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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.
Elizabeth Anne (Lizzie) Jones
Place of birth: Cardigan
Service: Munitions Worker
Death: 1916-10-23, Cardigan, TNT poisoning / Gwenwyno TNT
Memorial: Cenotaph, Cardigan, Cardiganshire
Notes: aged 22, had worked at NEF Pembrey. Her mother Mary Anne Williams claimed compensation for her daughter's death
Sources: http://www.wwwmp.co.uk/ceredigion-war-memorials/
Reference: WaW0034

Lizzie Jones
Lizzie’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.
Gladys Irene Pritchard (née Harris)
Place of birth: Newport
Service: Munitions Worker
Death: TNT poisoning / Gwenwyno TNT
Notes: Gladys was a war widow aged 28. Her husband had been killed in July 1916. She had two small children. Her father was granted 2s a week for the upkeep of each child; the children also benefited from their father’s military pension.
Sources: http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums
Reference: WaW0045

Gladys Pritchard
Gladys’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.

Newspaper report
Report of maintenance grant to Gladys’s father, Joseph Harris, for the upkeep of her children. Weekly Argus 11th November 1916.rn
May (Mary) Prosser
Place of birth: Gilwern
Service: Munitions Worker, 1916 - 1917
Death: 1917-04-03, Rochdale, TNT poisoning / Gwenwyno TNT
Memorial: Recreation Ground gates; Market hall, Christchurch Govilon, Govilon, Monmouthshire
Notes: May, born 1891, was the fourth daughter of a farm labourer and his wife. She followed two of her sisters into domestic service in Rochdale. She began munitions work late in 1916, but soon became ill with ‘toxic jaundice’ and died at her sister Margaret’s home in Rochdale. She was also sister of Nellie Prosser [qv].
Sources: Ryland Wallace: May Prosser, Munitionette. AMC/WAW Newsletter, June 2016
Reference: WaW0046
Esther Devonald
Place of birth: Swansea
Service: Munitions Worker
Death: TNT poisoning/Gwenwyno gan TNT
Sources: http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums
Reference: WaW0009

Newspaper report of Inquest
Newspaper report of Inquest into death of munitions worker Esther Devonald
Catherine (Kate ) Hill
Place of birth: Swansea
Service: Munitions Worker
Death: TNT poisoning/Gwenwyno TNT
Memorial: Cenotaph, Swansea, Glamorgan
Sources: http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums
Reference: WaW0025
Alida Gunst (née Demoine)
Place of birth: Belgium
Service: Housekeeper, refugee
Death: 1918/04/03, Llangwyfan sanatorium , Tuberculosis / Diciau
Notes: Alida arrived in London as a refugee from Belgium in October 1914. She was married to Arsène Dunst in Devon in January 1915. He was serving in the Belgian army, and had been wounded. They seem to have moved to Newport, where she may have worked as a housekeeper. She contracted TB, and was sent in December 1917 by Monmouthshire to Llangwyfan Sanatorium, Denbigh, where she died in April 1918. There was a dispute between the authorities in Newport and Denbigh as to who should pay for the burial.
Sources: https://refugeesinrhyl.wordpress.com/gunst/
Reference: WaW0433

Register for Aliens
Registration papers for Alida Dunst showing move from Newport to Llangwyfan 1917
Margaret Morris
Place of birth: Swansea
Service: Widow, Mother, Munitions Worker
Death: --, Tawe Lodge, Swansea, Tuberculosis / Y diciau
Notes: Margaret Morris began work at NEF Pembrey after her soldier husband was killed in August 1916. There she is said to have contracted the tuberculosis from which she died. She left children aged 12, 8 and 2 and a half.
Reference: WaW0096
Catherine J James
Place of birth: Llanelli
Service: Nurse, St Johns Ambulance
Death: 1919/12/04, Llanelli, Tuberculosis / Y diciáu
Memorial: Tabernacle Chapel, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire
Notes: Catherine was a member of the St John’s Ambulance. She served throughout the War, first in Porthcawl and then in Stebonheath, Llanelli (where she may have contracted the TB that killed her aged 28.) Her name appears on the war memorial plaque in Tabernacl Chapel, Llanelli.
Sources: https://www.wwwmp.co.uk/carmarthenshire-memorials/llanelli-tabernacl-chapel-war-memorial
Reference: WaW0404
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Thomas
Place of birth: Seven Sisters
Service: Nurse, QAIMNSR, 1915 - 1920
Death: 1921/09/27, Neath ?, Tuberculosis / Y dicléin
Memorial: Seven Sisters , Glamorgan
Notes: Born in 1890, Lizzie attended Neath County School and trained as a nurse at Swansea General and Eye Hospital. She volunteered for QAIMNS Reserve in 1915, and was sent to Salonika via Egypt in November. It is said that the troopship she was on was torpedoed, and that she spent some hours in the water. She returned home in December 1916, and in January 1917 was given a reception by the local community, including the presentation of a medal and the singingof an embarrassingly effusive poem in Welsh. She spent the rest of the War, until she was demobbed in October 1920, at Fort Pitt Military Hospital, Chatham. She was awarded the Royal Red Cross in April 1919. Lizzie returned home to nurse in Neath, but died less than a year later of TB. Her name appears on the Seven Sisters War Memorial
Sources: Jonathan Skidmore: Neath and Briton Ferry in the First World War
Reference: WaW0477

Poem / song
The embarrassing song performed at the reception for Nurse Thomas in January 1917. ‘Composed by Mr R. D. Harris and sung by Messrs. D. T. Davies and John Hughes’. Llais Llafur 6th January 1917

Army Form W. 3538
Lizzie Thomas’s new posting to Fort Pitt Military Hospital, Chatham, 1st September 1917