Enid Spedding

Place of birth: Goginan

Service: Clerk ?, WAAC, 1917 -

Notes: Enid seems to have joined the WAAC in Autumn 1917.

Reference: WaW0310

Newspaper photograph and report

Newspaper photograph of Enid Spedding, WAAC. Cambrian News 3rd May 1918.

Emily Evans

Service: Street vendor of patent medicines

Notes: Emily Evans of Pembroke Dock was fined £7 for selling potatoes at above the fixed price of 1¾ d per pound. Two witnesses claimed to have been charged 6d and 5½ d per pound. Mrs Evans refused to tell the police where she had purchased the potatoes.

Reference: WaW0304

Newspaper report

Report of charge against Emily Evans for profiteering. Cambria Daily Leader 14th May 1917.

Daisy Morris

Place of birth: St Dogmaels

Service: Munitions ? then Clerk-Telephonist, QMAAC, 1918/06/06 – 1919/05/06

Notes: Born in St Dogmael’s in 1895, her father was a coastguard, Daisy may have worked in munitions in Barry Docks. When she joined QMAAC in 1918 she was living in Barrow, near her sister at Flookburgh, north Lancashire.

Sources: National Archives WO-398-159-25

Reference: WaW0309

QMAAC application form

Daisy Morris’s application to join the QMAAC.

Annie Lillian Thomas (later McLoughlin)

Place of birth: Cwmyoy

Service: Postwoman, WAAC

Notes: Annie Thomas joined the WAAC in June 1918, aged 21. She had previously worked at the Royal Gwent Hospital as a waitress. She was posted to the Australian Military Hospital, Dartford. By the time she was discharged in July 1919 she was married, though nothing is known of her husband.

Sources: National Archives WO-398-153-8

Reference: WaW0305

Discharge order

Discharge order for Annie Macloughlin on compassionate grounds.

WAAC enrollment form

Enrolment form for Annie Thomas. Her surname and marital status have been changed.rn

Reference

Reference form for Annie Thomas.rnrn

Violet Gale Jackson

Service: Scientist, botanist, Rothamsted Institute, 1917 -

Notes: Violet Jackson graduated from the University College, Bangor in 1917, in the same year as Mary Sutherland [qv] and Mary Dilys Glynne [qv]. Like Mary Glynne she was employed at the Rothamsted Institute in Hertfordshire, as a botanist. Her speciality seems to have been root formation.

Reference: WaW0316

Newspaper report

Report of Bangor graduates including Violet Jackson, Mary Dilys Glynne and Mary Sutherland. North Wales Chronicle 7th July 1916

Staff List

List of staff at Rothamsted Experimental Station 1918.

Scientific paper

Paper by Violet G Jackson published in the Annals of Botany, January 1922.

Maud Jarman (Larnder)

Place of birth: Glangwryne, Mongomeryshire

Service: Waitress, QMAAC, 1918/07/25 - 1919/05/13

Notes: Maud Jarman had been working as a housemaid for three years, currently at the Wynnstay Arms Hotel in Machynlleth, when she responded to an advertisement for QMAACs in the Cambrian News. She joined at Cardiff in July 1918 to serve as a waitress at various army bases. After her discharge from the Corps in May 1919 there seems to have been considerable confusion about her back pay and sick pay. There seems to have been considerable confusion as to who should pay her. A good section of her file in the National Archives is devoted to sorting this problem, which was finally resolved in September 1919.

Sources: National Archives WO-398-117-26

Reference: WaW0318

Letter

Letter from Maud Jarman asking to join QMAAC. National Archives.

Letter (reverse)

Letter from Maud Jarman asking to join QMAAC (reverse). National Archives.

Newspaper advertisement

Advertisement for QMAACS. Possibly this is the one Maud referred to in her letter. Cambrian News 31st May 1918.

QMAAC Document

Part of the official correspondence about Maud Jarman’s pay. National Archives.

Mary Sutherland

Place of birth: London

Service: Forester, WLA, 1916 -17

Death: 1955, Wellington, New Zealand, Cause not known

Notes: Mary Sutherland was the first woman in Britain to gain a degree in Forestry. She studied at University College, Bangor from 1912 to 1916. After graduation (in the same year as Mary Dilys Glynne and Violet Gale Jackson qv) she worked in the forestry division of the Women’s Land Army, and from 1917 as an assistant experimental officer for the Forestry Commission. Following the contraction of the Forestry Commission in 1922 she moved to New Zealand where she worked for the newly formed State Forest Service.

Sources: Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, 1998.

Reference: WaW0314

Newspaper report

Report of Bangor graduates including Mary Sutherland, Violet Gale Jackson and Mary Glynne. North Wales Chronicle 7th July 1916.

Mary Sutherland

Mary Sutherland in the 1920s in New Zealand. Te Amorangi Trust Museum.

Mary Dilys Glynne (born Glynne Jones)

Place of birth: Upper Bangor

Service: Scientist, plant pathologist, mountaineer, Rothamsted Institute, 1917 - 1960

Death: 1991, Cause not known

Notes: Mary, born 1895, graduated from the botany department of University College Bangor in 1916 (in the same year as Mary Sutherland qv, and fellow Rothamsted worker Violet Gale Jackson qv). On graduating she briefly joined the Agriculture department at Bangor, but in 1917 moved to the Plant Pathology Department at the Rothamsted Experimental Station in Hertfordshire. In 1917 she was one of the founding members of the new Mycology Department there, working on crop diseases. She remained working at Rothamsted until 1960. Mary was also a renowned mountaineer, achieving many firsts for women during the 1920s and 30s.

Sources: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Reference: WaW0315

Mary Dilys Glynne

Mary Dilys Glynne, mycologist. Courtesy of Gaynor Andrew.

Newspaper report

Report of Bangor graduates including Mary Dilys Glynne, Violet Jackson and Mary Sutherland. North Wales Chronicle 7th July 1916.

Staff list

List of staff at Rothamsted Experimental Station 1918.

Gwladys Alice Samuel

Place of birth: Aberystwyth

Service: Worker, WAAC, February 1918 -

Notes: Gwladys, an enthusiastic Girl Guide, was posted to Kinmel Camp, North Wales in February 1918. Her father and two brothers were serving in the army.

Reference: WaW0317

Newspaper report and photograph

Brief report of Gwladys Samuel’s joining the WAAC, with photograph. Cambrian News 22nd February 1918.

Newspaper report

Report of Gwladys’s departure from Aberystwyth Station. Cambrian News 15th February 1918.

Dorothea Adelaide Lawry Pughe Jones

Place of birth: Surrey

Service: Suffragist, Commandant, Ethnographer, Educationalist, Public servant, Church Warden, Heiress., VAD, 1914 - 1920

Death: 1955, Cause not known

Notes: Dorothea Pughe Jones, born 1875, inherited Ynysgain, Cricieth from her father in 1897. Following his death she attended Oxford University where she studied history followed by a diploma in ethnography. She was awarded a prize at the 1901 National Eisteddfod for a Welsh history textbook. In 1902 she was part of a British Government team inspecting education in the concentration camps for Boers in South Africa. In 1910 she was one of the founders of the Bangor and District Women’s Suffrage Society. She joined the VAD in 1914, initially as Quartermaster of Caernarfon, but volunteered for service in France in 1915. She was Commandant of the Hotel des Anglaises, the hostel for the relatives of wounded officers in Le Touquet, France, for which she was awarded the MBE. Whilst in France she was appointed Churchwarden in Cricieth despite objections that she was ‘a lady’. In November 1918 she was posted to Salonika as Principal Commandant of the VAD, until May 1920. After her return she was sent by the Government to research openings for women in Australia.

Sources: GB 0210 YNYSGAIN - Pughe-Jones of Ynysgain Collection of Deeds and Papers National Library of Wales Women members and witnesses on British Government ad hoc Committees of Inquiry Elaine Harrison, London School of Economics, Doctor of Philosophy, 1998.

Reference: WaW0320

Dorothea Pughe Jones

Dorothea Pughe Jones in VAD Commandant’s uniform.

Red Cross record card

Red Cross card for Dorothea Pughe Jones. She had three cards in all.

Red Cross record card (reverse)

Reverse of card listing Dorothea’s VAD career.

Newspaper report

Report of Dorothea Pughe Jones’s Eisteddfod prize. Cambrian News 23rd August 1901.

Newspaper report

Report of Dorothea Pughe Jones’s return from South Africa. Cambrian News 8th May 1903.

Newspaper report

Report of meeting of AGM of Bangor and District Women’s Suffrage Society. North Wales Express 2nd December 1910.

Postcard

Postcard of Hotel des Anglaises, the VAD hostel in Le Touquet run by Dorothea Pughe Jones.

Newspaper report

Report of Dorothea’s appointment as churchwarden. North Wales Chronicle 20th April 1917.

Newspaper report

Australian newspaper report of Dorothea Pughe Jones’s role in the enquiry into openings in Australia for women from the UK. The Advertiser 10th January 1920 Adelaide S Australia.