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Mary Anne Eliza Young
Place of birth: Cardiff
Service: Nurse, VAD
Death: 1919-02-13, 57th General Hospital, Cause not known
Memorial: City Hall Memorial; War Grave Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles, Cardiff, Glamorgan
Notes: aged 35, a former teacher at Lansdowne Rd County School, Cardiff/Caerdydd. Buried at Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles.
Reference: WaW0068
Roll of Honour, Cardiff City Hall
Name of Mary Ann Eliza Young, VAD. on the Roll of Honour, City Hall, Cardiff.
Mary Ann Eliza Young
Mary Ann’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 from JR Young
Letter from JR Young, Mary’s father. Part of 'Deaths: Nurses Deaths to 1920' (museum's administrative records) 1919-04-08
Violet Phillips
Place of birth: Newport
Service: Worker, WAAC/QMAAC, 1917 - 1919
Death: 1919-03-08, Chadderton Hostel, Cause not known
Memorial: St Woolos, Newport, Monmouthshire
Notes: Violet was the daughter of Mrs C.M.Phillips, 32 Barrack Hill, Newport, Mon.
Sources: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/390079/PHILLIPS,%20V
Reference: WaW0118
Mary Olwen Evans
Place of birth: Llangadog, April 1896
Service: Assistant (Cook) : , QMAAC
Death: 1919-03-23, Influenza?/Y Ffliw?
Notes: aged 20, buried Ebbw Vale
Sources: http://www.wwwmp.co.uk/carmarthenshire-war-memorials/
Reference: WaW0013
Helena May Rowlands
Place of birth: Llangefni
Service: Nurse, Territorial Nursing Service/Gwasanaeth Nyrsio Tiri
Death: 1919-05-10, Military Fever Hospital Liverpool, Influenza
Memorial: Nurses memorial, Llanelwy, Flintshire
Notes: aged 24/25. Buried in Mynydd Seion Chapel, Abergele. Her body was taken by train from Liverpool to Abergele, and straight to the cemetery to avoid infection.
Reference: WaW0054
Nurse Helena May Rowlands's name on the Nurses' Memorial, St Asaph
Helena May Rowlands's name on the Nurses' Memorial, St Asaph
Nurses' Memorial, Liverpool Cathedral
The Nurses’ Memorial in the Lady Chapel, Liverpool Cathedral, listing names of nurses who died in the War and had worked in Liverpool. Ethel Saxon is also recorded here.
Nurses' Memorial Liverpool Cathedral
Name of Helena Rowlands on the Nurses Memorial, Liverpool Cathedral
Fanny Irene Sprake Jones
Place of birth: Carmarthen
Service: Nurse, QAIMNS
Death: 1919-06-11, Cause not known
Memorial: War memorial, Carmarthen, Carmarthen
Notes: aged 36. Qualified at King's College Hospital, London, May 1913.
Reference: WaW0037
Welsh National Book of Remembrance
Name of Frances Sprake-Jones in the Welsh National Book of Remembrance
Catherine Williams
Place of birth: Colwyn Bay
Service: Staff Nurse, QAIMNS
Death: 1919-08-04, Cause not known
Memorial: War memorial, Colwyn Bay, Caernarvonshire
Notes: aged 38. Buried Bron-y-Nant cemetery Colwyn Bay.
Sources: http://historypoints.org/index.php?page=colwyn-bay-memorial-fww-surnames-s-y
Reference: WaW0064
Margaret Davies
Place of birth: Pontymister ?
Service: Cook, QMAAC
Death: 1919/02/18, Not known , Not known / Anhysbys
Memorial: Rica Old Cemetary, Risca, Monmouthshire
Notes: Almost nothing is known of Madge Davies who was a cook in QMAAC.
Reference: WaW0350
Mary Ann Evans
Place of birth: Ebbw Vale
Service: Assistant cook, QMAAC
Death: 1919/03/23, Percy House Auxiliary Military Hospital, Isleworth, Middlesex, Influenza ? / Fliw ?
Notes: According to the 1911 census, Mary Ann probably came from a Welsh speaking family. Her father was a colliery foreman. She was working in Middlesex when she died, probably of influenza. Her name has recently been recorded on a commemorative headstone at Risca cemetery.
Sources: http://firstworldwar.gwentheritage.org.uk/content/catalogue_item/mary-ann-evans
Reference: WaW0283
Megan Davies
Place of birth: Aberdare
Service: Singer, bank clerk
Death: 1919/03/25, Aberdare, Influenza / y ffliw
Notes: Megan Davies was a well-known contralto soloist in the Aberdare area, and performed in several War Heroes concerts. She worked in Barclay’s Bank, Merthyr.
Reference: WaW0421
Newspaper report
Newspaper report of a War Heroes Concert, naming Megan Davies. Aberdare Leader 5th January 1918.
Newspaper report
Report of the death from influenza of Megan Davies, aged 29. Aberdare Leader 29th March 1919
Daphne Elizabeth Powell
Place of birth: Talgarth ?
Service: Worker, WAAC/QMAAC, Novermber 1917 - April 1919 /
Death: 1919/04/11, The Old Vicarage Talgarth , brief illness / salwch byr
Memorial: St Gwendolines Church, Talgarth, Breconshire
Notes: Daphne Powell served with the WAAC/QMAAC at Swanage, where she proved ‘a very efficient worker’. She was 21 years old when she died, possibly of Spanish flu.
Reference: WaW0194
Grave of Daphne Powell
Grave of Daphne Powell, St Gwendolines Church, Talgarth, Her grave is on the right; her brother Charles Baden Powell, who died in 1921, is on the left.
St Gwendolines Grave Register
Grave register showing the entries for Daphne Powell and her brother Charles. Both graves were originally grassy mounds; the headstones were erected recently by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.