Friends of Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff

Friends of Cathays Cemetery - a registered charity aiming to raise the profile of the cemetery in the community as a historic resource and open space.

[Australian WW1 Wargraves in UK & Ireland @Cathy_WW1]

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Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff, Wales - Gunner Arthur Bede Waddups, 2438, Australian Field Artillery.
He died on 1st April, 1917 from Pleural Effusion & Abscess of Liver.
Headstone photo – The Friends of Cathays Cemetery
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Jacques Vaillant de Guelis. (MBE MC Croix de Guerre) Served with Special Operations Executive in WW2, working with French resistance behind enemy lines. See thread below for more about his career Plot I-22E #Cathays #Cemetery #Cardiff

[Greg Lewis @gregjlewis]

For #StDavidsDay, the story of a little-known hero, who worked in the shadows, & died tragically when war had just been won.
Major Jacques de Guélis was born in #Cardiff to a French-born coal exporter & his British wife in 1907& had a career in advertising during the 1930s.
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Today marks the 85th anniversary of the death of Frank Gaccon, killed in Newport Rd during a bombing raid on Cardiff. He was former Captain of Cardiff RFC and in WWII Commander of the Auxiliary Fire Service. Buried in Cathays Cemetery. @cardiffrugbymus https://t.co/yPO6iCQCUk

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Next Tuesday folks (24/2) . #Cathays #Cemetery #Cardiff

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A date for your diary …

Tues 24 Feb - Cathays Cemetery Chapels @7pm - a talk by Ted Richards about Cardiff’s own airship entrepreneur, Ernest Willows.

Learn about his life and pioneering flights

All welcome. Free admission. On-site parking

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This original memorial to Dan Issac Davies, pioneer in Welsh language education, has sadly been lost and replaced with a modest plinth and wooden cross. (T-1734

https://t.co/ztyIy1EhGh

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Dan Isaac Davies (1839-1887) recognised as one of the founders of the ‘ Society for the Utilization of the Welsh Language ,’ today known as ‘ The Welsh Language Society. Buried at Cathays Cemetery. Headstone now gone but what was written around the column?

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Charles Hamilton Sorley, one of the great 1st World War poets is remembered on the family memorial (J-37) in #Cathays #Cemetery #Cardiff.
Also commemorated in Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey.
Died in France Oct 1915.
#poetry
https://t.co/G3giczc1n4

[Friends of Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff @CathaysCemetery]

A date for your diary …

Tues 24 Feb - Cathays Cemetery Chapels @7pm - a talk by Ted Richards about Cardiff’s own airship entrepreneur, Ernest Willows.

Learn about his life and pioneering flights

All welcome. Free admission. On-site parking

[Roath War Memorial @RoathMemorial]

Latest addition to Virtual War Memorial: John Roberts b.1888,Conway. Lost at sea 1917 when the S.S. Cymrian, a coal shop heading to Dublin, was torpedoed by a U-boat and sunk in the St. Georges Channel on 25 Aug 1917. Mentioned on mother’s headstone in Cathays Cemetery.

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Corporal John Charles Russell, Army Pay Corps, of Inverness Place died of TB in GlanEly Hospital in 1919. He is buried at Cathays CEmetery. A CWGC marker has recently been added to the grave.

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Latest addition to virtual war memorial: Cpl Edgar Wood MM. RFA. Grew up in Splott. Railway fireman. Injured Battle of the Somme. Died of wounds at the Military Hospital in Manchester. Buried in Cathays Cemetery. Named on Splott War Memorial.

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Buzzard in Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff today: it perched low down in a tree, unusually approachable, and then swooped down onto the grass right in front me but failed to make the catch.
#birdphotography #birdwatching

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Date for your diary.

"Around the World in (less than) 80 Graves".

A talk by Prof Emeritus Paul Nicholson. Cathays Cemetery 11 November. 7pm

[Friends of Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff @CathaysCemetery]

Date for your diary.

"Around the World in (less than) 80 Graves".

A talk by Prof Emeritus Paul Nicholson. Cathays Cemetery 11 November. 7pm

[Roath War Memorial @RoathMemorial]

JOHN NAPIER SMITH
Civilian Casualty
John Napier Smith b.1894, attended Albany Rd School & Howard Gardens. Appointed Deputy City Treasurer in 1933. Air raid warden and a member of the Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Association. Died on 31/7/1942, aged 48. Cathays Cemetery (plot L4058)

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I almost forgot about #FungiFriday! Colourful waxcaps in Cathays Cemetery three days ago

[Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria]

#31daysofgraves • Military 🪦

Drummer Trevor Mower (d.1920) 🪦

📍Cathays Cemetery 🪦

#Wales #History

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Lawrence John Olsen. This memorial can be found in the dedicated war graves section in the new (top) part of the cemetery. (EB-35) . Read his story here https://t.co/tdokvnAy3M

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Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff, Wales – Private Lawrence John Olsen, 3588, 41st Battalion, A.I.F.
He died on 16th July, 1918 from Chronic Bronchitis & Cardiac Failure.

Headstone photo courtesy of Friends of Cathay Cemetery
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Dutch war grave in Cathays Cemetery Cardiff to Barent van der Kolk, a sailor who died there in 1941. Showing stone erected in 1980s replacing original which had fallen into disrepair. One of 3 Dutch war graves in Cathays maintained by #CWGC (EO2472) @ogsnl #Oorlogsgraven

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The wildflower/pollinator patch in Cathays Cemetery Cardiff, planted by Cathays Wild Gardeners, is looking blooming lovely. (pic: Cathays Wild Gardeners)

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Cathays Cemetery in Cardiff is noted for its waxcap #fungi, but on today’s workday we found what we believe to be ‘King Alfred’s Cake’ (daldinia concentrica) for the first time.