The Trinity Centre was previously the Trinity Methodist Church.
The centre still houses a collection of memorial plaques, some collected from other churches when they closed down.
This is probably the original Trinity Methodist WWI plaque.
The names on the Trinity Methodist plaque: Raymond Bird, John F Goundrey, Harry G Hankin, M Frederick J Hedden, William Hughes, William H Lampurd, Hubert V Morse, P Ernest Stratton.
RAYMOND BIRD
Second Lieutenant 1/4th (City of Bristol) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment
Raymond Bird was born on 27 Aug 1890 in Cardiff, the only son of Frederick Graham Bird, a chemical manufacturer business owner, originally from Gloucester, and Mary Bird née Dill originally from Bath, Somerset. The family lived at 106 Newport Road, Roath and later Cranmore, Radyr. He entered Cardiff High School in 1901, when his family were living at St. Elmo, Radyr. He also went to school in Taunton. Raymond was later employed as a clerk in the family chemical manufacturing business, Bird and Sons in Cardiff. On 20 Nov 1915, he married teacher Alice Smith of Fairoak Road and later Ambleside, Lake Road West, Roath Park. He joined the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps at Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire as an Officer Cadet on 12 Apr 1915. Raymond was then commissioned in the Gloucestershire Regiment on 2 Aug 1915 and posted to the 3/4th Battalion stationed at Weston-Super-Mare. He went out to France on 29 May 1916 and joined the 1/4th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, Territorial Force. Raymond Bird was killed in action, aged 25, by shell-fire during an entirely unsuccessful attack at the Leipzig Redoubt, near Ovilliers, during the Battle of the Somme on 16 Aug 1916. He was at first reported missing but a wounded soldier recuperating in hospital told Raymond’s wife that he had been with him when he was hit by a shell and that he had remained with him for four hours until he died. He is buried in Pozieres British Cemetery, France (grave IV.A.52). He is commemorated on war memorials in Trinity Methodist Church, Four Elms Road, Roath, St. John’s Church, Canton, Christ Church, Radyr and on the Cardiff High School War Memorial as well as the Radyr War Memorial. Commonwealth War Graves Commission record.
HENRY GEORGE HANKINS
Private, 10th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers (Service Number: 56690)
Henry ‘Harry’ George Hankins was born in Cardiff in 1898 to George Albert Hankins, a labourer at an oil and tar distillery, originally from Bristol, and Rose Hankins née Cole, also originally from Bristol. In 1901 the Hankins family lived at 67 Janet Street. In 1911 they were at 1 Caerphilly Street, East Moors but by 1914 they were living at 70 Railway Street, Splott. Harry served with the 10th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He was killed on 26 Sep 1917 aged 19 in France. He is buried at the Tyne Cot Cemetery (plot XV. E. 19.). He is remembered on the Splott War Memorial and the Trinity Methodist church war memorial plaque. Commonwealth War Graves Commission record.
JOHN FIRTH GOUNDRY
Second Lieutenant 1/9th (County of London) Battalion London Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Rifles)
John Firth Goundry was born 27 Mar 1893 in Cardiff, the younger son of Edward Whitfield Goundry, a master mariner, originally from Lambeth, Surrey, and Jane Goundry née Ellerington originally from St John Lee, Northumberland. In 1901 the family lived at 100 Claude Road and in the 1911 census they were at 23 Marlborough Road. John entered Cardiff High School in September 1905, when his family were living at 27 Ryder Street, Pontcanna. At the outbreak of war, he was employed as a pharmaceutical chemist and was studying at the School of Pharmacy, Bloomsbury Square, London. He enlisted as a private in the Queen Victoria’s Rifles in Nov 1914 and went out to the Western Front 6 Jun 1915. John was wounded in the attack on the Gommecourt Salient during the Battle of the Somme on 1 Jul 1916. He was commissioned to the 9th Battalion, London Regiment 28 Apr 1917 and returned to the Western Front for about six weeks. He was very badly wounded in the neck when leading his company in an attack near Polygon Wood during the Battle of Langemarck. A strong German counter-attack made it impossible to recover the wounded. Second Lieutenant John Firth Goundry was killed in action 16 Aug 1917. He was 24. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial to the Missing, Belgium. He is also commemorated on the war memorial in Trinity Methodist Church, Four Elms Road, Roath and the Cardiff High School memorial plaque. Commonwealth War Graves Commission record. (John’s elder brother was also a pharmacist and owned a shop in City Road).
MONRO FREDERICK JAMES HEDDEN
Saddler, “D” Battery. 57th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (Service Number: 43103)
Monro Frederick James Hedden was born in Cardiff on 13 Feb 1894 to Alfred Hedden, a foreman at a corn merchants, originally from Welcombe, Devon and Annie Marie Hedden née Cornish also from Welcombe. The Hedden family lived at 24 Mackintosh Place, Roath. Monro attended Albany Road Elementary School before moving on to Howard Gardens secondary school in 1907 for two years. By 1911, aged 17, he was working as a junior clerk at a provision merchant. In WWI he served as a Sadler in the Royal Field Artillery. He died of blackwater fever on 18 Feb 1918 aged 24 in Salonika, Greece. He is buried at the Sarigol Military Cemetery, Greece (grave D. 631.) which mainly holds those who died at the 31st Casualty Clearing Station hospital. He is remembered on the Howard Gardens High School War Memorial plaque and the Trinity Methodist church war memorial plaque. Commonwealth War Graves Commission record.
WILLIAM HUGHES
Sergeant, 2nd Battalion, Welsh Regiment (Service Number: 2380)
William Hughes was born in Swansea in 1873 to William Hughes, a carpenter, originally from Sketty, Swansea, and Martha Hughes née Wellington, originally from Luxulyan, Cornwall. In 1881 the Hughes family were living at James Place, Swansea. They later moved to Cardiff and in 1897 William married Alice Pyke at St German’s church. At the time he was 24 and worked as a labourer and was living at 53 Diamond Street. Alice and William continued to live in Diamond Street, William working as a docks labourer and they went on to have three children, Alice May (b. 1899), William Ernest (b.1901) and Ronald Howard (b.1911). He served as a Sergeant with the 2nd Battalion Welsh Regiment. He died of wounds at the clearing hospital in Bethune, France on 4 Jan 1915 aged 43. He is buried at Bethune Town Cemetery (plot III. B. 25). The newspaper announcement of his death describes him as well known in Cardiff and a member of the Blue Ribbon Choir. He is remembered on the Trinity Methodist war memorial plaque. His Commonwealth War Graves Commission record describes him as having received the Volunteer Long Service Medal indicating he had some military service prior to WWI.
WILLIAM HENRY LAMPERD
Private, 1st/14th Battalion, London Regiment (London Scottish) (Service Number: 515864)
William Henry Lamperd was born in 1890 in Penarth, the only child of John Lamperd, a baker, originally from Southampton, and Katherine Lamperd née Coles, originally from Burnham, Somerset. In the 1911 census the family were living in Harriet Street, Cogan and William was employed helping in the bakehouse. He married Alice Gwendoline Cook in 1915. Their daughter Olga Katherine Lamperd was born in Jan 1917. William served as a Private in the 1st/14th Battalion, London Regiment (London Scottish). He died on 24 Nov 1917 aged 27. He has no known grave. He is remembered on the Cambrai Memorial in France which remembers those fought in the Battle of Cambrai on the Western Front. He is also remembered on the Penarth War Memorial in Alexandra Park, St Augustine’s church war memorial plaque, Penarth and his parent’s grave at St Dochdwy’s Church, Llandough. His widow Alice remarried in 1921 and on her wedding certificate gave her address as 21 Clifton Street. This would explain William’s name (mis-spelt Lampurd) being included on the nearby Trinity Methodist memorial plaque. Maybe Clifton Street was where William and Alice set up home after getting married. Commonwealth War Grave Commission record.
The Broadway Methodist WWI Plaque now housed at the Trinity Centre, Four Elms Road
The names on the Broadway Methodist Church memorial plaque are:
ALFRED HENRY ALLARD
Lance Corporal, 8th (Service) Battalion, Devonshire Regiment (Service Number 10669)
Alfred Henry ‘Harry’ Allard was born at Frome, Somerset on 25 Sep 1894 to John Thomas Allard, an iron works erector, and Sarah Ann ‘Annie’ Allard nee Singer, both originally from Somerset. Harry attended Stacey Road school. In the 1911 census the Allard family were living at 1 Vere Street, Roath and Harry was working as a plumber’s assistant. He enlisted in Bristol. He served as a Lance Corporal in the 8th Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment. He was killed in action on the Western Front on 25 Sep 1915, on his 21st birthday. He is remembered on the Loos memorial in France. He is also remembered on the Broadway Methodist church war memorial plaque now at the Trinity Centre. Commonwealth War Graves Commission record.
ARTHUR SYDNEY BANBURY
Corporal, 38th Division, Signal Company, Royal Engineers (Service Number: 62902)
Arthur Sydney Banbury, was born on 29 May 1883 in Cardiff to John Banbury, a coal merchant, originally from Boscastle, Cornwall and Mary Ann Banbury née Symons, also from Boscastle, Cornwall. He grew up in the Splott area attending Metal Street Infants School and then Splotlands Board School before moving on to Howard Gardens School for two years. In the 1891 census the Banbury family lived at 8 Coveny Street. They also lived at 73 Broadway and 96 Splott Road before moving to 52 Partridge Road, Roath where they were at the time of both the 1901 and 1911 census. When Sydney left school in 1898 he worked initially at the Western Mail newspaper then as a telegraphist at Cardiff GPO. He was a Methodist as indicated by his name appearing on two local church memorial plaques. In 1912 he married Florence Mary Jennings, a telephonist, originally from St Ives, Cornwall. They lived at 10 Grenville Road and went on to have a son, Philip Sydney Banbury, born in Feb 1916. Sydney enlisted in Porthcawl and served as a telephone linesman on the Western Front from Dec 1915. He was killed in action in the Battle of Pilckem Ridge on 31 Jul 1917 aged 34. He is buried at Dragoon Camp Cemetery, Boesinghe, Belgium (plot A5). He is remembered on the Broadway Methodist Church War Memorial Plaque and the Cyfarthfa Street Mission memorial plaque, both now housed at the Trinity Centre, and on the Cardiff Post Office’s Roll of Honour. He is also remembered on his parent’s headstone in Boscastle. Commonwealth War Graves Commission record. His brother Alfred was a Corporal with the Honourable Artillery Company who enlisted in 1915 and was discharged on 10 Sep 1917 due to gunshot wounds to his right arm and eye. Sydney’s son joined the military and rose to be Major Philip Sydney Banbury with the Royal Signals during WWII. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his work in defending the important port of Antwerp from Nov 1944 to Mar 1945. He helped deploy and run an efficient communication system covering large parts of Holland and Belgium that acted as an early warning system of V1 and V2 flying bombs heading towards Antwerp.
Herbert Bingham
WILLIAM BLACK
Engineer Lieutenant, HMS Natal, Royal Navy.
William Black was born on 6 Jan1885 in Cardiff, the only son of William Black originally from Kinghoorn, Fife, Scotland and Alice Black née Gray originally from Hartlepool. The family originally lived at of 80 Richards Terrace, Roath but by 1891 the family had moved to 235 Newport Road, Roath. His father was a superintendent marine engineer. William attended Cardiff Municipal Secondary School, Howard Gardens from 1895 to 1898 and then Cardiff High School from September 1898, when he was in the school’s first ever intake . He left in Dec 1900 to follow his father’s profession and started work as an apprenticed engineer. He took an extra first class engineers certificate at South Shields in 1911 and later qualified as a naval architect. He was employed as a consulting engineer at Cardiff docks and, on the death of his father in 1912, he succeeded him in the business. In Sep 1915, he was appointed Engineer Lieutenant RN. William Black was killed, aged 30, when HMS Natal accidentally exploded with great loss of life in Cromarty Firth on 31 Dec 1915. Over four hundred died. Though it was at first assumed she had been torpedoed it was later concluded that the cause was an internal ammunition explosion, possibly the result of faulty cordite. Engineer Lieutenant William Black is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial to the Missing and also on family gravestones in Cathays Cemetery and in Kinghorn, Fife, where his family originated. He is also commemorated on the Cardiff High School war memorial, the Howard Gardens war memorial and the war memorial that was in the Wesleyan Methodist Church, Broadway, Roath now in the Trinity Centre. Commonwealth War Graves Commission record.
William Black (photo: Western Mail), lower left: tribute on family grave at Cathays Cemetery, grave S745, right – remembered on family grave in Kinghorn, Fife.
William Collier,
Herbert Constanine,
Wilfred Dymoke,
Algy Farley,
THOMAS HAROLD PEACOCK
Second Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, attached to 14th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment
Thomas Harold Peacock was born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire in 1895 the eldest child of Thomas Peacock, a basket weaver, originally from Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire and Ellen Peacock née Bond originally from Southwell, Nottinghamshire. The Peacock family moved to Cardiff in 1906 and lived at 21 Sapphire Street, Adamsdown. In the 1911 census Harold is described as a Commercial Student. He went on to work for some time with H.T.James, Barrister, in Windsor Terrace before moving to the offices of the Vacuum Oil Distillery in Cardiff Docks. The family moved to Whitchurch in 1912, and later to The Grove, Rumney, Cardiff. Harold joined the Devon Regiment in Aug 1914 and received rapid promotion. He fought at Loos in 1915, where he was shot through the left lung. He returned to Britain for treatment. After recovering he served with his regiment and returned to France in May 1918. Harold was killed by a bursting shell on the night of 27 Jun 1918 aged 22. He is buried at the Acheux British Cemetery in France (Plot 1. Row E. Grave 17). Harold is remembered on the Broadway Methodist church war memorial plaque, now at Trinity Centre. Commonwealth War Graves Commission record. (Harold’s father Thomas worked as a basket weaver and mat maker at the Blind Institute in 1911. A newspaper report from the time of his death in 1949, aged 79, following a bicycle collision, also described him as a well-known local Methodist preacher. Harold’s younger brother Charles, moved to Canada and also became a minister in the church. Harold’s youngest sister, Ethel May Peacock, became a nurse and was awarded an MBE for bravery for her actions during WWII in the London Blitz).
Leslie Rowe,
Vivian Rowe,
Frank Stacey,
BERNARD WALTER WAY
Private, 2nd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment (Service Number: 11946)
Bernard Walter Way was born in 1892 in Crediton, Devon to Arthur Way, a carpenter and joiner, originally from Exeter, and Emma Elizabeth Way née Sutherby, originally from Lambeth, London. Bernard’s father Arthur passed away before he was born. In 1911 Bernard was working as a sugar grinder in a medical lozenge factory and living in Crediton, Devon. Bernard moved to Cardiff and worked as a porter for Great Western Railways, starting in Jan 1914 and leaving in Dec 1915. It is not clear where he was living at the time but the fact that his name appears on the Broadway Methodist Church War Memorial seems to indicate it was in the Roath area (there was a Way family from Devon living in nearby Topaz Street in 1911 who may have been relatives). Bernard signed up in Cardiff with the 2nd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. He died of wounds on 31 Dec 1916 aged 24. He is buried at the Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte, France. (plot II. J. 23.). He is remembered on the Broadway Methodist Church war memorial plaque, now at Trinity Centre. He is also remembered on the Crediton War Memorial and on the memorial in Church of the Holy Cross, Crediton. Commonwealth War Graves Commission record. Bernard’s brother Arthur William Way served 12 years in the navy from 1909 to 1921.
Bernard Way on the Crediton memorials
Bert Yarwood
Broadway Methodist Church Memorial Windows unveiled in November 1920, later reinstalled at Trinity Methodist Church in 1950.
Cyfartha Street Mission plaque
The Cyfartha Street Mission plaque now housed at the Trinity Centre
Names on the memorial: Sydney Banbury, Frank Stacey
ARTHUR SYDNEY BANBURY
Corporal, 38th Division, Signal Company, Royal Engineers (Service Number: 62902)
Arthur Sydney Banbury, was born on 29 May 1883 in Cardiff to John Banbury, a coal merchant, originally from Boscastle, Cornwall and Mary Ann Banbury née Symons, also from Boscastle, Cornwall. He grew up in the Splott area attending Metal Street Infants School and then Splotlands Board School before moving on to Howard Gardens School for two years. In the 1891 census the Banbury family lived at 8 Coveny Street. They also lived at 73 Broadway and 96 Splott Road before moving to 52 Partridge Road, Roath where they were at the time of both the 1901 and 1911 census. When Sydney left school in 1898 he worked initially at the Western Mail newspaper then as a telegraphist at Cardiff GPO. He was a Methodist as indicated by his name appearing on two local church memorial plaques. In 1912 he married Florence Mary Jennings, a telephonist, originally from St Ives, Cornwall. They lived at 10 Grenville Road and went on to have a son, Philip Sydney Banbury, born in Feb 1916. Sydney enlisted in Porthcawl and served as a telephone linesman on the Western Front from Dec 1915. He was killed in action in the Battle of Pilckem Ridge on 31 Jul 1917 aged 34. He is buried at Dragoon Camp Cemetery, Boesinghe, Belgium (plot A5). He is remembered on the Broadway Methodist Church War Memorial Plaque and the Cyfarthfa Street Mission memorial plaque, both now housed at the Trinity Centre, and on the Cardiff Post Office’s Roll of Honour. He is also remembered on his parent’s headstone in Boscastle. Commonwealth War Graves Commission record. His brother Alfred was a Corporal with the Honourable Artillery Company who enlisted in 1915 and was discharged on 10 Sep 1917 due to gunshot wounds to his right arm and eye. Sydney’s son joined the military and rose to be Major Philip Sydney Banbury with the Royal Signals during WWII. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his work in defending the important port of Antwerp from Nov 1944 to Mar 1945. He helped deploy and run an efficient communication system covering large parts of Holland and Belgium that acted as an early warning system of V1 and V2 flying bombs heading towards Antwerp.
Roath Local History Society 