Mountain Ash Town And District

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Reference WMO/253891

Address:

Dyffryn Road

Mountain Ash

Wales

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Cenotaph
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Unknown
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Cenotaph with four reliefs on alternate sides, a soldier, sailor, airman and a nurse. Surmounted by a robed female figure with a raised left arm holding a dagger, standing over a fallen male.2010: Replacement bronze panels made. Arranged by Rhondda Cynon Taf and the Royal British Legion. Date Unknown: planned restoration works to refurbish the memorial which was vandalised 8th August 2008: Four bronze reliefs of figures stolen. c2006: Refurbished. The Walesonline website reported on June 3rd 2010 that the memorial had been restored and rededicated.
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THE GREAT WAR 1914-19/ SONS OF THIS TOWN/ AND DISTRICT/ LET THIS OF YOU BE SAID:/ THAT YOU WHO LIVE ARE WORTHY OF YOUR DEAD/ THESE GAVE THEIR LIVES/ THAT YOU WHO LIVE MAY REAP/ A RICHER HARVEST/ ERE YOU FALL ASLEEP/ FOR IN THEIR PASSING/ THEY HAVE CONQUERED DEATH/ AND THROUGH THE YEARS SHALL/ SHINE THEIR UNDIMMED YOUTH/ WHOSE DAUNTLESS COURAGE/ WAS THE LIVING BREATH/ OF FREEDOM AND OF CHIVALRY/ AND TRUTH.

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