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Monmouthshire Regiment Memorial
Monmouthshire Regiment Memorial
Monmouthshire Regiment Memorial
Monmouthshire Regiment Memorial
Monmouthshire Regiment Memorial
Monmouthshire Regiment Memorial
Monmouthshire Regiment Memorial
Monmouthshire Regiment Memorial
Monmouthshire Regiment Memorial
Monmouthshire Regiment Memorial
Monmouthshire Regiment Memorial
Monmouthshire Regiment Memorial
Monmouthshire Regiment Memorial
Monmouthshire Regiment Memorial
Monmouthshire Regiment Memorial

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The standing bronze soldier is leaning on an upturned Lee Enfield rifle and is dressed in full battle kit with sling and tin hat. The figure is in an attitude of exhaustion after battle. There is a granite pedestal set on a concrete platform and diminishing squares going to a shaft with chamfered corners.
Title

Monmouthshire Regiment Memorial

Date

1921

Medium

bronze & granite

Measurements

H 200 x W 70 x D 70 cm (E);
Plinth: H 300 x W 90 x D 90 cm (E)

Accession number

NP7_PK_S001

Acquisition method

purchased by public subscription

Work type

War memorial

Owner

Abergavenny Town Council

Custodian

Abergavenny Town Council

Work status

extant

Listing status

Grade II (England and Wales)

Installation start date

1921

Installation end date

Extant

Unveiling date

29th October 1921

Listing date

17/02/95

Access

at all times

Inscription description

TO THE OFFICERS / NCOS AND MEN / OF THE / 3RD BATTALION MONMOUTHSHIRE REGT / WHO FELL IN THE / GREAT WAR / (RIGHT) WULVERGHEM / 2ND BATTLE OF YPRES / DICKEBUSHE (LEFT) KEMMEL / YSER CANAL / THE SOMME / (REVERSE) 1939-1945 / ODON / BOURGUEBUS RIDGE / MONT PINCON / SOULEUVRE / LE PERRIER RIDGE / FALAISE / ANTWERP / NEDERRIJN / VENLO POCKET / RHINELAND / HOCHWALD / IBBENBUREN / NORTH-WEST EUROPE 1944-1945 / THIS MEMORIAL WAS RAISED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION / IN THE BATTALION AREA OF ABERGAVENNY / ABERTILLERY BLAINA CWM EBBW VALE SIRHOWY AND TREDEGAR

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Located at

Frogmore Street, Abergavenny

NP7 5AH

Located at the western end of the street.