A memorial scene commemorating the end of the First World War is on display outside St Mary’s Church on Pembroke’s Main Street.

It’s creator artist James Purchase of Monkton transformed last year’s nativity scene at the silhouette light box into the WWI tribute to mark this weekend’s anniversary.

“However the Nativity one will re-appear before Santa gets to Pembroke!” said James, who has also written the following poem about Mametz Wood which is due to be read out on BBC Radio Wales on Remembrance Day.

Mametz Wood

Red’s in our flag

And red is our dragon

And red was the blood drawn from Wales ......

Deep in Mametz wood

The green man once stood

Till he met with red dragon fire

The Welsh guard stood tall

Through duty and call

And lit their own funeral pyre

Not a man did yield

As they fell in the field

Brave hymns were heard back in Cymru

Distraught mothers cried

And the valleys all sighed

From The Rhondda down to Rhymney

One hundred years gone

Only the wood still lives on

Paper poppies grow with the ferns

The lonely dragon on high

Reminds those who pass by

Of the Welsh that never returned

.....Red’s in our flag

And red is our dragon

And red is the debt owed to Wales