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Helena May Rowlands
Place of birth: Llangefni
Service: Nurse, Territorial Nursing Service/Gwasanaeth Nyrsio Tiri
Death: 1919-05-10, Military Fever Hospital Liverpool, Influenza
Memorial: Nurses memorial, Llanelwy, Flintshire
Notes: aged 24/25. Buried in Mynydd Seion Chapel, Abergele. Her body was taken by train from Liverpool to Abergele, and straight to the cemetery to avoid infection.
Reference: WaW0054
Nurse Helena May Rowlands's name on the Nurses' Memorial, St Asaph
Helena May Rowlands's name on the Nurses' Memorial, St Asaph
Nurses' Memorial, Liverpool Cathedral
The Nurses’ Memorial in the Lady Chapel, Liverpool Cathedral, listing names of nurses who died in the War and had worked in Liverpool. Ethel Saxon is also recorded here.
Nurses' Memorial Liverpool Cathedral
Name of Helena Rowlands on the Nurses Memorial, Liverpool Cathedral
Lucy Jane Saint,
Place of birth: Pontypool
Service: Waitress, QMAAC
Death: 1918-10-27, Royal Victoria Hospital Boscombe, Hampshire, Pneumonia / Niwmonia
Memorial: War Memorial gates; Grave St Michael, Pontypool, Monmouthshire
Notes: aged 23. Buried Llanfihangel Pontymoel churchyard, Pontypool.
Sources: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSob=c&GSsr=1&GScid=2532175&GRid=122596316&df=p&; http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/11559566.Female_war_casualty_from_Pont-y-p?l/Pontypool/Pont-y-p?l/Pont-y-p?l_to_be_commemorated/
Reference: WaW0055
Mary E Smith
Place of birth: Dolgellau
Service: Forewoman, QMAAC
Death: 1918-08-21, Dolgellau, Sickness / Salwch
Memorial: War memorial, Dolgellau, Merionethshire
Notes: aged 42. Buried St Mary's Dolgellau.
Reference: WaW0056
Maud Starkie Bence
Place of birth: Suffolk
Service: Volunteer, 1914 - 1916
Death: 1916-06-01, Folkestone, Cause not known
Memorial: Memorial brass, St Brynach, Aberhonddu
Notes: Maud Starkie Bence was a former professional golfer, and friend of Lord Glanusk, Lord Lieutenant of Breconshire. At the outbreak of war she undertook registering all motor vehicles in the county for emergency use. Her first appeal was published 13th August 1914. By 20th August she had details of 552 vehicles, with 150 already offered. She went on to raise money for ‘comforts’ for the South Wales Borderers. When she died aged 48 in 1916 a plaque was erected in her memory by the South Wales Borderers.
Sources: The Brecon County Times Neath Gazette and General Advertiser for the Counties of Brecon Carmarthen Radnor Monmouth Glamorgan Cardigan Montgomery Hereford 10th September 1914; The Brecon County Times Neath Gazette and General Advertiser for the Counties of Brecon Carmarthen Radnor Monmouth Glamorgan Cardigan Montgomery Hereford 6th July 1916
Reference: WaW0057
St Brynach's Church, Llanfrynach
Plaque commemorating Maud Starkie Bence, St Brynach's Church, Llanfrynach
Lizzie Dora Stephens
Place of birth: Y Trallwng
Service: Worker, QMAAC
Death: 1918-04-24, Cause not known
Memorial: War memorial, Y Trallwng, Montgomeryshire
Notes: aged 23, buried at Aldershot Military Cemetery
Sources: http://tanyabirnie.blogspot.it/2014/09/worker-m-f-brown.html
Reference: WaW0058
Eleanor (or Sarah Jane) Thomas
Place of birth: Cwmbwrla
Service: Munitions Worker
Death: 1919-01-08, NEF Pembrey, Explosion/Ffrwydrad
Memorial: Cenotaph, Swansea, Glamorgan
Notes: aged 20. 'Evidence showed that the explosion occurred when Gwenllian Williams was drilling out a screw from a shell. Eleanor Thomas was carrying in a shell at the time of the explosion.'
Sources: http://newspapers.library.wales/search?query=gwenllian&page=14; The Carmarthen Journal and South Wales Weekly Advertiser
Reference: WaW0059
Edith Mary Tonkin
Place of birth: Sandford Devon
Service: Ward maid, VAD, 1917/11/06 – 1918/10/13
Death: 1918-10-13, 3rd General Hospital Le Treport, Pneumonia / Niwmonia
Memorial: War memorial, Llandaff, Glamorgan
Notes: Edith was born on a farm in Devonshire in 1892. She moved to Cardiff when her father inherited a pub from his uncle. She worked as a ward maid at the 3rd General hospital in Tréport, France, where she died aged 26. Her name appears on Llandaff war memorial with that of her younger brother William John (Jack), who died at the battle of Loos in 1915.
Reference: WaW0061
headstone
Headstone commemorating Edith Mary Tonkin, Mount Huon Military Cemetery Normandy. Courtesy Peter Bennett Dewberry Yorkshire
Tonkin family
Photograph of the Tonkin family on the family farm in Devon, c 1910. Courtesy Maureen Roberts, Western Australiarn
Dorothy Mary Watson
Service: Munitions Worker
Death: 1917:07:31 , NEF Pembrey, Explosion / Ffyrwydrad
Memorial: Cenotaph, Swansea, Glamorgan
Notes: aged 19. Died in an 'unexplained' explosion with Mildred Owen and two male workers.
Sources: Funeral / Angladd South Wales Daily Post 11 August / Awst 1917; Inquest/Cwest The Carmarthen Journal and South Wales Weekly Advertiser 24th August / Awst 1917
Reference: WaW0062
Dorothy Mary Watson
Mary’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.
Amy Laura Whitcombe
Place of birth: Hengoed
Service: Worker, QMAAC
Death: 1918-11-03, S C Convalescent Hospital, Plymouth, Influenza / Y Ffliw
Memorial: War memorial, Ystrad Mynach and Hengoed, Glamorgan
Notes: aged 24.
Reference: WaW0063
Catherine Williams
Place of birth: Colwyn Bay
Service: Staff Nurse, QAIMNS
Death: 1919-08-04, Cause not known
Memorial: War memorial, Colwyn Bay, Caernarvonshire
Notes: aged 38. Buried Bron-y-Nant cemetery Colwyn Bay.
Sources: http://historypoints.org/index.php?page=colwyn-bay-memorial-fww-surnames-s-y
Reference: WaW0064