After training to be a doctor at the London School of Medicine for Women, Flora Murray (1869 1923) became an active member of the Women's Social and Political Union. At the outbreak of the First World War, she and her fellow suffragists laid down their banners and sought to aid the Allied war effort. Working within the newly formed Women's Hospital Corps, Murray and her colleague Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873 1943) overcame initial prejudice and established two military hospitals in France in the period 1914 15. Their success prompted an invitation from the War Office to open the Endell...
After training to be a doctor at the London School of Medicine for Women, Flora Murray (1869 1923) became an active member of the Women's Social and P...