RAMC Woman Doctor WWI?

[Postwarden]

The attached photo shoes a woman officer, from her uniform photographed in WWI, wearing RAMC cap and collar badges. She also has the ribbon of the 1914 or 1914/15 Star.

I know that women doctors served with the RAMC in WW2 but I had not realised they did in WWI.

Can anyone provide further information please?

Jon

[leigh kitchen]

I wondered if the badges could be Women's Legion, but they do look like RAMC.

[Postwarden]

Definitely RAMC collars and almost certainly cap. There is just the suggestion of a coloured stripe on her shoulder strap similar to those worn by the WAAC/QMAAC.

Jon

[leigh kitchen]

If that's a 1914 / 1914-15 Star ribbon, it looks like it may have the 1914 Stars silver rose emblem on it.

[Postwarden]

Found this on the Net but it does not make direct reference to women in the RAMC.

Jon

https://womanandhersphere.com/2014/0...women-doctors/

[rolfi]

I have a note that Dr. Phoebe Chapple (R.A.M.C.attached Q.M.A.A.C.) wore R.A.M.C. badges. This could be her.

RW

[Blackadder1916]

http://maltaramc.com/ladydoc/s/stenhousei.html

In May 1916, Dr Louisa Aldrich-Blake, Surgeon at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital and Dean of the London School of Medicine for Women, approached all the women on the Medical Register asking them to say if they would be willing to serve with the Royal Army Medical Corps. From the replies received, 48 lady doctors were enrolled. The first 22 medical women embarked for Malta on 2 August 1916; another 16 lady doctors embarked on the Hospital Ship (H.S.) Gloucester Castle on 12 August 1916.

The Director General Army Medical Services, Sir Alfred Keogh, was responsible for employing medical women and for dealing with illnesses among them. Women doctors, also referred to as lady doctors, were classed as civilian surgeons attached to the RAMC. Women serving as full time doctors in the Army and doing precisely the same work as their male colleagues had neither military rank nor status, but received the same pay, rations, travelling allowances and gratuity as temporary commissioned male officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps. A uniform was not introduced until after April 1918. This was similar in appearance to that worn by the Queen Mary's Auxiliary Army Corps (QMAAC) but with an RAMC badge on both lapels.

That excerpt is from the page for Dr. Isabella Stenhouse, though a list of the female doctors who went out to Malta with links to a brief bio for each is at http://maltaramc.com/articles/contents/ramcmltgar.html (go to bottom of the list, past all the male doctor names for the women).

The doctor in the OP photo may be Dr. Stenhouse. The is a definite resemblance to the images of her in the photos found at the link for the quote, however the same could be said for almost any photo of a woman of the time.