[:en]As the ‘Welsh Memorials’ project has gathered information about WW1 memorials from all over Wales, it has become clear that different parts of Wales can have different patterns of memorialisation. One clear generalisation is that industrial Wales had a greater number and variety of WW1 memorials than rural Wales. Although there are plenty of interesting…Continue Reading [:en]WW1 memorials in Morriston’s chapels[:cy]Cofebau i’r Rhyfel Mawr yng nghapeli Treforys[:]
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[:en]Joining the Dots – Part 2[:cy]Cysylltiadau – Rhan 2[:]
[: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[:]
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[:]
[:en]Stained glass windows in Welsh churches as WW1 memorials[:cy]Ffenestri Lliw wedi eu cysegru i Filwyr o Gymru a syrthiodd yn y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf[:]
[:en]There is, of course, a long tradition within the Christian religion of incorporating stained glass windows in churches which relate stories from the Bible, or of saints’ lives. There are a wealth of notable examples in churches in north Wales of windows created in the medieval or early modern period. In the Victorian period, when…Continue Reading [:en]Stained glass windows in Welsh churches as WW1 memorials[:cy]Ffenestri Lliw wedi eu cysegru i Filwyr o Gymru a syrthiodd yn y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf[:]
[:en]The ‘Dead Man’s Penny’: A family’s tribute to a fallen son[:cy]Ceiniog y Meirw: Teyrnged Teulu i’r Mab a Gollwyd[:]
[:en]At Boncath near Cardigan, two years following the end of hostilities in November 1918, a memorial obelisk was erected in the grounds of Vachendre Chapel in memory of Private Tom Lewis, who died on 27 September 1918 while a Prisoner of War. He was twenty-seven years old and was the son of Jonathan and Martha…Continue Reading [:en]The ‘Dead Man’s Penny’: A family’s tribute to a fallen son[:cy]Ceiniog y Meirw: Teyrnged Teulu i’r Mab a Gollwyd[:]
[:en]Dai Dupree [:cy]Dai Dupree[:]
[:en]“Thus the close of a life which had radiated joy into many a Swansea home” David Arthur ‘Dai’ Dupree/Du Pree (spellings vary) was evidently a remarkably popular young man. He was a keen rugby footballer, an enthusiastic member of Sunday school and, as the Herald of Wales noted, one of those people ‘so favoured by…Continue Reading [:en]Dai Dupree [:cy]Dai Dupree[:]
[:en]Memorials in a small rural village[:cy]Cofebau mewn pentref wledig[:]
[:en]As the ‘Welsh Memorials’ project gathers information of WW1 memorials from all over Wales, one pattern that it to be expected is that memorials in sparsely populated rural parts of Wales are generally less substantial that memorials from urban areas. It stands to reason that chapels and churches in these parts would not have provided…Continue Reading [:en]Memorials in a small rural village[:cy]Cofebau mewn pentref wledig[:]
[:en]The Battle of Armageddon[:cy]Brwydr Armagedon[:]
[:en]As the work of collecting details of a large number of Welsh war memorials continues, one aspect that we can study is what the people at the time called the conflict we now know as ‘World War One’. This can give us an indication of how they understood the war at the time. The most…Continue Reading [:en]The Battle of Armageddon[:cy]Brwydr Armagedon[:]