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Annie Roberts
Place of birth: Holyhead
Service: Member, WRAF, 14/05/1918 - d.
Death: 1918-12-12, Pneumonia / Niwmonia
Memorial: War memorial, Holyhead, Anglesey
Notes: aged 20. Served in Chester area. Buried Holyhead (Maeshyfred) cemetery
Reference: WaW0053
Annie Whyte
Place of birth: Ely, Cardiff
Service: Forewoman Waitress, WRAF, 1917 - 1919?
Notes: Annie Whyte was associated with Roath Road Wesleyan Methodist Church, Cardiff. She initially joined the WAAC but transferred to the WRAF on its formation in spring 1918. She worked primarily at the Royal Flying Corps Armament School at Uxbridge. Image and information courtesy of Glamorgan Archives (DWESA6).
Sources: https://archifaumorgannwg.wordpress.com/
Reference: WaW0116
Janet Jones
Place of birth: Llanrwst
Service: Quartermistress, WRAF
Memorial: War Memorial, Llanrwst, Conway
Notes: Aged 28. She is buried at Seion Calvinistic Methodist Chapelyard, Llanrwst.
Reference: WaW0141
May Stratford
Place of birth: Newport Monmouthshire
Service: Waitress, WRAF, February 1918 – September 19
Notes: May Stratford, born 1898, joined the WRAF in 1918. She seems to have served, as a waitress, in various RAF bases in South East England. She died in 1982
Reference: WaW0191

May Stratford
May Stratford in WRAF uniform. Also in the photograph is a coin engraved with her name and ‘WRAF’.
Mary Ann Holland (née ?)
Place of birth: Talywain ?
Service: Storewoman, WRAF
Notes: Mrs Holland was demobilised from the WRAF in October 1919, when she was 30 years old. Her work was described as ‘very good’. She enrolled and worked in London, and was married, though we do not know her maiden name. Her name appears on the Roll of Honour at Pisgah Chapel, Talywain.
Reference: WaW0292
Caroline Jackson Davies
Place of birth: Llandovery
Service: Chief section leader Cook: , WRNS, 22/05/1918
Death: 1918-10-26, Carmarthen, illness/salwch
Notes: aged 22. Buried at Llandingat
Sources: http://www.wwwmp.co.uk/carmarthenshire-war-memorials/
Reference: WaW0005
Edith Picton Turbervill
Place of birth: Fownhope, Herefordshire
Service: Welfare worker, MP, Y W C A
Death: 1960, Cause not known
Notes: Edith (born 1872) was a twin [qv Beatrice Picton-Warlow], one of many children of John Picton Turbervill who inherited Ewenny Priory, Glamorgan in 1891. Always very devout, she worked with the families of navvies working on the Vale of Glamorgan railway and poor families in London After six years in India she returned to Britain to be foreign secretary of the Y.W.C.A. When war broke out, she raised quarter of a million pounds to build Y.W.C.A. hostels for young women munitions and farm workers. A strong supporter of ordination of women, she preached in several non-conformist chapels in Wales before becoming the first woman to preach in an Anglican church, in 1919, wearing ‘cassock and surplice’. As she was over six foot tall, with ‘a rather loud voice’, she impressed the newspapers. In that year too she joined the Labour party. After two unsuccessful attempts, she was elected MP for Wrekin in Shropshire in 1929. During her brief Parliamentary career she successfully introduced the bill to stop the execution of pregnant women.
Reference: WaW0442

Newspaper report
Report of the inaugural meeting launching the provision of Y.M.C.A. hostels for munitions workers in Wales (part 1). Glamorgan Gazette 13 October 1916.

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Report of the inaugural meeting launching the provision of Y.M.C.A. hostels for munitions workers in Wales (part 2). Glamorgan Gazette 13 October 1916.

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Report of Edith Picton Turbervill preaching in the Bishopsgate Congregational Chapel. Cambrian Daily Leader 14th February 1919.

Newspaper report
‘Small Talk’ column describing Edith Picton Turbervill preaching at a regular Church of England service in North Somercotes, Lincs. Glamorgan Gazette 11th July 1919.

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Report of Edith Picton Turbervill joining the Labour Party. Cambria Daily Leader 18th January 1919

Photograph
The Labour women MPs elected in 1929, Edith Picton Turbervill is centre back. Front right is a very young Jennie Lee, later married to Aneurin Bevan. Aged 24, she was too young to vote, but not too young to stand. Next to her is Ellen Wilkinson.