Morgans of Tredegar House, Newport
INFORMATION RELEASE
A NEW BOOK ON THE MORGANS OF TREDEGAR HOUSE
FROM NEWPORT
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 on 11
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
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 adjoining Tredegar Park 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
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
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.
