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.

Sources: http://firstworldwar.gwentheritage.org.uk/content/catalogue_item/ethel-annie-llewelyn-memorial-plaque

Reference: WaW0161

Memorial, St David’s Church, Beaufort.

Memorial to Ethel Annie Llewelyn

Annie Matthews (Cousins)

Place of birth: Treboeth, Swansea

Service: Munitions worker

Notes: Annie Matthews was a munitions worker at Pembrey. Though she was working on two occasions when there was an explosion, she was unharmed. After the War she married Arthur Cousins whom she met while waiting for her train to Pembrey from Swansea.

Reference: WaW0165

Annie Matthews

Annie Matthews in the uniform of the NEF, Pembrey

Annie Matthews

Annie Matthews in soldier's uniform, cap of the Welsh Regiment

Annie Matthews and Arthur Cousins

Annie Matthews and Arthur Cousins, who were married after the War.

Hetty Onions

Place of birth: Tredegar ?

Service: QMAAC

Memorial: Wesley Church, Tredegar, Monmouthshire

Notes: The name of Hetty Onions appears on the Roll of Honour (under QM WAACS) formerly in Wesley Church, Harcourt Terrace, Tredegar

Reference: WaW0163

Roll of Honour

Name of Hetty Onions on Roll of Honour

Rose Powell

Place of birth: Tredegar ?

Service: QMAAC

Memorial: Wesley Church, Tredegar, Monmouthshire

Notes: The name of Rose Powell appears on the Roll of Honour (under QM WAACS) formerly in Wesley Church, Harcourt Terrace, Tredegar rn

Reference: WaW0164

Roll of Honour

Name of Rose Powell on Roll of Honour rn

Mary Davies

Place of birth: Glamorgan?

Service: Mother

Notes: Mary Davies, born around 1858, was the mother of Eva Davies (WaW0008). Of her three sons, her middle son Glyn was killed in France 10 months before the death of Eva, and her youngest, Max, on the 10th August 1918.

Sources: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?f%5B0%5D=agentString%3ADavies%2C%20Eva&query=

Reference: WaW0172

Newspaper report

Report in the Glamorgan Gazette, 23rd August 1918, of Eva Davies’s death.

Letter

Letter to the Women’s Work Subcommittee, Imperials War Museum, regarding a photograph of Eva Davies, February 1919

Letter

Letter to the Women’s Work Subcommittee, Imperials War Museum, regarding a photograph of Eva Davies, December 1920.

Edith May Jacquet

Place of birth: Swansea

Service: Munitions worker

Notes: Born 1898, Edith worked for two and a half years at the National Explosives Factory, Pembrey.

Reference: WaW0179

Edith May Jacquet and friend

Edith May Jacquet (left) and a friend, dressed in army greatcoats and caps, 1916

Edith May Jacquet

Edith May Jacquet in the uniform of the National Explosives Factory, Pembrey

Elizabeth Ellen Jones (née Price, later Harding, later Shaw / yn ddiweddarach)

Place of birth: Ebbw Vale

Service: Munitions worker

Notes: Born 1898, Elizabeth worked in the Ebbw Vale Company, which manufactured shells.

Sources: http://firstworldwar.gwentheritage.org.uk/content/catalogue_item/ebbw-vale-munitions-worker-elizabeth-ellen-price

Reference: WaW0180

Elizabeth Ellen Jones

Elizabeth Ellen Jones (on left) and friend.

Not known / Anhysbys

Service: Munitions worker

Notes: The identity of this young munitions worker in uniform is unknown.

Reference: WaW0177

Munitions worker

Unknown young munitions worker

Not known / Anhysbys

Place of birth: South Wales

Service: Brickmaker

Notes: This young woman puddling silica clay was photographed for the Employment of Women collection at the newly established Imperial War Museum, c.1917.

Reference: WaW0182

Brickmaker

Young woman puddling clay