Gertrude Fairclough

Place of birth: Lancashire, 1880

Service: Wife and Mother

Notes: Gertrude Fairclough was the wife of Major Rowland Fairclough, Royal Welch Fusiliers, and spent her married life in Mold, Flintshire. Family traditions says that once her husband had joined his regiment in France (despite being 48 in 1914), she moved into a hotel.

Reference: WaW0076

Gertrude Fairclough c.1915

Gertrude Fairclough née Appleby, wife of Major Rowland Fairclough, Royal Welch Fusiliers.

Jane Fisher

Place of birth: Kidwelly

Service: Munitions Worker

Notes: aged 55, awarded MOBE for 'courage in assisting to stop a fire in an explosives factory at considerable danger to her life'.

Sources: The Carmarthen Journal and South Wales Weekly Advertiser;

Reference: WaW0019

Newspaper report

report of presentation in The Carmarthen Journal and South Wales Weekly Advertiser 19th April 1918

Jane Fisher

Newspaper photograph of Jane Fisher

Citation

Award of MoBE to Jane Fisher, London Gazette 10th January 1918

Elizabeth Foulkes

Service: Munitions Worker

Memorial: Cenotaph, Swansea, Glamorgan

Notes: aged 28; buried St Michael's Ammanford

Reference: WaW0022

Swansea Cenotaph

Name of Elizabeth Foulkes on Swansea Cenotaph

Olive Francis

Service: Peace Campaigner

Sources: Pioneer 28 Gorffennaf 1917

Reference: WaW0023

Newspaper advertisement

Advertisement for meeting in connection with the Women's Peace Crusade, Pioneer 28 July 1917

Dorothy Gibbon

Place of birth: Clydach

Service: Nurse, VAD, 1918

Notes: Dorothy Gibbons, a school teacher, worked as a VAD at Quarr Auxiilary Hospital, Clydach, Swansea Valley. She married Benjamin Clatworthy in 1923.

Reference: WaW0102

Dorothy Gibbon VAD

Benjamin Clatworthy

Red Cross card

Red Cross record card for Dorothy Gibbon

Red Cross card (reverse)

Red Cross record card for Dorothy Gibbon

Amy Goodwin

Place of birth: Cefn Mawr?

Service: Clerk, WAAC/QMAAC, 1917 - 1919

Notes: Amy Goodwin volunteered for the WAAC in 1917. After training at Kinmel Camp, Boddelwyddan, she was sent to Bourges in France to with the American Expeditionary Force as a book-keeper. Her collection of photographs from her time in France are deposited in West Glamorgan Archives.

Sources: http://www3.swansea.gov.uk/CalmView/Overview.aspx?s=Amy+Goodwin

Reference: WaW0123

Amy Goodwin

Amy Goodwin in France, 1919

Certificate

Certificate endorsing Amy Goodwin’s work at Bourges

Armbands

New WAACs showing off their armbands

QMAACs

‘Jeff and Billie’ doing Sunday chores

Fancy dress

QMAACs in fancy dress, France 1919

Marching

Group of WAACs/QMAACs probably in Bourges

WAAC Officers

WAAC Officers (‘Officials’) at Kinmel Camp, Bodelwyddan

QMAACs and GIs

Amy Goodwin (second left) and friends with American GIs.

Trenches tour 1

Amy and a friend on a tour of the trenches, Baillie Fields, Soissons

Trenches tour 2

Amy and a friend on a tour of the trenches, Baillie Fields, Soissons. There is a German corpse in the foreground.

Olivia Griffiths

Place of birth: Cilgerran

Service: Lecturer

Notes: Olivia Griffiths was an Assistant Lecturer in the Education department of Aberystwyth University in 1916. Later she moved on to Bangor Normal College (1920s).

Reference: WaW0081

Olivia Griffiths in academic dress, c 1910 ; ; .

Olivia Griffiths in academic dress, 1910. She obtained a first class degree in German at Aberystwyth University despite the death of her mother during the exam period

Olivia Griffiths as a schoolgirl (standing next to the teacher)

Olivia Griffiths as a schoolgirl (standing next to the teacher) c.1905

Edith Haines (Spridgeon)

Service: Bus Conductress

Notes: Edith Haines was one of the first women bus conductresses in Swansea

Reference: WaW0074

Edith Haines

Edith Haines in bus conductress's uniform

Edith Haines (right), with Maggie (unknown, left), and Nellie Spridgeon centre

Edith Haines (née Spridgeon, right), with Maggie (unknown, left), and Nellie Spridgeon centre

Emmy (Mary Emily) Harvey ((Harries yn ddiweddarach))

Place of birth: Swansea

Service: Ticket Conductor, 1914 - 1918

Notes: recorded by Swansea/Abertawe Women's History Group 08/08/1983. File provided by Jen Wilson

Reference: WaW0024

Account of Emmy Harvey

Account of Emmy Harvey, Ticket Collector

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

Swansea Cenotaph

Name of Catherine (Kate) Hill on Swansea Cenotaph