Memorial

5th Battalion, The Welch Regiment

5th Battalion The Welch Regiment - Obelisk

Source: Orphan work

1/2

Current Location

Accessed by a path off Common Road (known as Pontypridd Common), Coed-Pen-Maen Common, Pontypridd Common, Pontyprydd, Taff-ely, Mid Glamorgan, CF37 4DB, Wales

OS Grid Reference

ST 07790 90303

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.

To share information or photographs, contact us.

Memorial Details

Type of Memorial: Obelisk
WMR Reference Number: 6784
Description: Obelisk with regimental badge on the 12o'clock face surmounting a square stone plinth with a large WW1 tablet and smaller WW2. On the other faces are tablets of the places of engagement all in black lettering. The whole is set on two steps and a base and surrounded by metal railings.
Inscription: 6 o'clock face: 5TH BATTALION / THE/ WELCH REGT / THE GREAT WAR / 1914 - 1918 / TO THE / GLORIOUS MEMORY / OF THE / OFFICERS N.C.O.S and MEN/ OF THE / 5TH BATT. THE WELCH REGT. / WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES / FOR KING AND COUNTRY / AND / IN GLORIOUS MEMORY / OF THOSE WHO FELL / IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR / 1939 - 1945 // 3 o'clock face: GALLIPOLI // 9 o'clock face: PALASTINE // 12 o'clock face: EGYPT

Commemoration

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Additional Information: No names recorded

War: Second World War (1939-1945)
Additional Information: No names recorded

Conservation

Components

Obelisk

Made from: Stone

Condition: Good

Plinth

Made from: Stone

Condition: Good

Tablets

Made from: Stone

Condition: Good

Base

Made from: Stone

Condition: Good

Fence/ Railing

Made from: Metal

Condition: Good

War MemorialsRegister

5th Battalion, The Welch Regiment

Current Location

OS Grid Reference

Names listed on this memorial

Contribute to the War Memorials Register

Memorial Details

Commemoration

Conservation

Components

Further Information

5th Battalion, The Welch Regiment

Current Location

OS Grid Reference

Names listed on this memorial

Contribute to the War Memorials Register

Memorial Details

Commemoration

Conservation

Components

Further Information