Skip to main content

    War MemorialsRegister

    • Home
    • Search Memorials
    • Search Names
    • Help
    Imperial War Museums LogoImperial War Museums home
    • About
      • About us
      • Submit a photograph
      • Volunteering
    • Legal
      • Accessibility Statement
      • Cookies
      • Copyright
      • Privacy
      • Terms of use

    © Imperial War Museums 2026

    Memorial

    The Fallen of Cwmbran, Cocker Avenue Park

    The Fallen of Cwmbran, Cocker Avenue Park in front of these plaques

    Source: Copyright Jazmine Denton

    1/1

    Current Location

    Group of GKN memorials East of the clubhouse, near the South East corner of the bowling green., Cwmbran Park Bowls Club, Cocker Avenue Leisure Park, Henllys Way, Cwmbran, Torfaen, Gwent, NP44 3NL, Wales

    OS Grid Reference

    ST 28848 94460

    View location on Google Maps

    Names listed on this memorial

    Contribute to the War Memorials Register

    Send us details and photographs of your local war memorials, to help enhance the information about the people, places and events they commemorate.

    Contribute now

    This record shows everything IWM currently knows about this memorial. We are continually updating our records.

    © WMR-17553

    To share information or photographs, contact us.

    Type of Memorial
    Cross
    WMR Reference Number
    17553
    Description
    Simple Latin Cross mounted on tapering stone boss and square plinth. Set in low walled flag stone enclosure. In a group of GKN memorials mounted on a wall behind the Cwmbran Memorial Cross (see #13333, #17553, #17554 and #17555)
    Inscription
    Base of cross: 1914-18/ TO THE FALLEN/ "AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE/ SUN AND IN THE MORNING/ WE WILL REMEMBER THEM" Small slate panel: AND IN MEMORY TO THOSE WHO/ HAVE FALLEN IN SUBSEQUENT CONFLICTS/ AC ER COF AM Y RHAI A SYRTHIODD/ MEWN BRWYDRAU DILYNOL One new slate: 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS/ CWMBRAN NEW TOWN 1999/ To the fallen/ IN MEMORY OF THOSE, FROM THIS TOWN, WHO MADE THE/ SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY/ THEIR NAMES ARE RECORDED IN HONOUR AT/ All Saints Parish Church, Llanfrechfa/ Croesyceiliog Cricket and Rugby Club/ Ebenezer Baptist Church, Two Locks/ Holy Trinity Parish Church, Pontnewydd/ Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, Henlyys/ Penywaun United Reformed Church/ Pontrhydyrun Baptist Church/ Richmond Road Baptist Church, Pontnewydd/ Salvation Army, Cwmbran/ St. Gabriel's: The Parish Church of Cwmbran/ St. Mary's Church, Croesyceiliog/ St Michael and All Angels Church, Llantarnam/ THIS REFURBISHED MEMORIAL WAS UNVEILED BY/ Sir Richard Hanbury Tenison KCVO/ H M Lord Lieutenant of Gwent/ Doug Henderson MP/ Minister of State (Armed Forces)/ Sunday, 6th June 1999
    War
    First World War (1914-1918)
    War
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Maintenance History
    CROSS WAS COMPLETELY RESTORED (1999) AND ADDED TO A SMALL MEMORIAL COMPLEX, WITH RELOCATED ORIGINAL BRONZE PANELS FROM THE VARIOUS SITES OF INSET PANELS FROM THE FIRM OF GUEST, KEEN AND NETTLEFOLDS LTD ALSO DISPLAYED IN THE WALL OF THE ENCLOSURE.

    Ceremonies

    Rededicated

    6 June 1999

    SIR RICHARD HANBURY-TENISON KCVO

    Rededicated

    6 June 1999

    DOUG HENDERSON MP

    Custodian
    TORFAEN COUNTY BOROUGH COUNCIL

    Components

    Cross

    Height: 2500MM


    Made from: Stone


    Condition: Good


    Plinth

    Made from: Stone - Portland


    Condition: Good


    • Cwmbran First World War Memorials https://timwolversonphotos.wordpress.com/2014/07/30/cwmbran-first-world-war-memorials/ The History and Origins of First World World Memorials in Cwmbran, South Wales Cwmbran War Memorial