Church appeals for mourners online to attend Welsh Guardsman's funeral Rev Simpson, the assistant curate at the Church of St Thatchan in St Athan, told Radio Four's Today programme that she was concerned there would only be carers from his nursing home attending the funeral. We thought it was not a very nice way to go and we put out a message on Facebook requesting anybody in the village who knew him or any relatives so they could get in contact or come to the funeral. Mr Morgan wrote books about the Welsh railway network and was the founding member of the Welsh Railways Research Circle in 1978. Rodney Hall, secretary of the Welsh Railways Research Circle told Wales Online a number of the group's members would be at the funeral. He said: "A couple of our members continued to visit Mr Morgan when he went into the home. But it appears they did not get the message he had passed away. I plan to go to the funeral as do a number of other circle members who remember him. He was born in Oxford and lived in Carmarthenshire and had worked as a book keeper and as a signalman. Mr Morgan served in the Welsh Guards during his national service and was posted to Egypt.