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Mumbles War Memorials
and Rolls of Honour
Mumbles, situated on a headland, is on the western edge of Swansea Bay
Mumbles War Memorial at Southend Gardens
1914-18 and 1939-45
Since 1945
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1914-18 Rood Screen Memorial
1939-45 Memorial & Book of Remembrance
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WW1 and WW2 Memorials
1914-18 and 1939-45 Memorials
The Shrine, 1918
Parade Gardens, Mumbles
and the change into a stone memorial
over the years, until 2011
Murton Methodist and
Saint Teilo’s Parish Church
Boar War, 1914-18 and 1939-45
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Extra Information by Conrad Heath
Murton men and women
More Memorials & Rolls of Honour
1914 - 18
Assembled by Kate Jones and John Powell
Displayed at Oystermouth Library November 2018
'At the going down of the sun . . . '
from Mumbles Baptist Church
Roll of Honour & Extracts from the logbook
at Nanna Todd's in Southend Parade
By Carol Powell
Close on one hundred years ago, Robert and Margaret Todd ran a greengrocery-cum-sweet shop, at The Parade.
The displays were gradually and tragically transformed into spontaneous tributes to those who failed to return home, becoming Mumbles' unofficial Memorial.
At Newton Village Hall, Mumbles
Dedicated to those who lived and trained
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# Williams Harry Radcliffe
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Service number: 282479 2nd/7th Bn., Lancashire Fusiliers
Died on 17 November 1917
Remembered with Honour
TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Passchendaele, Belgium
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Lieutenant William Arthur Shenstone DAVIES served
in the Swansea Battalion (14th Welsh Regiment)
but was wounded 'On Active Service,'
later reenlisting and serving as a Lance Corporal
in the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Researcher: Alun Bevan
28 October 2021 Second World War :
QUIRK John - Photo added from Helen Rees
by Kate Jones
by Kate Jones
Mumbles Men and The Battle of Mametz Wood >
Among the losses were three from Mumbles, serving with the 14th Swansea Service Battalion of the Welsh Regiment, who all died on the same day - 10 July 1916.
100 Years: The Battle of Passchendaele
The Six Mumbles Casualties Lost
Mumbles Remembers
Commemorating
1918 - 2018
November 2018, marks the centenary of the end
of the Great War (1914-18) that
'War to End All Wars'
Photos: Oystermouth Library display 2018
under construction
Nurses Lucy and Margaret Wood
Two nurses photos have been added to
Red Cross Hospitals in Mumbles during The Great War by Carol Powell M.A.
Donated by their decendant Penny Hehir
MUMBLES WAR MEMORIALS RESEARCH PROJECT
This website forms the culmination of some twenty-five years' research by Tony Cook, Peter Dover-Wade, Andrew Vollans and myself, John Powell.
A story too painful to narrate by Gwynne Hodge
opens in A History of Mumbles
Harry Libby
by Mumbles United Comforts Fund and Correspondence Committee
Reviewed by Carol Powell MA
Editor: It is evident throughout the (almost) six years, that this series of letters were a true labour of love, of pride and patriotism and richly deserving of republication here.