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Mary Evans
Place of birth: Meidrim
Service: Nurse, 1916 - 1918
Death: 1918-10-04, Edmonton Military Hospital, Influenza/Y Ffliw
Memorial: War Memorial, Abergwili, Carmarthen
Notes: aged 38, buried Abergwili Churchyard
Sources: http://www.wwwmp.co.uk/carmarthenshire-war-memorials/
Reference: WaW0012
Mary Olwen Evans
Place of birth: Llangadog, April 1896
Service: Assistant (Cook) : , QMAAC
Death: 1919-03-23, Influenza?/Y Ffliw?
Notes: aged 20, buried Ebbw Vale
Sources: http://www.wwwmp.co.uk/carmarthenshire-war-memorials/
Reference: WaW0013
Grace Evans (later Nott/Nott yn ddiweddarach)
Place of birth: Cymtydu
Service: Nurse, 1914 - 1918
Death: 1930-11-16, Johannesberg, Cause not known
Memorial: Plaque, St Tysilio, Cwmtydu, Cardiganshire
Notes: Died 'as the result of war services in East Africa during the Great War 1914 - 1918'
Sources: http://www.wwwmp.co.uk/ceredigion-war-memorials/
Reference: WaW0014
Emma Hardy
Place of birth: Cardiff ?
Service: Nurse, VAD, 15/10/07 – 17/11/06
Memorial: City Hall, Cardiff, Glamorgan
Notes: Emma Hardy was an employee of Cardiff Council. She served as a VAD, paid, for two years, first in the 3rd Western General Hospital, Cardiff and then in the 26th General Hospital in France. Her name appears on the Roll of Honour in Cardiff City Hall.
Reference: WaW0015
Cardiff Roll of Honour
Name of Emma Hardy (second column, near the top) on the Roll of Honour in Cardiff City Hall.
Janet Elizabeth Evans
Place of birth: Newtown
Service: Clerk, QMAAC
Death: May 1919, London, not known / anhysbys
Memorial: War memorial, Newtown, Montgomeryshire
Notes: Janet became a teacher but later left to join the Army Pay Corps in Chester. In the summer of 1918 she joined the clerical staff of the QMAAC and was stationed in London. Following a period of indifferent health she was admitted to a London military hospital in April 1919. She died a month later, aged 21.
Reference: WaW0016
Margaret Evans Thomas
Place of birth: Pwllheli
Service: Staff Nurse, TFNS, 1914 - 1918
Death: 1918-11-08, 1st London General Hospital, Pneumonia
Memorial: War Memorial; Nurses Memorial; St Bartholomew's Hospital, Pwllheli; St Asaph, Caernarfon; Flintshire; London
Notes: Margaret, from a Welsh-speaking family, was brought up in Pwllheli from the age of 9 by her aunt and uncle. She probably trained as a nurse in London, perhaps at St Bartholemew’s Hospital which became the 1st London General Hospital. During the war she served as a Staff Nurse there until her death from flu at the age of 28; she was described as ‘cheerful and willing’. The War Office paid her funeral expenses of £20 2s 0d. Her gravestone in Pwllheli cemetery is set with the commemorative plaque (dead man’s penny’) sent to her relations after the war. Her name also appears on the Nurses’ Memorial in St Asaph’s cathedral. Thanks to Wayne Bywater.
Sources: http://www.flintshirewarmemorials.com/memorials/st-asaph-memorial/st-asaph-cathedral-welsh-nurses-ww1/thomas-margaret-evans WO-399-14971
Reference: WaW0017
Letter
Letter from Miss Sidney Brown to Agnes Conway of the Womens Section of the Imperial War Museum listing Margaret’s name as having died of pneumonia.
Grave of Margaret Evans Thomas
Margaret Evans Thomas’s grave in Pwllheli cemetery, set with her ‘dead man’s penny’. Thanks to Veronica Ruth.
Nurses memorial St Asaphs Cathedral
Name of Margaret Evans Thomas on the Nurses' Memorial, St Asaph's Cathedral
Letter
Letter from Margaret’s aunt Mrs Summers, explaining the differing names on her funeral payments.
Letter
Letter from Mrs Summers’s son in law, explaining the differing names on Margaret’s funeral payments.
Constance Fane Roberts
Place of birth: Llandre
Service: Army Remount Service: Gwasanaeth Ail-farchogaeth y Fyddin
Death: 1917-10-09, Motor accident/Damwain car
Memorial: Grave, Llandre, Cardiganshire
Notes: aged 22, died together with her fiance Captain Brereton Ockleston Rigby
Sources: http://www.wwwmp.co.uk/ceredigion-war-memorials/
Reference: WaW0018
Jane Fisher
Place of birth: Kidwelly
Service: Munitions Worker
Notes: aged 55, awarded MOBE for 'courage in assisting to stop a fire in an explosives factory at considerable danger to her life'.
Sources: The Carmarthen Journal and South Wales Weekly Advertiser;
Reference: WaW0019
Newspaper report
report of presentation in The Carmarthen Journal and South Wales Weekly Advertiser 19th April 1918
Mary Fitzmaurice
Service: Munitions Worker
Death: 1918-11-18, NEF Pembrey, Explosion/Ffrwydrad
Memorial: Cenotaph, Swansea, Glamorgan
Notes: aged 36, mother of seven children. She was killed in the same explosion as Edith Copham and Jane Jenkins; MF and EEC shared a public funeral.
Sources: Explosion report Herald of Wales 14th December 1914 / Adroddiad am y ffrwydrad Herald of Wales 14eg Rhagfyr 1914
Reference: WaW0020
Emma Grace (Gracie) Fletcher
Place of birth: Ammanford
Service: Nurse
Death: 1918-11-19, Royal Military Hospital Pontypool, Influenza/Y Ffliw
Memorial: War memorial, Ammanford, Carmarthen
Notes: aged 26. Grave in Abergele cemetary
Sources: http://www.terrynorm.ic24.net/photo%20ammanford%20park%20gates.htm
Reference: WaW0021