The Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Services was founded in 1914. It was led by Dr Elsie Inglis and provided nurses, doctors, ambulance drivers, cooks and orderlies. By the end of World War I,
Dr Elsie Inglis
Dr Frances Ivens inspecting a French patient at the Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont. Painting by Norah Neilson Gray.
Women of the Sixth (American) Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospital at Ostrovo
Memorial plaque in St. Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh
Katherine Stewart MacPhail OBE was a Scottish surgeon. During World War I, she served as chief medical officer of two units of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service. She cared for the wou