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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.
Reference: WaW0144
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
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
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
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.
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