I have spent three years researching the names on the Llandudno War Memorial (Cenotaph) 1922, cross referencing them with the Roll of Honour 1921, and the marble tablets the Memorial Chapel of Holy Trinity Church 1924. The lists are virtually identical though, being later, the Memorial Chapel has a few extra names.
HistoryPoints has over 30 warriors who are unknown (apart from their rank and regiment in most cases) but I have whittled that down to just four men:
Davies, Will (Denbigh) – said to be Private, Royal Garrison Artillery
Downes, G J (known to be George) – said to be Private, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Jones, William Thomas – said to be Private, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Roberts, Robert Griffith – said to be Sapper, Royal Engineers
But, more importantly, there appear to be several names missing from the War Memorial and from the Memorial Chapel. With the 100th anniversary of the end of the Great War rapidly approaching, it is surely time to get the names added to the memorials. As far as I am aware, the Roll of Honour was only ever printed.
Probable Serious Omissions from War Memorial:
William Henry Davies (also from Memorial Chapel)
Arthur Edward Evans
Leonard Griffiths (also from Llanrhos Parish Memorial)
Thomas John Hughes (also from Memorial Chapel)
John Jones (Merchant Marine) (also from Memorial Chapel)
John Jones (RASC) (also from Memorial Chapel)
Horace Illes Powell (also from Memorial Chapel)
Morgan Scoltock Williams (also from Memorial Chapel, Llanrhos Parish Memorial)
Possible Omissions from War Memorial:
Trevor Austen Manning Davies (by virtue of being in the Memorial Chapel)
Guy Everingham (by virtue of being married to a Llandudno girl and being on her parents' stone in St Tudno's)
James and William Harvey (by virtue of being remembered in the family plot at St. Tudno's)
Robert Thomas Jones (by virtue being a Llandudno lad and having a registered war grave but who was accidentally killed after the war)
Philip Hebdon Lecomber (by virtue of being remembered on a stone in St Tudno's)
Edward John Roberts (by virtue of being remembered in the Memorial Chapel – died in July 1922 of heart disease, possibly caused by gassing – too late to be regarded as due to war service and not therefore recorded by CWGC. Not too late to get on the Memorial Chapel tablets. A better case for consideration than most I would suggest.
Of course, the criteria to have any of those above added to the Memorial Chapel and/or the War Memorial depends upon whether they would meet the eligibility as laid down by the Llandudno Urban District Council's War Memorial Committee and possibly the Llandudno Parochial Church Council. Ironically, the former committee was chaired by none other than Arthur Hewitt, chairman of the council who was the recruiting officer who sent most of these young men off to meet their fate! Unfortunately, the committee's minutes have been lost. It would appear that the Llandudno list is composed of those with a strong connection to the town including the Parish of Llandudno and part of the Parish of Llanrhos. Not included are those connected to Penrhynside or Deganwy.
If anyone is interested in helping to campaign to get the deserving additional names added to the War Memorial and to the Marble Tablets in the Memorial Chapel, of Holy Trinity Church, please comment.
The detailed biographies can be seen here
http://llandudno-parish.org.uk/wordpress/Andy