Auriol Jones

Place of birth: Llanbedr, Crickhowell

Service: Pianist

Notes: Auriol and her sister Beatrice Eveline were professional musicians. As well as following a professional career (she was a soloist in three Promenade Concerts at the Queens Hall, London), Auriol and her sister regularly performed at concerts raising funds for the Red Cross around Wales. She also travelled to Malta in 1916 as part of one of Lena Ashwell’s Concert Parties, and to France in 1917 as part of another: ‘a gift from the people of Wales’.

Reference: WaW0225

Auriol Jones

Auriol Jones, concert pianist.

Newspaper report

Report of Auriol’s concert party to Malta. Brecon County Times 28 September 1916

Newspaper article

Report of the Welsh Concert Party. Cambrian Daily Leader 29 October 1917.

Invitation

Invitation to the ‘Welcome Home Boys’ concert, December 23rd 1919.

Beatrice Eveline Jones (Eveline)

Place of birth: Llanbedr, Crickhowell

Service: Cellist

Notes: Beatrice and her sister Auriol were professional musicians. She played at many concerts to raise funds for the Red Cross, as well as appearing professionally. She was a soloist at a Promenade Concert in the Queens Hall, London, in 1915. Her professional career developed further after the War. Her performance was admired by the poet and critic Ezra Pound in 1920, and she played in the first classical music broadcast on the BBC in June 1922, together with a pianist and a singer. Her professional name was Beatrice Eveline.

Reference: WaW0226

Beatrice Eveline Jones

‘Beatrice Eveline’. cellist

Newspaper article

Report of a concert to raise funds for the Belgian Field Hospital, May 1915.

Invitation

Invitation to the ‘Welcome Home Boys’ concert, December 23rd 1919.

Doris Jones

Place of birth: Llangenny

Service: Farm worker, WLA, 1917 - 1918

Notes: Doris and her sister Winnie were farmer's daughters, and worked for the Women's Land Army

Reference: WaW0167

Doris Jones (left)

Doris (left) and Winnie Jones, Landgirls in Llangenny 1917

Doris Jones

Doris Jones harvesting, 1918

Elizabeth Jones

Place of birth: Caernarfonshire

Service: Housewife

Notes: Elizabeth Jones was registered, together with the whole population of Great Britain, on 15th August 1915. This census was taken to establish who was available for national service. Elizabeth’s card indicates she was exempt because of ‘Household Duties’.

Reference: WaW0282

Registration card (inside)

Registration card of Elizabeth Jones, Bethel 1915

Registration card (outside)

Registration card for Elizabeth Jones, Bethel, 1915.

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

Cardigan War Memorial

Name of Elizabeth Jones on Cardigan War Memorial

Newspaper report

Lizzie's mother Mary Anne Jones claiming compensation for her daughter's death.

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.

Letter

Letter from the Town Clerk of Cardigan about a photograph of Lizzie Jones

Elizabeth Ellen Jones (née Price, later Harding, later Shaw / yn ddiweddarach)

Place of birth: Ebbw Vale

Service: Munitions worker

Notes: Born 1898, Elizabeth worked in the Ebbw Vale Company, which manufactured shells.

Sources: http://firstworldwar.gwentheritage.org.uk/content/catalogue_item/ebbw-vale-munitions-worker-elizabeth-ellen-price

Reference: WaW0180

Elizabeth Ellen Jones

Elizabeth Ellen Jones (on left) and friend.

Elsie Towyn Jones (Taylor)

Place of birth: Cwmaman

Service: Administrator, WAAC, 1917 - 19

Notes: Elsie was the elder daughter of the Rev Josiah Towyn Jones, MP for East Carmarthen. As an MP’s daughter, her name appears quite frequently in Welsh newspapers. She became an ‘Official’ in the WAAC in October 1917. After a spell as transport officer, responsible for the travel arrangements of WAACs, in March 1918 she was promoted ‘quartermistress’ of the WAAC in France, responsible for all uniform supplies. In June she survived a bombing raid, and by August was back at WAAC headquarters in London using her ‘invaluable technical knowledge’ to advise Sir Douglas Haig. She became engaged to Geoffrey Moore in February 1917.

Reference: WaW0236

Newspaper article

Report of Elsie becoming a WAAC ‘Official’’, Carmarthen Journal 19th Oct 1917.

Newspaper report

Report of Elsie’s promotion to Quartermistress. Herald of Wales 23rd March 1918

Newspaper report

Report of bombing raid in France. The Cambria Daily Leader 4th June 1918

Newspaper report

Elsie Towyn Jones at WAAC headquarters. Amman Valley Chronicle 15th August 1918

London Gazette

Elsie Towyn Jones’s promotion to Administrator in August 1918, London Gazette 28th February 1919.

Elsie Towyn Jones

Elsie Towyn Jones, Amman Valley Chronicle 25th October 1917

Fannie A Jones

Place of birth: Anglesey

Service: Nurse, VAD

Notes: Fannie’s VAD record is rather peculiar. According to her card (which has had the initial changed from F to E), she joined the VAD in January 1916 and worked for 1 hour. However it does say she has worked at Fazackerley War Hospital in Liverpool, and the North Wales Chronicle for 23rd March 1917 records her award of the Royal Red Cross.

Reference: WaW0403

Red Cross record card

Red Cross card for Fannie Jones, showing the change of F to E.

Red Cross record card [reverse]

‘No more information’

Newspaper report

Report of award of Royal Red Cross to Fannie Jones. North Wales Chronicle 23rd March 1917

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

Gladys Maud Jones

Place of birth: Cambridge

Service: Nurse, VAD

Death: 1917/08/21, Salonika, Malaria

Notes: Gladys Maud Jones’s name appears on the Welsh book of Remembrance, and her photograph is in the Imperial War Museum’s collection. Unfortunately, despite her name, she appears to have no connection with Wales. Both her parents were from Lincolnshire.

Sources: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~macculloch/p79.htm#i4559

Reference: WaW0213

Welsh Book of Remembrance

Gladys Maud Jones’s name in the Welsh Book of Remembrance