Penarth Dock, South Wales - the heritage and legacy


	Penarth Dock, South Wales - the heritage & legacy . . .

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Volume Eight - Pre-Victorian to the present day - more aspects - Chains at Penarth Dock - Macey, Mules and Wallace Family History . . .


		above - Arthur and Ivor are named on the Penarth War Memorial in Alexander Park designed by Goscombe John.

		above - Arthur and Ivor are also listed on the Roll of Honour in St Augustine’s Church.

above left - Arthur’s death, as reported in the Penarth Times.
Another soldier gave his life at Passchendaele was Major John Angel Gibbs from Cardiff. Major John Angel Gibbs D.S.O. was from a shipping family in Cardiff. He joined the Welch Regiment and commanded the 9th Battalion. He died on the Menin Road on the 20 September 1917, just 6 days before Arthur Mules. His widow, Mrs Gladys Gibbs, bought the failing Headlands Hotel at the far end of John Street in Penarth, and turned it into the ‘J A Gibbs Home for the Children of Sailors’ in memory of her husband.

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