Elsie Maud Inglis

Elsie Inglis was born in India, in 1864. She was on of the first women medical student at Edinburgh, and began the second medical school for women at Edinburgh.

She also founded a maternity hospital in Edinburgh entirely staffed by women. Also, in 1906, she founded the Scottish Women Suffragette Federation, which sent two women ambulance units to Serbia in 1915.

In Serbia, she set up three military hospitals, which fell in Austrian hands, and was sent back to her country. But, in 1917, she returned to Russia with voluntary corps. She died in 1917.

 



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