Nottingham Evening Post, Monday 13th September 1920 (page 3) reported:
'TRINITY CHURCH MEMORIALS. A memorable day was yesterday in the history of Holy Trinity Church, Nottingham, when at the morning service the Bishop Hereford, Martin Linton Smith, D.S.O, unveiled and dedicated two windows in the chancel, one erected in memory of his father, the late Very Rev. James Alan Smith, D.D., Dean of St. David’s, and vicar of the church from 1870 1884, and the other in honour of members of the congregation who fell in the war'.
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Nottingham Journal, Monday 13th September 1920 (page 8) printed a lengthy report of the unveiling of the board and window:
'A CHURCH’S TRIBUTES.
Holy Trinity’s Former Vicar and Her War Heroes.
Yesterday was a day of memories at Holy Trinity Church, Nottingham, tribute being paid to a beloved former vicar, now at rest, and to the sons of the parish who gave their lives for their fellows in the Great War.
In memory of the late Very Rev. J. A. Smith, D.D., vicar from 1870 to 1884, a window in the chancel (subject "Faith", and containing as the central figure a very striking likeness of the Dean) was unveiled by his son, the Right Rev. M. Linton Smith, D.D., D.S.O., Lord Bishop of Hereford, who also unveiled a second window, typifying "Hope", representative of a soldier in Khaki about to receive the Crown.
Below the first window, with the words "Justified by faith" at the foot, is a brass plate on which is the inscription; Very Rev. James Allan Smith, D.D. This window was erected the congregation of Holy Trinity Church and friends to the glory of God and in grateful memory of the Very Rev. James Allan Smith, D.D., sometime Dean of St. David's, formerly vicar of this parish from 1870 to 1884. Died, November 29th, 1918. “Moreover, it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful.” —I. Cor., IV., 2.
The inscription on the brass plate below the second window reads:- This window and a tablet in the nave/ were erected to the glory of God and/ in ever grateful memory of those who/ fell in the Great War, 1914-1918./ "Greater love hath no man than this/ that a man lay down his life for his friends.”—St. John XV.,13.
The inscription on the oak tablet is as follows:
"This tablet, and a window in the chancel were erected to the glory of God and in ever grateful memory of those connected with Holy Trinity Church and parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-1918". Below are given the names of 99 [sic] men.
In his sermon the Bishop said it was a striking testimony to the record his father left behind him that nearly 36 years after had left the parish they should erect a window to his memory. Both windows were unveiled and dedicated at the morning service; and, to the strains of the "Last Post,” sounded by three buglers of the 7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters, the tablet was dedicated in the evening. In his evening sermon the Bishop, who served as a chaplain in France, said the knowledge that by their efforts the homes of England were being preserved from devastation and destruction, formed the great ideal which animated the men. These 99 [sic] men had done their task, and to those who were left was given the work of seeing that the great aims which nerved them in their task, and for which, in the end, they gave their lives, did not fail of achievement'.
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