Holyhead war memorial

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Reference WMO/120526

Address:

Victoria Road

Holyhead

LL65 1UT

Wales

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Cenotaph
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
  • Stone Granite
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
  • Falklands Conflict (1982)
About the memorial: Standing on the pavement, beside the road, adjacent to the junction with Victoria Terrace. A pale granite cenotaph, upon a three-tiered base, surrounded by chained bollards. The general commemoration is in Welsh on the front (south) face, and in English on the rear (north) face. On the front and rear faces are four bronze tablets in total, listing by service, or ship, in surname alphabetical order, surname first followed by initials, the names of 281 men and 3 women who died in WW1. On a smaller bronze plaque on the front face are listed the names of 5, highly decorated casualties, including one Victoria Cross winner, all of which but one are also listed on the main tablets. On either end of the cenotaph is a bronze sculptured effigy, to the east of a sailor, and to the west a soldier. Beneath these two figures are additional granite tablets commemorating the names of 140 who died in WW2, again listed alphabetically by surname, followed by initials. On the west end there is a further commemoration to a Welsh Guardsman killed in the Falklands War, 1982.
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(Front, south face) GWRONIAID Y RHYFEL MAWR 1914 - 1918. ........... CYFODWYD Y GOLOFN HON GAN DRIGOLION CAERGYBI ER COF AM Y RHAI A FU FARW DROS RYDDID CYFIAWNDER A GWAREIDDIAD EU HENWAU A BERY O GENHEDLAETH I GENHEDLAETH. (Rear, north face) HEROES OF THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918. ....................... THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY THE INHABITANTS OF HOLYHEAD IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED FOR LIBERTY RIGHTEOUSNESS AND CIVILIZATION THEIR NAMES SHALL ENDURE THROUGHOUT ALL GENERATIONS.

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