Below is an index of all the wargraves and remembrance graves within St John's churchyard, Callwen. Listed with each grave are its location (& reference if known), its inscription, and a photograph.
Some graves will link through to their own pages (click on the word Grave, if underlined), whilst every individual named amongst the fallen will link to their own service history and memorial page (click on their name).
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Second World War
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Fallen Servicemen
buried or remembered in St John's, Callwen
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Daniel Thomas Griffiths
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Died 31st January 1942 at sea, South of Newfoundland
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Grave
Located
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Inscription:-
Daniel Thomas Griffiths (Petty Officer)
Dearly loved son
A rhoddodd ei fywyd ords ei wiad
Jan 31st 1942
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St John's Callwen, is on the main Brecon Road (A 4067), opposite the lower parts of the Dan-yr-Ogof Caves complex (Shire Horse farm etc), and nearby to the Tafarn-y-Garreg public house. A small layby set in from the road provides parking, and the gate is usually open to the cemetery.
Also in the cemetery of Saint John the Baptist, Callwen, is a memorial stone to an Anson training aircraft which crashed in the mountains in January 1939.
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Callwen Church
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Originally there were 2 plaques, erected in the 1940s, one in Cwmgiedd and one by The Gwynn Arms. After the one in Cwmgiedd was vandalised, the county council moved the one by The Gwynn Arms to the churchyard of Callwen St John The Baptist church.
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