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