Annie Crosby

Place of birth: Liverpool

Service: Passenger

Death: 1915-05-07, SS Lusitania, Drowning/Boddi

Memorial: War memorial, Bagillt, Flintshire

Notes: aged 36, drowned with her sister Ellen in the sinking of the Lusitania

Sources: http://www.flintshirewarmemorials.com; www.rmslusitania.info/

Reference: WaW0003

Louisa Parry

Place of birth: Holyhead

Service: Stewardess, CPSPCo, 1914 - 1918

Death: 1918/10/10, RMS Leinster, Drowning/Boddi

Memorial: War Memorial, Holyhead, Anglesey

Notes: aged 22. RMS Leinster was torpedoed in the Irish Sea. LP died together with Hannah Owen.

Sources: http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/3929-wanted-photos-nationwide/&page=19

Reference: WaW0042

Holyhead War Memorial

Name of Louisa Parry on Holyhead War Memorial

Welsh National Book of Remembrance

Name of Louisa Parry in the Welsh National Book of Remembrance

Annie Alice Guy

Place of birth: Newport

Service: Nursing sister, SWH, 1916

Death: 1916/08/21, Salonika, Dysentery

Notes: Alice Annie Guy died 21st August 1916, Scottish Women’s Hospital and Serbian Army, Nursing Sister, Former Superintendent of the Devonshire Hospital, Buxton. Buried in Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery. Her name also appears on the WW1 Roll of Honour Book kept in Newport Reference Library.

Sources: http://scottishwomenshospitals.co.uk/women/

Reference: WaW0142

Newport Roll of Honour

Name of Alice Annie Guy, Newport Roll of Honour

Alice Annie Guy

Newspaper report of the death of Sister Guy

Roll of Honour

Roll of honour of members of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals who died overseas.

Agnes Cissy Pugh

Place of birth: Wrexham

Service: Nurse

Death: Croesnewydd Military Hospital, Wrexham, Effects of explosion / Effeithiau ffrwydrad

Notes: Cissy Pugh, born 1895, trained as a nurse in London. She was caught up in a bombing raid on King’s Cross station on 13th June 1917. While attending to a wounded child she herself was badly wounded by a secondary explosion. After treatment in London she was transferred to Croesnewydd Military Hospital in Wrexham where she died of her injuries at the end of October. Thanks to Wrexham Museum.

Reference: WaW0389

Agnes Cissy Pugh

Cissy Pugh in her nurses uniform. Thanks to Wrexham Museum.

Annie Roach

Place of birth: Swansea

Service: Nurse, 1914 - December 1915

Death: December / Rhagfyr 1, Great Yarmouth, Enteric fever / Ffliw enterig

Notes: Annie, who was 21 when she died, contracted enteric fever from a sailor patient in the isolation hospital in Great Yarmouth. Her body was brought back to Swansea, and she was buried in Dan y Graig cemetery, Swansea.

Reference: WaW0354

Newspaper article and photograph

Report of the death of Annie Roach, Herlad of Wales 8th January 1916.

Jane Jenkins

Place of birth: Landore

Service: Munitions Worker

Death: 1918-11-18, NEF Pembrey, Explosion / Ffrwydrad

Memorial: Cenotaph, Swansea, Glamorgan

Notes: aged 21. She was killed in the same explosion as Edith Copham and Mary Fitzmaurice

Sources: Adroddiad am y ffrwydrad Herald of Wales 14eg Rhagfyr 1914

Reference: WaW0030

Swansea Cenotaph

Name of Jane Jenkins on Swansea Cenotaph

Newspaper report

Explosion report Herald of Wales 14th December 1918

Elsie Lavinia Gibbs

Place of birth: Grangetown, Cardiff

Service: Munitions worker

Death: 1918/07/01, National Shell Factory, Chilwell, Nottingham, Explosion / Ffrwydrad

Memorial: Saltmead Gospel Hall, Grangetown, Cardiff, Glamorgan

Notes: Elsie was born in 1901, and lied about her age to work in munitions (minimum age was 18). She was posted to the National Shell Filling Factory, Chilwell in Nottingham, where she died in the explosion that killed 133 others, the worst civilian tragedy during the War. Her body was never identified, and she was buried in a mass grave with 101 other unidentified victims.

Sources: www.grangetownwar.co.uk

Reference: WaW0211

Munitions workers

Group of munitions workers. Elsie is to the right of the man with the moustache, collar and tie, middle row. Presumably taken at Chilwell.

After the explosion

Part of Chilwell Factory after the explosion of 1st July, 1918

Death certificate

Copy of Elsie’s death certificate, giving cause of death ‘presumed killed as result of explosion – Deceased know[n] to have been in works at time and since missing’. It gives her age, erroneously, as 19, and describes her as a ‘powder worker, daughter of Albert Gibbs’ with a Nottingham address. Her father was Albert Gibbs, but he lived in Dorset St, Grangetown, Cardiff.

Memorial

Elsie Gibbs’s name on the War Memorial, Saltmead Gospel Hall, Grangetown, Cardiff

Ethel Roberts

Place of birth: Wrexham

Service: Child

Death: 1916/03.09, Moss, Wrexham, Explosion / Ffrwydrad

Memorial: Holy Trinity Church, Gwersyllt, Wrexham, Denbighshire

Notes: Ethel, aged one, died when a souvenir shell brought home by her uncle exploded, killing her and fatally injuring her sister and two cousins. Her uncle Private John Bagnall was seriously injured as well as her mother Sarah Roberts and her aunt Mary Bagnall. The children were buried in two graves in Holy Trinity Churchyard, Gwersyllt, where a memorial to the four girls was dedicated in March 2016.

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

Reference: WaW0220

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.

Memorial

Memorial to Sarah Bagnall, Ethel Roberts, Mary Roberts and Violet Williams at Holy Trinity Churchyard, Gwersyllt, dedicated March 2016.

Mary Frances Roberts

Place of birth: Wrexham

Service: Child

Death: 1916/03/09, Moss, Wrexham, Explosion / Ffrwydrad

Memorial: Holy Trinity Church, Gwersyllt, Wrexham, Denbighshire

Notes: Mary, aged four, died when a souvenir shell brought home by her uncle exploded, killing her sister and fatally injuring her and her two cousins. Her uncle Private John Bagnall was seriously injured as well as her mother Sarah Roberts and her aunt Mary Bagnall. The children were buried in two graves in Holy Trinity Churchyard, Gwersyllt, where a memorial to the four girls was dedicated in March 2016.

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

Reference: WaW0219

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. Abergavenny Chronicle 17 March 1916

Newspaper report

Memorial to Sarah Bagnall, Ethel Roberts, Mary Roberts and Violet Williams at Holy Trinity Churchyard, Gwersyllt, dedicated March 2016.

Sarah Hannah Bagnall

Place of birth: Wrexham

Service: Child

Death: 1916/03/09, Moss, Wrexham, Explosion / Ffrwydrad

Memorial: Holy Trinity Church, Gwersyllt, Wrexham, Denbighshire

Notes: Sarah, aged 1, died when a souvenir shell brought home by her father exploded, killing or fatally injuring her and her three cousins. Her mother Mary Bagnall was seriously injured as well as her father and aunt Sarah Roberts. The children were buried in two graves in Holy Trinity Churchyard, Gwersyllt, where a memorial to the four girls was dedicated in March 2016.

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

Reference: WaW0217

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. Abergavenny Chronicle 17 March 1916

Newspaper report

Memorial to Sarah Bagnall, Ethel Roberts, Mary Roberts and Violet Williams at Holy Trinity Churchyard, Gwersyllt, dedicated March 2016.