Memorial

Barry Memorial Hall

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Current Location

Memorial Hall, Gladstone Road, Barry, Vale Of Glamorgan, South Glamorgan, CF62 8NA, Wales

ST 11390 68003

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Type of Memorial: Hall / Institute
WMR Reference Number: 6633
Description: Memorial hall with twelve sections of inscribed panelling listing the names 1982 board in elaborate gilt print and quotation within a wreath
Inscription: Walls on top of the panels: 1914-1918 THEY DIED THAT FREEDOM MIGHT NOT PERISH 1939-1945 / LEST WE FORGET / 1914-1918 BUONT [...] FEIRW I RYDDID FYW 1939-1945 / MEWN ANGOF NI CHÂNT FOD Panels 1 to 10: (Names) Panel 11: FALKLAND ISLES/ 1982/ (Name) PANEL 12: 1932 1982 / IN COMMEMORATION OF THE / 50TH ANNIVERSARY / OF THE OPENING OF THE / BARRY WAR MEMORIAL HALL / THE WHOLE EARTH IS THE TOMB / OF HEROIC MEN AND THEIR STORY / IS NOT CARVED (...) ONLY ON STONE / OVER / THEIR (...) EVERYWHERE, / WOVEN INTO THE STUFF OF OTHER / MENS LIVES / 11TH NOVEMBER 1982 THUCYDIDES

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 1218
Died: 1218
Additional Information: Total is combined number for multiple wars listed together on the memorial

War: Second World War (1939-1945)
Number Commemorated: 1218
Died: 1218
Additional Information: Total is combined number for multiple wars listed together on the memorial

Maintenance History: 2010: The names plaques have been removed in order to refurbish of the Hall. The refurbishment of the memorial hall adding 92 names to the WW1 Roll of Honour was unveiled and re-dedicated Nov 2007 2007: Local newspaper article indicates that following an appeal £92,000 has been raised to refurbish the hall and the cenotaph

Rededicated

11th November 1982

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