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Nurse Jennie Roberts (1917)

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Date: 29 June 1917

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+G12:O12[photograph of Jennie Roberts]

Nurse JENNIE ROBERTS,
Second daughter of the late Mr. W. Roberts, who had been nursing wounded soldiers in Alexandria and other places on the Mediterranean for twelve months and was drowned through the sinking of the "Salta" in the English Channel by the enemy on April 10th when starting to resume her duties abroad. [Her] father died on May 23rd from a shock received on ihe intimation of his daughter's fate.

Source:
'Towyn Bereavements.' The Cambrian News and Welsh Farmers' Gazette. 29 June 1917. 3.

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Welsh Newspapers Online, National Library of Wales
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Cambrian News and Welsh Farmers' Gazette
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Cambrian News
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21/8/2019
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29/6/1917
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