This memorial is currently in storage at Cathays Cemetery Chapels.

The history of the church has been nicely written up in an article from Glamorgan Archives.

The names on the memorial are:

ARTHUR WILLIAM THOMAS BLACKMORE

Private, 2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment (Service Number: 50315)

Arthur William Thomas Blackmore was born in 1898 in Cardiff to Charles Batson Blackmore an undertaker and coffin maker originally from Yeovil, Somerset and Sarah Amelia Blackmore nee Walters originally from Wyson, Herefordshire.  The family lived in Canton in 1901 and at Ebenezer Street in central Cardiff in 1911 and later at 5 Edward Street.  His mother died when he was 6 years old leaving his father to bring up four sons. Arthur signed up in Cardiff and served in the Prince Of Wales’s Volunteers, South Lancashire Regiment.  He died 22 Mar 1918, killed in action, aged 19 on the Western Front.  He is remembered on the Pozieres Memorial in France (panel 48 & 49).  He is also remembered on the Charles Street Wesleyan Methodist Church Memorial now in storage at Thornhill Crematorium.  Commonwealth War Graves Commission record.

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STANLEY TEIFI MIRUS CHURCH

Private, 16^th Battalion, Welsh Regiment (Service Number: 23905)

Stanley Teifi Mirus Church was born on 12 Dec 1897 at Cambrian House, Llandyssil, Cardiganshire to Edward Church, a former Sergeant Major in the Royal Field Artillery, and then licensed victualler at the Red Lion, and Martha Church née Lewis, both originally from Radyr, Glamorgan.  By the time Stanley was baptized on Feb 18^th 1898, Edward and Martha had moved to become hotel proprietors at the Cliwyn Arms, Llandyssil. Stanley’s middle name may derive from the fact that the River Teifi flows next to the Cilgwn Arms.  By the time of the 1901 census the Church family had moved back to the Cardiff area were living at 18 Old Radyr Road, Whitchurch with Edward working as a soldier- recruiting sergeant for the agent reserve. In 1911 they had moved again to the Masonic Lodge, 8 Guilford Street, Cardiff where Edward was caretaker assisted by Martha.  By this time they had 13 children, all living with them at the Masonic Lodge. Stanley was still at school in 1911 but after leaving school he worked for the Cardiff Railway Company.  He enlisted with the 16^th ‘Cardiff City’ Battalion, Welsh Regiment in Cardiff in Jan 1915.  He was killed in action on 7 Jul 1916, aged 18, at Mametz Wood where his regiment took heavy losses in the face of German machine gun fire. He is buried at Flatiron Copse Cemetery, France (grave VI.J.6).  He is remembered on the Charles Street Wesleyan Methodist Church war memorial plaque (in storage at Cathays Cemetery) and the Cardiff Railway roll of honour at the Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay. Commonwealth War Graves Commission record.

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Albert Davies

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L Arthur Evans

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HUBERT MERCHANT

Private, 16th Battalion Welsh Regiment. (Service Number 56557).

Hubert Holinshead Merchant was born on 26th July 1896 in Llanhilleth, Monmouthshire. He was the eldest son of  Arthur Davies Merchant, a colliery labourer, originally from Gloucester and Emily Merchant née Solomon originally form Bristol.  In 1911 we find the family living at 124 Broadway with Arthur a caretaker and Hubert, aged 14, working as a boot dealer’s errand boy having previously attended Moorland Road school.  He enlisted 26th April, 1915, in 7th Welsh (Cyclists) before transferring to the 115th Trench Mortar Battery, 16th Battalion, Welsh Regiment. He served on the Western Front from 28 July 1916, and was killed in action after the Battle of Pilkem Ridge on 1 Aug 1917 aged 21. His Captain wrote:  ‘He went into the fight with his usual cheerfulness, and went right over Pilkem Ridge, as far as the River Steenbeek, where he fought gallantly until he was hit by a sniper in the side’. He is remembered on the Ypres Menin Gate Memorial (Panels 37). His military papers record the Merchant family living at 176 Cathays Terrace at the time. He was remembered on the Charles Street Wesleyan Methodist Church WWI memorial  currently in the safe keeping of Cardiff Bereavement Services.  Commonwealth War Graves Commission record.

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Alfred Griffin

J N Justum

W J W Kyte

Harry Moore

C Miller