Jane Jenkins

Place of birth: Landore

Service: Munitions Worker

Death: 1918-11-18, NEF Pembrey, Explosion / Ffrwydrad

Memorial: Cenotaph, Swansea, Glamorgan

Notes: aged 21. She was killed in the same explosion as Edith Copham and Mary Fitzmaurice

Sources: Adroddiad am y ffrwydrad Herald of Wales 14eg Rhagfyr 1914

Reference: WaW0030

Swansea Cenotaph

Name of Jane Jenkins on Swansea Cenotaph

Newspaper report

Explosion report Herald of Wales 14th December 1918

Lily Jenkins

Place of birth: Coity ?

Service: Nurse

Death: 1918/11/28, Esat Hampstead, Influenza / Y Ffliw

Notes: Little is known of Lily Jenkins, who had been a nurse at Bracknell Infirmary, East Hampstead, for four years. She was 21 when she died.

Reference: WaW0348

Newspaper report

Report of the death and funeral of Nurse Lily Jenkins. Glamorgan Gazette 20th December 1918.

Mair Jenkins

Place of birth: Swansea

Service: Child

Notes: Possibly a birthday photograph of Mair aged 7 or 8. She was born on 18th April 1908, and is wearing a brand new ‘nurse’s uniform’.

Reference: WaW0125

Mair Jenkins in ‘nurse’s uniform.

Mair Jenkins dressed as a nurse, aged 7 or 8.

Martha Emily Jenkins

Place of birth: Liverpool

Service: Stewardess, SS Aguila

Death: 1915/03/27, SS Aguila / Pembrokeshire coast, Drowning / Boddi

Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial, London

Notes: Martha Jenkins, Liverpool born but of Welsh extraction, was a stewardess on SS Aguila trading between Liverpool and the Canaries. The ship was torpedoed by a German U Boat off the coast of Pembrokeshire. Eight lives were lost including an un-named female passenger.

Sources: http://www.benjidog.co.uk/Tower%20Hill/WW1%20Agenoria%20to%20Alaunia.html#Aguila

Reference: WaW0173

Martha Emily Jenkins

Martha Emily Jenkins, stewardess, drowned 1915

Medal Record card

Medal Record Card for Martha Emily Jenkins

Newspaper report

Part of report of the sinking of SS Aguila, Abergavenny Chronicle 2nd April 1915

Olive Jenkins

Place of birth: Pontnewynydd

Service: Nursing Sister, VAD, 1916-07-04 - 1918-12-02

Death: 1918-12-02, Caerleon Infirmary, Influenza / Y Ffliw

Memorial: War Memorial Gates, Pontypool, Monmouthshire

Notes: Died aged 28.

Sources: http://www.gwentarchives.gov.uk/media/38358/ww1-newsletter-13082014-compressed.pdf;http://www.redcross.org.uk/About-us/Who-we-are/History-and-origin/First-World-War/Search?fname=Olive&sname=Jenkins&hosp=Pontypool

Reference: WaW0088

Olive Jenkins

Name of Olive Jenkins VAD on Pontypool Memorial Gates.

Red Cross record of Olive Jenkins (1)

Red Cross Record of Olive Jenkins (2)

Sarah Jenkins

Place of birth: Pwll y Glaw, Cwmavon

Service: Cook, WAAC, 1918/01/15 – 1919/11/12

Notes: Sarah was 22 when she joined the WAAC. She may at some time have worked as a tin-plate worker though her WAAC records say she was a baker. Sarah spent most of her service as Assistant Cook, later Cook, at the Shirehampton Remount Depot, Bristol. The Depot handled thousands of horses and mules. Each animal was kept for two or three weeks and tested for disease. The aim was to get the animals clean and fit, ready for training and service. Of the 339,601 horses and mules that went through the Depot, only 13,811 came back after the war. Thanks to Bev Gulley.

Sources: National Archives

Reference: WaW0405

Maud Jepson

Place of birth: Aberystwyth

Service: Clerk, WAAC, June / Mehefin 1917

Notes: Maud Jepson was ‘the first volunteer from Aberystwyth’ to join the group of WAAC clerks assembled by Lady Mackworth to work in France.

Reference: WaW0326

Newspaper report and photograph

Maud Jepson’ photograph and interview. Cambrian News 22nd June 1917.

Newspaper report (2)

Maud Jepson’s interview (2). Cambrian News 22nd June 1917.

Margaret Irene John

Place of birth: Penygraig

Service: Administrator, lady superintendent , Womens League

Notes: Margaret John, a teacher of domestic arts in Monmouthshire, who had trained in Aberystwyth, Cardiff and London, joined the Women’s Legion in 1916 as one of their skilled cooks. After some months as Lady Superintendent in Wiltshire she was sent to France as ‘area administratrix’ in October 1917.

Reference: WaW0380

Newspaper report

Report of local JP’s daughter Margaret John being posted to France. Rhondda Leader 27th October 1917.

Florence Valentine Johnstone

Place of birth: Newport

Service: Munitions worker, 1916 - 1918

Death: 1918/02/05, Coventry, explosion / ffrwydrad

Memorial: St Woolos Cemetery, Newport, Monmouthshire

Notes: Florence Johnstone was born in 1893 shortly after her parents had moved from Scotland to Newport. In 1916 she moved to Coventry to work in one of the munitions factories there. In January 1918 she was promoted to charge hand, but on 5th February a fuse exploded in her hand and she was killed. Her body was brought back to Newport, where her gravestone has recently been discovered in St Woolos cemetery. Thanks to Pete Strong and Sylvia Mason.

Reference: WaW0375

Gravestone

Recently discovered gravestone including the name of Florence Johnstone ‘killed on war service’.

Lizzie John[s]

Service: Munitions Worker

Memorial: Cenotaph, St Stephen's Church, Swansea, Glamorgan

Notes: aged 22, buried Ebbw Vale Cemetery

Reference: WaW0032

Swansea Cenotaph

Name of Lizzie John on Swansea Cenotaph

War Memorial

Name of Lizzie Johns on the War Memorial, St Stephen's Church, Swansea