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Welch Regiment War Memorial

Index Welch Regiment War Memorial

The Welch Regiment War Memorial, also known as the Maindy Monument is a First World War memorial at Maindy Barracks in the Cathays area of Cardiff in Wales. [1]

35 relations: Cap badge, Cardiff, Cathays, Cenotaph, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Edwin Lutyens, Ernest Thorold, Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, Historic England, James K. Hackett (actor), Korean War, Laurel wreath, Listed building, Llandaff Cathedral, Maidstone, Maindy Barracks, Portland stone, Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Cenotaph, Reading, Berkshire, Relief, Remembrance Sunday, Richard Butler (British Army officer), Royal Berkshire Regiment War Memorial, Sidney Myer, Stone of Remembrance, The Cenotaph, Whitehall, The Quarto Group, Thiepval Memorial, Thomas Marden, Welch Regiment, Western Front (World War I), Whitehall, World War I, World War I memorials, Zonnebeke.

Cap badge

A cap badge, also known as head badge or hat badge, is a badge worn on uniform headgear and distinguishes the wearer's nationality and/or organisation.

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Cardiff

Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital of, and largest city in, Wales, and the eleventh-largest city in the United Kingdom.

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Cathays

Cathays (Y Waun Ddyfal) is a district and community in the centre of Cardiff, capital of Wales.

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Cenotaph

A cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere.

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Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars.

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Edwin Lutyens

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, (29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era.

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Ernest Thorold

The Very Rev. Ernest Hayford Thorold, CB, CBE, DD, MA (17 February 1879 – 6 February 1940) was an eminent Anglican priest in the 20th century.

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Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer

Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, (13 March 1857 – 16 July 1932) was a senior British Army officer of the First World War.

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Historic England

Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).

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James K. Hackett (actor)

James Keteltas Hackett (September 6, 1869 – November 8, 1926) was an American actor and manager.

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Korean War

The Korean War (in South Korean, "Korean War"; in North Korean, "Fatherland: Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the principal support of the United States).

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Laurel wreath

A laurel wreath is a symbol of victory and honor.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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Llandaff Cathedral

Llandaff Cathedral (Eglwys Gadeiriol Llandaf) is an Anglican cathedral and parish church in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales.

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Maidstone

Maidstone is a large, historically important town in Kent, England, of which it is the county town.

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Maindy Barracks

Maindy Barracks is a military installation in the Cathays district of Cardiff in Wales.

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Portland stone

Portland stone is a limestone from the Tithonian stage of the Jurassic period quarried on the Isle of Portland, Dorset.

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Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Cenotaph

The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Cenotaph is a First World War memorial dedicated to members of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment and located in Maidstone in Kent, south-eastern England.

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Reading, Berkshire

Reading is a large, historically important minster town in Berkshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Relief

Relief is a sculptural technique where the sculpted elements remain attached to a solid background of the same material.

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Remembrance Sunday

Remembrance Sunday is held in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations as a day "to commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts".

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Richard Butler (British Army officer)

Lieutenant General Sir Richard Harte Keatinge Butler (28 August 1870 – 22 April 1935) was a British Army general during the First World War.

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Royal Berkshire Regiment War Memorial

The Royal Berkshire Regiment War Memorial or Royal Berkshire Regiment Cenotaph is a First World War memorial dedicated to members of the Royal Berkshire Regiment and located in Brock Barracks in Reading, Berkshire, in south-east England.

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Sidney Myer

Sidney Myer (born Simcha Myer Baevski (Симха Майер Баевский); 8 February 18785 September 1934) was a Russian-born Jewish-Australian businessman and philanthropist, best known for creating Myer, Australia's largest chain of department stores.

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Stone of Remembrance

The Stone of Remembrance was designed by the British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens for the Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC).

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The Cenotaph, Whitehall

The Cenotaph is a war memorial on Whitehall in London, England.

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The Quarto Group

The Quarto Group is a global illustrated book publishing group founded in 1976.

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Thiepval Memorial

The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave.

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Thomas Marden

Major General Sir Thomas Owen Marden, KBE, CB, CMG (15 September 1866 – 11 September 1951) was a British Army officer, active during the Second Boer War and World War I, where he commanded a battalion of the Welsh Regiment, a brigade, and finally the 6th Division.

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Welch Regiment

The Welch Regiment (or "The Welch", an archaic spelling of "Welsh") was an infantry regiment of the line of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1969.

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Western Front (World War I)

The Western Front was the main theatre of war during the First World War.

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Whitehall

Whitehall is a road in the City of Westminster, Central London, which forms the first part of the A3212 road from Trafalgar Square to Chelsea.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War I memorials

World War I memorials commemorate the events and the casualties of World War I. These war memorials include civic memorials, larger national monuments, war cemeteries, private memorials and a range of utilitarian designs such as halls and parks, dedicated to remembering those involved in the conflict.

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Zonnebeke

Zonnebeke is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders.

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Redirects here:

Maindy Monument, Maindy monument, Welch Regimental War Memorial.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welch_Regiment_War_Memorial

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