With the war drawing to a close, the Emergency Committee of Glamorgan CCC were able to arrange nine games during 1945, including a couple of two-day encounters against the Royal Australian Air Force at the Arms Park as well as The Army at St. Helen’s.
The grounds in Newport, Briton Ferry, Barry and Pontypridd once again staged games during 1945 whilst the Glamorgan officials also arranged another Past v Present game, this time at the Maindy Barracks Ground in Cardiff. Hopes that the up-and-coming talent might prevail were dashed as the Past won a keenly contested game by seven runs.
Their opponents in 1945 included the London Counties, plus a West Indian eleven raised by Learie Constantine, as well as the various Service elevens which for 1945 included a game in late July at St. Helen’s against the New Zealand Services.
Following the tragic death of Maurice Turnbull in August 1944 a Testimonial Fund had been set up whilst on 18 August 1945 a Memorial Match was staged at the Arms Park against the West of England. With the likes of Wally Hammond and Harold Gimblett in the visiting team, a large crowd turned up and paid their respects. As Johnnie Clay later wrote “perhaps the more imaginative or sentimental among them may have pictured for a fleeting instant the well-known figure out there on the field and derived some small measure of comfort. For Glamorgan were carrying on and he would have wished that.”
