Trees Planted As Farewell To Americans After The Second World War

Photo reference number: 1073

From the South Wales Argus, 1945. Caption says:

FAREWELL TO AMERICANS - Colonel George B. Norris (Port Commander, U.S. Army), Mr. Hugh Roberts (Regional Ports Director), Mr. Taliesen Morgan, and Councillor Major J. Parry Brown, O.B.E., J.P. (Deputy Mayor of Newport), beside the plaque commemorating the planting of four American scarlet oak trees in Belle Vue Park.

See our article on the GIs in Newport