Splott Road Baptist Church War Memorial Tablets

Splott Road Baptist War Memorials - John Stansfield

Splott Road Baptist War Memorial tablets (Photos by John Stansfield, 2015)

The names on the first memorial are:

STANLEY E. MATHIAS

ROBERT CHORLEY

DANIEL E. THOMAS

CHARLES POUND

ALBERT DAVEY

HAROLD DAVEY

ALFRED DAVEY

ERNEST LOCKE

ARTHUR R. ADAMSON

PERCY HAM

ERNEST A.PERKINS

IVOR OWEN

CHARLES BAKER

WALTER VICARAGE

 

The names on the second memorial pictured are:

ROBERT W BOROWNING

PERCIVAL D GOODMAN

LESLIE C HALE

EDWARD O HATCHER

 

Details of those names are recorded on the Wales at War page


Also present is the memorial that used to be in Ainon Baptist Church:

Ainon Baptist church memorial

Ainon Baptist Church Splott, Cardiff, war memorial plaque. (photo credit: John Stansfield 2017)

 

To the Glory of God
and in Grateful Memory
of this Congregation who gave their lives
in the Great War 1914 – 1918

Fred Harris

David Lloyd

William Hopkins

Thomas E Morris

   Thos Geo James DCM

 

ARTHUR REES

Driver,  “B” Battery. 2nd Brigade,  Royal Field Artillery (Service Number: 156910)

Arthur Rees - Splott, CardiffArthur Rees was born in Splott in 1896 to Thomas Rees, a coal trimmer, originally from Llantrisant, and  Gwenllian Rees née Bowen, originally from Pendoylan, Glamorgan. The family lived at 11 Eyre Street, Splott and spoke both Welsh and English and attended Ainon Baptist church on Walker Road.  In 1911 Arthur worked as an insurance clerk. He also worked for the West Hartlepool Steam Navigation Company in Cardiff before he joined up.  He served as a Diver in the Royal Field Artillery. In Dec 1917 the Western Mail reported that he had been injured.  He was killed on the Western Front in France on 26 Oct 1918 aged 22.  He is buried at Bertry Communal Cemetery  (plot C.5).  He is remembered on the Ainon Baptist Church memorial plaque currently in Redeemer Church, Railway Street.  His name also appears on the Splott War Memorial.  Commonwealth War Graves Commission record.  His brother Thomas Rees also served in WWI after joining up in Montreal, Canada where he had been working as a hospital attendant.  A picture of Arthur and Thomas together in their uniforms appeared in the Western Mail in Jan 1916.

 

William J Jones

Wm D Richards