Notes: Formerly a nurse in Cardiff, Elsie volunteered for France at the outbreak of War. She was one of the first nurses during the War to be decorated with the Royal Red Cross ‘for indomitable bravery and devotion’ whilst under a week’s heavy fire at a hospital in Loos. She was presented with her medal by the King at Buckingham Palace on 20th May 1916.
Sources: Cambrian Daily Leader 26 May / Mai 1916
Reference: WaW0154
Newspaper Account
Newspaper account of the presentation of Elsie Evans’s Royal Red Cross at Buckingham Palace 20th May 1916.
Notes: Margaret Evans nursed at the 3rd Western General Military Hospital in Cardiff. Her name appears on the Roll of Honour in Soar Chapel, Treforest.
Reference: WaW0170
Roll of Honour
Record of the war service of Nurse M J Evans on the Roll of Honour of Soar Chapel, Treforest
Red Cross record card
Red Cross card for Margaret Evans
Maud Williams
Place of birth: Llanharry ?
Service: Nurse
Memorial: Penuel Chapel , Llanharry, Glamorgan
Notes: Nothing is known of Nurse Maud Williams , whose name appears on the Roll of Honour in Penuel Chapel, Llanharry
Reference: WaW0171
Roll of Honour
Nurse Maud Williams named on Penuel Chapel Roll of Honour, Llanharry, Glamorganshire
Ethel Annie Llewelyn
Place of birth: Beaufort
Service: Nurse, 1914 - 1918
Death: 13/04/1921, Llangwyfan Welsh National Memorial Sanatorium, Tuberculosis/Twbercwlosis
Memorial: St David’s Church, Beaufort, Brecknockshire
Notes: Born 1895, Ethel was the daughter of the Vicar of Beaufort. She worked at the Welsh Hospital, Netley, Southampton. It may have been there that she contracted TB. She was buried in Llangwfan churchyard.
Notes: Annie Breeze probably trained in London, as her name appears at number 1 on the Roll of Honour at the Welsh Chapel, King’s Cross. She worked in hospitals in Aldershot before leaving for France in 1916. She was awarded the Royal Red Cross that year.
Reference: WaW0196
Roll of Honour
Roll of Honour of those who served in WWI, Kings Cross Welsh Chapel London
Annie Breeze’s name on Roll of Honour
Annie Breeze’s name on Roll of Honour of those who served in WWI, Kings Cross Welsh Chapel London
Newspaper report
Report concerning Annie Breeze, Cambrian News and Merioneth Standard 3rd November 1916
Mary Davies
Service: Nurse, Anglo-French Red Cross
Notes: Nothing is known of Mary Davies, whose name appears on the Roll of Honour in Kings Cross Welsh Chapel London.
Reference: WaW0198
Roll of Honour
Roll of honour of those who served in WWI, Kings Cross Welsh Chapel London
Mary Davies’s name on Roll of Honour
Mary Davies’s name on the Roll of honour of those who served in WWI, Kings Cross Welsh Chapel London
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