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Martha Emily Jenkins
Place of birth: Liverpool
Service: Stewardess, SS Aguila
Death: 1915/03/27, SS Aguila / Pembrokeshire coast, Drowning / Boddi
Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial, London
Notes: Martha Jenkins, Liverpool born but of Welsh extraction, was a stewardess on SS Aguila trading between Liverpool and the Canaries. The ship was torpedoed by a German U Boat off the coast of Pembrokeshire. Eight lives were lost including an un-named female passenger.
Sources: http://www.benjidog.co.uk/Tower%20Hill/WW1%20Agenoria%20to%20Alaunia.html#Aguila
Reference: WaW0173
Augusta Minshull
Place of birth: Atherstone
Service: Nurse, St John’s Ambulance, Scottish Women’s Hospital
Death: 1915/03/21, Kraguievatz, Typhus fever / Haint teiffws
Memorial: Chela Kula Military Cemetery, NÄs, NÄs, Serbia
Notes: Augusta Minshull was born in 1861 in Atherstone, near Manchester, but was brought up in Denbigh where her parents ran the Crown Hotel. She seems to have trained as a nurse after her mother’s death. She had extensive experience in hospitals in England and Dublin. In 1914 she seems to have travelled first to Belgium, and then to Kraguievatz, Serbia early in 1915. She died there in the epidemic of typhus, aged 53 or 54.
Reference: WaW0468
Augusta Minshull
Augusta’s photograph was collected by the Women’s Subcommittee as part of its collection of women who died during the war.
Newspaper report
Newspaper report of Augusta Minshull’s death in Serbia. Denbighshire Free Press 17th April 1915.
Catherine J James
Place of birth: Llanelli
Service: Nurse, St Johns Ambulance
Death: 1919/12/04, Llanelli, Tuberculosis / Y diciáu
Memorial: Tabernacle Chapel, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire
Notes: Catherine was a member of the St John’s Ambulance. She served throughout the War, first in Porthcawl and then in Stebonheath, Llanelli (where she may have contracted the TB that killed her aged 28.) Her name appears on the war memorial plaque in Tabernacl Chapel, Llanelli.
Sources: https://www.wwwmp.co.uk/carmarthenshire-memorials/llanelli-tabernacl-chapel-war-memorial
Reference: WaW0404
R E Jones
Place of birth: Swansea ?
Service: Pharmacist, Swansea Infirmary Ysbyty Abertawe , 1916 -
Notes: Notes [En] Miss R E Jones, an experienced practitioner, was appointed Pharmacist at Swansea Hospital in October 1916, beating the two male applicants for the post. She was to be paid a salary of £176 a year.
Reference: WaW0462
Janet Gulliver
Place of birth: Swansea
Service: Teacher, Volunteer police woman, Swansea Women’s Patrols, February / Chwefror 1916-1917
Notes: Janet Gulliver, a mathematics teacher educated at Somerville College, Oxford, joined the Womens Patrol in Swansea early in 1916. Possibly she is the same Janet Gulliver who hurt her leg falling off a wall in May 1917
Reference: WaW0447
Elizabeth Clement
Place of birth: Swansea
Service: Nurse, SWH, 1915 - 1916
Notes: Daughter of a Swansea pub landlord Elizabeth Clement trained as a nurse at Llanelli Workhouse, where she became Head Nurse. She joined the Scottish Women's Hospitals in the autumn of 1915. She and her party arrived in Serbia early in October. Shortly after their arrival the Austrian army gained ascendancy in Serbia, and most of October was spent moving from place to place to avoid the enemy. By 7th November they were prisoners of the Germans. Eventually their freedom was negotiated, and they arrived in Budapest on the way to Vienna on 6th February. Elizabeth was back in Swansea by mid-February 1916. She seems to have become something of a celebrity; her diaries were published in the South Wales Weekly Post, and her story also appeared at length in Llais Llafur. She gave talks on her experiences, and appeared in the talks of others. A lantern slide of her in ‘Serbian dress’ was shown in a lecture by the popular librarian Mr W. W. Young in January 1917.
Sources: http://scottishwomenshospitals.co.uk/women/
Reference: WaW0114
Elizabeth Clement
Photograph of Elizabeth Clement as head nurse at Llanelli workhouse. Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder 25th December 1915
Newspaper report
First part of the South Wales Weekly Post publications of Elizabeth’s diaries, South Wales Weekly Post 19th and 26th February 1916.
Elizabeth Clement with colleagues and Serbian soldiers
Photograph of Elizabeth Clement, Christmas Day 1915, with colleagues and Serbian soldiers. She is standing back row, third from right.
Newspaper report
Report of lecture on Serbia by W.W.Young. Elizabeth was shown in Serbian dress. Cambria Daily Leader 19th January 1917
Annie M Evans
Place of birth: Cwmdare c.1872
Service: Nurse, SWH, 1915 - 1916
Notes: Formerly matron of Blackburn Fever Hospital, Annie Evans joined the Scottish Women's Hospital at Valjevo in Serbia in 1915. She and the unit in which she served were taken as prisoners of war by the Austrians on 10th November 1915. After months of badgering by Dr Alice Hutchinson, head of the unit, she and 32 others were repatriated to Britain.
Sources: http://scottishwomenshospitals.co.uk/women/
Reference: WaW0111
Rowena Hopkin (Field)
Place of birth: Llangwig
Service: Nurse, SWH, 1916 - 1917
Notes: Rowena Hopkin joined the Scottish Women's Hospitals in 1916, and seems to have worked in Serbia. She married GW Field in 1918; some of their correpondence survives.
Sources: http://scottishwomenshospitals.co.uk/women/
Reference: WaW0122
Newspaper photograph
Photograph and report of Rowena Hopkin’s award of the Order of St George. Herald of Wales 5th May 1917
Mathilde Augusta Lilian Laloe
Place of birth: Carmarthen
Service: Administrator, SWH, 1916 - 1920
Notes: Lilian Laloe was the daughter of Auguste Felix Laloe, a teacher from France who became headmaster of the Queen Elixabeth Grammar School in 1874. She joined the Scottish Womens Hospitals as a cook, but was rapidly promoted to Adminstrator.
Sources: http://scottishwomenshospitals.co.uk/women/
Reference: WaW0086
Lilian Laloe (rear, second left).
Lilian Laloe (rear, second left) with Doctors from the Scottish Women's Hospital, Salonika, 1917?.
Annie Alice Guy
Place of birth: Newport
Service: Nursing sister, SWH, 1916
Death: 1916/08/21, Salonika, Dysentery
Notes: Alice Annie Guy died 21st August 1916, Scottish Women’s Hospital and Serbian Army, Nursing Sister, Former Superintendent of the Devonshire Hospital, Buxton. Buried in Salonika (Lembet Road) Military Cemetery. Her name also appears on the WW1 Roll of Honour Book kept in Newport Reference Library.
Sources: http://scottishwomenshospitals.co.uk/women/
Reference: WaW0142