Monmouth Town Council is putting forward proposals for a commemoration ceremony next month to mark 100 years since the war memorial in St James Square came under the stewardship of the Mayor of Monmouth.

The town council has proposed to put on a replica ceremony similar to that which took place on October 6, 1921.The Royal Naval Association Monmouth Branch, Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers, the Royal British Legion, Women’s Royal Naval Service, Ross and Monmouth Sea Cadets, Monmouth Army Cadets, the Monmouth schools, Royal British Legion (RBL), standard bearers, and Lord Lieutenant.Mayor of Monmouth Terry Christopher told the Beacon: "The proposal is to have the ceremony as close to what happened in 1921 as possible. We’d also like to have as many young people involved as possible, because its their heritage."Current proposals are to host the service on October 3, where the ceremony will be as close to the 1921 one as possible. This includes a parade from Shire Hall to St James Square.Cllr Christopher will lay a wreath along previous mayors.Organisers would like to invite any descendant of anyone names on the memorial to be part of the ceremony.This follows a recent gathering of the current and former town mayors to mark the 100th anniversary of the Royal British Legion.To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the RBL, the Monmouth mayor at the time Mat Feakins was joined informally by Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Tuggey CBE DL, Vice Lord-Lieutenant, and president of the Monmouth branches of the Royal British Legion and the RE Association to lay flowers at the war memorial in St James Square, Monmouth.This also marked a special occasion for the present and past mayors of Monmouth Town - it was recently rediscovered by Monmouth resident Sue Campbell that the war memorial had been placed in perpetual trust to the mayor and his successors at its original dedication and unveiling ceremony.The Monmouth Beacon reported in its Friday October 14, 1921 paper: "Mr F Hobbs said that on behalf of the subscribers and the committee, he had to ask the mayor (Cllr AT Blake) to be kind enough to take charge of this monument for all time."