Lives of the First World War

Seated portrait. Shows her in army uniform. Possibly taken between 1916-1917 while she was commanding officer of the 7th Medical Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service, Macedonia, Serbia, during World War I.

Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd Bennett (1872-1960), medical practitioner In 1915 Agnes Bennett became the first female commissioned officer in the British Army, when as a captain she worked as a medical officer in war hospitals in Cairo. In 1916-17 she was in charge of a unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals on the Serbian front WW1 service: first female captain in the RAMC; MO, Scottish Women's Hospital in Greece; served with the French Red Cross, then with NZMC RMO, Glasgow Royal Infirmary during the influenza epidemic in 1918 Served in ◦Scottish Women's Hospitals ◦French Red Cross ◦Royal Army Medical Corps Photo above from photograph from the Biography Doctor Agnes Bennett by Cecil and Celia Manson The photograph was taken in Edinburgh in 1899, when Agnes was a member of the Women's Medical School Committee