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Radnorshire there are various memorials
and rolls of honour dedicated to those men and
women who fell in various wars. These memorials and
rolls cover many centuries in some cases, mostly though
it is World War One and Two.
During
any conflict there are certain acts of bravery or
defiance that are noticeable above others. For these
acts citations and medals have been awarded.
If
anybody has information for those of the Second World
War, Boer War, or the like similar to those supplied
for the First World War then I would gladly post these
as well.
Please
Note: Every attempt has been made to transcribe this
information accurately but there are occasions that
the information supplied is incorrect or errors occur
during transcription. We do not wish to cause offence
to any families of the men detailed here and will
change the relevant information when informed.
Also
note that places detailed on these memorials may appear
in the wrong county. This information has been transcribed
from the records given and, as the men were parochial,
the information supplied at enlistment was the view
of the men and the county they thought they resided
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These
pages are available for transcripts of these
memorials and rolls of honour. If you have a
transcription of, or you are willing to transcribe,
a Radnorshire memorial or roll of honour for
these pages then please contact me, the email
address is below.
Current
acknowledgements for assistance with these pages
must go to others - thank you all.
Thank
you,
Martin
Edwards
email:webmaster@roll-of-honour.com |
The
various memorials
and cemeteries maintained by the War Graves Commission
for the Western Front are described and pictured on
the Internet. Details of Kranji War Cemetery
and Taiping can be found in the Overseas
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World
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Pre-1914
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gain an overview of all the towns and parishes covered,
and hopefully to be covered, by this site there is
an alphabetical
index.
Much
information about soldiers who fell, were awarded
medals and more is to be found in old copies of the
London
Gazette. Here is a brief resume:
The
London Gazette, first published in 1665, is the
oldest, continuously published newspaper in the
United Kingdom and probably the world. The London
Gazette and its sister publications, the Edinburgh
and Belfast Gazettes, have a unique position in
British publishing. They are official newspapers
of the Crown. The London Gazette contains a wide
range of office notices including State, Parliamentary
and Ecclesiastical notices, Transport and Planning
notices as well as Corporate and Personal Insolvency
notices to name a few. In addition, a number of
Supplements are published covering Honours and Awards,
Premium Bonds, Armed Forces Promotions and Re-gradings,
Companies' information, etc. and a Quarterly Index.
In
the 17th century, it was believed that National
efficiency depended on the intelligence received
by the Crown and that the reckless publishing of
news might endanger it. An embargo on the printing
of news other than reports of events abroad, natural
disasters, Royal declarations and sensational crime
continued until 1640. This had the effect of delaying
the development of the press in the UK. Censorship
was introduced in 1643, followed by licensing of
news publications. The Gazette came about because
of two momentous events: the Great Plague and the
decision of King Charles II to remove his court
- effectively the government of the time - to Oxford.
The London Gazette started life as the Oxford Gazette
and after a few months changed to its current title.
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Some
of the cap
badges are laid out, on a separate page.
Not
all memorials were to people; there are memorials
to various types of animal that served and fell
in World War I for example, dogs.
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A
War Memorial once stood in Llyswen, a small village between
Hay on Wye and Builth Wells. It was destroyed some years
ago by a runaway lorry that crashed into it. The replacement
is a much more modest monument and has been relocated to
a safer place in the village. Huw Parsons has a poem written
about it:
Bang the Bomb
The bomb, as us boys called it,
Bronze pinnacle of our daring — do, Was in fact
an artillery shell,
That graced our war memorial,
Firmly placed
Up high and safely out of reach.
So I climbed the monument,
Intent on mischief and bedevilment, With pockets full
of heavy stones,
To bang against the bomb and listen to its bell like
tones,
Whilst praying that it was indeed a dud
And I would never see a blinding flash,
Or hear that hideous detonating thud,
Before it vaporised me, half the village
And my agricultural peers, busy with their far off tillage.
I remember all this childish play like yesterday
And how the tip of the bomb was truncated
And there located,
Was a square hole for an Allen key type spanner,
In which I'd sometimes leave a tanner,
To reward my fearless friends, who in return
Left Galaxy chocolate, Milky Ways and bars from Mars
And how this shell was totally indestructible,
Resisting all our bungled attempts at bomb disposal,
With penknives, the only tools at our disposal,
Which was just as well because on a better day,
It might have ticked, then exploded,
Spreading us throughout the galaxy
And melting us into the milky way.
Then in autumn, I'd leave beside the bomb,
Carefully positioned from prying eyes,
My tribute to those left under Flanders skies.
So I'd make a little shrine,
Of rows of apples in neat lines
Pip Squeak and Pigs Snout for battalions wiped out,
Newton Wonders for military blunders, Charles Ross for
heavy loss,
Frogmore's Prolific and Court of Wick,
For brave fusiliers and grenadiers,
Russets for the buffs,
Ten Commandments for the hell bent Ypres Salient,
Nonsuch Peasgood for Mametz Wood,
Dabinettes for fixed bayonets
And Bramley Seedlings to stop the bleeding
Huw Parsons, November 2010, peevishbeebooks@yahoo.co.uk
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Last
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4 August, 2021
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