Rosina Lloyd

Service: Nurse

Death: 1918/10/10, Bridgend Isolation Hospital, Pneumonia / Niwmonia

Notes: Nothing is currently known of Rosina Lloyd, except the brief announcement of her death. Curiously this was not published until over a month after she died.

Reference: WaW0345

Death notice

Notice of the death of Nurse Rosina Lloyd. Glamorgan Gazette 15th November 1918

Megan Arfon Lloyd George

Place of birth: Criccieth

Service: School girl, later politician

Death: 1966/05/14, Cause not known

Notes: For the first few years of her life Megan lived in the family’s Welsh-speaking home in Criccieth. When she was 4 her father Lloyd George became Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the family from then on split their time between 11 (later 10) Downing Street and North Wales. From an early age she appeared with her father at public events. In February 1919, when she was 17, she accompanied him to the Paris Peace Conference. Her presence created something of a stir, though she was in fact at school in Paris too. Later she wrote ‘I’ve had politics for breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner all my life.’ In 1928 she became Wales’s first woman Member of Parliament, for Anglesey.

Sources: A Radical Life: Biography of Megan Lloyd George, 1902-66. Mervyn Jones

Reference: WaW0434

Newspaper photograph

Megan Lloyd George aged 7 electioneering in 1910.

Newspaper report

Report of Megan opening the crèche extension at Claremont Central Mission. Evening Express 25th August 1910.

Newspaper report

Report of Megan’s social whirl in Paris. Llangollen Advertiser 7th February 1919.

Photograph

Megan Lloyd George campaigning, 1920s

Olwen Elizabeth Lloyd George (Carey Evans)

Place of birth: Criccieth

Service: Volunteer, assistant cook, 1914 - 1916

Death: 1990, Cause not known

Notes: Olwen, second daughter of David Lloyd George, began volunteering in the Red Cross hospital near Criccieth in 1914 when she was 22. She then moved to London (where Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer, living at 11 Downing Street), and assisted her mother with the Welsh Troops Comfort Fund. In May 1915 she volunteered as an orderly at Rest Stations in Boulogne and later Hesdigneul. She later wrote ‘I was what they called a cooklet and I also used to scrub the platform. I used to say to my friends: “If you see a patch which is cleaner than all the rest, that’s my bit.” I worked so hard on it that I really believe you could have eaten off the floor!’ After her return to London and her marriage to Captain Tom Carey Evans, as her Red Cross Card says, she was not able to work! There is a short Pathé news film of her wedding at the Welsh Baptist Chapel in Westminster, with crowds of onlookers.

Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lze8jeBJKOo

Reference: WaW0430

Photograph

Olwen Lloyd George in a very new VAD uniform, summer 1915.

Red Cross record card

Red Cross card for Olwen Lloyd George. The dates of her service have been altered in pencil.

Red Cross record card [reverse]

Reverse of Olwen Lloyd George’s record card giving details of her service.

Newspaper report

Report of Olwen’s departure for France. Llais Llafur 4th September 1915.

Newspaper report

Report of Olwen Lloyd George’s marriage to Capt Tom Carey Edwards. Herald of Wales 23rd June 1917.

Margaret Ann (Peggy) Lyons

Place of birth: Tregaron

Service: Staff nurse, QAIMNSR, 1915 - 1919

Notes: Peggy Lyons was born in Tregaron in 1875. She trained at Carmarthen Infirmary, and in 1900 moved to London where she worked in two hospitals, and with private patients. She applied to join QAIMNS in January 1915, and served in British military hospital for 18 months. In June 1916 she was posted via Bombay to Mesopotamia where she remained until she was invalided home in September 1919 suffering from malaria. After treatment she was demobilised with excellent references on 29th September 1919. She may subsequently have moved to work in South Africa. Peggy was awarded the Royal red Cross in June 1916. Her sister Kate Phyllis Davies [qv] worked as a sister at Aberystwyth Red Cross hospital.

Sources: National Archives WO 399_5063

Reference: WaW0280

Newspaper artcle and photograph

Photograph and report of Peggy Lyons’s receipt of the Royal Red Cross. Cambrian News 23rd June 1916.

Newspaper article

First part of a letter home from Peggy Lyons in Mesopotamia, published in the Cambrian News 24th August 1917.

Letter

Letter from Peggy Lyons concerning the treatment of her malaria, 21 September 1919 (1)

Letter

Letter from Peggy Lyons concerning the treatment of her malaria, 21 September 1919 (2)

Agnes Irene (Renée) Macdonald (James)

Place of birth: Merthyr ?

Service: Science Student

Notes: Renée MacDonald, born 1898, entered Cardiff University to study science in 1916. She took a BSc in Biology and Botany, followed by an MSc at Swansea and a PhD in Geology and Palaeontology at Imperial College, London.

Reference: WaW0186

Entry application for Aberdare Hall, Cardiff University.

Renée McDonald’s entry application for Aberdare Hall, Cardiff University, May 1916.

Women students

Aberdare (‘Old’) Hall students 1917. Renée MacDonald is one of them.

Hester Millicent MacKenzie (née Hughes)

Place of birth: Bristol

Service: Educationalist, activist

Death: 1942, Brockweir, Cause not known

Notes: Born in 1863, Millicent MacKenzie was appointed associate Professor of Education (women) at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire (later Cardiff University) in 1904, and full Professor in 1910. She was the first women professor in Wales. She was a co-founder of the Cardiff and District Women’s Suffrage Society in 1908, which by 1914 was the largest outside London with 1200 members. Both before and during the War she was much involved the Girls’ Club of the University Settlement in Splott, Cardiff (where she met her husband, Prof J S Mackenzie). She stood, unsuccessfully as Labour Candidate for the Welsh universities’ seat in the 1918 election, the only woman to stand for a Welsh seat.

Sources: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/how-women-classes-came-together-12596684

Reference: WaW0246

Professor Millicent Mackenzie

Professor Millicent MacKenzie 1915

Newspaper report

Report on women candidates’ results in the 1918 General Election. Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard 3rd January 1919.

Newspaper report

Report on election expenses, University of Wales candidates. North Wales Chronicle 14th February 1919rn

Ella Jane Vincentia MacLaverty

Place of birth: Llangattock-Vibon-Avel

Service: Driver, FANY, Red Cross, 1914 ? - 1919

Notes: Ella MacLaverty, born 1880, was the youngest child of the wealthy vicar of Llangattock near Monmouth. She may have joined the Red Cross as a chauffeuse in 1914; she was definitely a member of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry by July 1918, and may have been part of the St Omer convoy when George V visited the battlefields. Late in the war and after the Armistice she was employed driving those involved with clearing unexploded bombs in Hazebrouck and Poperinge.

Sources: https://tochcentenary.wordpress.com/2020/01/05/the-women-who-knew-talbot-house/?fbclid=IwAR3pjQb2iBRWs1CH1vjyMJC9ek1RiF5eCHWPM6HfXW2FK3BuGVzRfwe-vCk

Reference: WaW0414

Red Cross record card

Record card for Ella MacLaverty.

Red Cross record card [reverse]

Record card for Ella MacLaverty (reverse)

Communicant’s slip

Communicant’s slip for Talbot House, the Toc H church centre in Poperinge, Flanders.

Gertrude Madley

Place of birth: Llanelli, 1892

Service: Staff Nurse, QAIMNS Reserve / Wrth gefn, September 1916 - May 1920

Notes: Gertrude Madley was the daughter of a tinplate rollerman, and worked as a tinplate hand before training as a nurse in Swansea in 1913. She joined Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve as a Staff Nurse in September 1916. At just twenty-three years of age she was one of the youngest nurses to serve with the Reserve during the Great War. She served initally in Malta, and then, 1918 - 1920, in France

Sources: http://greatwarnurses.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/from-small-acorns-mighty-oaks-grow.html

Reference: WaW0098

Gertrude Madley in France 1919

Staff Nurse Gertrude Madley QAIMNS in France 1919

Hannah Dunlop Mark

Place of birth: Bridgend

Service: Nurse, TFNS

Death: 1918/10/10, No 1 General Hospital, Fazackerley, Liverpool, Pneumonia following influenza / Niwmonia yn dilyn y ffliw

Notes: Hannah, a trained nurse, seems to have been a victim of Spanish Flu. She was 23 when she died, and is buried at Bridgend Cemetery.

Sources: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead.aspx?cpage=1

Reference: WaW0208

Hannah Dunlop Mark

Hannah’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

Letter to the Secretary of the Women’s Committee from Hannah’s brother, Lieut David Mark, November 16th 1918

Newspaper notice

Notice of Hannah’s death, Glamorgan Gazette, 11th October 1918.

Memorial notice

Notice commemorating Hannah’s death, Glamorgan Gazette 10th October 1919

G[w]ladys Allet Mathias

Place of birth: Ferndale

Service: Waitress, WAAC, 1918 - 1919

Notes: G[w]ladys joined the WAAC at Newport in May 1918. She was posted to Kinmel Park in north Wales, and then to Chadderton Camp near Oldham. She had previously worked as a barmaid, and her references for the WAAC describe her as a ‘good clean housemaid’, but perhaps army life did not suit her as she was twice fined for being absent without leave.

Sources: National Archives WO-398-146-1

Reference: WaW0313

Telegram

Telegram reporting G A Mathias as absent without leave.