WALES and Newport caps and a gold watch presented to the Black and Ambers invincibles of 1922/23 have been donated to the Rodney Parade club by the family of Mapson Thomas Williams.

Back row forward Williams' great grandson Ian Williams travelled from Perth, Australia to make the presentation at Rodney Parade along with family members from Cefn Mably and Wiltshire.

Secretary Dennis Bennett said: "It was a great pleasure to meet the descendants of one of Newport RFC's great players.

"It was an honour for me to accept these items of memorabilia on behalf of the club and I would like to assure the family that these items will be cherished and displayed prominently in our museum."

Mapson Williams was from a Maesglas farming family his father, Mapson Williams senior, and two uncles, Herbert Smith Williams and Williams Henry Williams, played for Newport.

Mapson was born in Queensland, Australia in 1891 but the family returned to Maesglas and he was educated at Newport High School and Long Ashton School in Bristol.

He made his Black and Ambers debut against Brynmawr in March, 1912 and would play for the club 150 times, playing in the sixth Newport side to go through a season undefeated in 1922/23.

Mapson, who served for the Gloucestershire Hussars in the First World War, won a cap for Wales against France in 1923 but fell foul of the WRU for punching an opponent who had bitten him on the ear.

He went on to play for Abertillery before moving back to Australia in 1924 where he lived until 1954.