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# Lecture to lift the lid on trailblazing women who ran First World War military hospital
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/lecture-to-lift-the-lid-on-trailblazing-women-who-ran-first-world-war-military-hospital/
- Published: 2021-01-30T07:25:32.000Z
- Updated: 2021-01-30T07:57:03.000Z
- Description: The role of a trailblazing group of women who ran a First World War military hospital will be the focus of a lecture in Lichfield.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Heritage, What's On, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 18:14, News

The role of a trailblazing group of women who ran a First World War military hospital will be the focus of a lecture in Lichfield.

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Picture: Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Author Wendy Moore will give the latest in the Erasmus Darwin Lunar Lecture series on 26th February.

A spokesperson for Erasmus Darwin House said:

> “When war broke out in 1914, dozens of women doctors offered their services – but they were told by the British Army to ‘go home and sit still’.  
>  
> “Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson refused to sit still.  
>  
> “Both qualified doctors and suffragettes, they took a unit of women doctors, nurses and orderlies to France where they ran a hospital there so successfully that the army invited them to open a second hospital and then, in May 1915, to run a major military hospital in the heart of London.  
>  
> “Endell Street was unique. It was the only hospital within the British Army run and staffed by women – all the doctors, nurses and orderlies were female apart from a dozen or so male helpers.  
>  
> “The women of Endell Street treated wounded soldiers throughout the war and when peace came the hospital remained open to treat victims of the Spanish flu.”  
>  
> Erasmus Darwin House spokesperson

Tickets are £6 one can be booked at [erasmusdarwin.org](https://www.erasmusdarwin.org/?ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk).