LLANDOVERY College has held a service to remember former masters and pupils who lost their lives in the Great War.

At the special service of dedication a new memorial plaque was unveiled in the College chapel.

Among those paying tribute to the 82 Old Llandoverian masters and boys who lost their lives between 1914 and 1918 were former Warden Dr Brinley Jones and Medwyn Hughes, Vice Chancellor of the University of the University of Wales and a current school trustee.

The original plaque was unveiled in April 1934 but had deteriorated beyond repair over the ensuing 80 years.

Thanks to the generosity of a benefactor and the hard work and dedication of Old Llandoverian Harri Evans an impressive new wall plaque was unveiled on Sunday, March 8 in the presence of the Archdeacon of Carmarthen the Venerable Roger Hughes, the current Warden Mr Guy Ayling and Mr Harri Evans.

“The plaque also rectifies a number of inaccuracies in the original plaque,” said Mr Evans who was a boy at the school (1945-1951) and who has done painstaking research on the updated list of the fallen, along with librarian wife Pat.

One of the 82 names on the board was that of Noel Evans who in 1916 scored a remarkable record seven tries for the College in the annual rugby match against Christ College but who two years later - on the very last day of the war - died of wounds incurred in battle.

The Archdeacon blessed the plaque, the Last Post and Reveille was sounded clearly by Under Officer Stacey Parsons and the sermon was preached by the Reverend Michael Rowlands, the vicar of Newgale in Pembrokeshire and an old boy of the College.