Notes: Abigail James lived in Brynhyfryd Swansea. She worked in the Swansea National Shell Factory as a Thread Miller.
Reference: WaW0082
Abigail James, Swansea National Shell Factory
Close up of Abigail James, Swansea National Shell Factory, 1915 - 1917 Abigail James (middle row, 1st left) with fellow workers Swansea National Shell Factory, 1915 - 1917; Swansea National Shell Factory workers c. 1915-1917. Abigail James sits 6th from right front row.
Abigail James with fellow workers, Swansea National Shell Factory
Abigail James (middle row, 1st left) with fellow workers Swansea National Shell Factory, 1915 - 1917
Swansea National Shell Factory workers c. 1915-1917
; Swansea National Shell Factory workers c. 1915-1917. Abigail James sits 6th from right front row.
Notes: aged 21. She was killed in the same explosion as Edith Copham and Mary Fitzmaurice
Sources: Adroddiad am y ffrwydrad Herald of Wales 14eg Rhagfyr 1914
Reference: WaW0030
Swansea Cenotaph
Name of Jane Jenkins on Swansea Cenotaph
Newspaper report
Explosion report Herald of Wales 14th December 1918
Asa Fish
Place of birth: Swansea ?
Service: Munitions worker
Notes: Ada was a 22 year-old munitions worker from Hafod, Swansea. She was working in a munitions factory in Sheffield when she won £1 in a beauty competition sponsored by the Sheffield Telegraph.
Reference: WaW0482
Newspaper report and photograph
Ada Fish in munitions worker’s uniform. The Cambria Daily Leader, 8 April 1919.
Lizzie John[s]
Service: Munitions Worker
Memorial: Cenotaph, St Stephen's Church, Swansea, Glamorgan
Notes: aged 22, buried Ebbw Vale Cemetery
Reference: WaW0032
Swansea Cenotaph
Name of Lizzie John on Swansea Cenotaph
War Memorial
Name of Lizzie Johns on the War Memorial, St Stephen's Church, Swansea
Lizzie's mother Mary Anne Jones claiming compensation for her daughter's death.
Lizzie Jones
Lizzie’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 from the Town Clerk of Cardigan about a photograph of Lizzie Jones
Notes: 'My grandmother Olwen Jones with her two daughters, Dora Louise, on the left, aged two+ and Frances, right thirteen months younger. This was taken in 1916, when my grandfather [Percy Jones, Welsh Regiment] was conscripted and sent to France. He was wounded, but eventually returned to Abercarn and they had two more children post the war.' Rosemary Scadden.
Reference: WaW0036
Olwen Jones and daughters
Olwen Jones with her daughters Dora and Frances. Photograph taken when husbad Percy Jones was conscripted in 1916.
Margaret Ann Lloyd
Place of birth: Morriston 1894
Service: Munitions Worker
Notes: Margaret Ann Lloyd from Morriston (on the left) and friend (unknown) when they worked in the Mannesman Ammunition Factory manufacturing shells in Morriston – age early 20s. c. 1914-8
Reference: WaW0084
Margaret Ann Lloyd (L) and friend
Margaret Ann Lloyd (seated) and a friend, Mannesman Ammunition Factory, Morriston, c.1915 or 1916
Margaret Morris
Place of birth: Swansea
Service: Widow, Mother, Munitions Worker
Death: --, Tawe Lodge, Swansea, Tuberculosis / Y diciau
Notes: Margaret Morris began work at NEF Pembrey after her soldier husband was killed in August 1916. There she is said to have contracted the tuberculosis from which she died. She left children aged 12, 8 and 2 and a half.
Reference: WaW0096
Death of Margaret Morris
Account of death of Margaret Morris, Cambrian Daily Leader 30 April 1919
Notes: aged 18. Died at the same time as Dorothy Mary Watson.
Sources: Funeral / angladd South Wales Daily Post 11 August / Awst 1917; Inquest / Cwest The Carmarthen Journal and South Wales Weekly Advertiser 24th August / Awst1917
Reference: WaW0039
Swansea Cenotaph
name of Mildred Owen on Swansea Cenotaph
Newspaper report
Report of the funeral of Mildred Owen and Dorothy Mary Watson.
Newspaper Report
Report of inquest into the deaths of Mildred Owen and Dorothy Mary Watson.