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(2 among the wounded who were arriving from the front and accumulating in large numbers on the coast while awaiting embarkation. The hospital here satisfied a real need for them were at this point not nearly enough facilities for  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. D$undefined$ Murray was C.O. and Chief Physician to the hospital and D$undefined$ Anderson was Chief Surgeon and besides them the staff was enriched by women specialists in all branches. D$undefined$ Helen Chambers, the bacteriologist, was very well known and after the war became famous for her work in cancer. D$undefined$ Sheppard was the eye specialist and D$undefined$ Magill the very busy radiologist; a prodigious number of pieces of shrapnel must have been located by her skill. D$undefined$ Woodcock, the physician, died of pneumonia during an influenza epidemic and was succeeded by D$undefined$ Thackrah. It was indeed a pleasure and an inspiration to be associated with so many splendid women. Of the overseas contingent D$undefined$ 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 D$undefined$ Hamilton-Browne who after the war went to India, D$undefined$ Scantlebury who late became Director of Maternal and Child Welfare in Victoria and D$undefined$ Champion who was married while at the hospital to a Melbourne surgeon. At this time wedding cakes were not allowed to be iced, so D$undefined$ Champion's cake was decorated with white heather.

One famous woman whom we did meet was M$undefined$ Pankhurst