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The Memorial was unveiled by The Prince of Wales, Edward VIII, on the 12th of June 1928. A plaque to commemorate servicemen who died in the Second World War was added in 1949. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nI spoke to Sara Pasino, an International Journalism Student, on why the memorial is important to Cardiff.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-soundcloud wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load\" title=\"National war memorial by CardiffJomec\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"about:blank\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F702823468&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=1200&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe title=\"National war memorial by CardiffJomec\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F702823468&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxwidth=1200&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;dnt=1\"><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Cardiff&#8217;s Memorial Gardens stands a monument to servicemen who lost their lives fighting in the world wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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