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Margaret Jane Evans
Place of birth: Treforest, Swansea ?
Service: Nurse, VAD
Memorial: Soar Chapel, Treforest, Swansea, Glamorgan
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
Edith Moore-Gwyn (née Jepson)
Place of birth: London
Service: Commandant, VAD, 1914 - 1919
Notes: Edith Moore-Gwyn, born 1852, was President or Chair of a number of public bodies in and around Neath. Her interests were health and education, and she established the Laurels Auxiliary Red Cross Hospital at Neath. She was awarded the OBE at the end of the War.
Reference: WaW0178
Mary Eleanor Gwynne Holford (Gordon-Canning)
Place of birth: Gloucestershire
Service: Patron, VAD
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.
Sources: http://blog.maryevans.com/2013/09/
Reference: WaW0188
Mary Eleanor Gwynne Holford (reverse)
Mary Eleanor Gwynne Holford CBE in Red Cross uniform (reverse)
Eleanor Vachell
Place of birth: Cardiff
Service: Scientist, Botanist, Volunteer, VAD
Notes: Eleanor was born in 1879, the daughter of a doctor. She became a noted botanist, and took over responsibility for the Department of Botany and the Herbarium at the National Museum of Wales in October 1914 when the Keeper joined his regiment. She also volunteered at the 3rd Western General Hospital, Cardiff. She became a VAD in 1918, dividing her time very strictly between the hospital and the museum. Eleanor Vachell died in 1948.
Reference: WaW0200
Dorothea Margaret Seagrave Pryse-Rice (Evans)
Place of birth: London, 1894
Service: Nurse, VAD, 1914 – 1919?
Death: 1921/12/5, Cricket St Thomas, Devon, Influenza / Yffliw
Memorial: St Dingats Church, Llandovery, Carmarthenshire
Notes: Dorothea and her sister Nest were daughters of Margaret Pryse Rice, President of the Carmarthenshire Red Cross. Dorothea’s record card has not survived, but she probably served as a VAD most of the war. She married a war hero, Brigadier-General Lewis Pugh Evans VC, in October 1918, had a son in 1920, and died of influenza aged in 1921 aged 27.
Sources: http://www.wwwmp.co.uk/carmarthenshire-war-memorials/llandovery-carmarthenshire-red-cross-memorial/
Reference: WaW0203
Newspaper report
Report of the wedding in London of Dorothea Pryse Rice and Lewis Pugh Evans, October 1918
Carine Evelyn Nest Pryse-Rice
Place of birth: London
Service: Nurse, VAD, 1914 – 1919
Death: 1921, Forden, Montgomeryshire, Not known / Anhysbys
Memorial: St Dingats Church, Llandovery, Carmarthenshire
Notes: Nest and her sister Dorothea were daughters of Margaret Pryse-Rice, President of the Carmarthenshire Red Cross. She served through the whole war, mostly at the Llandovery Auxiliary Hospital but 1918 - 1919 at the Nannau Hospital for Officers, Dolgellau. She died aged 25
Sources: http://www.wwwmp.co.uk/carmarthenshire-war-memorials/llandovery-carmarthenshire-red-cross-memorial/
Reference: WaW0204
Flossie Hamer Lewis
Place of birth: St Asaph
Service: Nurse, VAD
Death: 1917/03/22, St Asaph, ‘strain and overwork’ / ’straen a gorweithio’
Notes: Flossie Hamer Lewis worked at the Red Cross Hospital, Rhyl, from its opening. Her father was the St Asaph diocesan inspector of schools.
Reference: WaW0207
Flossie Hamer Lewis
Photograph of Flossie Hamer Lewis, part of the collection ‘Deaths: Nurses Deaths 1919-1920’ at the Imperial War Museum
Letter
Letter from Flossie’s father, the Rev J Hamer Lewis to the secretary of the Women Collections, Imperial War Museum, June 29th 1918
Letter (r)
Letter from Flossie’s father, the Rev J Hamer Lewis to the secretary of the Women Collections, Imperial War Museum, June 29th 1918 (reverse).
Ryda Rees
Place of birth: New Quay, Cardiganshire
Service: Nurse, VAD, 1915 - 1919
Death: 1919/11/16, illness / salwych
Notes: Ryda, who was 29 when she died, served at the 3rd Western Hospital, Cardiff ‘until her health broke down’.
Reference: WaW0206
Ryda Rees
Ryda’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
Letter to the Secretary of the Women’s Committee from Ryda’s mother Mary Rees 16th March 1920.
Gladys Maud Jones
Place of birth: Cambridge
Service: Nurse, VAD
Death: 1917/08/21, Salonika, Malaria
Notes: Gladys Maud Jones’s name appears on the Welsh book of Remembrance, and her photograph is in the Imperial War Museum’s collection. Unfortunately, despite her name, she appears to have no connection with Wales. Both her parents were from Lincolnshire.
Sources: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~macculloch/p79.htm#i4559
Reference: WaW0213
Gwynedd Violet Llewellyn
Place of birth: Bewdley, Worcestershire
Service: Nurse, VAD
Death: 1918/11/03, Rouen, France, Influenza / Y Ffliw
Notes: Gwynedd Violet Llewellyn’s name appears on the Welsh book of Remembrance. Unfortunately, despite her name, she appears to have no connection with Wales. Her family connections were with Worcestershire and Somerset
Reference: WaW0214