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Muriel Craigie
Muriel Craigie, Order of the British Empire, OBE (1889–1971) was a leading Scottish Suffrage, suffragist, honoured by two nations as a major volunteer organiser in both World Wars, and a 'noted educationist' during local authority education reforms. She was headquarters' organiser for the World War I Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service first Serbian unit, for which she was awarded the Red Cross Medal of Merit (Serbia), Serbian Red Cross medal. For her role as Scotland's Recruiting Controller for the Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, she was awarded the 1919 New Year Honours (OBE), Order of the British Empire in 1919. In World War II, she led the Royal Voluntary Service, Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence in Montrose, Angus, Montrose and district, and organised comfort supplies for the troops and Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II, civil evacuation of children and other vulnerable people from the industria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stracathro Hospital
Stracathro Hospital is a community hospital in Angus, Scotland. Established as a wartime Emergency Hospital Service facility during the Second World War, it was afterward developed as a District General Hospital. Since 2005 it has been the site of the Scottish Regional Treatment Centre. History The hospital was designed as one of seven Emergency Hospital Service facilities for military casualties. It was established in the grounds of Stracathro House in 1939, early in the Second World War. The single-storey wards could accommodate up to 1,000 patients, and the mansion house provided accommodation for staff. The first patients were victims of an air raid on Montrose in 1940. These were followed by civilian casualties from English cities, including London, Birmingham and Coventry, and later by soldiers from all theatres of the war. Long trains would deliver the wounded to Brechin station. The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948 and later developed as a rural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
