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Ladas May (Known as Gladys WAAC / in Gelwid yn Gl Powell ( later Pritchard)
Place of birth: Cwmaman
Service: Worker, WAAC/QMAAC, 24/05/1918 - 11/02/1920
Notes: Ladas Powell joined the WAAC underage. She served at Stonar Camp, near Sandwich, Kent. Ladas, or Gladys as she was known in the WAAC, kept an album with photographs and documents in it as well as entries by friends and colleagues.
Reference: WaW0044
Gladys Irene Pritchard (née Harris)
Place of birth: Newport
Service: Munitions Worker
Death: TNT poisoning / Gwenwyno TNT
Notes: Gladys was a war widow aged 28. Her husband had been killed in July 1916. She had two small children. Her father was granted 2s a week for the upkeep of each child; the children also benefited from their father’s military pension.
Sources: http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums
Reference: WaW0045
Gladys Pritchard
Gladys’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.
Newspaper report
Report of maintenance grant to Gladys’s father, Joseph Harris, for the upkeep of her children. Weekly Argus 11th November 1916.rn
May (Mary) Prosser
Place of birth: Gilwern
Service: Munitions Worker, 1916 - 1917
Death: 1917-04-03, Rochdale, TNT poisoning / Gwenwyno TNT
Memorial: Recreation Ground gates; Market hall, Christchurch Govilon, Govilon, Monmouthshire
Notes: May, born 1891, was the fourth daughter of a farm labourer and his wife. She followed two of her sisters into domestic service in Rochdale. She began munitions work late in 1916, but soon became ill with ‘toxic jaundice’ and died at her sister Margaret’s home in Rochdale. She was also sister of Nellie Prosser [qv].
Sources: Ryland Wallace: May Prosser, Munitionette. AMC/WAW Newsletter, June 2016
Reference: WaW0046
Doris Quane
Place of birth: Isle of Man
Service: Worker, QMAAC
Memorial: War Grave, Boddelwyddan, Denbighshire
Notes: aged 28; buried St Michel's Ammanford
Sources: http://www.flintshirewarmemorials.com/memorials/bodelwyddan-memorial/canadians-2/quane-doris/
Reference: WaW0047
War grave of Doris Quane
War Grave of Doris Quane, QMAAC, surrounded by the graves of Canadian soldiers
Hannah Rees
Service: Nurse, VAD
Memorial: Capel y Garn Memorial Roll, Rhydypennau, Cardiganshire
Notes: seems to have served and survived
Reference: WaW0048
Rebecca Rees
Service: Nurse, VAD
Memorial: Capel y Garn Memorial Roll, Rhydypennau, Cardiganshire
Notes: seems to have served and survived
Reference: WaW0049
Ella Richards
Place of birth: Lampeter
Service: Nurse, VAD
Death: 1918-10-14, Salonika, Pneumonia / Niwmonia
Memorial: War memorial, Lampeter, Cardiganshire
Notes: aged 31. buried at Mikra British Cemetery, Salonika
Sources: Cambrian News and Merionethshire/Meirionnydd Standard 9 May/Mai 1919
Reference: WaW0050
Newspaper report
Ella Richards mentioned in despatches, Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard 18th July 1919
Margaret Dorothy Roberts
Place of birth: Dolgellau
Service: Staff Nurse, QAIMNS Reserve / Wrth gefn, 29/09/1915 - 31/12/1917
Death: 1917-12-31, SS Osmanieh, Drowning
Memorial: Cathedral Nurse, Llanelwy, Flintshire
Notes: aged 47. SS Osmanieh was sunk by a German mine off Alexandria, Egypt. Grave in Hadra War Memorial Cemetery, Alexandria, Egypt. Born in the Workhouse in Dolgellau, she spent many years in Australia before returning to Britain to join the QAIMNS Reserves.
Sources: http://www.flintshirewarmemorials.com/memorials/st-asaph-memorial/st-asaph-cathedral-welsh-nurses-ww1/roberts-margaret-dorothy/; http://emhs.org.au/person/roberts/margaret_dorothy
Reference: WaW0051
Nurse Margaret Dorothy Robert's name on the Nurses' Memorial, St Asaph
Margaret Dorothy Robert's name on the Nurses' Memorial, St Asaph
Jane (Jennie) Roberts
Place of birth: Bryncrug
Service: Staff Nurse, QAIMNS
Death: 1917-04-10, HMHS Salta, Drowning / Boddi
Memorial: Cathedral Nurse, Llanelwy, Flintshire
Notes: aged 30. She died when His Majesty’s Hospital Ship “Salta” was sunk off Le Havre on 10 April 1917. She was lost at sea and her body was never recovered. Her name appears on the Salta Memorial at Ste Marie Cemetery, Le Havre, Normandy, France, and on the memorial plaques in the porch of St Cadfan's Church, Tywyn
Reference: WaW0052
Nurse Jane Robert's name on the Nurses' Memorial, St Asaph
Jane Robert's name on the Nurses' Memorial, St Asaph
Jane (Jennie) Roberts
Jane/Jennie’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
Annie Roberts
Place of birth: Holyhead
Service: Member, WRAF, 14/05/1918 - d.
Death: 1918-12-12, Pneumonia / Niwmonia
Memorial: War memorial, Holyhead, Anglesey
Notes: aged 20. Served in Chester area. Buried Holyhead (Maeshyfred) cemetery
Reference: WaW0053