Memorial

Carmarthen / Caerfyrddin - 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers

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Current Location

Town Centre, Lammas Street, Carmarthen, Carmarthen, Dyfed, SA31 3AP, Wales

SN 40960 20069

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Type of Memorial: Obelisk
WMR Reference Number: 6923
Description: Chamfered obelisk with ball flower ornament and plum of feathers finial, originally golden, on octagonal base with quatrefoils in turn on a square and enclosed by cast iron railings in the form of crossed muskets.
Inscription: FRONT: MINDEN. EGYPT. CORUNNA. MARTINIQUE. ALBUERA. BADAJOZ. SALAMANCA. / VITTORIA. PYRENEES. NIVELLE. ORTHES. / TOULOUSE. PENINSULA . WATERLOO. SEBASTOPOL. CRIMEA. / SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF THE OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS / OF THE "ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS," / WHOSE NAMES ARE INSCRIBED ON THE ADJOINING TABLETS, WHO FELL IN THE SERVICE / OF THEIR COUNTRY DURING THE WAR WITH RUSSIA, IN 1874, AND 1855. / THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED A.D. 1858, / AS AN ENDURING RECORD OF THE GALLANT DECEASED, BY THE OFFICERS THEN SERVING / OR WHO HAD SERVED IN THE CORPS. / "FEAR NOT THEM WHICH KILL THE BODY, BUT ARE NOT ABLE TO KILL THE SOUL." / ST. MATT.X.28. NORTH SIDE: ALMA / "NEC ASPERA TERRENT" / ALMA, SEPT. 20, 1854 - [NAMES] WEST SIDE: INKERMAN. TRENCHES. / INKERMAN, NOV. 5TH, 1854 [NAMES] / IN TRENCHES BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, 1854 AND 1855 [NAMES] / OF DISEASE DURING THE WAR [ NAMES] SOUTH SIDE: REDAN. / "ICH DIEN." / REDAN, SEPT. 8, 1855

Maker(s): COL LYSONS, Sponsor
Edward Richardson, Sculptor
Maintenance History: Because of erosion of names, tablets of white marble replaced the original inscriptions in Oct. 1860GRADE II LISTED BY CADW, 19 MAY 1981 REF NO 9474

Unveiled

August 1858

UNKNOWN