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Wedi cael rhagor o wybodaeth gan y cwsmer: "Public grief was profound and there was a need for a focus for this grief in the public realm. Families needed somewhere to go to honour their dead, to lay flowers and wreaths and to mourn their relatives. So temporary shrines started to be put up in towns and villages. They started off as tables which were put up with lists of the fallen pinned above the table. Flowers and items being placed beneath these lists. Most families didn’t get a body or body part to bury – the British Army apparently never normally repatriates its dead, so the shrines started to appear from around 1915 as a public focus for grief. Wiki- says: In Britain, some Anglican church leaders began to create street war shrines to the dead. These cheap, local memorials were mainly constructed in working class districts, often built from wood and paper, and were used for holding short services in honour of the dead and to hold donations of flowers.[40] They were criticised, however, as promoting Catholic ritualism.[40] Official support for the shrines only came after a national newspaper campaign, efforts by the Lord Mayor of London and a well-publicised visit from Queen Mary to a shrine, and standardised stone shrines then began to replace the earlier, temporary versions.[41]" Mae'r sôn am "promoting Catholic ritualism" yn gwneud i mi feddwl efallai y byddai "cysegr" yn iawn wedi'r cyfan. Diolch Siân