Notes: Gertrude Rosewarne was working as a pupil teacher in 1911. She joined the VAD early in the War, first in Abergavenny and then in Ebbw Vale. She collected entries by many of her patients in her autograph album.
Reference: WaW0100
Gertrude Rosewarne VAD
Gertrude Rosewarne in VAD uniform
Ebbw Vale Red Cross detachment 1914
Ebbw Vale Red Cross detachment parading, November 1914
Edith Tonkin in VAD uniform. Thanks to Maureen Roberts, Western Australia.
headstone
Headstone commemorating Edith Mary Tonkin, Mount Huon Military Cemetery Normandy. Courtesy Peter Bennett Dewberry Yorkshire
Red Cross record card
Red Cross record for Edith Mary Tonkin
Red Cross record card (reverse)
Record card for Edith Mary Tonkin (reverse)rnrn
Tonkin family
Photograph of the Tonkin family on the family farm in Devon, c 1910. Courtesy Maureen Roberts, Western Australiarn
Mary Anne Eliza Young
Place of birth: Cardiff
Service: Nurse, VAD
Death: 1919-02-13, 57th General Hospital, Cause not known
Memorial: City Hall Memorial; War Grave Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles, Cardiff, Glamorgan
Notes: aged 35, a former teacher at Lansdowne Rd County School, Cardiff/Caerdydd. Buried at Mazargues War Cemetery, Marseilles.
Reference: WaW0068
Roll of Honour, Cardiff City Hall
Name of Mary Ann Eliza Young, VAD. on the Roll of Honour, City Hall, Cardiff.
Mary Ann Eliza Young
Mary Ann’s photograph was collected by the Women’s Subcommittee of the Imperial War museum as part of its collection of women who died during the War.
Letter from JR Young
Letter from JR Young, Mary’s father. Part of 'Deaths: Nurses Deaths to 1920' (museum's administrative records) 1919-04-08
Winifred Owen
Place of birth: Montgomeryshire
Service: Nurse, VAD
Notes: Winifred (born 1888) was a doctor’s daughter. She served in a Cambridge Hospital throughout the war, once sitting next to a hydrotherapy boiler that threatened to explode, to calm the patients. She married a doctor after the war, and never worked again
Reference: WaW0126
Winifred Owen VAD
Winifred Owen with a hydrotherapy patient.
Daisy Colnett Spickett
Place of birth: Pontypridd
Service: Nurse, VAD
Notes: Daisy, a lawyer’s daughter, joined the VAD when it was formed in 1910. She served in hospitals in Wales and England, and on hospital ships. Follow the link for a very interesting interview with Daisy recorded 1974 (IWM). There are 8 reels of tape amounting to about 2 hours of recording.
Red Cross record card for Daisy Spickett (reverse)
Red Cross record card
Red Cross card for Daisy Spickett
Daisy Spickett VAD
Daisy Spickett in VAD uniform.
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.
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
Welsh Book of Remembrance
Name of Miss Jennie Williams in the Welsh Book of Remembrance
Newspaper Report
Newspaper report of the death of Jennie Williams, Y Dinesydd Cymreig, Chwef 12 1919
Lilian Kate Jones
Place of birth: Newport
Service: Nurse, VAD
Death: 1916/06/06, Unknown/Anhysbys
Notes: Lilian joined the VAD in August 1915, aged 35. She worked at 2nd South General Military Hospital in Bristol, where she had family connections.
Reference: WaW0143
Grave of Lilian Jones
Grave of Lilian Jones, St Woolos, Newport
Welsh National Book of Remembrance
name of Lilian Jones, Welsh National Book of Remembrance
Red Cross record card
Red Cross card for Lilian Jones
Red Cross record card (reverse)
Red Cross card for Lilian Jones
Beatrice James
Place of birth: Cardiff
Service: Nurse, VAD, 1917/02/26 – August 1919 ‘
Notes: Beatrice James of Cathays, Cardiff, joined up aged 22. She spent 18 months in the 3rd General Hospital, Cardiff, and then transferred to Exeter.