Endell Street Military Hospital was a First World War military hospital located on Endell Street in Covent Garden, central London. The hospital was substantially staffed by suffragettes.
An Operation at the Military Hospital, Endell Street - Dr L Garrett, Dr Flora Murray, Dr W Buckley, Francis Dodd, 1920. Imperial War Museum, London.
Entrance to Endell Street Military Hospital, c. 1915
Hospital staff in August 1916
WSPU "Deeds, Not Words" Banner c. 1910
Louisa Garrett Anderson was a medical pioneer, a member of the Women's Social and Political Union, a suffragette, and social reformer. She was the daughter of the founding medical pioneer Elizabeth Ga
Endell Street Military Hospital
…hospital was substantially staffed by suffragettes (women who fought for their right to vote in public elections). The medical pioneers Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson recruited enough medically trained women to staff an entire hospital in France at the beginning of the war that was in operation from 1914 to 1915…
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Louisa Garrett Anderson, Alfred Caldecott and another in 1910 on the day they went to see the Prime Minister
Flora Murray (left) and Louise Garrett Anderson (right) leaving Buckingham Palace after receiving decorations