
Wendy Moore: The Women Behind Endell Street Military Hospital
Tue 18 May
|Online via Zoom
Wendy will bring us the forgotten story of a hospital staffed by women in the First World War.


Time & Location
18 May 2021, 14:00
Online via Zoom
About the Event
When the First World War broke out in 1914 dozens of women doctors offered their services – but they were told by the British Army to “Go home and sit still”. Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson refused to sit still. Both qualified doctors and suffragettes – and also life partners – they took a unit of women doctors and nurses to Paris. They ran a hospital there so successfully that the army invited them to open a hospital in Boulogne and then – in May 1915 – to run a major military hospital in the heart of London. Endell Street was unique.
It was the only hospital within the British Army to be staffed by women – all the doctors, nurses and orderlies were female apart from a dozen or so male helpers. The women of Endell Street treated 26,000 wounded – the vast majority of them men –…
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