The Researchers at Mametz, The Somme, France, 1999
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 (2nd from left).
More: concerning the research project with photos
In 2017, fifteen additional names of the Mumbles fallen, were inscribed on two plaques . . .
. . . the plaques were added to the rear of the Rood Screen Great War Memorial at All Saints' Church, on to which ninety eight names were originally inscribed and which together commemorate 113 fallen villagers. More:
100 Years: The Battle of PasschendaeleLATEST UPDATE - 21-03-2019 161261, Pilot, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Died 13 May 1944, aged 22 on Active Service in a flying accident at Melton Mowbray. Sergeant, 966315, 9 Sqdn. Royal Air Force Died 22 December 1940, aged 21 On Active Service in an air accident at Eastbourne, whilst returning from operations over Northern Italy Flying Officer, 187828, R.A.F. Volunteer Reserve JONES George Leeson 127237, R.A.F. 207 Squadron, Bomber Command. Died 15/16 July 1944, aged 30 Lost over France during Air Operations A long lost hero has been found, by researcher J. T. Saint Teilo’s Church Bishopston MemorialHe has his own page-click this link Pte Richard R. EVANS; G/20855, Govers Lak, Church Lane, Bishopston, The Buffs (East Kent) 6th Bn, Arras Memorial to the Missing. Son of David White Evans and Eva Henrietta Evans. The club has unveiled a Memorial Plaque, to the memory to Lemuel Philip Ace, a Professional Golfer and Groundsman at the club before he joined the army over 100 years ago. -More | Faces from the Great War Nurses Lucy and Margaret Wood Two nurses photos have been added to Donated by their decendant Penny Hehir  Two Bishopston Churches and Swansea Museum Great War Exhibition The display included a blade from the propeller of the submarine U-9, which in October 1914 sunk HMS Hawke with the loss of 497 men and 26 officers plus her captain. This tragic total includes Joseph William Hughes, from Mumbles # more details |
Features:
Mumbles Headland Anti-Aircraft & Coastal Defence Batteries
Life in Wartime Mumbles
The American GIs in Mumbles and Gower
This Memorial is dedicated to the American Forces
who lived and trained in Mumbles, Caswell
and surrounding areas during the Second World War