopher Albert Edward Private 352637, 12th Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Died 25th April 1918 aged 19. Son of Albert and Elizabeth Jane Prickett, of Mathern. Buried at Forceville Communal Cemetery Extension, near Albert, France. Prickett, Ernest Edmund George Private 2299, Rifleman, 1st Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment. Son of Sydney James and Annie Prickett of Mounton and 25, The Avenue, Bulwark, Chepstow. Killed in action 8th May 1915 aged 20. Commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Stanton, Claude Wilfrid Captain, 1st Battalion (Territorial), Monmouthshire Regiment. Killed in action 8th May 1915 aged 24. Son of Joseph Wilfrid Stanton and Blanche Isabel Stanton, of Mathern House, Mathern. Commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial Belgium. Warlow, Albert Sapper 19902, 56th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Died France and Flanders 25th November 1914 aged 28. Son of John and Mary Warlow, of Manor Farm Crick Chepstow. Buried at Cement House Cemetery, Langemark, Belgium. Second World War Cook, Arthur Malcolm F Sergeant 1067230, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 23 Sqdn. Died over Europe on 9th September 1942 aged 22. Son of Johnathan and Victoria Cook, of Usk, Monmouthshire. Commemorated on Runnymede Memorial, Surrey. Saunders, Thomas Henry Private 5932106, Suffolk Regiment 1st Bn. Died at or near Dunkirk on 24th May 1940. Son of George and Edith Saunders; husband of Nancy Ellen Saunders, of Hereford. Buried in Cretinier Cemetery, Wattrelos, Nord, France Watkins, William Victor Gunner 1721607, 608 Battery 183rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery. Died in Folkestone, Kent on 15th September 1944 aged 35. Son of Herbert and Maud Watkins; husband of Florence Emily Watkins of Chepstow. Buried in Mounton Church Cemetery.

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