Abertillery County Intermediate School WW1 Memorial

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Reference WMO/196704

Address:

Blaina Heritage Museum

High Street

Blaina

NP13 3BN

Wales

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Bronze Plaque in a wooden frame with raised lettering. Originally displayed in Abertillery County Intermediate School but moved to Blaina Heritage Museum when school was demolished. Dedicated to 'Our Glorious Dead', 1914 - 1918, 'In Honoured Memory of the Masters & Boys of this School who Fell in the Great War'. Plaque now housed in Blaina Heritage Museum. It was assumed by museum volunteers that the plaque originated from the former Blaina County School. However the names on the bronze plaque did not correspond with another roll of 'staff and past scholars serving with the colours', in the care of the museum, which is explicitly attributed to the Blaina County School. An investigation into the names on the 1911 census suggested that the plaque most likely originated from a school in Abertillery. Another piece of the jigsaw fell into place when the bronze plaque was compared with a wooden memorial to the teachers of Monmouthshire Intermediate Schools who were killed in the First World War; this memorial was in County Hall, Cwmbran for many years but has now been transferred to Usk, new HQ of Monmouthshire Council. The first 3 names on the bronze plaque, which are positioned above and separate from the other 2 columns hint at some hierarchy and indeed, 3 teachers are named on the Monmouthshire Intermediate Schools' Memorial (now at Usk), which include the following 3 names: René P. M. Gardeur, Charles S. Reed and Owen Jenkins, all of Abertillery. Finally, the jubilee souvenir for Abertillery County School published in 1946 was tracked down and consulted and sure enough, the list of names in its roll of honour from the Great War corresponded with the names on the bronze plaque in Blaina Museum. Currently named on IWM Register as Abertillery Grammar School.
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OUR GLORIOUS DEAD/ 1914 1918 / IN HONOURED MEMORY OF / THE MASTERS & BOYS OF THIS SCHOOL / WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR / [NAMES] / 'THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE' /

OWEN JENKINS RENE M .GARDEUR / C. SYDNEY REED / GEORGE ADNEY WALTER PROSSER / A. REGINALD BEVAN EMRYS ROBERTS / GWYN A .H .DAVIES C. GORDON RUMSEY / JOHN H. DAVIES CYRIL SALT / FRANK EMANUEL BERTIE O.P. SHORT / JOHN GREGSON ALBERT SIMMONDS / GRENVILLE HOBBY WILLIAM H. SUTTTON / EDGAR HUNT ERIC R. THOMAS / DOUGLAS JAMES AUSTIN WERRETT / WILLIAM M KEYSE E. GORDON WILLIAMS / J. VICTOR MARSTON FRANK WILLIAMS / IEUAN PHILLIPS NORMAN WILLIAMS / T. REGINALD ALLEN CYRIL J.E. JONES GEORGE L. WILLIAMS /

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