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Lily Tobias (Shepherd)
Place of birth: Swansea
Service: Writer, activist, nationalist
Notes: Lily was the daughter of Russian Jewish parents who had fled Russia to avoid conscription, and settled first in Swansea and then in Ystalyfera; she was the first of their children to be born in Wales. She began writing for Lais Llafur at 14, and was heavily involved in suffrage, ILP and pacifist activities. Her brothers were conscientious objectors. She was described by the Labour politician Fenner Brockway as “an active and belligerent pacifist… showing great resourcefulness and courage in defying the authorities and assisting draft dodgers, and those in prison”. She later took up the cause of the establishment of a Jewish state, and wrote several novels.
Sources: Jasmine Donahaye The Greatest Need: The creative life and troubled times of Lily Tobias, a Welsh Jew in Palestine. Honno 2015 https://wciavoices.wordpress.com/2016/12/07/the-shepherd-family-of-ystalyfera-and-pontypridd-in-the-first-world-war
Reference: WaW0245
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
Doris Quane
Place of birth: Isle of Man
Service: Worker, QMAAC
Memorial: War Grave, Boddelwyddan, Denbighshire
Notes: aged 28; buried St Michel's Ammanford
Sources: http://www.flintshirewarmemorials.com/memorials/bodelwyddan-memorial/canadians-2/quane-doris/
Reference: WaW0047
War grave of Doris Quane
War Grave of Doris Quane, QMAAC, surrounded by the graves of Canadian soldiers
Hannah Rees
Service: Nurse, VAD
Memorial: Capel y Garn Memorial Roll, Rhydypennau, Cardiganshire
Notes: seems to have served and survived
Reference: WaW0048
Rebecca Rees
Service: Nurse, VAD
Memorial: Capel y Garn Memorial Roll, Rhydypennau, Cardiganshire
Notes: seems to have served and survived
Reference: WaW0049
Mimmi (Sarah) Richards
Service: Mother
Notes: Mother, Mimmi (Sarah) and sister, Edith, to her left, at Tom’s graveside, c.1920; Gunner Thomas Sidney Richards,‘killed in action’, Armentieres, France, 14 March 1918, aged 20 in northern France, c. 1920
Reference: WaW0079
Sarah (Mimmi) and Edith Richards
Photograph of Mimmi (Sarah) and Edith Richards, Mother and sister of Gunner Thomas Sidney Richards, at his grave in France, c.1920; Tom Richards was ‘killed in action’, Armentieres, France
Edith Richards
Service: Sister
Notes: Mother, Mimmi (Sarah) and sister, Edith, to her left, at Tom’s graveside, c.1920; Gunner Thomas Sidney Richards,‘killed in action’, Armentieres, France, 14 March 1918, aged 20 in northern France, c. 1920
Reference: WaW0080
Edith and Mimmi (Sarah) Richards
Photograph of Edith and Mimmi (Sarah) Richards, Mother and sister of Gunner Thomas Sidney Richards, at his grave in France, c.1920; Tom Richards was ‘killed in action’, Armentieres,France
Charlotte Emma (Lottie) Roberts
Place of birth: Abergwyngregyn near Bangor, 1883
Service: Nurse, VAD, 1914 - 1919
Notes: Charlotte (Lottie) Roberts joined the VAD in August 1914. After a period nursing in Lincoln she was posted to Calais in June 1916. She was so proud of her uniform that she chose wear it for her wedding in London 1919 or 20. She was awarded the Royal Red Cross.
Reference: WaW0099
Gwenllian Elizabeth Roberts
Place of birth: Llangynidr
Service: Sister, QAIMNS Reserve
Notes: Gwenllian Roberts was awarded the Royal Red Cross for her services at the Central Military Hospital, Chatham, Kent.
Reference: WaW0115
Gwenllian Elizabeth Roberts
Sister Gwenllian Elizabeth Roberts QAIMNSR wearing her Royal Red Cross medal
Gwenllian Roberts’s Royal Red Cross
Sister Gwenllian Roberts’s Royal Red Cross, awarded August 5th 1919.
Edinburgh Gazette listing Sister Roberts’s award
Edinburgh Gazette listing Sister Roberts’s award, August 5th 1919 (8th in the right hand column).
Gertrude Rosewarne
Place of birth: Ebbw Vale
Service: Nurse, VAD
Notes: Gertrude Rosewarne was working as a pupil teacher in 1911. She joined the VAD early in the War, first in Abergavenny and then in Ebbw Vale. She collected entries by many of her patients in her autograph album.
Reference: WaW0100