The Scottish Women's Hospital
When Elsie Inglis went to the War Office in 1914 with the idea of running a field hospital, she was told by an official to "Go home and sit still!". Not content with this, she approached the French who allowed her to run a hospital in Royaumont Abbey. As a Suffragist she was determined that the operation should be an all female affair and the "Scottish Women's Hospital" came into being. Later the Serbian government who had, at that time, no medical corps were only too pleased to allow Elsie to run hospitals in Serbia. The Hospital took part in the great Serbian retreat through Albania to Corfu where they were instrumental in saving the lives of hundreds of civilians and soldiers from the deadly typhus epidemic ravaging the retreating nation. The SWH stayed with the Serbs until the end of the war but, by then, hospitals were being run in France, Greece, Corsica and Russia - all funded by public subscription. Elsie was by this time dying and her funeral in Edinburgh was a massive affair with representatives of many of the foreign governments that owed a great dept to the SWH.
This set features the "Bugler" from the hospital at Ostrovo in Greece where the Hospital was part of the massive Salonica Front campaign.
