Rose Williams

Place of birth: Wern Farm Pengenfford, Breconshire

Service: Munitions Inspector

Notes: Rose Williams was a ‘lady inspector’ of munitions. She came first in an examination for inspectors in July 1917.

Reference: WaW0222

Newspaper report

Report of Rose Williams success in munitions inspection examination, Brecon & Radnor Express 12 July 1917

Sarah Roberts

Place of birth: Wrexham ?

Service: Mother

Notes: Sarah lost both legs in the shell explosion at Moss, Wrexham, on 9th March 1916. Her daughter Ethel was killed instantly and her daughter Mary and two other little girls fatally injured. See Mary Bagnall.Sarah’s account was quoted in the report of the inquest, Canbrian Times 18th March 1916.

Sources: http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/wrexham-remembers-four-children-killed-11027982

Reference: WaW0216

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.

Newspaper report

Report of the inquest into the deaths of the four girls.

Auriol Jones

Place of birth: Llanbedr, Crickhowell

Service: Pianist

Notes: Auriol and her sister Beatrice Eveline were professional musicians. As well as following a professional career (she was a soloist in three Promenade Concerts at the Queens Hall, London), Auriol and her sister regularly performed at concerts raising funds for the Red Cross around Wales. She also travelled to Malta in 1916 as part of one of Lena Ashwell’s Concert Parties, and to France in 1917 as part of another: ‘a gift from the people of Wales’.

Reference: WaW0225

Auriol Jones

Auriol Jones, concert pianist.

Newspaper report

Report of Auriol’s concert party to Malta. Brecon County Times 28 September 1916

Newspaper article

Report of the Welsh Concert Party. Cambrian Daily Leader 29 October 1917.

Invitation

Invitation to the ‘Welcome Home Boys’ concert, December 23rd 1919.

Beatrice Eveline Jones (Eveline)

Place of birth: Llanbedr, Crickhowell

Service: Cellist

Notes: Beatrice and her sister Auriol were professional musicians. She played at many concerts to raise funds for the Red Cross, as well as appearing professionally. She was a soloist at a Promenade Concert in the Queens Hall, London, in 1915. Her professional career developed further after the War. Her performance was admired by the poet and critic Ezra Pound in 1920, and she played in the first classical music broadcast on the BBC in June 1922, together with a pianist and a singer. Her professional name was Beatrice Eveline.

Reference: WaW0226

Beatrice Eveline Jones

‘Beatrice Eveline’. cellist

Newspaper article

Report of a concert to raise funds for the Belgian Field Hospital, May 1915.

Invitation

Invitation to the ‘Welcome Home Boys’ concert, December 23rd 1919.

Elizabeth Cooper

Place of birth: Hampshire

Service: Christian charity worker, 1914 - 1919

Notes: Elizabeth Cooper was awarded the OBE in 1918 for her work for sailors on minesweepers operating out of Milford Haven. She had moved to the area in the 1890s as a superintendent of the Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. Many trawlers were employed in minesweeping during the War.

Reference: WaW0224

Elizabeth Cooper

Elizabeth Cooper OBE, Minesweepers Comforts Supply Association.

Newspaper report

Report of Elizabeth Cooper’s award of OBE, Haverfordwest & Milford Haven Telegraph 9 Jan 1918

Elizabeth Cooper (reverse)

Reverse of photograph showing record of award of OBE

Elsie Williams

Place of birth: Abetillery ?

Service: Baling Hand, Women\\\'s Forage Corps

Notes: Elsie’s name appears on a list of names of women who died working in the Women’s Forage Corps. Her next of kin is given as Mrs Williams, 7 Cyrils Place, Abertillery. Nothing further is known of her.

Reference: WaW0223

Elsie Williams

Place of birth: Abertillery ?

Service: Baling Hand, Womens Forage Corps (WFC)

Notes: Elsie’s name appears on a list of names of women who died working in the Women’s Forage Corps. Her next of kin is given as Mrs Williams, 7 Cyril Place, Abertillery. Nothing further is known of her.

Reference: WaW0146

Nominal Roll

List of members of the WFC who died in service.

Mary Ann Holloway

Place of birth: Llanelli ?

Service: Munitions Worker

Notes: Mary Ann Holloway, aged 36 and the mother of three children, was brought before the Carmarthenshire Assizes in January 1919 charged with infanticide. A munitions worker at Pembrey, she became pregnant while her husband was serving in France. She was cleared of infanticide but found guilty concealing a birth, and was sentenced to one month’s imprisonment.

Reference: WaW0229

Newspaper report

Report of the trial of Mary Ann Holloway, Carmarthen Weekly Reporter 24th January 1919.

Welsh Book of Remembrance /Llyfr Cofio Cenedlaetho

Memorial: The Temple of Peace, Cardiff, Glamorgan

Notes: The Welsh Book of Remembrance was created as a Roll of Honour to accompany the unveiling of the Welsh National War Memorial in Cathays Park, Cardiff, in 1928. It is an attempt to list all those ‘Men and Women of Welsh Blood or Parentage … Who Gave Their Lives in the War 1914 – 1918’. Before the opening of the Temple of Peace in 1938 the book was on display in the National Museum. A number of women are included: the stewardesses Hannah Owen and Louisa Parry who died when RMS Leinster was torpedoed in 1918; members of QMAAC Gertrude Dyer, Jean Roberts, Mary Elizabeth Smith and Lizzie Dora Stephens; and VADs Gladys Maud Jones, Gwynedd Llewellyn, Amy Curtis, Eva Davies, Margaret M Evans, Lilian Jones, Edith Tonkin, Jenny Williams and Frances Sprake Jones QAIMNS.rnIt is not clear why these particular women were chosen for inclusion. This site has the name of many women who could have been included. Additionally Gladys Maud Jones and Gwynedd Llewellyn, despite their names, had no recent connection with Wales.

Sources: http://www.walesforpeace.org/whybookofremembrance.html; https://www.llgc.org.uk/llyfrycofio

Reference: WaW0237

The Welsh Book of Remembrance

The Welsh Book of Remembrance, containing names of 35,000 service men and women who died during the Great War.

Edith May Francis

Place of birth: Caersws

Service: Nurse, Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU), Feb 1918 – Dec 1919

Notes: Born 1892, Edith was a qualified nurse with three and a half years’ experience when she joined the FAU. She spent nearly 2 years at the Queen Alexandra Hospital, Dunkirk. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church, not a Quaker.

Sources: http://fau.quaker.org.uk/

Reference: WaW0232

Edith May Francis

Edith Mary Francis, Friends Ambulance Unit

FAU record card

FAU record card for Edith Francisrnrnrn