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Aberdeenshire / Re: Ruth Elizabeth Proctor
« on: Monday 09 May 16 23:27 BST (UK)  »
Details of medals sold 2002, no picture.  Is this her?

https://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/catalogue-archive/lot.php?auction_id=42&lot_id=78748

Pair: Dr. Ruth E. Proctor, Queen Mary’s Army Auxiliary Corps

BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (R. E. Proctor); together with a UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREW’S PRIZE MEDAL, FOR MIDWIFERY & GYNAECOLOGY, 1912-13 (Ruth Elizabeth Proctor, M.A.), 52mm., bronze, in Kirkwood, Edinburgh case of issue, good very fine and better (3) £60-80
Footnote
Ruth Elizabeth Proctor gained a M.A. in 1908 and a M.B., Ch.B. in 1913 at St. Andrew’s. During the Great War she was Civil Surgeon at Middlesex County War Hospital and in 1917 a Medical Official with the Auxiliary Section of the Royal Army Medical Corps. She gained her D.P.H and R.C.P.S. in England in 1922. Latterly she was Head of Department, Hygiene and Bacteriology, at the King’s College of Household and Social Sciences; Honorary Medical Director, Albany Deptford Babies Hospital; Examiner in Hygiene, Western Joint Committee of the University of Bristol and Training Colleges; Part-time Assistant Medical Officer of the London County Council and Assistant Medical Officer, Bromley Borough Council and Middlesex County Council. Sold with further research details.

The Doctors could have an Obit in the BMJ. Pay to view, but there seems to be a free trial - do a batch of doctors at a time?

Regards

Alison

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Aberdeenshire / Re: Isabella Paul Dow
« on: Monday 09 May 16 02:00 BST (UK)  »
Hi,
 The hospital in Perth was Battleby House, 3 miles N of Perth which was used as a hospital in WW1. According to newspaper report Nurse Dow was Matron there before she left for Serbia. Today Battleby House is HQ for Scottish Natural Heritage

Alison

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Dumfriesshire / Re: Elizabeth Mackenzie
« on: Saturday 30 April 16 12:01 BST (UK)  »
Hi Alan

Found the article

Dumfries & Galloway Standard,   3 Apr 1915, p9

Miss Mackenzie, matron of the Stewarty Infectious Diseases Hospital, castle Douglas, has volunteered her services as a nurse for Serbia. Her offer has been accepted, and she has been granted leave of absence by the hospital committee of management.  On Tuesday evening she was presented by a few Castle -Douglas friends with a fountain pen with holder, while the members of the hospital staff presented her with a handsome initialled Bible.  Miss Mackenzie sails from Bristol at the beginning of next week for the new scene of duties for which she has so pluckily volunteered.

Alison


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Dumfriesshire / Re: Elizabeth Mackenzie
« on: Saturday 30 April 16 11:44 BST (UK)  »
Hi Alan

I've just noticed this, which was a while ago, so you may already have this info.

The British Journal of Nursing, 1913, Aug 9th, p111

Appointments - Matron
Infectious Diseases Hospital, Kirkcudbright, Castle Douglas - Miss Elizabeth Mackenzie has been appointed Matron.  She was trained at Knightswood Infectious Diseases Hospital, Glasgow and has held the position of Matron at the Peterhead Burgh Infectious Diseases Hospital, and Eastlands Hospital, Galashels.

1901 Scotland Census, parish Renfrew, ED. Knightswood Hospital

Elizabeth Mackenzie, age 27, occupation Nurse, b Glasgow

There is also a snippet in Dumfries paper when she went to Serbia, but I will have to look it out.

They were quite a bunch of women (& men). Came across your site.  The aunt-in-law of my husbands aunt (still with me!!) was Agnes Atkin who went out as an orderly on the same ship as Elizabeth. I'm in the middle of putting together her history & will send it to you when finished. i'm hoping to look at SWH records in Mitchell  next week.

Hope this is of some help.

Alison

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