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Kenneth Morrison
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 Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 6:08 pm Post subject: Serbian stamps honour Scots WW1 heroines |
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Does this count as an "overseas" memorial????
We should "post" it somewhere 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-35039265
Scottish women who volunteered in Serbia during World War One are being commemorated in a series of stamps.
The British Embassy has teamed up with Serbia Post to celebrate the efforts of the Scottish heroines.
Five women who worked as doctors, nurses and drivers feature on the new stamps.
A sixth English woman, Captain Flora Sandes, who was the only British female to bear arms during WW1, is also being remembered.
The five Scots are:
◾Evelina Haverfield - British suffragette and humanitarian worker. She was the chief administrator of Scottish Women Hospitals in Serbia and set up one of the first local orphanages.
◾Dr Elsie Inglis - campaigner for women's suffrage and the founder of the Scottish Women Hospitals in Serbia. Dr Inglis was one of the first female graduates at the University of Edinburgh.
◾Dr Elizabeth Ross - one of the first women to obtain a medical degree at the University of Glasgow. She travelled to Serbia as a volunteer and tragically passed away during the typhoid epidemic in 1915.
◾Dr Katherine MacPhail OBE - involved in humanitarian work in Serbia throughout WW1. She is remembered for opening the first paediatric ward in Belgrade in 1921.
◾Dr Isabel Emslie Galloway Hutton - joined the Scottish Women Hospitals as a volunteer in 1915 after she was turned away by the War Office in London. She served in France, Greece and Serbia until 1920.
It's just a pity that it has taken Serbia Post to commemorate the lives of these women.
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Adam Brown
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Good point Ken. How do we commemorate them here?
I suppose we post photos of the stamps in the Overseas section.
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