Arthur Rees

Arthur Morgan Rees CBE, QPM, DL (20 November 1912 – 13 May 1998) was a Welsh international rugby union flanker, the Chief Constable of Denbighshire and later of Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent, a sports' administrator and World War II fighter pilot.

Biography Rees was born in the village of Llangadog in 1912. He was raised as a Welsh speaker, not learning English until the age of seven. He was educated at Llandovery College before matriculating to St Catharine's College, Cambridge, earning two rugby blues.

In 1943 he married Dorothy Webb, with whom he would have a daughter, Rosemary. He was awarded the Queen's Police Medal in 1970 and was made a Deputy Lieutenant to Staffordshire in 1967. In May 1977 he was granted the Freedom of the City of London and in November of the same year was made a Knight of the Order of St John.