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Ella Richards
Place of birth: Lampeter
Service: Nurse, VAD
Death: 1918-10-14, Salonika, Pneumonia / Niwmonia
Memorial: War memorial, Lampeter, Cardiganshire
Notes: aged 31. buried at Mikra British Cemetery, Salonika
Sources: Cambrian News and Merionethshire/Meirionnydd Standard 9 May/Mai 1919
Reference: WaW0050
Newspaper report
Ella Richards mentioned in despatches, Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard 18th July 1919
Annie Roberts
Place of birth: Holyhead
Service: Member, WRAF, 14/05/1918 - d.
Death: 1918-12-12, Pneumonia / Niwmonia
Memorial: War memorial, Holyhead, Anglesey
Notes: aged 20. Served in Chester area. Buried Holyhead (Maeshyfred) cemetery
Reference: WaW0053
Lucy Jane Saint,
Place of birth: Pontypool
Service: Waitress, QMAAC
Death: 1918-10-27, Royal Victoria Hospital Boscombe, Hampshire, Pneumonia / Niwmonia
Memorial: War Memorial gates; Grave St Michael, Pontypool, Monmouthshire
Notes: aged 23. Buried Llanfihangel Pontymoel churchyard, Pontypool.
Sources: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSob=c&GSsr=1&GScid=2532175&GRid=122596316&df=p&; http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/11559566.Female_war_casualty_from_Pont-y-p?l/Pontypool/Pont-y-p?l/Pont-y-p?l_to_be_commemorated/
Reference: WaW0055
Edith Mary Tonkin
Place of birth: Sandford Devon
Service: Ward maid, VAD, 1917/11/06 – 1918/10/13
Death: 1918-10-13, 3rd General Hospital Le Treport, Pneumonia / Niwmonia
Memorial: War memorial, Llandaff, Glamorgan
Notes: Edith was born on a farm in Devonshire in 1892. She moved to Cardiff when her father inherited a pub from his uncle. She worked as a ward maid at the 3rd General hospital in Tréport, France, where she died aged 26. Her name appears on Llandaff war memorial with that of her younger brother William John (Jack), who died at the battle of Loos in 1915.
Reference: WaW0061
headstone
Headstone commemorating Edith Mary Tonkin, Mount Huon Military Cemetery Normandy. Courtesy Peter Bennett Dewberry Yorkshire
Tonkin family
Photograph of the Tonkin family on the family farm in Devon, c 1910. Courtesy Maureen Roberts, Western Australiarn
Jennie Williams
Place of birth: Llanberis ?
Service: Nurse, VAD, June 1916 – January 1919 / M
Death: 1919/1/31, Le Havre, Pneumonia / Niwmonia
Memorial: War Memorial, Llanberis, Caernarvonshire
Notes: Jennie Williams came from a comfortably-off family, and joined the VAD in June 1915. She left for France in October 1916, and died of pneumonia following influenza in January 1919, aged 45. She is buried in Ste Marie Cemetery, Le Havre.
Reference: WaW0175
Letter
Letter to the Women’s Work Subcommittee, Imperials War Museum, regarding a photograph of Jennie Williams.
Grave Registration form
Graves Registration Report Form including details of Jennie Williams. Ste Marie Cemetery, Le Havre
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
Rosina Lloyd
Service: Nurse
Death: 1918/10/10, Bridgend Isolation Hospital, Pneumonia / Niwmonia
Notes: Nothing is currently known of Rosina Lloyd, except the brief announcement of her death. Curiously this was not published until over a month after she died.
Reference: WaW0345
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
Beatrice Olivette (Olive) White
Place of birth: Newport
Service: Signaller telegraphist, WAAC, November 1917 - August 1918 /
Death: 1918-11-29, Newport, Pneumonia following influenza / Niwmonia yn dilyn y ffliw
Memorial: St Julians Methodist Church, Newport, Monmouthshire
Notes: Olive, born 1886, joined the Post Office in Newport as a learner in 1903. She later worked in Totnes and Pontypool. In November 1917 she joined the WAAC as a signaller-telegraphist, and was sent to Abbeville in northern France, later transferring to Calais. Whilst home on leave in May 1918 she became ill, and was medically discharged from the WAAC in August. Though she returned to civilian work, she died of the complications of Spanish Flu. Her name appears on the memorial plaque in St Julian’s Methodist Church, Newport, and she is buried in Christchurch cemetery.
Sources: Sylvia Mason: Every Woman Remembered, Daughters of Newport in the Great War. Saron publishers 2018
Reference: WaW0107
Hannah Dunlop Mark
Place of birth: Bridgend
Service: Nurse, TFNS
Death: 1918/10/10, No 1 General Hospital, Fazackerley, Liverpool, Pneumonia following influenza / Niwmonia yn dilyn y ffliw
Notes: Hannah, a trained nurse, seems to have been a victim of Spanish Flu. She was 23 when she died, and is buried at Bridgend Cemetery.
Sources: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx?cpage=1
Reference: WaW0208
Hannah Dunlop Mark
Hannah’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 Committee from Hannah’s brother, Lieut David Mark, November 16th 1918