Margaret (Maggie) Mary Evans

Place of birth: Pwllheli ?

Service: Nurse, VAD, March 1914 – July 1918 / Maw

Death: 1918/07/20, RN Hospital, Plymouth, Ubknown / Anysbys

Memorial: War Memorial, Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire

Notes: Maggie Evans volunteered part-time for the VAD until 1917, when she was posted to the RC Hospital Porthmadoc, and then in 1918 to the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth where she died. A letter about Maggie’s death from Mildred Lloyd Hughes [qv] the Sister in charge was published in Yr Udgorn 7th August 1918 (in English).

Reference: WaW0176

Margaret (Maggie) Mary Evans

Maggie Evans in uniform

Welsh Book of Remembrance

Name of Miss Margaret M Evans with other nurses in the Welsh Book of Remembrance

Red Cross card

Red Cross record card for Margaret M Evans

Red Cross card (reverse)

Red Cross record card for Margaret M Evans (reverse)

Letter

Letter to Women’s Work Sub Committee, Imperial War Museum, from Maggie’s mother, August 1918

Letter

Second letter to Women’s Work Sub Committee, Imperial War Museum, from Maggie’s mother, April 1919

Letter

Letter to Women’s Work Sub Committee, Imperial War Museum, from C Hall, April 1919

Letter

A letter about Maggie’s death from the Sister in charge was published in Yr Udgorn 7th August 1918

Grave

Grave of Maggie Evans VAD, Pwllheli cemetery. Thanks to Wayne Bywater

Morfydd Owen

Place of birth: Treforest

Service: Composer, singer

Death: 1918/09/07, Mumbles, Appendicitis/reaction to chloroform / Pendics/adwaith i glorofform

Notes: Morfydd Owen was born in 1891 to an ordinary, though musical, chapel-going family. Very early she showed great musical promise – she is said to have started composing aged 6 - and she entered University College, Cardiff, on a scholarship in 1909. In 1912 her parents were persuaded to let Morfydd study composition at the Royal Academy of Music, where she won every available prize during her first year. In London she began to move in influential Welsh circles, in 1914 assisting in the collecting and arranging of traditional Welsh songs from Flintshire and the Vale of Clwyd. She was a prolific composer, and a singer with an outstanding mezzo-soprano voice. She was also prominent in more Bohemian circles; among her friends were Ezra Pound and D H Lawrence. In 1917 she married, unexpectedly, Ernest Jones, the psycho-therapist and biographer of Freud. This seriously limited her professional career, particularly as Jones did not approve of his wife performing in public. In July 1918 she wrote to a friend ‘married life doesn’t seem to me to be quite the easiest thing to adapt oneself to, and has taken up all my time’. In September of that year, staying with her parents-in-law at Mumbles, Morfydd developed appendicitis, and died, perhaps as a result of the botched operation. Her Cardiff University professor David Evans wrote: “I regard her early death as an incalculable loss to Welsh music indeed, I know of no young British composer who showed such promise.” Although only 26 when she died, Morfydd left over 250 surviving compositions.

Sources: http://discoverwelshmusic.com/composers/morfydd-owen. www.illuminatewomensmusic.co.uk/illuminate-blog/rhian-davies-an-incalculable-loss-morfydd-owen-1891-1918

Reference: WaW0335

Morfydd Owen

Morfydd Owen in 1915. Private collection.

Folk songs

Folk songs collected by Mrs Herbert Lewis and Morfydd Owen

Early songs of Morfydd Owen

Advertisement for one of the memorial volumes of Morfydd Owen’s songs. 1923.

Emily Charlotte Talbot

Place of birth: London

Service: Heiress, philanthropist

Death: 1918/09/21, London, Cause not known

Notes: Emily, ‘Miss Talbot’ as she was always known, was born in 1840. She inherited a fortune from her father the landowner, industrialist and Liberal politician Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot. She spent much time at the family home at Margam, and was a generous, often anonymous, benefactor of many charities, often church-based. She was in poor health by the outbreak of the War and lived mostly in London; amongst her support 1914 – 18 was provision of furnished cottages for Belgian refugees, converting Penrice Castle for a hospital (and bearing the running costs) and founding a chair of Preventative Medicine at Cardiff University. She also financed Church halls and YMCA huts and books for the new Carnegie library in Port Talbot. In February 1917 she subscribed £80,000 to the War Loan, an extraordinary sum for a private individual. On her death she was reported as ’reputed to be Britain’s Wealthiest Lady’.

Reference: WaW0411

Photograph of Miss Talbot

Photograph of Miss Talbot when younger. Her family were pioneers of Welsh photography.

Newspaper report

Report of Miss Talbot’s accommodation for Belgian Refugees. South Wales Weekly Post 31st October 1914.

Newspaper report

Report of Miss Talbot’s donation of library books. South Wales Weekly Post 13th March 1915.

Newspaper report

Report of Miss Talbot’s endowment of £30,000 to endow a chair of preventive medicine at the Welsh School of Medicine. Cambria Daily Leader 16th January 1918.

Newspaper report

Report in Australian Newspaper of Miss Talbot’s purchase of War Bonds.

War Bonds poster

Poster advertising War Bonds 1917

Newspaper report

Report of the death of Miss Talbot. The long article gives an account of her generosity. Cambria Daily Leader 28th February 1918.

Ethel Maud Lilian Richards

Place of birth: Cwmbran

Service: Waitress, WAAC then WRAF, 1918/03/10 – 1918/10/02

Death: 1918/10/02, Influenza ? / Ffliw ?

Memorial: Shorncliffe Military Cemetery, Shorncliffe, Kent

Notes: Ethel enlisted in the WAAC in Cardiff, and was posted to Winchester. She was transferred to the WRAF when it was established in April 1918. She was 26 when she died.

Reference: WaW0357

Grave record

Record of the grave of Ethel Richards, Shorncliffe Cemetery, Kent.

Grave register

Register including the grave of Ethel Richards in Shorncliffe Cemetery, Kent.

Louisa Parry

Place of birth: Holyhead

Service: Stewardess, CPSPCo, 1914 - 1918

Death: 1918/10/10, RMS Leinster, Drowning/Boddi

Memorial: War Memorial, Holyhead, Anglesey

Notes: aged 22. RMS Leinster was torpedoed in the Irish Sea. LP died together with Hannah Owen.

Sources: http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/3929-wanted-photos-nationwide/&page=19

Reference: WaW0042

Holyhead War Memorial

Name of Louisa Parry on Holyhead War Memorial

Welsh National Book of Remembrance

Name of Louisa Parry in the Welsh National Book of Remembrance

Hannah Dunlop Mark

Place of birth: Bridgend

Service: Nurse, TFNS

Death: 1918/10/10, No 1 General Hospital, Fazackerley, Liverpool, Pneumonia following influenza / Niwmonia yn dilyn y ffliw

Notes: Hannah, a trained nurse, seems to have been a victim of Spanish Flu. She was 23 when she died, and is buried at Bridgend Cemetery.

Sources: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx?cpage=1

Reference: WaW0208

Hannah Dunlop Mark

Hannah’s photograph was collected by the Women’s Subcommittee of the Imperial War Museum as part of its collection of women who died during the War.

Letter

Letter to the Secretary of the Women’s Committee from Hannah’s brother, Lieut David Mark, November 16th 1918

Newspaper notice

Notice of Hannah’s death, Glamorgan Gazette, 11th October 1918.

Memorial notice

Notice commemorating Hannah’s death, Glamorgan Gazette 10th October 1919

Rosina Lloyd

Service: Nurse

Death: 1918/10/10, Bridgend Isolation Hospital, Pneumonia / Niwmonia

Notes: Nothing is currently known of Rosina Lloyd, except the brief announcement of her death. Curiously this was not published until over a month after she died.

Reference: WaW0345

Death notice

Notice of the death of Nurse Rosina Lloyd. Glamorgan Gazette 15th November 1918

Mary Jones

Place of birth: Aberllefenni

Service: Nurse

Death: 1918/10/15, Brownlow Hill Hospital, Liverpool, Pneumonia following influenza? Niwmonia yn dilyn y ffliw

Notes: Nothing is currently known of Nurse Mary Jones, who died of complications of flu aged 24.

Reference: WaW0346

Newspaper report

Report of the Death of Maggie Williams. Rhondda Leader 19th October 1918.

Death notice

Death notice of Mary Jones. Y Dydd, 21st October 1918

Catherine Anne Carroll (née Rees)

Place of birth: Swansea

Service: Munitions worker, Not known / anhysbys

Death: 1918/10/21, Swansea, Gas gangrene / Madredd nwy

Notes: Catherine, mother of four children, was a munitions worker in Swansea. According to her grandson she ‘fell from a tram injuring her leg and as a result got gangrene because of the working conditions in the munitions factory. She died 21.10.1918.’ Her husband. Pte William Carroll died in hospital in Egypt just over a month later. The children were brought up by their grandparents. Thanks to Roger Latch.

Reference: WaW0355

Catherine Carroll and Family

Catherine Carroll with her children May, Ted William and baby Betty. October 1914. Thanks to Roger Latch

Newspaper photograph

Photograph and report of death of Pte William Carroll. South Wales Weekly Post 23rd November 1918.

Kate Hopkins

Place of birth: Ystradgynlais

Service: Nurse, Not known / anhysbys, 1915 - 1918

Death: 1918/10/26, London, Influenza / y ffliw

Notes: Kate Hopkins had been a promising teacher, having trained in Stafford with a scholarship from Glamorgan. She began nursing in at the Great Western Hospital in London in 1915, and died there of Spanish flu aged 34.

Reference: WaW0406

Newspaper report

Report of the death of Kate Hopkins. Llais Llafur 2nd November 1918