Mary Anne Eliza Young

Place of birth: Cardiff

Service: Nurse, VAD

Death: 1919-02-13, 57th General Hospital, Cause not known

Memorial: City Hall Memorial; War Grave Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles, Cardiff, Glamorgan

Notes: aged 35, a former teacher at Lansdowne Rd County School, Cardiff/Caerdydd. Buried at Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles.

Reference: WaW0068

Roll of Honour, Cardiff City Hall

Name of Mary Ann Eliza Young, VAD. on the Roll of Honour, City Hall, Cardiff.

Mary Ann Eliza Young

Mary Ann’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.

Letter from JR Young

Letter from JR Young, Mary’s father. Part of 'Deaths: Nurses Deaths to 1920' (museum's administrative records) 1919-04-08

Violet Phillips

Place of birth: Newport

Service: Worker, WAAC/QMAAC, 1917 - 1919

Death: 1919-03-08, Chadderton Hostel, Cause not known

Memorial: St Woolos, Newport, Monmouthshire

Notes: Violet was the daughter of Mrs C.M.Phillips, 32 Barrack Hill, Newport, Mon.

Sources: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/390079/PHILLIPS,%20V

Reference: WaW0118

Grave of Violet Phillips

Grave of Violet Phillips, St Woolos Cemetery, Newport

Mary Olwen Evans

Place of birth: Llangadog, April 1896

Service: Assistant (Cook) : , QMAAC

Death: 1919-03-23, Influenza?/Y Ffliw?

Notes: aged 20, buried Ebbw Vale

Sources: http://www.wwwmp.co.uk/carmarthenshire-war-memorials/

Reference: WaW0013

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.

Sources: http://www.flintshirewarmemorials.com/memorials/st-asaph-memorial/st-asaph-cathedral-welsh-nurses-ww1/rowlands-helena-may/

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

Fanny Irene Sprake Jones

Place of birth: Carmarthen

Service: Nurse, QAIMNS

Death: 1919-06-11, Cause not known

Memorial: War memorial, Carmarthen, Carmarthen

Notes: aged 36. Qualified at King's College Hospital, London, May 1913.

Reference: WaW0037

Welsh National Book of Remembrance

Name of Frances Sprake-Jones in the Welsh National Book of Remembrance

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

War Memorial Colwyn Bay

Name of Catherine Williams on Colwyn Bay War Memorial

Margaret Davies

Place of birth: Pontymister ?

Service: Cook, QMAAC

Death: 1919/02/18, Not known , Not known / Anhysbys

Memorial: Rica Old Cemetary, Risca, Monmouthshire

Notes: Almost nothing is known of Madge Davies who was a cook in QMAAC.

Reference: WaW0350

War Graves Register

Entry for Margaret Davies in the War Graves Register.

Next of kin

Details of next of kin for Margaret Davies (Relationship not known).

Mary Ann Evans

Place of birth: Ebbw Vale

Service: Assistant cook, QMAAC

Death: 1919/03/23, Percy House Auxiliary Military Hospital, Isleworth, Middlesex, Influenza ? / Fliw ?

Notes: According to the 1911 census, Mary Ann probably came from a Welsh speaking family. Her father was a colliery foreman. She was working in Middlesex when she died, probably of influenza. Her name has recently been recorded on a commemorative headstone at Risca cemetery.

Sources: http://firstworldwar.gwentheritage.org.uk/content/catalogue_item/mary-ann-evans

Reference: WaW0283

Commemorative headstone

Headstone commemorating Mary Ann Evans, Risca cemetery.

Grave record

Grave record of Mary Ann Evans

Megan Davies

Place of birth: Aberdare

Service: Singer, bank clerk

Death: 1919/03/25, Aberdare, Influenza / y ffliw

Notes: Megan Davies was a well-known contralto soloist in the Aberdare area, and performed in several War Heroes concerts. She worked in Barclay’s Bank, Merthyr.

Reference: WaW0421

Newspaper report

Newspaper report of a War Heroes Concert, naming Megan Davies. Aberdare Leader 5th January 1918.

Newspaper report

Report of the death from influenza of Megan Davies, aged 29. Aberdare Leader 29th March 1919

Daphne Elizabeth Powell

Place of birth: Talgarth ?

Service: Worker, WAAC/QMAAC, Novermber 1917 - April 1919 /

Death: 1919/04/11, The Old Vicarage Talgarth , brief illness / salwch byr

Memorial: St Gwendolines Church, Talgarth, Breconshire

Notes: Daphne Powell served with the WAAC/QMAAC at Swanage, where she proved ‘a very efficient worker’. She was 21 years old when she died, possibly of Spanish flu.

Reference: WaW0194

Grave of Daphne Powell

Grave of Daphne Powell, St Gwendolines Church, Talgarth, Her grave is on the right; her brother Charles Baden Powell, who died in 1921, is on the left.

St Gwendolines Grave Register

Grave register showing the entries for Daphne Powell and her brother Charles. Both graves were originally grassy mounds; the headstones were erected recently by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Newspaper report

Report of the funeral of Daphne Powell. Brecon County Times 1st May 1919