Monument Drill Hall Monmouthshire Regiment

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Here stood Stow Hill Drill hall. from which sallied Newport's own territorial soldiers, the First (Rifle) Battalion the Monmouthshire Regiment to fight for Britain at the outbreak of two world wars.

They wrote the saddest yet most glorious chapter in Newport's history on May the 8th 1915, when in an heroic stand against great odds before Ypres, the Monmouthshire's helped to bar the Germans from the vital channel ports. Of their strength of nearly 500, only 129 officers and men survived.

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• Tekst: Fedor de Vries & Shaun McGuire
• Foto's: Robin Drayton