RWAS Long Service Medals for farm workers
Italian Antonio Santosuosso of Johnstown, Wrexham, will be presented with a Long Service Medal at next week’s Royal Welsh Show to mark 50 years as a farm worker. Mr Santosuosso, was employed by Mr George Done at Asney Park Farm, Erbistock, in July 1959, and has remained there ever since working for successive generations of the family.
Mr Santosuosso, aged 80, who came to Britain from his home village in Southern Italy to marry his wife, Maria, is one of seven farm and estate workers in Wales who will receive Royal Welsh Agricultural Society Long Service Medals. Between them they have served 296 years on the land.
Six of those receiving medals have, like Mr Santosuosso, spent their working lives on the same farm.
Emrys Lloyd Williams, aged 54, has worked for 42 years for Mr R. Lloyd Evans of Fron, Cyffylliog, Ruthin, Clwyd, and Michael John Williams, aged 62, has also spent 42 years working on Mr W. I. R. Thomas’s Blaenclydach Farm, Trecastle, Brecon.
Sixty-three year-old Michael Anthony Sockett has been employed for 41 years by the Watkins family at Heartsease, Knighton, and Malcolm Tom Edwards, aged 57, has worked at Traherne Farms Ltd, Coedarhydyglyn, near Cardiff, also for 41 years.
Simon Fransis Levell has worked at Llanllyr Farms, Llanllyr, Talsarn, Lampeter, Ceredigion, for 40 years and the seventh medal winner, Gareth Owen Davies, 56, of Llanystumdwy, Gwynedd, has been employed on the land for 40 years although he has worked for three different employers, the last eight years with Mr John Hughes of Ynysgain Fawr, Criccieth, Pwllheli.
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