Welsh Memorials in France and Flanders
The Great War
Two Memorials commemorate the fallen of Wales:
One in France at Mametz Wood and the one in Flanders
Wales' Fallen Honoured
In Flanders
A lasting monument to Welsh soldiers who died in The Great War has been unveiled in Flanders on Saturday 16 August 2014. The cromlech built in The Welsh Memorial Park, Langemark, near Ypres, Belgium, marked the 100th anniversary of the war's outbreak.
Langemark, Belgium
Mametz Wood Memorial
On the 11th July 1987 at 3pm a Memorial in the form of a Red Dragon, was dedicated to the fallen and injured.
to the 38th Welsh Division
Their website has photographs of the construction of the memorial.
Mametz Wood was the objective of the 38th (Welsh) Division during the First Battle of the Somme (France), between 7th and 12th July 1916. By the 12th July the wood was effectively cleared of the enemy, but the Welsh Division had lost about 4,000 men killed or wounded.
38th (Welsh) Division Memorial,
Mametz Wood
The Welsh Red Dragon
The 1997 Tour by OHA to France & Flanders
