Death: 1915/12/30, HMS Natal, Cromart, Explosion/Ffrwydrad
Memorial: Chatham Naval Memorial, Chatham, Kent
Notes: Sister Edwards was serving on HMHS Drina, but was visiting HMS Natal with others to see a Christmas film. She died with at least 400 others in an unexplained explosion.
Name of Olive Jenkins VAD on Pontypool Memorial Gates.
Red Cross record of Olive Jenkins (1)
Red Cross Record of Olive Jenkins (2)
Annie Alice Guy
Place of birth: Newport
Service: Nursing sister, SWH, 1916
Death: 1916/08/21, Salonika, Dysentery
Notes: Alice Annie Guy died 21st August 1916, Scottish Women’s Hospital and Serbian Army, Nursing Sister, Former Superintendent of the Devonshire Hospital, Buxton. Buried in Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery. Her name also appears on the WW1 Roll of Honour Book kept in Newport Reference Library.
Roll of honour of members of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals who died overseas.
Gladys Maud Feiling (née Norman)
Place of birth: Bleddfa, Radnorshire
Service: Official, WAAC / QMAAC, September 1917 - September 191
Death: 1958, Cause not known
Notes: Gladys Feiling, born in 1879, married Cecil Feiling, a London solicitor in 1906 but seems to have been childless and describes herself as ‘quite independent’ in her application to become a WAAC officer in 1917. The papers connected with her WAAC career survive, though damaged, in the National Archives. After a medical and training which she passed with only 69% she is described as having ‘very little experience of any kind’, but of being ‘the right type to go to France’. By 1919 she was a Deputy Controller of QMAAC, and was awarded the OBE in June 1919. She seems to have served in the ATS in WW2.
Photograph of Gladys Feiling collected by the Women’s Subcommittee of the Imperial War Museum.
reverse of photograph
Reverse of photograph of Gladys Feiling outlining her career In the WAAC/QMAAC. Photograph collected by the Women’s Subcommittee of the Imperial War Museum.
Letter
Letter of application to join the WAAC, 17th September 1917.
Letter (2)
Letter of application to join the WAAC 17th September 1917. (page 2)
Official letter
Letter accepting a posting to France, November 1917
E M Jenkins
Place of birth: Ferndale
Service: Opthalmic optician
Notes: Miss E M Jenkins qualified as an ophthalmic optician in December 1914. This apparently entitled her to the freedom of the City of London.
Reference: WaW0371
Newspaper report
Report of Miss E M Jenkins’s qualification as an ophthalmic optician. Carmarthen Journal 1st January 1915.
Annie Crosby
Place of birth: Liverpool
Service: Passenger
Death: 1915-05-07, SS Lusitania, Drowning/Boddi
Memorial: War memorial, Bagillt, Flintshire
Notes: aged 36, drowned with her sister Ellen in the sinking of the Lusitania
Notes: Born in 1865, Mrs Gwynne Holford was responsible for the establishment of Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton, the specialist hospital for soldiers and sailors who had lost limbs during the war. This followed a visit to a military hospital. She said "I will work for one object, and that is to start a hospital whereby all those who had the misfortune to lose a limb in this terrible war, could be fitted with the most perfect artificial limbs human science could devise.” Her social contacts enabled her to gain the patronage of Queen Mary. She lived at Buckland Hall, near Brecon, and died in 1947.
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.
