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A story from
our Archive! Here are the nursing staff at Wern Hospital, Porthmadog 1914-18.
This photo includes Lady Olwen Carey-Evans, who was a ward orderly, daughter of
David Lloyd George and Gt-Grandmother of Dan Snow! The attached image is part
of the RWF Museum's contribution to the AMOT Ogilby Muster Digitisation Project,
which we have been working on.
Olwen Elizabeth
Lloyd George (1892-1990) was the daughter of Liberal politician and Prime
Minister, David Lloyd George. During the First World War, Olwen enrolled as a
British Red Cross volunteer. Her Red
Cross card stated that from 1915-1916, she worked from June to October 1915 at
the Red X Rest Station at Boulogne and the last month in HQ. Then at Devonshire House until June 1916.
Olwen was
engaged to Captain Thomas John Carey Evans, MC and he and Olwen were married on
19th June 1917 in a Baptist chapel described in the newspapers as “so tiny that
it might easily fit into many a Mayfair drawing-room”. The service was in Welsh.
Olwen and
Thomas went to live in India where they remained in India until 1925. They had four children. Her granddaughter is the Canadian historian,
Margaret MacMillan, and her great-grandson is the TV presenter and historian
Dan Snow.
Thomas was
knighted in 1924 so Olwen became Lady Carey Evans. In 1969, she was made a Dame Commander of the
Order of the British Empire, being honoured for her services to hospitals and
women’s organizations. Lady Carey Evans died on 2nd March 1990.
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