Gwladys Jones

Place of birth: Carnarthen ?

Service: Nurse, SWH

Notes: Gwladys Jones was a professional nurse who had trained and worked in London, and also worked as a school nurse in Swansea. She volunteered for the Scottish Women’s Hospitals and went to Serbia in September 1915. She was among the group of nurses captured by the Austrians at Krushevatz. She managed to get a letter to her mother through one of the nurses who escaped the Austrian army through the mountains. Her letter arrived on Christmas Day 1915. She was a friend of Nora Tempest [qv].

Reference: WaW0387

Newspaper report

Report of the capture of Gwladys Jones and colleagues in Serbia. Haverfordwest and Milford Haven Telegraph 19th January 1916.

Jane E Jones

Place of birth: Tan-yr-Allt, Cynwyd

Memorial: War Memorial, Cynwyd, Merionethshire

Notes: Nothing is currently known of Jane E Jones.

Sources: http://www.clwydfhs.org.uk/cofadeiladau/cynwyd_wm.htm,http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=131503

Reference: WaW0144

War Memorial, Cynwyd

Name of Jane E Jones on War Memorial, Cynwyd

Jane M Jones

Place of birth: Llandeiniol

Service: Matron, RRC

Memorial: Memorial to those who served, St Deiniol,s Church, Llandeiniol, Llandeiniol, Cardiganshire

Sources: http://www.wwwmp.co.uk/ceredigion-war-memorials; http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=149755

Reference: WaW0035

Name of Jane M Jones

Name of Matron Jane M Jones, Llandeiniol Church

Janet Jones

Place of birth: Llanrwst

Service: Quartermistress, WRAF

Memorial: War Memorial, Llanrwst, Conway

Notes: Aged 28. She is buried at Seion Calvinistic Methodist Chapelyard, Llanrwst.

Reference: WaW0141

War Memorial, Llanrwst

Name of Janet Jones on War Memorial, Llanrwst

Lilian Kate Jones

Place of birth: Newport

Service: Nurse, VAD

Death: 1916/06/06, Unknown/Anhysbys

Notes: Lilian joined the VAD in August 1915, aged 35. She worked at 2nd South General Military Hospital in Bristol, where she had family connections.

Reference: WaW0143

Grave of Lilian Jones

Grave of Lilian Jones, St Woolos, Newport

Welsh National Book of Remembrance

name of Lilian Jones, Welsh National Book of Remembrance

Red Cross record card

Red Cross card for Lilian Jones

Red Cross record card (reverse)

Red Cross card for Lilian Jones

Louisa Jones

Place of birth: Harlech

Service: Munitions worker, Not known / anhysbys

Notes: Louisa Jones was injured when a shell fell on her foot at the munitions factory where she worked. The local paper reported that she was home in Harlech on sick leave.

Reference: WaW0359

Newspaper article

Article reporting Louisa Jones’s sick leave. Cambrian News and Merioneth Standard 18th May 1917.

Lydia Elizabeth (Bessie) Jones

Place of birth: Llanfrothen

Service: Nurse, 1914/5 - 1919

Death: 1942, Cause not known

Notes: Bessie Jones (born 1872) was her forties when the War broke out. She came from a large middleclass family, was involved in the community (she was a Lady Visitor at Penrhyndeudraeth Workhouse) and followed her father’s pack of otter hounds. Early in the War she joined the French Red Cross, and served with them until 1919. In the latter stages of the War she worked as an anaesthetist working long hours under bombardment and her hospital was damaged by shrapnel. She also witnessed an early blood transfusion. She wrote long letters to her sister Minnie Jones [qv], some of which were published in the local press. She also wrote some articles that were published in Welsh Outlook including Dawn in a French Hospital (October 1916) using the pseudonym Merch o’r Ynys. Her final posting was in Strasbourg; she returned home in August 1919. She was awarded the Croix de Guerre for her work in the Champagne region of France, and also the Military Medal. Bessie seems to have been fluent in English, Welsh and French, as well as being an accomplished pianist.

Reference: WaW0440

Newspaper letter

Letter to Bessie’s sister Minnie Jones describing a blood transfusion. Yr Herald Cymraeg 2nd April 1918.

Newspaper letter

Letter to Bessie’s sister Minnie Jones describing life in a field hospital under bombardment, and being suspected of being a spy, Cambrian News 16th August 1918 1.

Newspaper letter

Letter to Bessie’s sister Minnie Jones describing life in a field hospital under bombardment, and being suspected of being a spy, Cambrian News 16th August 1918.

Welsh Outlook

Beginning of Bessie Jones’s (Merch o’r Ynys) essay ‘Dawn in a French Hospital’. Welsh Outlook Vol 3 No 10 October 1916.

Newspaper report

Report of Bessie Jones’s return from France, and her performance in a concert. North Wales Chronicle 29th August 1919.

Maggie Jones

Place of birth: Angorfa, Holyhead

Memorial: Armenia Chapel, Holyhead, Anglesey

Notes: Nothing is known of Maggie Jones, whose name appears on the Roll of Honour in Armenia Chapel, Caergybi. Sister of Nellie Jones

Sources: http://www.anglesey.info/holyhead-armenia-chapel-war-memorials.

Reference: WaW0169

Roll of Honour

Record of the war service of Maggie Jones, on the Roll of Honour of Armenia Chapel Holyhead

Margaret E Jones

Place of birth: Preswylfa Amlwch Port

Service: Executive Officer, Amlwch Urban District Food Control Committee, 1917 - 1919

Notes: Madge was appointed to the Food Control Committee of Amlwch in 1917. The committee seems to have been wound up in July 1919. She was awarded the MBE in February 1919.

Reference: WaW0365

Margaret E Jones

Photograph of Madge Jones, MBE. Part of the Women’s Work Collections of the Imperial War Museum.

Margaret E Jones (reverse)

Reverse of Photograph of Madge Jones, MBE. Part of the Women’s Work Collections of the Imperial War Museum.

Newspaper report

Report of Margaret Jones’s award of MBE. North Wales Chronicle 7th February 1919.

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