The Morgans of Tredegar House, Newport, South Wales
Morgan Family Roll of Honour : Great War Dead
Morgans of Tredegar House, Newport
INFORMATION RELEASE
A NEW BOOK ON THE MORGANS OF TREDEGAR HOUSE
FROM NEWPORT HISTORIAN WILLIAM CROSS
The Morgans of Tredegar House:
Great War Roll of Honour : The Hoare, Lindsay and Mundy great- grandsons of the first Lord and Lady Tredegar who died during the 1914-1918 War
A new book about the Morgans of Tredegar House was published on11 November 2018 .
The book outlines the story of the five great grandsons of the first Lord & Lady Tredegar of Tredegar who were killed in the Great War.
The compiler is Newport writer and historian William Cross, the author of eight other books featuring the Morgan dynasty.
The book is a tribute to the five men, who spent periods of childhood and early adulthood in the company of their Morgan relations at estate events and family gatherings at Tredegar House and the adjoiningTredegar Park and Ruperra Castle.
The book also touches on a nephew of Katharine, Lady Tredegar and three other men killed in the Great War who had overlaps to the Morgan family as they were socially linked in her debutante year of 1914 with the doomed Gwyneth Erika Morgan, daughter of the 3rd Lord and Lady Tredegar whose body was fished out of the River Thames in 1925.
Essential reading for those interested in the Morgan family of Tredegar House and their collaterals and those who wish to remember the selfless contribution one of Wales’s great families made in the war to end wars.
Compiler William Cross comments :
- “Surprisingly with all the commemorations for the Great War no mention is made at the Morgan seat of Tredegar House of the five brave Morgan men who gave their lives for their country.
Cross adds:
- “ Sadly on 11 November 2018 Tredegar House was dark and closed whilst the whole country observed two minutes silence for the dead from the Great War, and for the Armistice commemorations 100 years on from the special day that established an important line for peace and remembrance after four years of slaughter between 1914 and 1918. ”
The book is 100 pages long, with over 100 End Notes and contains
Over 80 images, with unique pictures of members of the Morgan clan that are not in the public domain. Many images are in colour.
* Further Enquiries about the book etc please contact:
William Cross
58 Sutton Newport, Newport, NP 19 7JF
e-mail
williecross@aol.com
LEST WE FORGET
Those to remember with honour are Lt. Charles Morgan Hoare, 15th Kings Hussars, Capt. George Walter Thomas Lindsay, Royal Engineers, Lt. Frederic Charles Mundy, RNVR, Lt. Archibald Thurston Thomas Lindsay, Royal Engineers and Major Claud Frederick Thomas Lindsay, Royal Field Artillery.
Also to recall are Capt. Raymond Rodakowski, Irish Guards, nephew of Katharine, Lady Tredegar, Hon. Simon Fraser, Hon. Charles Mills, MP, and Hon. Reginald Wyndham who all died between 1914 and 1918.
The book is dedicated to the Hon. Gerard Sturt, brother of Lois Sturt ( Viscountess Tredegar 1934-1937). By a singular coincidence Gerard Sturt died at Crichel House (the country residence of his parents, Lord and Lady Alington) about 8:30am on Monday 11 November
1918. This was just after the re-taking of Mons ( where Gerard was horrifically wounded in 1914) and the signing of the Armistice.