“World War I Suffragette Military Hospital”. The Women’s Library Newsletter.
Flora Murray
Standard Name: Murray, Flora
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Occupation | Beatrice Harraden | During the First World War, BH
worked for Belgian relief and visited refugee camps under the auspices of the Commission for Relief in Belgium
. She also worked as a volunteer (with Elizabeth Robins |
Occupation | Elizabeth Robins | ER
volunteered alongside Beatrice Harraden
at the Endell Street Hospital for Soldiers
, a medical facility opened in May 1915 and directed by Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson
and Dr Flora Murray
. Gates, Joanne E. Elizabeth Robins, 1862-1952. University of Alabama Press, 1994. 223-4 |
politics | Marie Belloc Lowndes | The letter challenged a recent antisuffragist manifesto, and stressed three points from Prime Minister Asquith
's statement to suffragists of 14 August. The points were that women had rendered as effective service to their country... |
politics | Evelyn Sharp | As the Great War rolled on ES
found herself more and more of a pacifist. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933. 157 |
Timeline
14 September 1914
Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson
and Dr Flora Murray
set up the Women's Hospital Corps
, staffed entirely by women, at Claridge's Hotel in Paris.
By late October 1920
Flora Murray
wrote about her war experience in Women as Army Surgeons: Being the History of the Women's Hospital Corps
in Paris, Wimereux and Endell Street, September 1914-October 1919.