Scottish Women's Hospitals Medal awarded to Dr Isabel Emslie, later Lady Hutton

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Dr Isabel Emslie qualified as a doctor in Edinburgh in 1912. She served with SWH in Macedonia and Serbia, and then in Sebastopol. After the War, she specialised in mental disorders and in World War II was Director of the Indian Red Cross Welfare Service.

Dr Emslie was also awarded the White Eagle of Serbia, the Order of St Sava of Serbia, the Royal Red Cross, Serbia, the Croix de Guerre, and the Order of St Anne of Russia.

The Scottish Women's Hospitals were set up to further the war effort by aiding the injured, and also to demonstrate women's abilities in medicine. They sent over a thousand women to the various Fronts, as doctors, nurses, orderlies and drivers.

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• Online ID: 000-000-100-295-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: The Thistle at War
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  M.1960.35
• Date: 1914 - 1918
  1914-18
  
• Material: Metal
  Medal
  
• Dimensions: 35 mm Dia; 75 mm H including ribbon
  
• What: Medal
  
• Subject: Medals
  
• Who: Lady Hutton (owner)
  Scottish Women's Hospitals
  
• Where:
• Event: World War I
  
• Description: One of a group of medals awarded to Lady Hutton - Scottish Women's Hospitals Medal.
  
• References:
  • Emslie, Isabel With a women's unit in Salonika, Serbia and Sebastopol, 1928 
  • Leneman, Leah In the service of life: Elsie Inglis and the Scottish Women's Hospitals Edinburgh: Mercat Press, 1994 
  • McCorry, Helen (ed.) The thistle at war: an anthology of the Scottish experience of war, in the services and at home. Edinburgh, NMS, 1997 
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