Violet Gale Jackson

Service: Scientist, botanist, Rothamsted Institute, 1917 -

Notes: Violet Jackson graduated from the University College, Bangor in 1917, in the same year as Mary Sutherland [qv] and Mary Dilys Glynne [qv]. Like Mary Glynne she was employed at the Rothamsted Institute in Hertfordshire, as a botanist. Her speciality seems to have been root formation.

Reference: WaW0316

Newspaper report

Report of Bangor graduates including Violet Jackson, Mary Dilys Glynne and Mary Sutherland. North Wales Chronicle 7th July 1916

Staff List

List of staff at Rothamsted Experimental Station 1918.

Scientific paper

Paper by Violet G Jackson published in the Annals of Botany, January 1922.

Mary Dilys Glynne (born Glynne Jones)

Place of birth: Upper Bangor

Service: Scientist, plant pathologist, mountaineer, Rothamsted Institute, 1917 - 1960

Death: 1991, Cause not known

Notes: Mary, born 1895, graduated from the botany department of University College Bangor in 1916 (in the same year as Mary Sutherland qv, and fellow Rothamsted worker Violet Gale Jackson qv). On graduating she briefly joined the Agriculture department at Bangor, but in 1917 moved to the Plant Pathology Department at the Rothamsted Experimental Station in Hertfordshire. In 1917 she was one of the founding members of the new Mycology Department there, working on crop diseases. She remained working at Rothamsted until 1960. Mary was also a renowned mountaineer, achieving many firsts for women during the 1920s and 30s.

Sources: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Reference: WaW0315

Mary Dilys Glynne

Mary Dilys Glynne, mycologist. Courtesy of Gaynor Andrew.

Newspaper report

Report of Bangor graduates including Mary Dilys Glynne, Violet Jackson and Mary Sutherland. North Wales Chronicle 7th July 1916.

Staff list

List of staff at Rothamsted Experimental Station 1918.

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

Name of Jane M Jones

Name of Matron Jane M Jones, Llandeiniol Church

Margaret Elizabeth Foulkes (née Hughes)

Place of birth: Sandycroft, Flintshire

Service: Stewardess, S S Lusitania, 1915

Death: 1915/07/05, S S Lusitania, Drowning / Boddi

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

Notes: Margaret Foulkes, was born in Wales and brought up in Liverpool. She was a widow, and had worked on the Lusitania before the final voyage; stewardesses seem to have been employed by the voyage. She drowned when the ship was torpedoed on May 7th 1915, aged 42. Her body was never found.

Reference: WaW0324

Gweneth Kate Moy Evans

Place of birth: Swansea

Service: Clerk, Sandycroft, NEF Queensferry, 1916 - 1918

Notes: Gweneth was appointed a clerk at the Labour Exchange attached to the National Explosives Factory, Queensferry, without having to sit the usual Civil Service examination. She had previously worked in the Labour Exchange in Neath. Gweneth was awarded the MBE in June 1918.rnrn

Reference: WaW0366

Edinburgh Gazette

Notice of Gweneth Moy Evans’s appointment as clerk. The Edinburgh Gazette, September 12, 1916.

Newspaper report

Report of Gweneth Moy Evans’s award of MBE. Amman Valley Chronicle 13th June 1918.

Edinburgh Gazette

Announcement of Gweneth Moy Evans’s award of MBE. The Edinburgh Gazette June 19th 1918.

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

Evelyn Margaret Abbott

Place of birth: Grosmont, Monmouthshire

Service: Nurse, Scottish Womens Hospitals, January - June 1916

Death: 1958, London , Cause not known

Notes: Evelyn, born 1883, was the daughter of the Grosmont school master. A professional nurse trained in London, she spent six months working at the Scottish Women’s Hospitals hospital at Royaumont Abbey north of Paris. Follow the link to see the hospital on film

Sources: http://movingimage.nls.uk/film/0035\r\nhttp://scottishwomenshospitals.co.uk/women/

Reference: WaW0248

Helen Beveridge

Place of birth: Abergavenny ?

Service: Nurse, Scottish Womens Hospitals, November 1916 - September 1919

Notes: Born in 1887, Helen volunteered for the Scottish Women’s Hospitals on November 1916, and left immediately for Salonika. She remained in Serbia until she was invalided home in the summer of 1919. She was awarded the medal of the Royal Serbian Red Cross for her work there.

Reference: WaW0274

Red Cross record card

Red Cross record for Helen Beveridge

Red Cross record card (reverse)

Red Cross record for Helen Beveridge (reverse)

Newspaper report

Report of a gift of a wrist watch to Helen Beveridge at Frogmore St Baptist Church. Abergavenny Chronicle 24th November 1916.

Newspaper report

Report of Helen’s return from Serbia. Abergavenny Chronicle 26th September 1919

Mary Elizabeth Phillips (Eppynt)

Place of birth: Merthyr Cynog, Brecon

Service: Doctor, Scottish Womens Hospitals, Royal Army Medical Corp, 1914 - 1919

Death: 1956, Cause not known

Notes: Born 1874, Mary Phillips, who took the name ‘Eppynt’ from the mountains near her birthplace, was the first women to train as a doctor at University College, Cardiff (1894 – 8), and subsequently worked in England. She was a supporter of NUWSS, and sometimes spoke at meetings. On 8th December 1914 she received a telegram from the NUWSS-supported Scottish Women’s Hospitals asking her to go to their hospital in Calais ‘at once’. She remained there until April 1915, when she joined the SWH at Valjevo, Serbia. She was invalided home with fever just before many SWH members were captured by the Austrian/Bulgarian army [see Elizabeth Clement, Gwenllian Morris]. In April 1916 she was appointed medical hospital at the Scottish Women’s Hospital in Ajaccio, Corsica, where many of the refugees from the retreat from Serbia were accommodated. She served there for 14 months before returning to tour England and Wales raising funds for the Serbian Hospitals; she was a noted speaker in Welsh and English. In 1918 she went to London to work at the Endell Street Military Hospital in London, a 573-bed hospital staffed entirely by women, most of them suffragettes. After the War she became Deputy Medical Officer of Health for Merthyr Tydfil.

Reference: WaW0362

Dr Mary Eppynt Phillips

Dr Mary Eppynt Phillips in the uniform of the Royal Army Medical Corps, photograph taken in 1920. Imperial War Museum.

Telegram

Telegram asking Dr Phillips to proceed to Calais, 8th September 1914. National Library of Wales.

Newspaper article

Report of Dr Phillips’s work during the War. Brecon County Times19th July 1917.

Newspaper report

Report of the award to Dr Phillips of the insignia of the order of St Java [sic, actually Sava] by the King of Serbia. Brecon and Radnor Express 22nd August 1918.

Curriculum vitae

Copy of Dr Phillips cv, 1920. Thanks to Peoples’ Collection Wales.

Endell Street Military Hospital

An operation in progress at Endell Street Military Hospital.

Hylda Salathiel

Place of birth: Pencoed

Service: Nurse, hockey player, South Wales Nursing Association

Death: 1918/11/06, Cardiff, Influenza / Ffliw

Notes: Hylda Salathiel, who was one of seven sisters, was educated at Bridgend High School, and trained at Merthyr General Hospital. For a while she was an international hockey player, playing for Bridgend Ladies and South Wales Ladies. She nursed for a while in Bournemouth, but returned to South Wales, where she caught influenza from a patient she was nursing and died four days later. The patient recovered and sent flowers to Hylda’s funeral.

Reference: WaW0301

Newspaper report

Report of an international hockey match between South Wales and Monmouthshire Ladies and Munster Ladies. Glamorgan Gazette 12th February 1909.

Newspaper report

Report of the death and funeral of Hylda Salathiel. Glamorgan Gazette 15th November 1918