On Saturday 23/12/1905 the Pontypridd Observer reported the unveiling of the memorial by Glamorgan Constabulary's Chief Constable, Captain Lindsay:
'INTERESTING CEREMONY. A Tribute to the Dead. A very interesting yet impressive service, creditable to the public generally of the metropolis of the Rhondda Valley, was held at the Parish Church on Sunday morning last, when the unveiling of a tablet in memory of the late Police-constable Walkley, who died in action during the late South African War, was performed by Captain Lindsay. The church was more than comfortably full and many were unable to gain admittance. A procession was formed prior to the service, which took the following order :—Police, in command of Inspector Salter; the Volunteer Band, under the conductorship of Bandmaster Norton; the Volunteers, under Major J. S. Davies; the Fire Brigade, under Captain J. Brooks; District Councillors T. B. Evans, J.P., D. Arnott, A. T. Evans, Hopkin Morgan, D. R. Evans, Moses Jones, and the Clerk (Mr. J. Colenso Jones). Following up the rear were the St. Matthew's Company of the Church Lads' Brigade and Bugle Band, under Lieutenant Joseph Parker, accompanied by Sergeant-Major H. Smith and the respected Chaplain, the Rev. Jas. Thomas, B.A. On reaching the church, the Police, Volunteers, and Fire Brigade opened out and allowed the members of the Council to enter the church Mr. W. J. Granger, F.R.C.O., choirmaster and organist, seated at the organ, played beautiful strains of music as the choir, clad in snow white surplices, entered the sacred edifice, followed by the Vicar and his respected staff of clergy. The Vicar took his seat within the Sacrum, whilst the Rev. J. Thomas entered the reading desk and began the service. The lessons were read by the Revs. D. J. Davies and T. C. Phillips. After the Psalms were sung and the usual prayers offered the choir sung an anthem which was well rendered. The clergy and choir then made their way down the south aisle amidst solemnity which befitted the occasion, and sweet and sorrowful notes of the organ added to the solemnity. The Vicar faced the now covered tablet whilst the choir formed a semi-circle around the middle aisle. Captain Lindsay, Superintendent Cole, and Inspector Salter then joined the Vicar, who, in touching strains read from the Burial service. Captain Lindsay then withdrew the veil which hid the tablet and facing the congregation, read the inscription "To the Glory of God and in memory of Police-constable Ed. Walkley, of the Second Wiltshire Regiment, killed in action, February 14th, 1900, at Rensburg, South Africa. This tablet was erected by comrades and friends, December 17th, 1905." Continuing, the Captain said it was a great privilege and pleasure to unveil this tablet. The buglers then sounded the "Last Post," which seemed to strike the hearts of the large congregation. The choir then returned to their stalls at the same time singing "Now the labourer's task is o'er..' A most excellent sermon was then delivered by the Vicar, taking for his text, "Honour all men" (1st Peter, 11-17). During the course of his sermon the Vicar remarked that they had met that morning to do honour to one who had served his King and country in a double capacity. As a member of what he ventured to describe as one of the grandest bodies of men in the world—meaning the Glamorganshire Constabulary—it fell to the lot of Edward Walkley to share in safeguarding the public peace of these valleys. Walkley was one of those called upon to give his life for his Queen and country. Thus was a life of sacrifice crowned by the sacrifice of death. Exactly in what part of South Africa he rests, or wherever his grave be marked by the emblem of their salvation, they could not say, but there, that day, in the place where he worshipped and the town where he was beloved they memorialised his death in tablet form that they, together with those that came after them, may be taught by his example,"Honour all men.' The Vicar said he had also to allude to another who had been taken from their midst to the Paradise of God. The poor and the needy, the suffering and the sorrowing, would miss the generous charity and kindly sympathy of Gwenllian Phillips, who was for many years a worshipper in that church. Mrs. R. L. Phillips was full of good work and the alms-deeds which she did were many. After the offertory hymn Mr. W. J. Granger played the Dead March in Saul, which filled many a heart with bitter anguish and many eyes with tears of sorrow'.
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