Ellen Myfanwy Williams

Place of birth: Cardigan

Service: Nurse, 1914 - 1915

Death: 1915-01-19, West Bromwich Hospital, Cause not known

Memorial: Cenotaph, Cardigan, Cardiganshire

Notes: aged 26. Buried Cardigan cemetery.

Sources: http://www.wwwmp.co.uk/ceredigion-war-memorials/

Reference: WaW0066

Nurse Williams

Name of Ellen Williams on St Mary's Church memorial, Cardigan

Alice Williams

Place of birth: Cardiff

Service: Nurse, French Red Cross / Y Groes Goch Ffrengig, 1915 - 1918

Notes: Alice Williams was a member of the French Red Cross and had a 'lifelong connection' with Roath Road Wesleyan Methodist Church, Cardiff. The Roath Road Roamer reported in June 1917 ‘Miss Williams has been in the thick of things – as a nurse for two years, and this is the first time she has left France. Much of her time she has spent within three miles of the German trenches so she knows something about things and has an interesting story to tell'. She is dressed here in the uniform of the French Red Cross. Image and information courtesy of Glamorgan Archives (DWESA6).

Sources: https://archifaumorgannwg.wordpress.com/

Reference: WaW0110

Alice Williams in French Red Cross uniform

Alice Williams was a member of the French Red Cross working at field hospitals in France 1915 – 1918.

Mary Anne Eliza Young

Place of birth: Cardiff

Service: Nurse, VAD

Death: 1919-02-13, 57th General Hospital, Cause not known

Memorial: City Hall Memorial; War Grave Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles, Cardiff, Glamorgan

Notes: aged 35, a former teacher at Lansdowne Rd County School, Cardiff/Caerdydd. Buried at Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles.

Reference: WaW0068

Roll of Honour, Cardiff City Hall

Name of Mary Ann Eliza Young, VAD. on the Roll of Honour, City Hall, Cardiff.

Mary Ann Eliza Young

Mary Ann’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 from JR Young

Letter from JR Young, Mary’s father. Part of 'Deaths: Nurses Deaths to 1920' (museum's administrative records) 1919-04-08

Winifred Owen

Place of birth: Montgomeryshire

Service: Nurse, VAD

Notes: Winifred (born 1888) was a doctor’s daughter. She served in a Cambridge Hospital throughout the war, once sitting next to a hydrotherapy boiler that threatened to explode, to calm the patients. She married a doctor after the war, and never worked again

Reference: WaW0126

Winifred Owen VAD

Winifred Owen with a hydrotherapy patient.

Winifred May Price

Place of birth: Newport

Service: Nurse, Scottish Womens Hospitals

Notes: Winifred (born 1898) joined the Scottish Women’s Hospitals as a nurse in July 1915, aged 18. She was known as ‘Kiddie’ because of her youth. She nursed in Serbia, and was lucky to escape when the Austrians invaded.

Reference: WaW0127

Daisy Colnett Spickett

Place of birth: Pontypridd

Service: Nurse, VAD

Notes: Daisy, a lawyer’s daughter, joined the VAD when it was formed in 1910. She served in hospitals in Wales and England, and on hospital ships. Follow the link for a very interesting interview with Daisy recorded 1974 (IWM). There are 8 reels of tape amounting to about 2 hours of recording.

Sources: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80000510

Reference: WaW0128

Red Cross record card

Red Cross record card for Daisy Spickett (reverse)

Red Cross record card

Red Cross card for Daisy Spickett

Daisy Spickett VAD

Daisy Spickett in VAD uniform.

Jennie Williams

Place of birth: Llanberis ?

Service: Nurse, VAD, June 1916 – January 1919 / M

Death: 1919/1/31, Le Havre, Pneumonia / Niwmonia

Memorial: War Memorial, Llanberis, Caernarvonshire

Notes: Jennie Williams came from a comfortably-off family, and joined the VAD in June 1915. She left for France in October 1916, and died of pneumonia following influenza in January 1919, aged 45. She is buried in Ste Marie Cemetery, Le Havre.

Sources: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/4021189/WILLIAMS,%20JENNIEhttp://www.roll-of-honour.com/Caernarvonshire/Llanberis.html

Reference: WaW0175

Jennie Williams VAD

Jennie Williams VAD in uniform

Red Cross record

Red Cross record for Jennie Williams VAD

Red Cross record (reverse)

Red Cross record for Jennie Williams VAD

Letter

Letter to the Women’s Work Subcommittee, Imperials War Museum, regarding a photograph of Jennie Williams.

Grave Registration form

Graves Registration Report Form including details of Jennie Williams. Ste Marie Cemetery, Le Havre

Welsh Book of Remembrance

Name of Miss Jennie Williams in the Welsh Book of Remembrance

Newspaper Report

Newspaper report of the death of Jennie Williams, Y Dinesydd Cymreig, Chwef 12 1919

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

Beatrice James

Place of birth: Cardiff

Service: Nurse, VAD, 1917/02/26 – August 1919 ‘

Notes: Beatrice James of Cathays, Cardiff, joined up aged 22. She spent 18 months in the 3rd General Hospital, Cardiff, and then transferred to Exeter.

Sources: https://glamarchives.wordpress.com/ \r\nhttps://archifaumorgannwg.wordpress.com/

Reference: WaW0150

Beatrice James

Beatrice James VAD

Red Cross Card

Red Cross card , name of Beatrice James

Red Cross Card

Red Cross Card for Beatrice James (reverse)

C A Howell

Place of birth: Neath ?

Service: Nurse, ‘Red Cross Nurse’ (VAD) ‘Nyrs y Groes Gochï¿

Death: January 1918 / Ionaw, Cause not known

Memorial: Soar Maes-yr-haf Chapel,, Neeath, Glamorgan

Notes: C A Howell’s name appears on the Roll of Honour in Soar Maes-yr-haf Chapel, Neath. She is described as a Red Cross Nurse.

Reference: WaW0138

Roll of Honour, Soar Maes-yr-haf Chapel

Name of Miss C A Howell Red Cross Nurse on Roll of Honour, Soar Maes-yr-haf Chapel, Neath