Afternoon Alan.
Maybe of interest as cadet corp mentioned.
A tribute by E. Vaughan Morris in the Conductor magazine, April 1965: 'T. J. Powell: A Mighty Friend'. W. G. Atkins September 1969.
T.J. (tom) was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire on 12 October 1897 to Edgar and Sarah Anne Powell. As has been the case with many musicians in the brass band movement, he started as a boy in the Salvation Army, and was playing side-drum in the youth band at the age of seven. He transferred to the Tredegar senior band pn cornet and studied theory and harmony during this period with Mr. Hurley who was bandmaster there. Just prior to the First World War, joined the Tredegar town band but then left South Wales to serve with distinction in the band of H. M. Royal Marines; he furthered his studies during the war in the Marines School of Music. In 1920 he was appointed musical director of the Melingriffith Volunteer and Cadet Corp and which was connected to the Melingriffith Tinplate Works at Whitchurch, just outside of Cardiff; he lived locally for many years at No. 81 Velindre Road, Whitchurch. This was the beginning of and association which lasted all his life, and the name of 'Melingriffith' and 'Tom Powell' wil be forever linked together.
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Jonathan
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