[:en]In a previous blog post we noted a few instances where individuals were commemorated on more than one memorial. This is to be expected if a man (or woman) had a connection with a number of institutions that felt the need, either as the war was being fought or at its end, to remember those…Continue Reading [:en]Joining the Dots – Part 2[:cy]Cysylltiadau – Rhan 2[:]
Year: 2017
Philip Dudley Waller
[:en]Rodney Parade is now home to the Newport Gwent Dragons Rugby Club. The entrance gate, however, serves as a memory to the club’s past. It is dedicated to the 85 members of Newport Athletics Club who lost their lives during the First World War. A large number of the names can be found in other…Continue Reading Philip Dudley Waller
[:en]The Hafod Isha Memorial, Swansea[:cy]Cofeb Gweithle Hafod Isha, Abertawe[:]
[:en]The ‘Welsh Memorials’ project is particularly interested in those war memorials that were established by particular communities to their men who were lost in the war. The most numerous of such memorials that we have collected come from chapels, but we are also interested in those that were created by schools, clubs and workplaces. For…Continue Reading [:en]The Hafod Isha Memorial, Swansea[:cy]Cofeb Gweithle Hafod Isha, Abertawe[:]
[:en]Joining the Dots[:cy]Adeiladu cysylltiadau[:]
[:en]Individuals belong to several communities at once, and have loyalties and relationships at many different levels. This was true – and perhaps more so – a hundred years ago. A young man who went off to war in 1914-18 might have his presence missed in different ways by the communities of which he was part…Continue Reading [:en]Joining the Dots[:cy]Adeiladu cysylltiadau[:]