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Gwynedd Violet Llewellyn
Place of birth: Bewdley, Worcestershire
Service: Nurse, VAD
Death: 1918/11/03, Rouen, France, Influenza / Y Ffliw
Notes: Gwynedd Violet Llewellyn’s name appears on the Welsh book of Remembrance. Unfortunately, despite her name, she appears to have no connection with Wales. Her family connections were with Worcestershire and Somerset
Reference: WaW0214
Amy Curtis (née Chamberlain)
Place of birth: Wolverhampton
Service: Nurse, VAD, July – November 1918 / Gorff
Death: 1918/11/06, Auxiliary Hospital Wallasey, Pneumonia / Niwmonia
Memorial: Gwersyllt, Denbighshire
Notes: Amy’s father was a railwayman who moved the family around the English midlands before setting in Gwersyllt. She married James Chamberlain in 1909 and had a daughter Lilly in 1910. James was killed in action in December 1917, and Amy joined the VAD in July 1918. She was 31 when she died; her name appears in the Welsh Book of Remembrance.
Sources: http://www.clwydfhs.org.uk/cofadeiladau/gwersyllt_wm.htm
Reference: WaW0231
Hylda Salathiel
Place of birth: Pencoed
Service: Nurse, hockey player, South Wales Nursing Association
Death: 1918/11/06, Cardiff, Influenza / Ffliw
Notes: Hylda Salathiel, who was one of seven sisters, was educated at Bridgend High School, and trained at Merthyr General Hospital. For a while she was an international hockey player, playing for Bridgend Ladies and South Wales Ladies. She nursed for a while in Bournemouth, but returned to South Wales, where she caught influenza from a patient she was nursing and died four days later. The patient recovered and sent flowers to Hylda’s funeral.
Reference: WaW0301
Newspaper report
Report of an international hockey match between South Wales and Monmouthshire Ladies and Munster Ladies. Glamorgan Gazette 12th February 1909.
Newspaper report
Report of the death and funeral of Hylda Salathiel. Glamorgan Gazette 15th November 1918
Aldwyth Katrin Williams
Place of birth: Llanbedr-y-Cennin
Service: Nurse, VAD, 1914 - 1918
Death: 1918/11/08, Llanbedr-y-Cennin, Influenza / Ffliw
Memorial: St Tudnos Churchyard, Llandudno, Caernarfonshire
Notes: Aldwyth was the only daughter of the Rector of Llanbedr-y-Cennin. She joined the VAD early in the war, and worked for three days a week in the Red Cross hospitals in Llandudno, cooking and cleaning as well as nursing. She was 26 when she died.
Sources: http://historypoints.org/index.php?page=great-orme-grave-aldwyth-williams
Reference: WaW0262
Grave of Aldwyth Williams
Grave of Aldwyth Katrin Williams, St Tudno’s Church, Great Orme, Llandudno. Photo courtesy of Laurence Manton
Newspaper report
Report of the funeral of Aldwyth Katrin Williams, Y Clorianydd, 27th November 1918, Identical reports were published in Y Cymro and Y Dydd.rn
Lily Jenkins
Place of birth: Coity ?
Service: Nurse
Death: 1918/11/28, Esat Hampstead, Influenza / Y Ffliw
Notes: Little is known of Lily Jenkins, who had been a nurse at Bracknell Infirmary, East Hampstead, for four years. She was 21 when she died.
Reference: WaW0348
Newspaper report
Report of the death and funeral of Nurse Lily Jenkins. Glamorgan Gazette 20th December 1918.
Mary Daniel
Place of birth: Nantgaredig
Service: Kindergarten teacher
Death: 1918/12/01, Kimbolton, Pneumonia following influenza / Niwmonia yn dilyn ffliw
Notes: Mary Daniel had been teaching in the junior department of Kimbolton Grammar School for less than a term when she died of complications of Spanish Flu. She had been a pupil of the County Girls School in Carmarthen and trained for her Froebel education certificate in London.
Reference: WaW0459
Ada Doris Maud Lesser (Radcliffe)
Place of birth: Nova Scotia
Service: Worker, QMAAC
Death: 1918/12/04, Tidsworth Military Hospital, Wiltshire, Influenza / y ffliw
Memorial: Danygraig, Swansea, Glamorgan
Notes: Born c.1879, Ada moved with her parents to Swansea. She married Arthur Charles Lesser in December 1899. The inscription on her grave says she was 36 when she died, but she was probably older. Thanks to Diana Morgan
Reference: WaW0190
Mary Elizabeth Thomas (née ?)
Service: Munitions worker, NEF Pembrey, 1917 - 1918
Death: 1918/12/16, NEF Pembrey, Pulmonary oedema / Oedema ysgyfeiniol
Notes: Mary, aged 33, had been working at Pembrey for about a year. On 16th December she was demonstrating a process, how to disassemble shells, to a fellow worker. Suddenly she collapsed, and died soon afterwards. According to her husband she had suffered from bad headaches for 12 months, though she was well when she left for work that morning.
Reference: WaW0299
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
Gwenllian (Gwendoline) Williams
Place of birth: Kidwelly
Service: Munitions worker
Death: 1919-01-08, Explosion/Ffrwydrad
Notes: aged 21. 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: WaW0065