A quick question before I get going. What is a Cenotaph? The basic answer is a cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of those that have been killed/missing during a war/conflict the bodies of those killed are buried elsewhere.
At the end of the First World War, 1919, a wood-and-plaster cenotaph built by Edwin Lutyens and erected at Whitehall, London. The temporary structure was erected to mark the London Victory Parade, 19th July 1919. The Treaty of Versailles was signed on this day, marking the formal ending of the First World War
Lutyens had been invited to Downing Street, by Prime Minister David Lloyd George. Lloyd George proposed that a memorial should be a catafalque, like the French Arc de Triumph, Lutyens proposed that the memorials should be a cenotaph. By October 1919, the War Officer announced that a permanent structure constructed out of Portland Stone would replace the wood-and-plaster cenotaph at Whitehall, London
Following the designs drawn by Lutyens, the cenotaph was cosntructed by Holland, Hannen & Cubitts in Portland Stone. The Cenotaph is undercoated apart from a carved wreath on each end and a smaller carved wreath on top. "The Glorious Dead" are inscribed twice, once below the wreaths on each end. Above the wreaths at each end are inscribed the dates of the First World War in Roman numerals (1914 – MCMXIV; and 1919 – MCMXIX). The wreaths at each end are 5 feet (1.5 m) in diameter, while the one on top is 3.6 feet (1.1 m) in diameter
The unveiling of the Cenotaph was carried out on 11th November 1920, by King George V, the same day of the burial of Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey.
Memorials located at Swansea number 125 memorial plaques and dedications in churches and buildings around Swansea. The main memorial being Swansea Cenotaph designed by architect Ernest E. Morgan and located on Mumbles Road. The Foundation Stone was laid on 1st July 1922 by General Haig; with the dedication and unveiling on 21st July 1923.
The Cenotaph, records 2,274 First World War names and 500 Second World War names, these being set on bronze panels.
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