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Annie Crosby
Place of birth: Liverpool
Service: Passenger
Death: 1915-05-07, SS Lusitania, Drowning/Boddi
Memorial: War memorial, Bagillt, Flintshire
Notes: aged 36, drowned with her sister Ellen in the sinking of the Lusitania
Sources: http://www.flintshirewarmemorials.com; www.rmslusitania.info/
Reference: WaW0003
Louisa Parry
Place of birth: Holyhead
Service: Stewardess, CPSPCo, 1914 - 1918
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://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/3929-wanted-photos-nationwide/&page=19
Reference: WaW0042
Annie Alice Guy
Place of birth: Newport
Service: Nursing sister, SWH, 1916
Death: 1916/08/21, Salonika, Dysentery
Notes: Alice Annie Guy died 21st August 1916, Scottish Women’s Hospital and Serbian Army, Nursing Sister, Former Superintendent of the Devonshire Hospital, Buxton. Buried in Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery. Her name also appears on the WW1 Roll of Honour Book kept in Newport Reference Library.
Sources: http://scottishwomenshospitals.co.uk/women/
Reference: WaW0142
Agnes Cissy Pugh
Place of birth: Wrexham
Service: Nurse
Death: Croesnewydd Military Hospital, Wrexham, Effects of explosion / Effeithiau ffrwydrad
Notes: Cissy Pugh, born 1895, trained as a nurse in London. She was caught up in a bombing raid on King’s Cross station on 13th June 1917. While attending to a wounded child she herself was badly wounded by a secondary explosion. After treatment in London she was transferred to Croesnewydd Military Hospital in Wrexham where she died of her injuries at the end of October. Thanks to Wrexham Museum.
Reference: WaW0389
Annie Roach
Place of birth: Swansea
Service: Nurse, 1914 - December 1915
Death: December / Rhagfyr 1, Great Yarmouth, Enteric fever / Ffliw enterig
Notes: Annie, who was 21 when she died, contracted enteric fever from a sailor patient in the isolation hospital in Great Yarmouth. Her body was brought back to Swansea, and she was buried in Dan y Graig cemetery, Swansea.
Reference: WaW0354
Newspaper article and photograph
Report of the death of Annie Roach, Herlad of Wales 8th January 1916.
Jane Jenkins
Place of birth: Landore
Service: Munitions Worker
Death: 1918-11-18, NEF Pembrey, Explosion / Ffrwydrad
Memorial: Cenotaph, Swansea, Glamorgan
Notes: aged 21. She was killed in the same explosion as Edith Copham and Mary Fitzmaurice
Sources: Adroddiad am y ffrwydrad Herald of Wales 14eg Rhagfyr 1914
Reference: WaW0030
Elsie Lavinia Gibbs
Place of birth: Grangetown, Cardiff
Service: Munitions worker
Death: 1918/07/01, National Shell Factory, Chilwell, Nottingham, Explosion / Ffrwydrad
Memorial: Saltmead Gospel Hall, Grangetown, Cardiff, Glamorgan
Notes: Elsie was born in 1901, and lied about her age to work in munitions (minimum age was 18). She was posted to the National Shell Filling Factory, Chilwell in Nottingham, where she died in the explosion that killed 133 others, the worst civilian tragedy during the War. Her body was never identified, and she was buried in a mass grave with 101 other unidentified victims.
Sources: www.grangetownwar.co.uk
Reference: WaW0211
Munitions workers
Group of munitions workers. Elsie is to the right of the man with the moustache, collar and tie, middle row. Presumably taken at Chilwell.
Death certificate
Copy of Elsie’s death certificate, giving cause of death ‘presumed killed as result of explosion – Deceased know[n] to have been in works at time and since missing’. It gives her age, erroneously, as 19, and describes her as a ‘powder worker, daughter of Albert Gibbs’ with a Nottingham address. Her father was Albert Gibbs, but he lived in Dorset St, Grangetown, Cardiff.
Ethel Roberts
Place of birth: Wrexham
Service: Child
Death: 1916/03.09, Moss, Wrexham, Explosion / Ffrwydrad
Memorial: Holy Trinity Church, Gwersyllt, Wrexham, Denbighshire
Notes: Ethel, aged one, died when a souvenir shell brought home by her uncle exploded, killing her and fatally injuring her sister and two cousins. Her uncle Private John Bagnall was seriously injured as well as her mother Sarah Roberts and her aunt Mary Bagnall. The children were buried in two graves in Holy Trinity Churchyard, Gwersyllt, where a memorial to the four girls was dedicated in March 2016.
Sources: http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/wrexham-remembers-four-children-killed-11027982
Reference: WaW0220
Newspaper report
Report of the shell explosion that killed four girls and injured three adults, North Wales Chronicle 10th March 1916
Memorial
Memorial to Sarah Bagnall, Ethel Roberts, Mary Roberts and Violet Williams at Holy Trinity Churchyard, Gwersyllt, dedicated March 2016.
Mary Frances Roberts
Place of birth: Wrexham
Service: Child
Death: 1916/03/09, Moss, Wrexham, Explosion / Ffrwydrad
Memorial: Holy Trinity Church, Gwersyllt, Wrexham, Denbighshire
Notes: Mary, aged four, died when a souvenir shell brought home by her uncle exploded, killing her sister and fatally injuring her and her two cousins. Her uncle Private John Bagnall was seriously injured as well as her mother Sarah Roberts and her aunt Mary Bagnall. The children were buried in two graves in Holy Trinity Churchyard, Gwersyllt, where a memorial to the four girls was dedicated in March 2016.
Sources: http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/wrexham-remembers-four-children-killed-11027982
Reference: WaW0219
Newspaper report
Report of the shell explosion that killed four girls and injured three adults, North Wales Chronicle 10th March 1916
Newspaper report
Report of the explosion giving the names of the victims. Abergavenny Chronicle 17 March 1916
Newspaper report
Memorial to Sarah Bagnall, Ethel Roberts, Mary Roberts and Violet Williams at Holy Trinity Churchyard, Gwersyllt, dedicated March 2016.
Sarah Hannah Bagnall
Place of birth: Wrexham
Service: Child
Death: 1916/03/09, Moss, Wrexham, Explosion / Ffrwydrad
Memorial: Holy Trinity Church, Gwersyllt, Wrexham, Denbighshire
Notes: Sarah, aged 1, died when a souvenir shell brought home by her father exploded, killing or fatally injuring her and her three cousins. Her mother Mary Bagnall was seriously injured as well as her father and aunt Sarah Roberts. The children were buried in two graves in Holy Trinity Churchyard, Gwersyllt, where a memorial to the four girls was dedicated in March 2016.
Sources: http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/wrexham-remembers-four-children-killed-11027982
Reference: WaW0217
Newspaper report
Report of the shell explosion that killed four girls and injured three adults, North Wales Chronicle 10th March 1916
Newspaper report
Report of the explosion giving the names of the victims. Abergavenny Chronicle 17 March 1916
Newspaper report
Memorial to Sarah Bagnall, Ethel Roberts, Mary Roberts and Violet Williams at Holy Trinity Churchyard, Gwersyllt, dedicated March 2016.