Ellen (Nellie) Crosby

Place of birth: Liverpool

Service: Passenger

Death: 1915-05-07, SS Lusitania, Drowning / Boddi

Memorial: War memorial, Bagillt, Flintshire

Notes: aged 40, drowned with her sister Annie in the sinking of the Lusitania

Sources: http://www.lintshirewarmemorials.com; www.rmslusitania.info/

Reference: WaW0004

Rose Crowther

Place of birth: Cardiff

Service: Nurse, VAD, 03/06/1916

Notes: Rose Crowther was associated with Roath Road Wesleyan Methodist Church, Cardiff. She joined the Red Cross in June 1916, but nothing is known of her service. Image and information courtesy of Glamorgan Archives (DWESA6).

Sources: https://archifaumorgannwg.wordpress.com/

Reference: WaW0112

Rose Crowther

Rose Crowther VAD

Red Cross record card

Red Cross record card for Rose Crowder.

Red Cross record card (reverse)

Red Cross record card (R) for Rose Crowther, showing where she worked.

Amy Curtis (née Chamberlain)

Place of birth: Wolverhampton

Service: Nurse, VAD, July – November 1918 / Gorff

Death: 1918/11/06, Auxiliary Hospital Wallasey, Pneumonia / Niwmonia

Memorial: Gwersyllt, Denbighshire

Notes: Amy’s father was a railwayman who moved the family around the English midlands before setting in Gwersyllt. She married James Chamberlain in 1909 and had a daughter Lilly in 1910. James was killed in action in December 1917, and Amy joined the VAD in July 1918. She was 31 when she died; her name appears in the Welsh Book of Remembrance.

Sources: http://www.clwydfhs.org.uk/cofadeiladau/gwersyllt_wm.htm

Reference: WaW0231

Red Cross record card

Red Cross record of Amy Curtis’s service.

Red Cross record card (reverse)

Red Cross record of Amy Curtis’s service. (reverse)

Welsh Book of Remembrance

Mrs Amy Curtis’s name in the Welsh Book of Remembrance.

Dorothy Curtis

Place of birth: Penarth

Service: Munitions worker, Cardiff National Shell Factory

Notes: Dorothy Curtis was a worker, possibly a supervisor, at the Cardiff National Shell Factory, in Grangetown. The reverse of the photograph reads ‘With much love from trousers 328 CN.SF 1918’. Image and information courtesy of Glamorgan Archives (DXFX19)rn

Reference: WaW0270

Dorothy Curtis

Dorothy Curtis in uniform holding a hammer. Notice her suitable footwear! Copyright Glamorgan Archives.rnrn

Dorothy Curtis (reverse)

Inscription on back of the photograph of Dorothy ‘With much love from trousers’ Copyright Glamorgan Archives.rn

Mary Daniel

Place of birth: Nantgaredig

Service: Kindergarten teacher

Death: 1918/12/01, Kimbolton, Pneumonia following influenza / Niwmonia yn dilyn ffliw

Notes: Mary Daniel had been teaching in the junior department of Kimbolton Grammar School for less than a term when she died of complications of Spanish Flu. She had been a pupil of the County Girls School in Carmarthen and trained for her Froebel education certificate in London.

Reference: WaW0459

Newspaper photograph

Press photograph of Mary Daniel. Carmarthen Journal 13th December 1918

Newspaper report

Report of the life and death of Mary Daniel. Carmarthen Journal 13th December 1918.

Olive David

Place of birth: Cardiff

Service: Nurse, VAD, 15/06/12 – 16/01/14

Notes: Olive David spent most of her service at the 26th General Hospital, Etaples, France. Her name appears in the printed Roll of Honour of Charles Street Congregational Church, Cardiff.

Reference: WaW0328

Olive David

Olive David in VAD uniform.

Red Cross record card

Red Cross card for Olive David of Llandaff, Cardiff.

Red Cross record card (reverse)

Red Cross card for Olive David of Llandaff, Cardiff (reverse).

Roll of Honour

Name of Olive David on the Roll of Honour of Charles Street Congregational Church, Cardiff.

(Florence) Rose Davies (née Rees)

Place of birth: Aberdare

Service: Teacher, activist, committee women, councillor

Notes: A teacher who had to give up her post on marriage, Rose became of Secretary of the Women’s Co-operative Guild, Aberdare, and was co-opted on to the education committee of Aberdare UDC, of which she later became Chair. She also sat on the local military tribunal, and in 1918 became the first women to chair the Aberdare Trades and Labour Council. She failed to be elected as a District Councillor in 1919 but succeeded in 1920. She remained a Labour activist until her death.

Reference: WaW0238

Mrs Rose Davies

Cllr Mrs Rose Davies at the opening of the mining engineering laboratory attached to the Aberdare Boys’ County School, 1922

Newspaper report

Report of Aberdare Trades and Labour Council supporting the National Council for Civil Liberties, Aberdare Leader 15th Feb 1919.

A M Davies

Place of birth: Llanharan

Service: Nurse, Not known / anhysbys, 1915 - 1918 ?

Notes: Miss Davies, a professional nurse spent 18 months early in the war at Lady Hadfield’s Hospital at Wimereux, France (later No 5 British Red Cross Hospital). She later worked at the Welsh Hospital, Netley. She was awarded the Royal Red Cross in January 1918.

Reference: WaW0393

Newspaper report

Report of Nurse A M Davies’s award of the Royal Red Cross. Glamorgan Gazette 18th January 1918.

Anne Davies

Place of birth: Gowerton

Service: Mother

Death: 1915/05/07, S S Lusitania, Drowning / Boddi

Notes: Anne Davies, aged 52, was originally from Gowerton, but emigrated to America in about 1885. She lived in Ontario, Canada, but had been visiting her daughter in Llanelli. She was returning home on the Lusitania when it was torpedoed off the Irish coast. Her body was one of the first to be recovered, and she is buried in Cobh Old Town cemetery, Queenstown.

Reference: WaW0277

Newspaper report and photograph

Article with photograph of Anne Davies, at that point missing after the sinking of the Lusitania. Cambria Daily Leader 10th May 1915

Newspaper report

Report confirming the death of Anne Davies. Cambria Daily Leader 19th May 1915

Annie Mary Davies

Place of birth: Abergele, Denbighshire

Service: Nurse, VAD

Notes: Annie, a farmer’s daughter aged 21, joined the VAD in early October 1917. Two weeks later she was posted to the City of Middlesex Military Hospital, Napsbury in Hertfordshire where she remained until May 1919.

Reference: WaW0181

Red Cross record card

Red Cross card in the name of Annie Mary Davies

Red Cross record card (reverse)

Red Cross card in the name of Annie Mary Davies (reverse))

City of Middlesex Military Hospital, Napsbury

City of Middlesex Military Hospital, Napsbury, Hertfordshire.