Welsh Memorial Park, Ypres The Welsh National Memorial Park is a war memorial in Langemark near Ypres for soldiers of World War I , located near the Pilkem Ridge in the former Ypres Salient . It commemorates the services of men and women from Welsh origin, wherever they served during the Great War as part of the Allied Powers , as well as the non-Welsh soldiers serving in Welsh formations.Location The memorial is located to the north of Ypres, approximately halfway in between Pilkem and Langemark. It stands on the ridge to the south west of Langemark, where in the summer of 1917 the Battle of Pilckem Ridge was fought, and where many Welsh units took part this opening attack of the main part of the Battle of Passchendaele . The battle saw the participation of the 38th Division, which fought through that area in July 1917 and earned Haig's comment that they were one of his best divisions. The 29th Division included among its units the 2nd Battalion South Wales Borderers and the 2nd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment , and the Guards Division included the Welsh Guards , all of whom are represented in the nearby Artillery Wood Cemetery , along with men from the Welch Regiment and the Royal Welch Fusiliers . Among those killed near here on 31 July 1917 was 30-year-old Ellis Humphrey Evans , the famous Welsh language poet who was posthumously awarded the bard's chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod .Design Cromlech memorial The bronze dragon on top of the memorial was created by Lee Odishow, whose design was chosen from a selection of four artists. The general design is from Erwin Ureel, original initiator of the project. It takes the form of a cromlech , an edifice common to Celtic peoples, composed of three large upright blue pennant stone slabs and a large flat slab on the top. The cromlech is surmounted with an 8 ft red bronze dragon. The stone came from a quarry in Pontypridd. The memorial is inscribed "To all those of Welsh descent who took part in the First World War between 1914 and 1918. "Other memorials Beyond the cromlech memorial, the memorial park on Pilkem Ridge features a large boulder with a message of welcome in Welsh, a headstone shaped like those used by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission but inscribed with the words of the Welsh national anthem "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau ", and a flag pole with the Flag of Wales . Trees and benches surround the memorials.History The memorial is the first Welsh war memorial built in Flanders,Belgium. and the first and only national Welsh Great War Memorial outside Wales .The memorial was originally the idea of the local community , who bought the land on which it stands. A committee was set up in Wales consisting of Peter Carter Jones Welsh Committee Co-ordinator, Ian McLeod, Paul Silk, Ivan Beatty, Russel Harris, Alwyn & Glenna Bevan and Ian Gumm to raise the funds for the memorial itself. Several plans were considered and eventually the design by Lee Odishow was chosen. With the support of a Flemish committee headed by Erwin Ureel, the campaign raised more than £100,000 to pay for the memorial, most of which came from private individuals and organisations. The memorial was unveiled by First Minister Carwyn Jones , Flemish minister president Geert Bourgeois and Mayor Alain Wyffels on 16 August 2014. An addition to the Memorial Garden is the erection of seven stones, showing the cap badges of the five Welsh Regiments and two Welsh Divisions which will be unveiled on 31 July 2017 as part of the Remembrance Service, which is being co-ordinated by the Welsh Government. The seven stones were donated by the same quarry in Pontypridd who gave the much larger stones for the Cromlech, and conveyed to the Memorial site by a Welsh transport firm for which the Welsh Memorial Committee is very grateful.Gallery
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