Chris_Baker Posted 19 August , 2005 Share Posted 19 August , 2005 Can anyone please identify the location of Penawr / Benawr Park Camp? It was in use in May 1918. 57903 Pte Albert Dafter was there at the time. He was sent to France in June 1918 and served with the 9th Welsh R. He may have been in the Pembroke Yeomanry or Welsh R in early 1918. I know this sounds unlikely, but there is a possibility it was in East Anglia!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Hesketh Posted 19 August , 2005 Share Posted 19 August , 2005 This is from the dark recesses of my mind - so is probably totally wrong - but I'm sure I've come across the name Penawr somewhere near Swansea. Bernard Lewis may be able to discredit that theory pretty quickly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CROONAERT Posted 19 August , 2005 Share Posted 19 August , 2005 Probably no help whatsoever (as I don't know the answer!), but I doubt that Penawr Camp would be near a place named "Penawr" (if one such place exists?). Penawr was a Knight of the Round Table in Welsh Arthurian legend (or was he actually Arthur himself? - he was the "leader of the host"). Chances are the camp was named after this mythical(?) Welsh hero and could, therefore , be a camp outside Wales that perhaps held Welsh troops at some time or other. As you say, Chris, there is every possibility that it was in E.Anglia! Dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin O'Marah Posted 19 August , 2005 Share Posted 19 August , 2005 Chris, There is a Pennar with amilitary connections in Pembrokeshire south Wales, could this be your link? Hwyl Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin O'Marah Posted 19 August , 2005 Share Posted 19 August , 2005 Chris At near by Llanion there was a tented camp during the Crimean war, also during WW1 there was a camp at Pennar Point now the site of the Memorial Park and Bush Estate Hwyl Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hartley Posted 19 August , 2005 Share Posted 19 August , 2005 "Penawr" (if one such place exists?). <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not that I can find in a gazetteer John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard_Lewis Posted 20 August , 2005 Share Posted 20 August , 2005 Sorry lads but no info on this one! Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard_Lewis Posted 21 August , 2005 Share Posted 21 August , 2005 Not much use but a similar spelling - PENMAWR - means big top. Can't find a Penmawr or a Penawr on the map of Wales.. Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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