THE war memorial at Castle House, home to the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) proudly bears the names of those from the regiment who gave their lives in defence of the realm.

It appears, however, that not all names were recorded. Dr Eric Old, curator of the castle museum, found out that some of the men who started out with the regiment in the First World War were transferred to other regiments, or hospitalised and on their deaths, their names were not properly recorded as being with the RMRE (M).

Four years ago, Warrant Officer (WO) James Jones, stationed with the Swansea section of the regiment (108 squadron) said he had found names of men from the regiment that were not recorded on the memorial in Monmouth.

Dr Old told the Beacon that the RMRE (M) was a supplementary reserve regiment in the First World War and were known as a siege company, “so some of the men have regimental numbers, not army numbers”.

WO Jones was able to find 14 names of ‘missing men’ and Dr Old, searching for regimental numbers - which include the number 38 - on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website found more to make the total 35.

Two new plaques were added to the war memorial at Monmouth Castle parade ground and they were unveiled on Remembrance Sunday, 100 years on from the end of the war.

The added names are:

Capt J E Malcolm, Cpl W G Marshall, S/Sgt J Wilcox, Sgt F Robinson, H Stephens, Cpl A Thomas, J Deakin, W Miles, L/Cpl J R Ellis, I Field, J Phillips, J Williams, Spr T Asquith, H Benfield, C Crum, R Davies, J Dockery, P Dumphy, B H England, J Evans, A J Foley, F W Gay, E Holmes, W Lewis, W H Lewis, Spr T Mcdermott, B Morris, T Newbury, J R Norton, P Reardon, J Salmon, G Taylor, J W Timbrell, R Wright, Dvr E P Wilkes.