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Elizabeth Davies
Place of birth: Burry Port
Service: Munitions Worker
Death: 1920:05:09, Llanelly Hospital, Accident: ruptured liver/Damwain, afu wedi ei rwygo
Notes: A young woman, Elizabeth Davies, of Sandfield House, Burry Port, died at Llanelly General Hospital on Sunday, from injuries sustained at the Pembrey National Filling Factory. The deceased was dismounting from a works train while in motion at its arrival at the Factory on Friday, when she slipped between the footboard and the platform. She was dragged some distance and sustained severe internal injuries. Llanelly and County Guardian 13th May 1920 Aged 17. 'A young woman, Elizabeth Davies, of Sandfield House, Burry Port, died at Llanelly General Hospital on Sunday, from injuries sustained at the Pembrey National Filling Factory. The deceased was dismounting from a works train while in motion at its arrival at the Factory on Friday, when she slipped between the footboard and the platform. She was dragged some distance and sustained severe internal injuries.' Llanelly and County Guardian 13th May 1920 A young woman, Elizabeth Davies, of Sandfield House, Burry Port, died at Llanelly General Hospital on Sunday, from injuries sustained at the Pembrey National Filling Factory. The deceased was dismounting from a works train while in motion at its arrival at the Factory on Friday, when she slipped between the footboard and the platform. She was dragged some distance and sustained severe internal injuries. Llanelly and County Guardian 13th May 1920
Reference: WaW0089
Esther Devonald
Place of birth: Swansea
Service: Munitions Worker
Death: TNT poisoning/Gwenwyno gan TNT
Sources: http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums
Reference: WaW0009

Newspaper report of Inquest
Newspaper report of Inquest into death of munitions worker Esther Devonald
Lilian Dove
Place of birth: Cardiff
Service: Nurse
Notes: Lilian Dove was the daughter of the former minister of Roath Road Wesleyan Methodist Church, Cardiff. She survived the sinking of SS Osmanieh, in which Margaret Dorothy Roberts died, on 31st December 1917. The Roath Road Roamer reported that she was 'rescued and is apparently none the worse for her unsought adventure and the exposure, shock and explosion, except that she unfortunately lost all her belongings’. She nursed in Alexandria until the end of the War. information courtesy of Glamorgan Archives (DWESA6).
Sources: https://archifaumorgannwg.wordpress.com/
Reference: WaW0113
Hilda Jessie Downing
Place of birth: Newtown
Service: Nurse, 1914 - 1918
Death: 1918-10-10, Newtown, Influenza / Y Ffliw
Memorial: War memorial, Newtown, Montgomeryshire
Notes: aged 29. Worked in military hospital Broadstairs, Kent.
Reference: WaW0010
Mary Evans
Place of birth: Meidrim
Service: Nurse, 1916 - 1918
Death: 1918-10-04, Edmonton Military Hospital, Influenza/Y Ffliw
Memorial: War Memorial, Abergwili, Carmarthen
Notes: aged 38, buried Abergwili Churchyard
Sources: http://www.wwwmp.co.uk/carmarthenshire-war-memorials/
Reference: WaW0012
Grace Evans (later Nott/Nott yn ddiweddarach)
Place of birth: Cymtydu
Service: Nurse, 1914 - 1918
Death: 1930-11-16, Johannesberg, Cause not known
Memorial: Plaque, St Tysilio, Cwmtydu, Cardiganshire
Notes: Died 'as the result of war services in East Africa during the Great War 1914 - 1918'
Sources: http://www.wwwmp.co.uk/ceredigion-war-memorials/
Reference: WaW0014
Mary Evans
Place of birth: Trawsfynydd, 1890?
Service: Agricultural student
Notes: Mary Evans was the sister of the poet Hedd Wyn, Ellis Humphrey Evans. She was studying at Madryn Agricultural College, near Pwllheli. This letter, written in Autumn 1917, asks for money, talks about her life, and expresses hiraeth for her late brother.
Reference: WaW0097
Gertrude Fairclough
Place of birth: Lancashire, 1880
Service: Wife and Mother
Notes: Gertrude Fairclough was the wife of Major Rowland Fairclough, Royal Welch Fusiliers, and spent her married life in Mold, Flintshire. Family traditions says that once her husband had joined his regiment in France (despite being 48 in 1914), she moved into a hotel.
Reference: WaW0076

Gertrude Fairclough c.1915
Gertrude Fairclough née Appleby, wife of Major Rowland Fairclough, Royal Welch Fusiliers.
Constance Fane Roberts
Place of birth: Llandre
Service: Army Remount Service: Gwasanaeth Ail-farchogaeth y Fyddin
Death: 1917-10-09, Motor accident/Damwain car
Memorial: Grave, Llandre, Cardiganshire
Notes: aged 22, died together with her fiance Captain Brereton Ockleston Rigby
Sources: http://www.wwwmp.co.uk/ceredigion-war-memorials/
Reference: WaW0018
Jane Fisher
Place of birth: Kidwelly
Service: Munitions Worker
Notes: aged 55, awarded MOBE for 'courage in assisting to stop a fire in an explosives factory at considerable danger to her life'.
Sources: The Carmarthen Journal and South Wales Weekly Advertiser;
Reference: WaW0019

Newspaper report
report of presentation in The Carmarthen Journal and South Wales Weekly Advertiser 19th April 1918