This website has been split into separate pages, and the aim is to ultimately have a page for each War Memorial, with a short biography of each casualty, along with a photograph of their last resting place or memorial, plus any photos of the men themselves when they are available.
In addition to these rolls there are separate pages on the local Infantry Battalions, the 1/4th Welsh, and the 15th Welsh (Carmarthen Pals). These pages contain brief histories of the Battalions, and their Casualty Rolls. These pages will be extended in the future.
One page of the site commemorates the role of the Colonial Forces who fought alongside the British Armies on the Western Front. These include the Australian Imperial Force, the Canadian Expeditionary Force, the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and the South African Expeditionary Force. Men of Carmarthenshire who died in their service are listed on the page.
Another page lists all of the CWGC War Memorials that I have visited in France and Belgium, giving a background history on each, with a photograph.
An interesting page is Carmarthenshire Heroes. Here I will be remembering the men of the County who performed great deeds of heroism, for which they were decorated. Some work has been carried out on this section, but research is still on-going.
Finally there are pages which show a typical tour of the Western Front, Links to other web-sites, and a Shopping Cart where I have for sale copies of my book on the Laugharne War Memorial.
If you wish to donate toward the costs of running and maintaining the website, please feel free to do so by visiting the Shopping Cart page, where a donation can be made via Paypal. This will help cover the costs involved in obtaining photographs both myself and via Third Party sources such as Bob Pike, who gives me a lot of help. If you require photographs of War Graves or Memorials in Belgium, France, Salonika or Gallipoli which are not of men from Carmarthenshire, then Bob's e-mail address can be found in the Links Section.
Search Tip; If using MS Internet Explorer, then pressing 'CTRL and F' together will open a search bar, which can be used to search for keywords on the page of the site you are viewing. This is particularly useful when looking for family names or regiments etc on a large page.
News Items
10 February 2011. Due to a restriction of the number of pages (80) on the website, I am starting work to group memorials from certain areas together onto single pages (dependent on the number of men commemorated on them). Today, the memorials of Cefneithin, Cross Hands, and Gorslas have been grouped together onto the Cross Hands and Area page. My plan was always to have an individual page for each memorial, but this is proving to be impossible, due to the number of memorials in Carmarthenshire, so this is a necessary step to keep the project going forward.
10 February 2011. The memorials of Llanegwad, Llanfynydd and Nantgaredig have been grouped together, and can now be found on the Llanegwad and Area page.
11 February 2011. The memorials of Golden Grove, Llanarthney and Llangathen have been grouped together on the Golden Grove & Area Memorials page.
11 February 2011. The War Memorials of Llanddarog and Llangendeirne have been added onto the website, both on the same page, due to their close proximity.
11 February 2011. The War Memorials of Capel Iwan, Cenarth, Llangeler, Penboyr, Saron and Velindre have been loaded onto the Newcastle Emlyn Area Memorials page of the website.
16 February 2011. The War Memorials of Drefach and Llanybydder have been paired together on the new page, Drefach and Llanybydder, due to their close proximity.
17 February 2011. Llandefeilog (or Llandyfaelog) War Memorial has been added onto the Kidwelly page.
17 February 2011. The Ammanford Area Memorials page has been updated, and the memorials of the neighbouring villages of Betws, Blaina, Capel Hendre, Pantyffynon, Penybanc, Penygroes, Saron and Tycroes have been uploaded onto the page.
18 February 2011. The War memorials of Llandyfeisant, Llansawel and Llanycrwys have been added to the site, and are to be found on the Caio Parish Memorial page.
19 February 2011. A big addition to the site today. A new page, Carmarthen Area War Memorials, has been added, which contains many of the smaller memorials which are situated around the county town. The memorials are; Abernant, Alltwalis, Brechfa, Bronwydd, Bryn Cothi, Conwil Elfed, Cwmbach, Cwmduad, Gwernogle, Llangunnor, Llanllawddog, Llanllwch, Llanpumsaint, Merthyr, Nantycaws, Peniel, Rhyd-y-Gors, Talog, Trevaughan, and White Mill (Felinwen). Each memorial is listed individually, in alphabetical order.
25 February 2011. The War Memorials at Whitland Grammar School have been added to the website, courtesy of photos provided by the school, through Ruth Roberts.
4 March 2011. The Boer War Memorial page has been amended, and renamed 'County Boer War Memorials'. The Llanelli Boer War Memorial been added, as have short details on the men.
8 March 2011. The entire Carmarthen Town WW1 Memorial has been added to the site, on the page 'Carmarthen Town, WW1'. There are still many photos to be added to this page, but they are slowly being worked through. The names of the men have been taken off the 1922 published Carmarthen County War Memorial list. I have decided to add several other men with close links to the town, who for reasons unknown were missed from the original list. The men from Llangunnor are also remembered on this new page, alongside their Carmarthen compatriots. I have taken the Christ Church and St. Peter's pages off the website, to commemorate all of these men together, but I still have the original details from both in my main database. If details of these are required by anyone, please contact me.
21 March 2011. As part of a restructure of the website, the Laugharne (Bwlchnewydd Chapel) page has been removed. All of these men are commemorated on the main Laugharne page. many pages are also being sifted through, tidied up, and checked for omissions, so please check back regularly.
22 March 2011. The Llanboidy and area page has been tidied up and updated, and now includes the memorials of the neighbouring villages of Blaenwaun, Cilymaenllwyd, Cwmfelin Mynach, Cwmbach, Efailwen, Eglwysfair-y-Churig, Egremont, Gelliwen, Hebron, Henllan Amgoed, Llanfallteg, Llanglydwen, Llanwinio, Login and Pantyblaedd who fell during both World Wars.
22 March 2011. The Llanddowror War Memorial page has been tidied up, as has the Pontyberem Memorial page.
28 March 2011. The Talley and Taliaris pages have been put togetherm due to the close proximity of each village.
23 May 2011. A new page has been added which commemorates the local men who have fallen since the end of World War Two. These men fell during later conflicts, such as the Suez Crisis, Korea, The Falklands, Iraq and Afghanistan. Several men who died while serving in the forces, but not on active service are also commemorated on the page, which is entitled 'Post World War Two Casualties'.
26 May 2011. I have at last began to write up short biographies of the Llanelli men who fell during the Great War. Over 600 names have been taken from the 1922 published Carmarthen County War Memorial roll, plus I am adding the details of another 200 men who were either born or resided at Llanelli who fell, but are for some reason not listed on the CCWM roll. Due to the large number of men, and the time taken to type their details up, I am splitting them up alphabetically over three separate pages, A to G, H to O, and P to Y. Photographs of the men, where available, are also being added.
20 August 2011. A new batch of photographs has been added this week from a recent tour in Belgium and Northern France. Also Michael Bloy has kindly supplied photos of the war graves at Cologne Southern Cemetery to use on the website.
15 November 2011. The Llanedi (Llanedy) page has been updated, with the WW2 men added, after Nigel Richards kindly sent in photographs of the War Memorial.
5 December 2011. A page has been added to attempt to identify the burial sites of several local men, with the intention of gatting them commemorated by the CWGC. Also over 30 new photographs have been added to the website today.
18 January 2012. During the last few days, I have been informed of the addition of seven local men to the database of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, who were put forward by myself for commemoration after extensive research. The men are all on the 'HELP-Uncommemorated men' page of this website, and their details on the relevant local war memorial pages will shortly be updated.
22 January 2012. The Pwll War Memorial, which is situated at All Saints Church, has been added to the website today.
22 March 2012. A local man, Dan Thomas, of Eglwyfair-y-Churig and Cross Hands, who has been forgotten for over 90 years, has today been accepted for commemoration by the CWGC, after information submitted by myself. As a reult, his updated biography has been loaded onto the website, onto the Help-Uncommemorated Men, Llanboidy and Area, and the Cefneithin and Cross Hands pages. Also I am currently concentrating on attempting to identify some of these men, so will be updating their details on the website as and when possible.
Work is still on-going to develop both this website, and the sister website- the Pembroke County War Memorial. As with this site, any information or photographs of the War Memorials and War Graves in both Counties would be most welcome, and any information on the local regiments is always needed for further research.
The Pembrokeshire site can be found by visiting the link below- 
