68539: Welsh Dragon Memorial

online resource

posted on 2024-05-12, 21:25 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

Rough sketch shown to the Committee of the Mametz Wood Memorial Fund by the sculptor David Petersen prior to the creation of the Welsh Dragon Memorial which was dedicated on 11th July 1987. The Welsh Dragon Memorial commemorates the attacks on Mametz wood by the Welsh battalions in the period 7th to 12th July 1916, (during the Battle of the Somme).

History

Identifier

9544.jpg | DJCH16.jpg

Subject

Commemoration | Somme

Creator

Petersen, David

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pen

Type

Sketch

Rights

Colin Hughes

Repository Name

The private collection of Colin Hughes

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Keywords

First World War Poetry Digital Archive World War One Sketches Commemoration Somme

Licence

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0