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First world war roll of honour headed “Barry Railway European war 1914-1918 roll of honour. Names of those connected with the company who have responded to the call of duty”. Foliage border, company device (dragon rampant surrounded by company name and date 1884 on circular scroll, surmounted by a stag’s head) at top centre, Royal courts of arms within shields top left and top right, three circular vignettes of railway scenes and two lozenge shaped vignettes of military scenes down each side, rectangular warship scene centre bottom and inscription “sed miles sed pro patria” (“but he was a soldier, and it was for his country he died” – the final line of Sir Henry Newbolt’s 1898 poem “Clifton Chapel”). Beneath lower border “Waterlow & Sons Limited, London Wall, London”. Paper, probably originally framed but donated to Museum unframed. Surnames listed mostly alphabetically within each operation department, with initials only and no ranks, dates or ages; a few out-of-sequence names at the end of sections in slightly different lettering. 824 names in total, of which 65 are underlined – a note lower right states “The names underlined denote killed”.