among the wounded who were arriving from the front and accumulating in large numbers on the coast while awaiting embarkation. The hospital here supplied satisfied a real need for them were at this point not nearly enough facilities for treatmenttreating of the men who required it. The War Office appreciated the women's effort and in acknowledgment offered them accommodation for a hospital in London to be staffed entirely by women doctors and run on strict military lines. Dṛ Murray was C.O. and Chief Physician to the hospital and Dṛ Anderson was Chief Surgeon and besides them the staff was enriched by women specialists in all branches. Dṛ Helen Chambers, the bacteriologist, was very well known and after the war became famous for her work in cancer. Dṛ Sheppard was the eye specialist and Dṛ Magill the very busy radiologist; a prodigious number of pieces of shrapnel must have been located by her skill. Dṛ Woodcock, the physician, died of pneumonia during an influenza epidemic and was succeeded by Dṛ Thackrah. It was indeed a pleasure and an inspiration to be associated with so many splendid women. Of the overseas contingent Dṛ Windsor, one of the anaesthetists, was a Canadian and while at the hospital married a brother of Stephen Leacock the Canadian humourist. The Australians who were there at the same time were Dṛ Hamilton-Browne who after the war went to India, Dṛ Scantlebury who late became Director of Maternal and Child Welfare in Victoria and Dṛ Champion who was married while at the hospital to a Melbourne surgeon. At this time wedding cakes were not allowed to be iced, so Dṛ Champion's cake was decorated with white heather.
We caught no more than a glimpse of Dṛ Champion's famous mother, Dṛ Elizabeth Garreth-Anderson; we never actually met her for she was then in failing health and indeed died soon afterwards. A memorial service was held for her in the hospital chapel. Her life-story has been told inby a book written by her daughter and published in 1939.
One famous woman whom we did meet was Mrṣ Pankhurst
