A FLINTSHIRE community is marking the centenary of a large memorial gathering paying homage to local people who died in the First World War. On the March 27, 1921, the people of Sychdyn held a ceremony to which their war memorial was dedicated. The village then had fewer than 500 residents and the community had lost 17 young men in the First World War. The ceremony in 1921. They held a service in the village hall, followed by a procession with the band to the memorial, where there was a further moving ceremony when all the names on the memorial were read out. A local committee had raised the money to build the memorial - which took the form of an arched gateway with the names of the fallen on marble on either side of the gate.