Some of the Valiant Veterans of Brecon

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In this book Jonathan Morgan focuses on Brecon, and its long history of association with military events and personalities. Brecon is famously a garrison town with a long and close connection with Welsh regiments and the Gurkhas.
He tells the story of his remarkable father, Padre Rex Morgan, who as an army chaplain narrowly escaped death in the battle for Calais during the Dunkirk evacuation. After being captured he was transported via several Prisoner of War camps to Poland, where, in 1945, as the Russian armies advanced, he and his comrades were forced to take part in a notorious death march in bitter winder conditions. Many died while marching West and Padre Morgan became noted for his heroic efforts to encourage the survivors. After the war he became Chaplain to Christ College, Brecon.

Jonathan writes, too, of many of the other military and naval figures who give such a martial flavour to Brecon’s history.