Memorial

New Tredegar Servicemen Statue

General View

Source: Copyright Bill Zajac

1/10

Current Location

White Rose Way, New Tredegar, Rhymney Valley, Mid Glamorgan, Wales

SO 14254 03167

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

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

To share information or photographs, contact us.

Type of Memorial: Sculptured / Cast group
WMR Reference Number: 6874
Description: Soldier in cap with rifle raised, standing in defensive posture over wounded comrade, who lies on ground clutching his head. Plinth & 3 stepped base
Inscription: 12 o'clock face: LEST WE FORGET./ ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION/ TO THE GLORIOUS AND IMPERISHABLE/ MEMORY OF THE MEN OF/ NEW TREDEGAR AND DISTRICT/ WHO, BY THEIR COURAGE AND DEVOTION/ HELPED TO SAVE EUROPE AND CIVILISATION/ AUGUST 1914 - NOVEMBER 1918./ YOURS THE GLORIOUS PRICE TO PAY,/ OURS TO RECORD WITH GRATEFUL PRIDE/ THAT FREEDOM LIVES ON EARTH TODAY/ BECAUSE YOU DIED./ THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE./ EU HENW A BERY BYTH./ 1939-1945/ 9 o'clock face: ROLL OF HONOUR/ (Names)/ 6 and 3 o'clock faces: (Names)

Memorial

Made from: Granite - Red

Condition: Good

Cadw

Grade: II

List Entry: 25496

Cadw listing description: https://cadwpublic-api.azurewebsites.net/reports/listedbuilding/FullReport?lang=&id=25496 (Accessed: 06/01/2020)

New Tredegar and World War One website: http://www.newtredegar-ww1.org.uk/home.htm (Accessed: 09/01/2021)
Carter Postcard Collection