Welch Regiment War Memorial
| Welch Regiment War Memorial | |
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| United Kingdom | |
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| For men of the Welch Regiment killed in the First World War | |
| Unveiled | 11 November 1924 |
| Location |
51°29′55″N 03°11′13″W / 51.49861°N 3.18694°WCoordinates: 51°29′55″N 03°11′13″W / 51.49861°N 3.18694°W Maindy Barracks, Cathays, Cardiff |
| Designed by | Sir Edwin Lutyens |
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Listed Building – Grade II
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| Official name | Welch Regimental War Memorial at Maindy Barracks, Cathays |
| Designated | 19 May 1975 |
| Reference no. | 13828 |
The Welch Regiment War Memorial is a First World War memorial at Maindy Barracks in the Cathays area of Cardiff in Wales. The memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and follows his design for the Cenotaph on Whitehall in London. Unveiled in 1924, it commemorates men of the Welch Regiment who fell in the First World War, and is today a grade II listed building.
In the aftermath of the First World War and its unprecedented casualties, thousands of war memorials were built across Britain. Amongst the most prominent designers of memorials was the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, described by Historic England as "the leading English architect of his generation". Lutyens designed the Cenotaph on Whitehall in London, which became the focus for the national Remembrance Sunday commemorations, as well as the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing—the largest British war memorial anywhere in the world—and the Stone of Remembrance which appears in all large Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries and in several of Lutyens' civic war memorials. The Welch Regiment is one of eight cenotaphs by Lutyens in Britain besides the one on Whitehall, one of three to serve as a memorial for a regiment (the other two being the Royal Berkshire Regiment War Memorial in Reading and the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment Cenotaph in Maidstone), and the only one of his war memorials in Wales (the other eight are all in England).
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