LAST Monday afternoon a short service was held at the Memorial Health Centre, Blaenau Ffestiniog to commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War.

This centre has four large plaques on its walls with the names of over 240 soldiers from a wide area around Blaenau Ffestiniog who didn’t return from the war.

Peter Scott, the local British Legion branch’s chairman and also secretary, presided over the service with the legion’s treasurer David Taylor also present as was the Rev Roland Barnes, who conducted a short service and a prayer.

The Last Post and National Anthems were played before Peter Scott and Cllr Erwyn Jones laid wreaths by one of the plaques on behalf of the Legion and the Ffestiniog Town Council.

It was after the great war that the Ffestiniog Memorial Hospital was built and opened in 1925 and which today is the said Memorial Health Centre.

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