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

Martha Emily Jenkins

Martha Emily Jenkins, stewardess, drowned 1915

Medal Record card

Medal Record Card for Martha Emily Jenkins

Newspaper report

Part of report of the sinking of SS Aguila, Abergavenny Chronicle 2nd April 1915

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.

Obituary

Obituary of Augusta Minshull in the British Journal of Nursing, detailing her career.

Roll of honour

Roll of honour of members of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals who died overseas.

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

War Memorial

Catherine James’s name on the memorial plaque in Tabernacl Chapel, Llanelli.

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

Newspaper report

Report of Miss R E Jones’s appointment to Swansea Hospital.

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

Sources: https://blogs.some.ox.ac.uk/thegreatwar/2016/02/03/february-1916-women-patrols-moral-guardians-and-prototype-police/

Reference: WaW0447

Janet Gulliver

Photograph of Janet Gulliver as a student at Somerville College, Oxford.

Newspaper report

Report of Janet Gulliver injuring her leg. Cambria Daily Leader 28th May 1917.

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

Newpaper report

Newspaper report, Cambrian Daily Leader, 18 December 1915

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

Letter

Envelope addressed to Rowena Hopkin

Newspaper report

Newspaper report Labour Voice 22 Sept 1918

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

Newport Roll of Honour

Name of Alice Annie Guy, Newport Roll of Honour

Alice Annie Guy

Newspaper report of the death of Sister Guy

Roll of Honour

Roll of honour of members of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals who died overseas.