There was a service of commemoration for Dr. Joseph Soar, M.B.E., an honorary life governor of the R.N.L.I. and secretary of the St. David's branch, at St. David's Cathedral on 13th August, 1972. A memorial plaque to Dr. Soar was unveiled in the south transept by the Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire (Col. the Hon.

Hanning Phillipps, M.B.E.)..