Ysangharad War Memorial

Ynysangharad War Memorial park is located in the town of Pontypridd, Wales. The area that now makes up the park was bought by the people of Pontypridd in 1919 after workers raised the money to have the park established. It was originally designed for those who lived in the surrounding area to have somewhere to relax from their work lives.

Due to the fact that the River Rhondda meets the River Taff at one corner of the park it is prone to flooding, one flood in 1929 left the park severely flooded and led to the original layout of the park being changed to what it is today with the memorials being placed way from the River Taff. The memorials in the park include the War Memorial and the Evan and James James statues, as well as some smaller ones. There is also a lido that was reopened on 31 August 2015 after it received funding, after being closed for two decades.

In 1923 Field Marshal Viscount Allenby renamed the park the Ynysangharad War Memorial park in memory of the soldiers who died in the line of duty in the First World War. In November 2011 a war memorial was reopened in the park to remember the soldiers who died from the Pontypridd area in the First World War and Second World War, as well as subsequent smaller wars like the Suez Crisis and the Falklands War. There was already a small memorial in the park to remember the soldiers who died, but it was decided that a roll of honour should also be erected so that the names of the dead could be honoured since it was felt that the names should not be forgotten. The memorial consists of two parallel walls with the names of the dead inscribed onto black granite plaques that ran along each wall.

There are a total of 1,319 names on the memorial, which includes the names of 821 people who died in First World War, the 491 who died in the Second World War. The memorial also includes the names of each of the servicemen who died in the line of duty in Palestine, Korea and Suez Canal (Egypt) wars and the four Welsh Guards during the Falklands War. The memorial cost an estimated £80,000 to build and completed thanks to fundraising appeals by local residents of Pontypridd.

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