“DISGUSTING” vandals have defaced a new war memorial dedicated to those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the First World War.

The head of a plastic silhouette of a soldier, depicting a forgotten ‘Tommy’ from the Great War, was snapped off last Friday, just days after the poignant memorials were installed across Tywyn.

There are four plastic silhouettes on benches throughout the town and a permanent statue of six-foot soldier at Bryn-y-Paderau memorial garden, paid for by Tywyn Town Council to commemorate the centenary of the conclusion of the First World War, which cost the lives of millions of soldiers and civilians.

The intriguing new memorials, part of the There but Not There campaign, a nationwide initiative to remember those lost lives, have been much talked about in Tywyn as people discuss what they mean and who they are for.

Town councillor Marisa O’Hara was outraged by the lack of respect.

Read the full story in today’s Meirionnydd edition of the Cambrian News