Mona Chalmers Watson
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Alexandra Mary Chalmers Watson CBE, known as Mona Chalmers Watson, was a British physician and head of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. The first woman to receive an MD from the University of Edinbur
Chalmers Watson in Queen Mary's Auxiliary Army Corps uniform
The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in France during the First World War.
WAACs marching in London, 1918
Eric Geddes
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Sir Eric Campbell Geddes was a British businessman and Conservative politician. With a background in railways, he served as head of Military Transportation on the Western Front, with the rank of major
Mona Chalmers Watson
…Christina Helen MacLeod Geddes (née Anderson; 1850–1914). Chalmers Watson was the eldest of five children in the Geddes family; among her siblings were Eric Geddes and Auckland Geddes, 1st Baron Geddes. From 1888 to 1890 she was educated at St Leonard's School in St Andrews, Scotland. When she turned her focus…
Sir Eric Campbell Geddes in 1917