Elsie Inglis and the Scottish Women's Hospitals

40 ELSIE INGLIS and the SCOTTISH WOMEN’S HOSPITALS With grateful thanks to the following: Stuart Delves – Author Alan Cumming – HistoricAdvisor Professor Sir Hew Strachan – HistoricAdvisor Wilma Shalliday – Proof reader and sense checker With a special thanks to everyone who has kindly shared personal stories which feature within this book. The poem ‘Elsie Inglis Prepares For Her Last Journey’ has been reproduced by kind permission of Gerda Stevenson. Permission has been granted by Birlinn Ltd to publish extracts from‘Angels of Mercy’by Eileen Crofton and by NMS Enterprises Ltd – Publishing to publish extracts from‘Elsie Inglis’by Leah Leneman. To the best of our knowledge,all images in this book are in the public domain unless otherwise stated below. These images were donated by the kind permissions of the following: © Descendants of Elizabeth Macpherson, pg.16 © Descendants of Elsie Inglis, pg.3,4,5 © Descendants of Sister Margaret Crowe, pg.28 © Glasgow CityArchives, pg.10,22,23,30,31,32,39 © Imperial War Museum,London, pg.1,17,20,21,24,25,26,27,38 © Lothian Health ServicesArchive,Edinburgh University Library pg.8,16 ©The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, pg.6,11,14,15,18, 19,21,29 ©Wellcome Library,London pg.7 Designed byWolffe. www.WW100Scotland.com