110th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme and Endell Street Hospital

Continuing the commemoration of the start of the Battle of Somme on 1 July 1916, this week’s article tells the story of the remarkable women of the Women’s Hospital Corps (WHC), which was founded by two pioneering women doctors who lived at Penn. Louisa Garrett Anderson and Flora Murray founded the first British military hospital, Endell Street, which was run entirely by women. Being located close to the main London stations, the hospital started receiving the first casualties, in unpreceden