Memorial plaques, Stow Hill, Newport
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Memorial plaques, Stow Hill, Newport
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 8 Nov 2012
Located on the corner of Stow Hill and School Lane http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3216933 at the edge of a demolished drill hall. The plaque on the right records the saddest yet most glorious chapter in Newport's history on May 8th 1915 when in an heroic stand against great odds before Ypres, the Monmouthshires helped to bar the Germans from the vital Channel ports. Of their strength of nearly 500, only 129 officers and men survived.
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Image Location
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51.586618
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-2.996599