This war memorial was erected in 1924 to commemorate the local people who died in the First World War. Names of those who died in the Second World War were added later. Also named on the memorial is a local man who died in the Falklands conflict in 1982. Unusually, there is a separate category on the memorial for nurses who died in the First World War. Another nurse from the area, Elizabeth Jones, died in the Second World War and is among the SWW names on the memorial. Three Pwllheli sailors died when the MV Waimarama was bombed near Malta in 1942 after forming part of a convoy which had to fight its way to the island, then under siege, to deliver vital supplies.
The war memorial was unveiled in June 1924 by former Prime Minister David Lloyd George, whose childhood home is in nearby Llanystumdwy. It features a bronze statue of a soldier on a plinth of polished granite.
There is a dedication in Welsh to the towns people who fell in the Great War, followed by this couplet:
Yn nwfn swyn ei fynwes O
Caf lonydd, caf le i huno.
This is from a poem by the Rhondda poet Ben Bowen (1878-1903), who was a Baptist minister until excommunicated by his church for his views on theology. The couplet translates roughly as:
In the deep blessing of His bosom,
I shall find peace, a place to rest
The cache can be found at N 52° 53.ABC W 004° 24.BDC by answering the following clues from the front inscrption plate:
A = number of words in the first line
B = number of words in the fifth line
C = number of letters in the fourth row
D = second number in line eight
These coordinates will take you to an area that is currently fenced off, to find the temprorary cache continue 30m east until you find a metal box.
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CACHES ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE PLACED ON ACTUAL MEMORIALS OR WITHIN THE BOUNDARY OF SUCH
AT ALL TIMES PLEASE TREAT LOCATIONS OF MEMORIALS WITH RESPECT
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