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Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service
| Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service | |
|---|---|
_and_some_of_her_sisters_-_1916.png) Elsie Inglis and other members of the SWH | |
| Organisation | |
| Funding | National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, Red Cross, donations |
| History | |
| Opened | 1914 |
| Closed | 1919 |
The Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Services (SWH) was founded in 1914. It was led by Dr Elsie Inglis and provided nurses, doctors, ambulance drivers, cooks and orderlies. By the end of World War I, 14 medical units had been outfitted and sent to serve in Corsica, France, Malta, Romania, Russia, Salonika and Serbia.[1]
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