Tenby Town Council are looking for further funding to help bring plans to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I to fruition.

A sub-committee was set up by the town Council last year to go ahead with a project to introduce names of fallen soldiers from Tenby missing off the town’s cenotaph, to coincide with the ‘Battle’s End’ tribute to take place on November 11, to mark ‘100 years of remembrance’ to commemorate and remember the end of the First World War.

Former Mayor of Tenby, John Griffiths has undertaken a wealth of research and hard work into obtaining a list of names to be introduced to the Tenby war memorial, and Mr. Griffiths has been working with Murray John, to finalise the current list of names.

The town clerk Andrew Davies recently told councillors that the sub-committee looking at a possible extra 90 names to be added, but that the decision would ultimately be made by the town council.

“As project architect Mr. John feels that the names cannot be fitted onto the current memorial and proposes a wall to the rear of the existing monument comprising of six marble panels set on Pembrokeshire stone to match the existing memorial,” said Mr. Davies.

Updating councillors at their meeting on Tuesday night, Mr. Davies said that they were now looking into grants available to carry out the project, which roughly would cost in the region of £13,000. He said that unfortunately a grant funding scheme that they had previously planned to apply for when the project was first mooted, was no longer available.

Clr. Trevor Hallett suggested that by putting the matter into the public domain, someone might come forward financially to help.

“This project is to honour the people of the town who have fallen in war, and should have been done years ago!” he commented.

The Mayor, Clr. Mrs. Sue Lane, said that unfortunately a decision had to be made very soon on funding for the project, due to the short timeframe, before suggesting that the matter be taken into private.