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Jane Ellen Howdle
Service: Stewardess
Death: 1915:11:07, SS Lusitania, Drowning / Boddi
Memorial: War memorial, Benllech, Anglesey
Notes: aged 33. Buried at Cobh Old Cemetery, County Cork, Ireland
Sources: http://www.rmslusitania.info/people/lusitania-victims;http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/visit/floor-plan/lusitania/people/peoples-stories.aspx?id=15530
Reference: WaW0027
Benllech War Memorial
Name of Mrs J E Howdle on Benllech War Memorial. She was a Stewardess on S S Lusitania.
Hannah Owen
Place of birth: Holyhead
Service: Stewardess, c.1905 - 1918
Death: 1918-10-10, RMS Leinster, Drowning / Boddi
Memorial: War memorial; Memorial Hyfrydle Chapel, Holyhead, Anglesey
Notes: aged 36. RMS Leinster was torpedoed in the Irish Sea. HO died together with Louise Parry
Sources: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=107830381
Reference: WaW0040
Louisa Parry
Place of birth: Holyhead
Service: Stewardess
Death: 1918-10-10, RMS Leinster, Drowning / Boddi
Memorial: War memorial, Holyhead, Anglesey
Notes: aged 22. RMS Leinster was torpedoed in the Irish Sea. LP died together with Hannah Owen
Sources: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=15368549
Reference: WaW0042
Emily Ada Pickford (née Pearn)
Place of birth: Penarth
Service: Entertainer
Death: -1919-07.02, River Somme, Drowning / Boddi
Memorial: War memorial, Penarth, Glamorgan
Notes: aged 37. A member of one of Lena Ashwell's Concert Parties, she died when the car in which she was a passenger skidded into the River Somme on the way back from a concert. Buried Abbeville Community Cemetery Extension Plot V, Row G, Grave 23
Reference: WaW0043
Penarth War Memorial
Name of Emily Pickford on Penarth War Memorial. She was a singer who drowned in an accident in the Somme January 1919
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
Margaret Williams
Place of birth: Holyhead
Service: Stewardess, 1914 - d
Death: 1916-11-03, SS Connemara, Drowning / Boddi
Memorial: War memorial, Holyhead, Anglesey
Notes: aged 32. SS Connemara sank in a collision with the coal carrier Retriever. MW is said to have been on her last shift before her marriage. Her body was never recovered.
Reference: WaW0067
Martha Emily Jenkins
Place of birth: Liverpool
Service: Stewardess, SS Aguila
Death: 1915/03/27, SS Aguila / Pembrokeshire coast, Drowning / Boddi
Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial, London
Notes: Martha Jenkins, Liverpool born but of Welsh extraction, was a stewardess on SS Aguila trading between Liverpool and the Canaries. The ship was torpedoed by a German U Boat off the coast of Pembrokeshire. Eight lives were lost including an un-named female passenger.
Sources: http://www.benjidog.co.uk/Tower%20Hill/WW1%20Agenoria%20to%20Alaunia.html#Aguila
Reference: WaW0173
Mary Elizabeth (May) Jones
Place of birth: Llanfairfechan
Service: Stewardess, Cunard Steam Ship Company
Death: 1915/05/17, SS Lusitania, Drowning / Boddi
Memorial: Mercantile Marine Memorial to the Missing, Tower Hill, London
Notes: May had been a senior stewardess with the Cunard Steam Ship Company for many years. She drowned aged 43 when SS Lusitania was torpedoed on 17th May 1917, together with 14 other stewardesses including Jane Howdle [qv]. Eight survived. She was buried with other victims at Old Cobh Cemetery, Queenstown, Ireland.
Reference: WaW0261
Anne Davies
Place of birth: Gowerton
Service: Mother
Death: 1915/05/07, S S Lusitania, Drowning / Boddi
Notes: Anne Davies, aged 52, was originally from Gowerton, but emigrated to America in about 1885. She lived in Ontario, Canada, but had been visiting her daughter in Llanelli. She was returning home on the Lusitania when it was torpedoed off the Irish coast. Her body was one of the first to be recovered, and she is buried in Cobh Old Town cemetery, Queenstown.
Reference: WaW0277
Newspaper report and photograph
Article with photograph of Anne Davies, at that point missing after the sinking of the Lusitania. Cambria Daily Leader 10th May 1915
Margaret Elizabeth Foulkes (née Hughes)
Place of birth: Sandycroft, Flintshire
Service: Stewardess, S S Lusitania, 1915
Death: 1915/07/05, S S Lusitania, Drowning / Boddi
Memorial: Mercantile Marine Memorial to the Missing, Tower Hill, London
Notes: Margaret Foulkes, was born in Wales and brought up in Liverpool. She was a widow, and had worked on the Lusitania before the final voyage; stewardesses seem to have been employed by the voyage. She drowned when the ship was torpedoed on May 7th 1915, aged 42. Her body was never found.
Reference: WaW0324