This map shows the location (or former location) of 25 memorials commissioned by Welsh metalworks to commemorate their workmen who served in the First World War. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1gH4oBlW7H_N5R9atUzkvy-sAJYEbgQlq&usp=sharing Further information, including links to websites about these memorials, can be found here: Name (English) Type of works Company No of names who died No of names who…Continue Reading Mapping the distribution of WW1 memorials in Welsh metalworks
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[:en]Photographs of WW1 Servicemen (and women) in the South Wales Echo[:cy]Lluniau’r South Wales Echo o’r dynion a’r menywod a wasanaethodd yn y Rhyfel Mawr[:]
[:en] A very familiar sight in many of the newspapers of Wales during the First World War was a page with numerous photos of servicemen. This was particularly the case for the larger newspapers – smaller local newspapers did not have the technology to include photographs. Browsing through the excellent collection of online newspapers digitised…Continue Reading [:en]Photographs of WW1 Servicemen (and women) in the South Wales Echo[:cy]Lluniau’r South Wales Echo o’r dynion a’r menywod a wasanaethodd yn y Rhyfel Mawr[:]
[:en]Mapping the distribution and characteristics of WW1 memorials in Welsh chapels[:cy]Mapio lleoliadau a nodweddion cofebau i’r Rhyfel Mawr mewn capeli Cymru[:]
[:en]Here are a series of maps which seek to visualise the patterns of distribution in the collection of 500+ First World War memorials which are (or were) in Welsh chapels. MAP 1 This map shows the locations of where these memorials were established (bear in mind that many have been relocated, and a depressing number…Continue Reading [:en]Mapping the distribution and characteristics of WW1 memorials in Welsh chapels[:cy]Mapio lleoliadau a nodweddion cofebau i’r Rhyfel Mawr mewn capeli Cymru[:]
Jewish Memorials to the First World War in south Wales
In the first months of the First World War, the South Wales Daily News printed a page of photographs every day showing the latest developments in the war, in particular focusing upon recruiting across south Wales. A month after Britain’s declaration of war against Germany the newspaper published this picture, showing five Jewish recruits in…Continue Reading Jewish Memorials to the First World War in south Wales
[:en]Twenty First World War Memorials in Cardiff[:cy]Ugain o gofebau rhyfel yng Nghaerdydd[:]
[:en]There are literally hundreds of war memorials in Wales’ capital. In fact there are over a hundred memorials to the First World War in the city. These range from the enormously impressive Welsh National Memorial in Cathays Park to modest brass tablets. This blog will concentrate not on the numerous visible memorials that can be…Continue Reading [:en]Twenty First World War Memorials in Cardiff[:cy]Ugain o gofebau rhyfel yng Nghaerdydd[:]
[:en]WW1 memorials in clubs in south Wales[:cy]Cofebau Anrhydedd y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf yng nghlybiau de Cymru [:]
[:en]Many different kinds of organisations commissioned their own memorials during or after the First World War. Many of the blog posts on this website focus on chapel memorials, but there are also examples shown of church, workplace and school memorials. Looking across the board, it is clear that most of these institutions do not exist…Continue Reading [:en]WW1 memorials in clubs in south Wales[:cy]Cofebau Anrhydedd y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf yng nghlybiau de Cymru [:]
[:en]The Mannesmann Memorial, Swansea[:cy]Cofeb Mannesmann, Abertawe[:]
[:en]I have recently been sent an image of the World War One memorial to the war dead who had previously worked for the British Mannesmann Company, based in Landore, Swansea (with thanks to Bernard Lewis and Pam McKay). The works is long gone and so also, presumably, is this memorial. However, the family of Hubert…Continue Reading [:en]The Mannesmann Memorial, Swansea[:cy]Cofeb Mannesmann, Abertawe[:]
[:en]A Welsh Memorial?[:cy]Cofeb Gymreig?[:]
[:en]I recently received from the Revd Jennie Hurd a picture of a memorial in a Welsh chapel, which at the time of the First World War was a Wesleyan chapel known as Cefnblodwel. It is rather typical of the kind of memorial found in Welsh rural chapels: a marble slab with details of two…Continue Reading [:en]A Welsh Memorial?[:cy]Cofeb Gymreig?[:]
[:en]Mapping Welsh Memorials to the Great War[:cy]Mapio Cofebau Cymreig i’r Rhyfel Mawr[:]
[:en]A new resource has been developed which illustrates some of the material gathered on the First World War memorials and rolls of honour in Wales. Funded by the Living Legacies 1914-18 Engagement Centre, the Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis at Queen’s University Belfast has worked with the information gathered by the ‘Welsh Memorials’ project,…Continue Reading [:en]Mapping Welsh Memorials to the Great War[:cy]Mapio Cofebau Cymreig i’r Rhyfel Mawr[:]
[:en]Images of WW1 memorials in Welsh chapels[:cy]Lluniau o gofebau i’r Rhyfel Mawr yng nghapeli Cymru[:]
[:en]Here are images of some of the First World War memorials in Welsh chapels referred to in the book chapter: Gethin Matthews, ‘Angels, Tanks and Minerva: Reading the memorials to the Great War in Welsh chapels’ in Martin Kerby, Margaret Baguley and Janet McDonald (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Artistic and Cultural Responses to war….Continue Reading [:en]Images of WW1 memorials in Welsh chapels[:cy]Lluniau o gofebau i’r Rhyfel Mawr yng nghapeli Cymru[:]