Langland Bay Golf Club Great War Memorial Plaque is Unveiled
Mr Clive Henson, Chairman of Langland Bay Golf Club reports that the club has installed a Plaque to the memory of Lemuel Philip Ace, a Professional Golfer and Groundsman at the club, before he joined the army over 100 years ago.
The club is searched for relatives of Lemuel Philip Ace, who was born in Mumbles in 1884 and lived with his wife, Catherine Elizabeth and children at 3, Forgefield Terrace, Norton, Mumbles. His parents John and Mary, of 8 Gower Place, Mumbles, had several daughters and three other sons and a son-in-law serving with the colours.
Mr Clive Henson has reported, 'On 27th March 2015 the relatives of Mr Ace were welcome to the club for the unveiling of the plaque. This was presented by the members of the club and is dedicated to all those who lost their lives in both wars'.
It is situated on the outside wall, to the left of the main entrance of the clubhouse and overlooking the course where Lemuel would have worked all those years ago. Who knows how far he would have risen in the golfing world, if the Great War had not intervened.
Langland Bay Golf Club
Plaque to the memory of Lemuel Philip Ace
Lemuel Philip Ace enlisted in Mumbles and served as a Private in the Kings (Liverpool Regiment) and was aged 33, when he died of his wounds from a shell splinter on 30th October 1917. He is buried at Solferino Farm Cemetery, Brierlen, near Ieper,
(The Ypres Salient) known to all Tommies as 'Wipers'.
Lemuel Philip Ace is named on two of the Mumbles Great War Memorials, found online at:-
All Saints Church 1914-1918 Memorial-from A to K
and
Mumbles Memorial, Southend Gardens, Swansea