Brecon County Times, Thursday 13 November 1919 (page 2) reported:
'POLICE WAR MEMORIAL. Brass Tablet in the Priory Church, Brecon. Five members of the Breconshire Constabulary were killed in the war, and their comrades of the Force have fittingly honoured their memory by placing a brass tablet in S. John's Priory Church, Brecon. This historic church, which compels reverence by its dignified proportions, its age and associations, and is the pride of all Breconshire, irrespective of creed, has many such memorials on its stately walls; and nothing could have been more appropriate than to add to these sacred records one inspired by the loyalty and brotherhood of a valued county organisation whose great duty is the maintenance of peace by the enforcement of law and order. The names of the brave fellows inscribed on the tablet are Bombardier Thomas Pitman, R.G.A.; Lance-Corpl. Arthur A. Griffiths, Welsh Guards; Lance-Corpl. Wm. Davies, Royal Welsh Fusiliers; Gunner Charles Martin, R.G.A. ; Pte. Edward Hatcher, Welsh Guards. The work was entrusted to Mr Geo. Hay, engraver, of Free street, Brecon, and the design and execution are excellent. The tablet was unveiled and dedicated at a special service held on Wednesday afternoon. the 5th inst. Colonel C. G. Cole-Hamilton, C.M.G.. D.S.O. (Chief Constable) led a strong parade of police and special constables, and the congregation included Mr J. E. Moore-Gwyn, D.L., J.P. (acting chairman of the Breconshire Standing Joint Committee whilst Lord Glanusk was away on war service), and Mr H. F. W. Harries (Clerk of the Peace for the county). A number of relatives of the deceased men were also present. The Bishop of Swansea (vicar) and the Rev. E. E. Davies (curate) took the service, and the choir and churchwardens were in attendance. Two hymns were sung "Soldiers who are Christ's below" and "Ten thousand times ten thousand," also the 23rd Psalm and the "Nunc Dimittis," and the lesson was taken from the 3rd chapter of the Book of Wisdom of Solomon. The tablet, which has been placed on the wall of the north transept, was unveiled by Mr J. E. Moore-Gwyn, who said : As acting chairman of the Standing Joint Committee of this county, and in the unavoidable absence of Lord Glanusk, chairman of that committee, I have been invited by the Chief Constable and members of the County Police Force to unveil this brass tablet as a memorial to the five gallant members of the Breconshire Constabulary who have made the great sacrifice and given their lives for their King and country in fighting for, justice and freedom in the war of 1914-1918. It is now my duty to hand over this memorial to you, my lord Bishop, as vicar, and to the churchwardens of this Priory Church, in trust for safe keeping, and I now ask you, my lord Bishop, in the presence of this congregation, to formally dedicate it. The Bishop replied that on his own behalf and on behalf of the churchwardens he accepted the trust, and they would keep the tablet in all safety. They counted it a high privilege to have on the walls of that sanctuary a memorial to those men who in the days of peace as well as war had so nobly served their Country. The good service rendered in the days of peace had been crowned in their case by the great sacrifice they had offered in the days of war; and they counted it a high privilege that the names of those who by their courage and by their devotion deserved ever to be held in honour should be in that permanent way recorded on the walls of the Priory Church. The National Anthem was sung at the close of the service'.
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