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Gwenllian (Gwendoline) Williams
Place of birth: Kidwelly
Service: Munitions worker
Death: 1919-01-08, Explosion/Ffrwydrad
Notes: aged 21. Evidence showed that the explosion occurred when Gwenllian Williams was drilling out a screw from a shell. Eleanor Thomas was carrying in a shell at the time of the explosion.'
Sources: http://newspapers.library.wales/search?query=gwenllian&page=14; The Carmarthen Journal and South Wales Weekly Advertiser
Reference: WaW0065
Gwerfyl R Williams
Place of birth: Bangor
Service: Masseuse, 1919 -
Notes: Gwerfyl Williams was appointed masseuse at the Ministry of Pensions outpatients clinic in Bangor in October 1919.
Reference: WaW0419
Newspaper report
Report of Gwerfyl’s appointment as masseuse in Bangor. North Wales Chronicle 31st October 1919
Gwladys Perrie Williams (Morris)
Place of birth: Llanrwst
Service: Educationalist, administrator, WLA
Death: 1958/07/13, Cause not known
Notes: Born 1889 to Welsh speaking parents, Gwladys was the star pupil at Llanrwst County (one of only two members of the 6th Form there), and a graduate of University College Bangor. She was awarded a fellowship to study mediaeval French at the Sorbonne, Paris, and received a DLitt in 1915. Her edition of Le Bel Inconnu (1929) is still read. Back in Wales 1917 she was appointed WLA organising inspector in South Wales. Gwladys was admitted to Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion in 1918. She published ‘Welsh Education in Sunlight & Shadow’ (1919), comparing Welsh and French Intermediate education based on her own experiences. It includes a large number of Central Welsh Board examination papers from Junior Certificate to degree level. She married in 1918 [Sir] Rhys Hopkins Morris, first head of BBC Wales and MP for Carmarthen West, but kept her own name professionally. They met at Bangor University.
Reference: WaW0415
Newspaper report
Report showing Gwladys Perrie Williams’s school achievements. The Weekly News 27th December 1907.
Ida Williams
Place of birth: Llangammarch Wells
Service: Teachers
Death: August / 1918 / Awst, Llangammarch Wells, Influenza / y ffliw
Notes: Ida Williams was a graduate of University College, Aberystwyth. She taught at intermediate schools in Aberystwyth, Cardiff, Bargoed and finally London, where her health broke down about a year before her death. She seems to have been musical, and to have written for publications including Y Cymro.
Reference: WaW0422
Newspaper report
Report of the death and funeral of Miss Ida Williams BA. Brecon County Times 8th August 1918.
Jennie Williams
Place of birth: Llanberis ?
Service: Nurse, VAD, June 1916 – January 1919 / M
Death: 1919/1/31, Le Havre, Pneumonia / Niwmonia
Memorial: War Memorial, Llanberis, Caernarvonshire
Notes: Jennie Williams came from a comfortably-off family, and joined the VAD in June 1915. She left for France in October 1916, and died of pneumonia following influenza in January 1919, aged 45. She is buried in Ste Marie Cemetery, Le Havre.
Reference: WaW0175
Letter
Letter to the Women’s Work Subcommittee, Imperials War Museum, regarding a photograph of Jennie Williams.
Grave Registration form
Graves Registration Report Form including details of Jennie Williams. Ste Marie Cemetery, Le Havre
Maggie Williams
Place of birth: Cwmpark ?
Service: Nurse
Death: October / Hydref 191, Chichester, Pneumonia following influenza / Niwmonia yn dilyn y ffliw
Notes: Nothing is known of Maggie Williams at present, apart from the press cutting below.
Reference: WaW0347
Margaret Williams
Place of birth: Holyhead
Service: Stewardess, 1914 - d
Death: 1916-11-03, SS Connemara, Drowning / Boddi
Memorial: War memorial, Holyhead, Anglesey
Notes: aged 32. SS Connemara sank in a collision with the coal carrier Retriever. MW is said to have been on her last shift before her marriage. Her body was never recovered.
Reference: WaW0067
Maud Williams
Place of birth: Llanharry ?
Service: Nurse
Memorial: Penuel Chapel , Llanharry, Glamorgan
Notes: Nothing is known of Nurse Maud Williams , whose name appears on the Roll of Honour in Penuel Chapel, Llanharry
Reference: WaW0171
Miss Williams (Mrs Fisher)
Place of birth: Abertillery
Notes: Miss Williams, also referred to in press reports as Mrs Fisher, sat at the base of the Abertillery War Memorial during its dedication on 1st December 1926. She was wearing the medals of her three soldier brothers who had been killed in France.
Sources: Angela Gaffney Aftermath: remembering the Great War in Wales University of Wales Press 1998; http://www.britishpathe.com/video/lord-allenby-unveils-abertillery-war-memorial/query/monuments
Reference: WaW0210
Abertillery War Memorial
Miss Williams at the dedication of Abertillery War Memorial, 1st December 1926.
Pollie (Mary) Williams (née Evans)
Place of birth: Holyhead
Service: Nurse, VAD, 1914/10/21 – August 1918
Notes: Pollie was one of the younger sisters of Katie (Catherine) Evans VAD [qv] who died 16th October 1914. Pollie joined the VAD the day after her sister’s funeral. In August 1918 she married Hugh Williams.
Reference: WaW0259
Letter
Letter from Pollie Evans to Agnes Conway of the Women’s Work Sub Committee about Katie’s photograph.rnrn