Mary Hannah (Mrs) Rees

Place of birth: Aberdare?

Service: Nurse, VAD, October 1915 – November 1918

Notes: Mrs Rees seems to have been a trained nurse. After a month at the Aberdare and Merthyr Red Cross Hospital she nursed ‘on the district’.

Reference: WaW0151

Red Cross Card

Red Cross Card in the name of Mary Hannah Rees

Maisie Bowcott

Place of birth: Abergavenny

Service: Nurse, VAD, 1918/07/01 - 1919

Notes: Maisie Bowcott worked in English hospitals, first in Wimborne, Dorset, and then at the Military Hospital, Tidworth, Hants.

Reference: WaW0155

Red Cross card

Red Cross Card in name of Maisie Bowcott

Red Cross card (reverse)

Red Cross Card in name of Maisie Bowcott (reverse)

Elsie Janet Evans

Place of birth: Swansea

Service: Nurse, Civilian Hospital Reserve, 1914/08/16 -

Notes: Formerly a nurse in Cardiff, Elsie volunteered for France at the outbreak of War. She was one of the first nurses during the War to be decorated with the Royal Red Cross ‘for indomitable bravery and devotion’ whilst under a week’s heavy fire at a hospital in Loos. She was presented with her medal by the King at Buckingham Palace on 20th May 1916.

Sources: Cambrian Daily Leader 26 May / Mai 1916

Reference: WaW0154

Newspaper Account

Newspaper account of the presentation of Elsie Evans’s Royal Red Cross at Buckingham Palace 20th May 1916.

Edith Humphries

Place of birth: Ystrad Mynach ?

Service: Nurse

Memorial: Bethania-Siloh Calvnistic Methodist Chapel, Ystrd Mynach, Glamorgan

Notes: Edith Humphries worked at the Military Hospital, Epsom.

Reference: WaW0152

Roll of Honour

Name of Edith Humphries Military Hospital Epsom on Roll of Honour Bethania-Siloh CM Chapel Ystrad Mynach

Margaret Jane Evans

Place of birth: Treforest, Swansea ?

Service: Nurse, VAD

Memorial: Soar Chapel, Treforest, Swansea, Glamorgan

Notes: Margaret Evans nursed at the 3rd Western General Military Hospital in Cardiff. Her name appears on the Roll of Honour in Soar Chapel, Treforest.

Reference: WaW0170

Roll of Honour

Record of the war service of Nurse M J Evans on the Roll of Honour of Soar Chapel, Treforest

Red Cross record card

Red Cross card for Margaret Evans

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

Roll of Honour

Nurse Maud Williams named on Penuel Chapel Roll of Honour, Llanharry, Glamorganshire

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

Annie Matilda Breeze

Place of birth: Machynlleth

Service: Nurse, TFNS ?, 1914 -

Notes: Annie Breeze probably trained in London, as her name appears at number 1 on the Roll of Honour at the Welsh Chapel, King’s Cross. She worked in hospitals in Aldershot before leaving for France in 1916. She was awarded the Royal Red Cross that year.

Reference: WaW0196

Roll of Honour

Roll of Honour of those who served in WWI, Kings Cross Welsh Chapel London

Annie Breeze’s name on Roll of Honour

Annie Breeze’s name on Roll of Honour of those who served in WWI, Kings Cross Welsh Chapel London

Newspaper report

Report concerning Annie Breeze, Cambrian News and Merioneth Standard 3rd November 1916

Mary Davies

Service: Nurse, Anglo-French Red Cross

Notes: Nothing is known of Mary Davies, whose name appears on the Roll of Honour in Kings Cross Welsh Chapel London.

Reference: WaW0198

Roll of Honour

Roll of honour of those who served in WWI, Kings Cross Welsh Chapel London

Mary Davies’s name on Roll of Honour

Mary Davies’s name on the Roll of honour of those who served in WWI, Kings Cross Welsh Chapel London

Mary R Jones

Service: Nurse, QAIMNS reserve / Wrth gefn yn y QAIMNS

Notes: Mary’s name appears at no 21 on the Roll of honour of those who served in WWI, Kings Cross Welsh Chapel London. She must have been a trained nurse working in London, but nothing is known of her.

Reference: WaW0199

Roll of Honour

Roll of honour of those who served in WWI, Kings Cross Welsh Chapel London

Mary Jones’s name on Roll of Honour

Mary R Jones’s name on Roll of honour of those who served in WWI, Kings Cross Welsh Chapel London