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Enid Spedding
Place of birth: Goginan
Service: Clerk ?, WAAC, 1917 -
Notes: Enid seems to have joined the WAAC in Autumn 1917.
Reference: WaW0310
Newspaper photograph and report
Newspaper photograph of Enid Spedding, WAAC. Cambrian News 3rd May 1918.
Emily Evans
Service: Street vendor of patent medicines
Notes: Emily Evans of Pembroke Dock was fined £7 for selling potatoes at above the fixed price of 1¾ d per pound. Two witnesses claimed to have been charged 6d and 5½ d per pound. Mrs Evans refused to tell the police where she had purchased the potatoes.
Reference: WaW0304
Newspaper report
Report of charge against Emily Evans for profiteering. Cambria Daily Leader 14th May 1917.
Daisy Morris
Place of birth: St Dogmaels
Service: Munitions ? then Clerk-Telephonist, QMAAC, 1918/06/06 – 1919/05/06
Notes: Born in St Dogmael’s in 1895, her father was a coastguard, Daisy may have worked in munitions in Barry Docks. When she joined QMAAC in 1918 she was living in Barrow, near her sister at Flookburgh, north Lancashire.
Sources: National Archives WO-398-159-25
Reference: WaW0309
Annie Lillian Thomas (later McLoughlin)
Place of birth: Cwmyoy
Service: Postwoman, WAAC
Notes: Annie Thomas joined the WAAC in June 1918, aged 21. She had previously worked at the Royal Gwent Hospital as a waitress. She was posted to the Australian Military Hospital, Dartford. By the time she was discharged in July 1919 she was married, though nothing is known of her husband.
Sources: National Archives WO-398-153-8
Reference: WaW0305
WAAC enrollment form
Enrolment form for Annie Thomas. Her surname and marital status have been changed.rn
Violet Gale Jackson
Service: Scientist, botanist, Rothamsted Institute, 1917 -
Notes: Violet Jackson graduated from the University College, Bangor in 1917, in the same year as Mary Sutherland [qv] and Mary Dilys Glynne [qv]. Like Mary Glynne she was employed at the Rothamsted Institute in Hertfordshire, as a botanist. Her speciality seems to have been root formation.
Reference: WaW0316
Newspaper report
Report of Bangor graduates including Violet Jackson, Mary Dilys Glynne and Mary Sutherland. North Wales Chronicle 7th July 1916
Maud Jarman (Larnder)
Place of birth: Glangwryne, Mongomeryshire
Service: Waitress, QMAAC, 1918/07/25 - 1919/05/13
Notes: Maud Jarman had been working as a housemaid for three years, currently at the Wynnstay Arms Hotel in Machynlleth, when she responded to an advertisement for QMAACs in the Cambrian News. She joined at Cardiff in July 1918 to serve as a waitress at various army bases. After her discharge from the Corps in May 1919 there seems to have been considerable confusion about her back pay and sick pay. There seems to have been considerable confusion as to who should pay her. A good section of her file in the National Archives is devoted to sorting this problem, which was finally resolved in September 1919.
Sources: National Archives WO-398-117-26
Reference: WaW0318
Newspaper advertisement
Advertisement for QMAACS. Possibly this is the one Maud referred to in her letter. Cambrian News 31st May 1918.
Mary Sutherland
Place of birth: London
Service: Forester, WLA, 1916 -17
Death: 1955, Wellington, New Zealand, Cause not known
Notes: Mary Sutherland was the first woman in Britain to gain a degree in Forestry. She studied at University College, Bangor from 1912 to 1916. After graduation (in the same year as Mary Dilys Glynne and Violet Gale Jackson qv) she worked in the forestry division of the Women’s Land Army, and from 1917 as an assistant experimental officer for the Forestry Commission. Following the contraction of the Forestry Commission in 1922 she moved to New Zealand where she worked for the newly formed State Forest Service.
Sources: Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, 1998.
Reference: WaW0314
Newspaper report
Report of Bangor graduates including Mary Sutherland, Violet Gale Jackson and Mary Glynne. North Wales Chronicle 7th July 1916.
Mary Dilys Glynne (born Glynne Jones)
Place of birth: Upper Bangor
Service: Scientist, plant pathologist, mountaineer, Rothamsted Institute, 1917 - 1960
Death: 1991, Cause not known
Notes: Mary, born 1895, graduated from the botany department of University College Bangor in 1916 (in the same year as Mary Sutherland qv, and fellow Rothamsted worker Violet Gale Jackson qv). On graduating she briefly joined the Agriculture department at Bangor, but in 1917 moved to the Plant Pathology Department at the Rothamsted Experimental Station in Hertfordshire. In 1917 she was one of the founding members of the new Mycology Department there, working on crop diseases. She remained working at Rothamsted until 1960. Mary was also a renowned mountaineer, achieving many firsts for women during the 1920s and 30s.
Sources: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Reference: WaW0315
Newspaper report
Report of Bangor graduates including Mary Dilys Glynne, Violet Jackson and Mary Sutherland. North Wales Chronicle 7th July 1916.
Gwladys Alice Samuel
Place of birth: Aberystwyth
Service: Worker, WAAC, February 1918 -
Notes: Gwladys, an enthusiastic Girl Guide, was posted to Kinmel Camp, North Wales in February 1918. Her father and two brothers were serving in the army.
Reference: WaW0317
Newspaper report and photograph
Brief report of Gwladys Samuel’s joining the WAAC, with photograph. Cambrian News 22nd February 1918.
Newspaper report
Report of Gwladys’s departure from Aberystwyth Station. Cambrian News 15th February 1918.
Dorothea Adelaide Lawry Pughe Jones
Place of birth: Surrey
Service: Suffragist, Commandant, Ethnographer, Educationalist, Public servant, Church Warden, Heiress., VAD, 1914 - 1920
Death: 1955, Cause not known
Notes: Dorothea Pughe Jones, born 1875, inherited Ynysgain, Cricieth from her father in 1897. Following his death she attended Oxford University where she studied history followed by a diploma in ethnography. She was awarded a prize at the 1901 National Eisteddfod for a Welsh history textbook. In 1902 she was part of a British Government team inspecting education in the concentration camps for Boers in South Africa. In 1910 she was one of the founders of the Bangor and District Women’s Suffrage Society. She joined the VAD in 1914, initially as Quartermaster of Caernarfon, but volunteered for service in France in 1915. She was Commandant of the Hotel des Anglaises, the hostel for the relatives of wounded officers in Le Touquet, France, for which she was awarded the MBE. Whilst in France she was appointed Churchwarden in Cricieth despite objections that she was ‘a lady’. In November 1918 she was posted to Salonika as Principal Commandant of the VAD, until May 1920. After her return she was sent by the Government to research openings for women in Australia.
Sources: GB 0210 YNYSGAIN - Pughe-Jones of Ynysgain Collection of Deeds and Papers National Library of Wales Women members and witnesses on British Government ad hoc Committees of Inquiry Elaine Harrison, London School of Economics, Doctor of Philosophy, 1998.
Reference: WaW0320
Newspaper report
Report of Dorothea Pughe Jones’s return from South Africa. Cambrian News 8th May 1903.
Newspaper report
Report of meeting of AGM of Bangor and District Women’s Suffrage Society. North Wales Express 2nd December 1910.
Newspaper report
Report of Dorothea’s appointment as churchwarden. North Wales Chronicle 20th April 1917.
Newspaper report
Australian newspaper report of Dorothea Pughe Jones’s role in the enquiry into openings in Australia for women from the UK. The Advertiser 10th January 1920 Adelaide S Australia.