3-077-953 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Monument in the Aberfan Cemetery, Merthyr Vale, over graves of volunteers drowned at Lavernock, 1890. 'On Aug. 1, 1888, when the 3rd Volunteer Battalion of the Welsh Regiment was encamped at Lavernock, near Cardiff, seven young men were unfortunately drowned in the sea by the upsetting of their boat. Much compassion for their fate was felt in South Wales; and their comrades, the officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of the regiment, subscribed for a monument to be erected over their grave. This monument was uncovered, on Sunday, March 23, by Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis, the ceremony being attended by the entire regiment...The monument consists of a granite base supporting a block of Quarrella stone, weighing five tons, with a white marble shield let into the front, on which are recorded the names and ages of the deceased; above are the arms of the corps cut out of the solid stone. On the rock stand piled rifles of real bronze, the muzzles encircled by' a cypress wreath. The work has been carried out by Messrs. Corfield and Morgan, of Cardiff, from the designs and under the superintendence of Lieutenant C. B. Fowler, of Llandaff, who is an officer of the corps'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.