Women as Army Surgeons Murray Paperback Cambridge University Press 9781108069854

Women as Army SurgeonsBeing the History of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux and Endell Street, September 1914October 1919\nAuthor(s): Flora Murray\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108069854, 978-1108069854\nSynopsis\nAfter training to be a doctor at the London School of Medicine for Women, Flora Murray [tel] became an active member of the Women's Social and Political Union. At the outbreak of the First World War, she and her fellow suffragists laid down their banners and sought to aid the Allied war effort. Working within the newly formed Women's Hospital Corps, Murray and her colleague Louisa Garrett Anderson [tel] overcame initial prejudice and established two military hospitals in France in the period [tel]. Their success prompted an invitation from the War Office to open the Endell Street Military Hospital in London, staffed entirely by women. First published in 1920, Murray's.