[list=][/list]The following girls are remembered on memorial.
I hadn't found anything on these girls,
I've gone through research and booklet The Great Dudley Port Explosion by Chris Smith & online accounts of the inquiry.
Florence Bryant of 15 west St Dudley Port
(Looks like she was Gladys Bryant mother and in the booklet it explains she was injured in the explosion as she was visiting the factory to query daughters wages)
Don't know when she was added to memorial as it looks like she was still living in 1939
viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20789&p=203330&hilit=Gladys+bryant#p203330and i think this her DOD
Florence Bryant
Death Age: 84
Birth Date: abt 1884
Registration Date: Oct 1968
[Nov 1968]
[Dec 1968]
Registration Quarter: Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration District: Dudley
Inferred County: Staffordshire
Volume: 9b
Page: 145
Florence Masters 15 New Cross St Tipton
Mary Luker 9 Charlotte St Dudley
Nellie Warmer 50 Union St Tipton
Gladys Williams 14
(wonder if any relation to Elizabeth Williams who was killed)
From the booklet it mentions her father James Williams, he helped the girls into vehicles to go to Dudley Guest hospital
A witness, Sam Morgan, of 18 court, number 4 house, Dudley Port, who was coal picking nearby at the time, said, that when he heard the explosion he fell to the ground, as he had been taught during the war, and after getting up, he saw the sky filled with smoke and heard hysterical screams.
Researching: Yates,Hunt,Brookes,Artess,Sheldon,Thornton,Hooper,Crowley,Lacy,Downes,Weaver,Artess