Mary Edith (Minnie) Jones

Place of birth: Llanfrothen

Service: Lady Superintendent, HM Factory Penrhyndeudraeth, 1916? - 1918

Death: 1964, Cause not known

Notes: Minnie Jones was the sister of Bessie Jones [qv]. She was appointed Lady Superintendent of the Munitions factory at Penrhyndeudraeth, probably in 1916 when it reopened after an explosion and nationalisation. In September 1918 she showed Mrs Lloyd George around the works when she came to open the new Y W C A attached to the factory. When production ceased in December 1918, Minnie was presented with a silver bowl ‘by the Women Workers of H M Factory as a mark of esteem and appreciation of many kindnesses’. Minnie was the recipient of Bessie Jones’s letters from France. She later became a JP.

Reference: WaW0441

Newspaper report

Report of Mrs Lloyd George’s visit to H M Factory Penrhyndeudraeth. North Wales Chronicle13th September 1918.

Newspaper report

Report of the presentation of a silver bowl to ‘Miss M E Jones, Supervisor’. North Wales Chronicle 13th December 1918.

Mary Elizabeth Jones

Place of birth: Llanfairfechan

Service: Stewardess, Cunard Steam Ship Company, \\\'Many years\\\'

Death: 1915/05/17, SS Lusio, Cause not known

Memorial: Mercantile Marine Memorial to the Missing, Tower Hill, London

Sources: http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/visit/floor-plan/lusitania/people/peoples-stories.aspx?id=15547

Reference: WaW0256

Newspaper article

Report of Nurse Edwards’s home leave, Yr Adsain 27th February 1917

Mary Elizabeth (May) Jones

Place of birth: Llanfairfechan

Service: Stewardess, Cunard Steam Ship Company

Death: 1915/05/17, SS Lusitania, Drowning / Boddi

Memorial: Mercantile Marine Memorial to the Missing, Tower Hill, London

Notes: May had been a senior stewardess with the Cunard Steam Ship Company for many years. She drowned aged 43 when SS Lusitania was torpedoed on 17th May 1917, together with 14 other stewardesses including Jane Howdle [qv]. Eight survived. She was buried with other victims at Old Cobh Cemetery, Queenstown, Ireland.

Sources: http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/visit/floor-plan/lusitania/people/peoples-stories.aspx?id=15547

Reference: WaW0261

Death notice

Death Notice of Mary Jones, North Wales Chronicle 14th May 1915.

Newspaper report

Report of memorial service for Mary Jones, Y Clorianydd 19th May 1915rn

Mary R Jones

Service: Nurse, QAIMNS reserve / Wrth gefn yn y QAIMNS

Notes: Mary’s name appears at no 21 on the Roll of honour of those who served in WWI, Kings Cross Welsh Chapel London. She must have been a trained nurse working in London, but nothing is known of her.

Reference: WaW0199

Roll of Honour

Roll of honour of those who served in WWI, Kings Cross Welsh Chapel London

Mary Jones’s name on Roll of Honour

Mary R Jones’s name on Roll of honour of those who served in WWI, Kings Cross Welsh Chapel London

Nellie Jones

Place of birth: Angorfa, Holyhead

Memorial: Armenia Chapel, Holyhead, Anglesey

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

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

Reference: WaW0166

Roll of Honour

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

Olwen Jones (née Lewis)

Service: Wife, mother

Notes: 'My grandmother Olwen Jones with her two daughters, Dora Louise, on the left, aged two+ and Frances, right thirteen months younger.  This was taken in 1916, when my grandfather [Percy Jones, Welsh Regiment] was conscripted and sent to France.  He was wounded, but eventually returned to Abercarn and they had two more children post the war.' Rosemary Scadden.

Reference: WaW0036

Olwen Jones and daughters

Olwen Jones with her daughters Dora and Frances. Photograph taken when husbad Percy Jones was conscripted in 1916.

R E Jones

Place of birth: Swansea ?

Service: Pharmacist, Swansea Infirmary Ysbyty Abertawe , 1916 -

Notes: Notes [En] Miss R E Jones, an experienced practitioner, was appointed Pharmacist at Swansea Hospital in October 1916, beating the two male applicants for the post. She was to be paid a salary of £176 a year.

Reference: WaW0462

Newspaper report

Report of Miss R E Jones’s appointment to Swansea Hospital.

Winnie Jones

Place of birth: Llangenny

Service: Farm worker, WLA

Notes: Winnie and her sister Doris were farmer’s daughters, and worked for the Women’s Land Army

Reference: WaW0168

Winnie Jones (R)

Winnie Jones (to the right)

Zillah Mary Jones

Place of birth: Llanpumsaint

Service: Nurse, TFNS, 1914 - 1919

Notes: Born in Carmarthenshire in the 1870s, Zillah trained at St Bartholomew’s hospital in London. She seems to have worked as a private nurse for many years, a job that included accompanying patients to Egypt and the West Indies, she was called up in 1914 to serve on the hospital ship Carisbrooke Castle. Some of the Welsh soldiers she cared for were delighted to find someone in authority who could speak Welsh. Whilst there she was promoted from Staff Nurse to Sister. According to her memoir, she had hoped to join the RN Nursing Service, having forgotten that she had already signed up to the TFNS. In October 1915 she was posted to the 4th Northern General Hospital, Lincoln, despite hoping for another Hospital Ship appointment. She records that her replacement on Carisbrooke Castle suffered from appalling sea-sickness. Whilst at Lincoln (where she remained for the rest of the War) she had a bicycle accident and broke her ankle badly; there is much correspondence about this on her War Office file. After demobilisation she went back to private nursing. Her memoir was published in 1964.

Sources: A Sister’s Log: A Nurse\\\'s Reminiscences. Gomerian Press, 1964

Reference: WaW0432

Zillah Jones

Sister Zillah Jones, frontispiece to her memoir ‘A Sister’s Log’

HMHS Carisbrooke Castle

Zillah Jones served on this ship 1914 - 1915.

Newspaper report

Report of Zillah Jones’s experiences on board ship.

Newspaper report [2]

Report of Zillah Jones’s experience on board ship [continued].

Medical board Title

One of the proceedings of the medical board when Zillah Jones broke her ankle.

Edith C Kenyon

Place of birth: Doncaster

Service: Writer

Death: 1925, Cause not known

Notes: Edith C Kenyon, a doctor’s daughter, had part of her upbringing in Machynlleth. She was an extremely prolific writer of novels for adults and children, and occasional non-fiction. Towards the end of her life she wrote a number of Welsh inspired romances, with title such as Nansi’s Scapegoat, The Winning of Glenora, The Wooing of Myfanwy, and The Marriage of Mari. This was serialised with much publicity in the Cambria Daily Leader in 1916. Her use of the Ceredigion landscape was much admired. She also wrote at least one war themed book for children: Pickles – A Red Cross Heroine. Her work was popular in both the United States and Australia.

Reference: WaW0455

Book

Pickles, A Red Cross Heroine by Edith C Kenyon, published by Collins. ‘Pickles dropped the deadly thing over the vasty deep’.

Newspaper report

Publication of The Wooing of Myfanwy, 6d. Cambrian News 26th March 1915.

Newspaper cutting

Heading and opening paragraphs of The Marriage of Mari. Cambria Daily Leader 26th October 1916.

Newspaper advertisement

Full column promotion of the serialisation of The Marriage of Mari. Cambria Daily Leader 23rd October 1916.

Newspaper report

Review of The Wooing of Mifanwy [sic] in an Australian paper. The Advertiser Adelaide 22nd March 1913.