Llangollen War Memorial

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Reference WMO/154079

Address:

Castle Street

Llangollen

Wales

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Wheel cross
Materials:
  • Stone Granite
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Standing on the corner of a street junction, enclosed by posts and chains to the front, and a low, granite block wall to the rear. Only the cross is mentioned in IWM. It is clear from comparing the 1990s photographs with the more recent ones that significant restoration has taken place. A polished grey granite wheel cross, the cross decorated with celtic designs, standing upon a pyramidal plinth, upon a two-tiered square base. The main memorial shows the general commemoration on the front face, and commemorates the names of 71 Llangollen men who died in WW1 on one side and the rear face, whilst on the last face commemorates the men from the parish of Llantysilio, 12 of whom died in WW1 and 3 in WW2. Adjacent to the cross, against the wall is a smaller, square monument commemorating 29 men from Llangollen who fell in WW2. All the lettering is incised in gold letters and the names are arranged in surname alphabetical order, listing full first names, sometimes initials, and surname. Around the base of the plinth are epitaphs in Welsh and English
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(On the base of the cross) ERECTED IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF LLANGOLLEN AND LLANTYSILIO PARISH WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR (On the plinth) 1914 - 1918 THEY WHOM THIS MEMORIAL COMMEMORATES WERE NUMBERED AMONG THOSE WHO AT THE CALL OF KING AND COUNTRY LEFT ALL THAT WAR DEAR TO THEM, SUFFERED HARDSHIP, 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 WHO COME AFTER SEE TO IT THAT THEIR NAMES BE NOT FORGOTTEN. THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE (Around the base) 'LIVE THOU FOR BRITAIN WE FOR BRITAIN DIED', 'MEWN ANGHOF NI CHANT FOD', 'YN EU GWAED SAFODD EIN GWYR YN YR ADWY'N WAREDWYR', 'THERE IS A LIFE IN DEATH' (On the WW2 memorial) 1939 - 1945 (Below) 'ON TO THE LIGHT THAT NEVERMORE SHALL FADE'

(WW1 - right face) LLANGOLLEN. RICHARD AMBROSE. LLOYD ANDREWS. CHARLES CARRINGTON. ALFRED JAMES CANDY. WILLIAM CLUTTON. STEENIE DAVIES. DAVID DOWNEY. WILLIAM HENRY DOVE. HAROLD DEAN. THOMAS EDWARDS. DAVID RICHARD EDWARDS. ARTHU WYNN EDWARDS. FRED CECIL EDWARDS. FRED EDWARDS. JOHN MORTON EDWARDS. WILLIAM EDWARDS. WILLIAM MORRIS EDWARDS. GEORGE JAMES ELLIS. EDWARD EVANS. HENRY EVANS. JOHN EDWARD EVANS. JOHN EVANS. GEORGE M. GALE. JOHN R. GALE. JOHN CLIFFORD. JOHN HARRIS. JOHN H. HUGHES. WILLIAM HUGHES. WILLIAM DAVID HUGHES. WILLIAM OWEN HUGHES. DAVID HUMPHREYS. STEPHEN JASPER. (rear face) LLANGOLLEN. PHILIP JOHNSON. DAVID HUGH JONES. EDWARD JONES. GRIFFITH T. JONES. JAMES JONES. JOHN JONES. R. F. MAYBURY JONES. R. AMBROSE JONES. JOHN HENRY JONES. ROBERT EDWARD JONES. LLEWELYN JONES. JOSEPH EDWARD KIRBY. GRIFFITH LLOYD. WILLIAM LLOYD. DAVID R. MORRIS. RICHARD MORRIS. DAVID MORGAN. JOSEPH NANSON. ERIC HENRY OLLEY. DAVID OWEN. EDWARD T. OWEN. ARTHUR PARRY. BENJAMIN PRYDDERCH. CHARLES JOHN REEVES. HUGH ROGERS. EDWARD ROBERTS. JOHN BRISCOE ROBERTS. JONATHAN ROBERTS. JOHN ROBERT ROBERTS. THOMAS ROBERTS. DOUGLAS ROBERTSON. WALTER ROBERTSON. JOHN DENNIS ROWLANDS. ARTHUR THOMAS WALLIS. GERALD H. WEBSTER. DAVID WILLIAMS. GEORGE WILLIAMS. JOHN HENRY WILLIAMS. PERCY WILLIAMS. (WW1 - left face) LLANTYSILIO PARISH. EDWARD BRADSHAW. THOMAS CHARLES BOND. WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES. DAVID ELLIS. GORONWY JONES. WILLIAM OWEN JONES. EDWARD EVAN LLOYD. PETER MORRIS. GWILYM ROBERTS. JOHN EDWARD ROBERTS. GEORGE OLIVER THOMAS. JAMES STANLEY THORNE. 1939 - 1945 EDWARD JARDINE. JOHN ADRIAN LEWIS. JOHN OLIVER ROBERTS. (WW2 memorial) HENRY CUNLIFFE. H. A. CHOLMONDLEY. HAROLD DAVIES. ROBERT GWILYM DAVIES. JOHN DAVID ELLIS. GEORGE EVANS. HORACE GARNER EVANS. JOHN PRITCHARD EVANS. ARTHUR WYNN EVANS. LEONARD EDWARDS. THOMAS FELLOWS. ERNEST HUGHES. IDRIS WYNN HUGHES. ROBERT VINCENT JONES. ALEXANDER JONES. THOMAS JONES. ROBERT EDWARD JONES. IVOR ALCUIN JONES. EDMUND R. E. LLOYD. MAX MOUNA. JOHN JAMES MILLER. GEORGE PECK. ERIC JONES ROBERTS. R. HYWEL ROBERTS. I. GLYN ROBERTS. ISAAC ROBERTS. GWYN WILLIAMS. DOUGLAS WILLIAMS. CHARLES L. WILSON.

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