M A Harries

Place of birth: Abergwili ?

Service: Nurse, Not known / anhysbys

Notes: M A Harries was one of three Welsh nurses serving on the hospital ship Britannic (sister ship to the Titanic). The others were Annie Handley and Nurse Edwards. All survived when the ship struck a mine in the Aegean sea on 21st November 1916 and sank, with the loss of 30 lives out of 1065 on board. She ‘lost all her belongings’ in the wreck.

Reference: WaW0255

Newspaper report

Report of survival of Nurse M A Harries. Carmarthen Journal 1st December 1916.

Newspaper report

Report of visit home of Nurse M A Harries. Carmarthen Journal 5th January 1917.rn rn

Nurse Edwards

Place of birth: Cynwyd

Service: Nurse, Not known / anhysbys

Notes: Nurse Edwards was one of three Welsh nurses serving on the hospital ship Britannic (sister ship to the Titanic). The others were Annie Handley and M A Harries. All survived when the ship struck a mine in the Aegean sea on 21st November 1916 and sank, with the loss of 30 lives out of 1065 on board. She subsequently nursed in France

Reference: WaW0256

Newspaper article

Report of Nurse Edwards’s home leave, Yr Adsain 27th February 1917

Lily Maud Leaver

Place of birth: Aberdare

Service: Munitions worker, Not known / anhysbys

Death: 1917/12/28, TNT poisoning / Gwenwyni gan TNT

Notes: Little is known of Lily Leaver, who was born in 1896. Her parents later lived at Abertridwr in Glamorganshire.

Reference: WaW0325

Lily Maud Leaver

Lily’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

Letter to the Secretary of the women’s collection from Lily’s mother, Mrs A[nnie] Leaver.

not known / anhysbys Knott

Place of birth: Pontypridd

Service: Nurse, not known / anhysbys

Notes: Nothing is currently known of Nurse Knott, whose name appears on the Roll of Honour of St Matthews Church, Trallwn, Pontypridd.

Reference: WaW0140

Roll of Honour

Name of Nurse Knott on the Roll of Honour of St Matthews Church, Trallwn, Pontypridd. Courtesy Dr Gethin Matthews.

Catherine Anne Carroll (née Rees)

Place of birth: Swansea

Service: Munitions worker, Not known / anhysbys

Death: 1918/10/21, Swansea, Gas gangrene / Madredd nwy

Notes: Catherine, mother of four children, was a munitions worker in Swansea. According to her grandson she ‘fell from a tram injuring her leg and as a result got gangrene because of the working conditions in the munitions factory. She died 21.10.1918.’ Her husband. Pte William Carroll died in hospital in Egypt just over a month later. The children were brought up by their grandparents. Thanks to Roger Latch.

Reference: WaW0355

Catherine Carroll and Family

Catherine Carroll with her children May, Ted William and baby Betty. October 1914. Thanks to Roger Latch

Newspaper photograph

Photograph and report of death of Pte William Carroll. South Wales Weekly Post 23rd November 1918.

Louisa James

Place of birth: Merthyr Tydfil ?

Service: Munitions worker, not known / anhysbys

Notes: Louisa James was photographed in her munitions worker uniform.

Reference: WaW0358

Louisa James

Louisa James in munition workers uniform. Peoples Collection Wales.

Louisa James (reverse)

Louisa James in munition workers uniform (reverse) . Peoples Collection Wales.

Louisa Jones

Place of birth: Harlech

Service: Munitions worker, Not known / anhysbys

Notes: Louisa Jones was injured when a shell fell on her foot at the munitions factory where she worked. The local paper reported that she was home in Harlech on sick leave.

Reference: WaW0359

Newspaper article

Article reporting Louisa Jones’s sick leave. Cambrian News and Merioneth Standard 18th May 1917.

Elsie E Williams

Service: Munitions worker, Not known / anhysbys

Notes: Elsie Williams claimed that she was sexually assaulted on a train by a foreman at the same munitions factory, and became pregnant. The Court at Swansea agreed that he was the father of her child.

Reference: WaW0368

Newspaper report

Report proving paternity of Elsie Williams’s baby. Herald of Wales 22nd December 1917.

Kate Hopkins

Place of birth: Ystradgynlais

Service: Nurse, Not known / anhysbys, 1915 - 1918

Death: 1918/10/26, London, Influenza / y ffliw

Notes: Kate Hopkins had been a promising teacher, having trained in Stafford with a scholarship from Glamorgan. She began nursing in at the Great Western Hospital in London in 1915, and died there of Spanish flu aged 34.

Reference: WaW0406

Newspaper report

Report of the death of Kate Hopkins. Llais Llafur 2nd November 1918

Hannah Davies (Hughes)

Place of birth: Brymbo

Service: Nurse, Not known / anhysbys

Notes: Hannah was a trained nurse who may have served in one of the Liverpool military hospitals, or in Chester. Whilst there she met and later married Pte Joseph Hughes, who also came from the Brymbo area. Many thanks to Nikki Dutton.

Reference: WaW0427

Photograph

Photograph of Hannah (left) and a friend playing tennis. Thanks to Nikki Dutton.

Photograph

Photograph of Hannah (seated) and a friend. Thanks to Nikki Dutton.