Margaret Lewis (Morris)

Place of birth: Merthyr Tydfil

Service: Nurse, TFNS, 1916 - 1919

Notes: Margaret Lewis trained in Cumberland, and was a Queen’s [district] Nurse before joining the staff at the 4th Southern General Hospital in Plymouth in November 1916. Margaret was posted to France in 1917, and served in several hospitals and casualty clearing stations. She was offered the chance to serve ‘in the East’ instead of being demobilised in 1919, but declined. She remained in the renamed TANS for several years, bring promoted from Staff Nurse to Sister in 1922 when she is described as ‘good tempered and tactful’. She resigned on marriage in 1928.

Reference: WaW0457

Document

Record of Margaret Lewis’s detail on discharge from TFNS

Document

Travel record for Margaret Lewis July 1919

Letter

Part of letter from Margaret Lewis to the War Office listing her postings.

Mary Elizabeth Lewis

Place of birth: Abergavenny

Service: Ward maid, VAD

Death: 1923/04/06, Abergavenny, Cause not known

Notes: Mary Elizabeth Lewis joined the VAD aged 19 in 1918. She served as a ward maid in France, in the Australian hospital in Sutton Verney, and then again in France for 6 months, being discharged in January 1920. She died three years later. Her gravestone in Abergavenny cemetery bears the badge of the British Red Cross Society.

Reference: WaW0384

Red Cross record card

Record of Mary Elizabeth Lewis’s service as a VAD.

Red Cross record card [reverse]

Record of Mary Elizabeth Lewis’s service as a VAD. [reverse].

Gravestone

Gravestone of Mary Elizabeth Lewis, showing the badge of the British Red Cross and the inscription ‘She served for two years in France during the Great War as a British Red Cross Nurse’. Thanks to Marian Senior and ALHS.

Alice Lidster

Place of birth: Pontypool ?

Service: Station mistress, Great Western and Rhymney Railway

Notes: Alice, daughter of a GWR Chief Inspector, was appointed ‘station mistress’ of Troedyrhiw Halt in April 1915, probably the first such appointment in Wales. She seems to have been a trained nurse.

Sources: httpsfriendsofsaron.wordpress.comtagtroedyrhiw-halt

Reference: WaW0342

Newspaper report

Report of Alice Lidster’s appointment as ‘station mistress’. Cambria Daily Leader 20th April 1915

Newspaper photograph

Alice Lidster in nurse’s uniformrnrn

Newspaper report

Report of Alice Lidster’s appointment as ‘station mistress’. Pioneer 24th April 1915rnrn

Margaret Lindsay

Place of birth: Not known

Service: Secretary SSFA

Notes: Margaret, daughter of the Vicar of Tonna, successfully prevented a fraud on the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Families’ Association. Having been tricked into giving £1 to a married couple, the Israels, she ‘jumped on a bicycle’ to pursue them. She recovered the money, less 6d which they had spent on lemonade and biscuits. The Israels were charged with fraud and sentenced to three months hard labour.

Reference: WaW0337

Newspaper report

Herald of Wales 27th March 1915

Margaret Lindsay Williams

Place of birth: Cardiff

Service: Artist

Notes: Trained in Cardiff and London, Margaret Lindsay Williams lobbied to become an official war artist attached to the Welsh Division in France. This was not allowed, and she was also unsuccessful in an application to work for the Department of Industry. However she devoted her time to fund—raising for the Welsh Hospital at Netley with several exhibitions. She also had several commissions for very large works. These included Cardiff Royal Infirmary during the Great War painted in 1916, and an enormous (20 x 16 foot) painting of the Welsh National Service held in Westminster Abbey in June 1918 in support of the Welsh Prisoners of War Fund.

Sources: Margaret Lindsay Williams, 1888 – 1960: Wedded to her Art. Angela Gaffney. University of Wales 1999. https://artuk.org/discover/artists/williams-margaret-lindsay-18881960

Reference: WaW0338

Margaret Lindsay Williams

A self-portrait of Margaret Lindsay Williams, 1909

Cardiff Royal Infirmary during the Great War, 1916

The woman on the left is Elizabeth Montgomery Wilson [qv], Territorial Force Nursing Service, Principal Matron, 3rd Western Hospital. The other woman is Sister Mary Jones [qv] also Territorial Force Nursing Service.

Gwynedd Violet Llewellyn

Place of birth: Bewdley, Worcestershire

Service: Nurse, VAD

Death: 1918/11/03, Rouen, France, Influenza / Y Ffliw

Notes: Gwynedd Violet Llewellyn’s name appears on the Welsh book of Remembrance. Unfortunately, despite her name, she appears to have no connection with Wales. Her family connections were with Worcestershire and Somerset

Reference: WaW0214

Welsh Book of Remembrance

Gwynedd Violet Llewellyn’s name in the Welsh Book of Remembrance.

Frances Mary Dulcie Llewellyn-Jones

Place of birth: Llandow

Service: Driver, WRAF, 1918:11:13

Death: Mexborough Military Hospital, Yorkshire, Influenza / Y Ffliw?

Memorial: Christchurch graveyard, Newport, Monmouthshire

Notes: Aged 22. Daughter of the Rev. David Ernest Llewellyn-Jones and Frances Eliza Sophia of Maindee Vicarage, Newport.

Reference: WaW0093

Grave of Dulcie Llewellyn-Jones

Grave of Dulcie Llewellyn-Jones, Christchurch Cemetery, Newport

Frances Llewellyn-Jones' Service

Frances Llewellyn-Jones's service record

Newspaper report

Newspaper report of Frances Llewellyn Jones's death

Newport Roll of Honour

Dulcie Llewellyn-Jones's name on Newport Roll of Honour

Ethel Annie Llewelyn

Place of birth: Beaufort

Service: Nurse, 1914 - 1918

Death: 13/04/1921, Llangwyfan Welsh National Memorial Sanatorium, Tuberculosis/Twbercwlosis

Memorial: St David’s Church, Beaufort, Brecknockshire

Notes: Born 1895, Ethel was the daughter of the Vicar of Beaufort. She worked at the Welsh Hospital, Netley, Southampton. It may have been there that she contracted TB. She was buried in Llangwfan churchyard.

Sources: http://firstworldwar.gwentheritage.org.uk/content/catalogue_item/ethel-annie-llewelyn-memorial-plaque

Reference: WaW0161

Memorial, St David’s Church, Beaufort.

Memorial to Ethel Annie Llewelyn

C Lloyd

Place of birth: Ton Pentre

Service: Munitions worker

Memorial: Jerusalem C M Chapel, Ton Pentre, Glamorgan

Notes: Nothing is known of Miss C Lloyd whose name appears on the Roll of Honour in Jerusalem Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Ton Pentre.

Reference: WaW0157

Roll of Honour,

Name of Miss C Lloyd, Roll of Honour, Jerusalem Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Ton Pentre.

Margaret Ann Lloyd

Place of birth: Morriston 1894

Service: Munitions Worker

Notes: Margaret Ann Lloyd from Morriston (on the left) and friend (unknown) when they worked in the Mannesman Ammunition Factory manufacturing shells in Morriston – age early 20s. c. 1914-8

Reference: WaW0084

Margaret Ann Lloyd (L) and friend

Margaret Ann Lloyd (seated) and a friend, Mannesman Ammunition Factory, Morriston, c.1915 or 1916