Cwmbran and District's War Dead

 

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Below will be listed any update's that I have added so that you do not have to search the site for any new information if you have visited before although this will be only be general information rather than specific.

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13th August 2010

Photographs of William Leyshon's grave added

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11th August 2010

New photographs added to Ivor Leyshon's entry.

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6th August 2019

Two memorials for 16 year old William Leyshon and Hubert Virgo added.

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4th July 2010

Francesco Gazzi from Pontnewydd name added. He was an internee being transferred to a cam in Canada on the SS Arandora Star when it was torpedoed and sunk on the 2nd July 1940.

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2nd July 2010

SWA photo of W J Allsopp added

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26th June 2010

Photograph of Raymond Cole added

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13th June 2010

One memorial, one obituary, five new photo's and three new casualties added, S Griffin, W G Martin and H H Stephens.

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10th March 2010

Photograph's of Plymouth's Naval memorial added to the casualties whose name appear on there

These have  been added by the grateful permission of Mr Chris Goddard whose own web site can be viewed by Clicking Here.

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31st January 2010

New photographs of the memorials in St Gabriel's church added including one of the organ which is Cwmbran's official war memorial

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29th January 2010

40 new names from WWII added taken from the Rood Screen in St Gabriel's church in Cwmbran

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20th December 2009

Two photo's  added, one of James John Davies and the other of his grave marker courtesy of Robert A Chown

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3rd November 2009

A small number of casualty details updated

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27th October 2009

New casualty added H H Selmer Merchant Navy.

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4th October 2009

14 new casualties added along with 58 new photographs. Many casualty details updated to the full CWGC entries.

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28th September 2009

James Prosser, KIA in Afganistan, RIP

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15th September 2009

One new casualty added, H V Powell and three new photographs added, W S Orpwood, H V Powell and Levi Reece.

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22nd August 2009

Photograph of William Pritchard added along with his details from the CWGC web site

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14th August 2009

Details added of W Bishop and W Daw(e) along with three photo's including the previous two names and one of J Crimmins

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8th August 2009

Kyle Adams name listed, killed in action in Afghanistan on the 7th August 2009

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7th August 2009

A new casualty added, T A Hall.

Five new photographs added, L George: T A Hall, W Jones, G Osborne and R Pauling

Details of W Jones and G Osborne updated

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4th August 2009

Details and obituary added for R B Jenkins

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29th July 2009

New photo's of brothers Charles and Joseph Morgan, C Bowles and A Williams added plus updates of the information on some of these casualties

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15th July 2009

New web page "Brothers in Arms" added

Photographs added from the South Wales Argus of  D Spanswick, R Vizzard and A Wassall

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8th July 2009

New casualty added, Leonard Charles Hinton

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7th July 2009

Photograph of Mrs Doreen Meredith at her fathers, Penry Morgan,  graveside in St Michael and All Angels church at Llantarnam on the 91st anniversary of his death added.

In attendance were the Gloucester branch of the Grenadier Guards Association, CADESA and the Pontnewydd branch of the Royal Engineers Association

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5th July 2009

Photographs of the Royal Navy ships and submarine, HMS's Porpoise, Hurworth, Birmingham, Martin and Albatross added to the entries of the crew members who died on them.

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25th June 2009

New casualty added and the first civilian from Cwmbran, Arthur Frank Johnson buried in Cwmbran cemetery.

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24th June 2009

New casualty added James Desmond

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22nd June 2009

New casualty added, Ivor Ginello (Geneloer) born at 26 Victoria Road , Cwmbran and also remembered on the Newport's dead web site.

Two photographs of him and his family also added

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11th June 2009

New web page "Updates" added

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© Shaun McGuire 2008