The lord mayor of Cardiff, alderman John Chappell, convened a meeting in Shrewsbury on 30 September 1910 to decide what form the Welsh national memorial to King Edward VII should take.
The meeting decided that the memorial should be an organised campaign to eradicate tuberculosis in Wales and Monmouthshire.
£300,000 was raised by the public, half of which was donated by philanthropist David Davies of Llandinam, the Liberal MP for Montgomeryshire, who had a special interest in the fight against tuberculosis.
He invited Thomas Jones, a lifelong friend and guide, to be the WNMA's first secretary.
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