Endell Street Military Hospital's memorial tablet
This stone memorial tablet marks the site of former Endell Street Military Hospital in London (Dudley Court 36, Endell Street).
The English inscription reads as follows: "SITE OF ENDELL STREET MILITARY HOSPITAL 1915-1919 / ESTABLISHED IN FORMER WORKHOUSE BUILDINGS / DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR UNDER THE COMMAND OF / DR FLORA MURRAY & DR LOUISA GARRETT ANDERSON, / THIS 573-BED HOSPITAL IS THE ONLY BRITISH ARMY / HOSPITAL TO HAVE BEEN STAFFED ENTIRELY BY WOMEN. / MORE THAN 24,000 SOLDIERS WERE TREATED HERE".
- Photos courtesy of "Look Up London" (April 2025)
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Bibliography
- Wendy Moore, Endell Street. The trailblazing women who ran World War One's most remarkable military hospital, Atlantic Books, London 2020, pp. 376