1. Jessie Handyside Gellatly was one of the UK's first university-qualified female doctors.
11 Facts About Jessie Gellatly
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Jessie Gellatly was one of 16 female doctors who served with the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War, and served as the medical officer of health for Cambridgeshire for most of her life.
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Jessie Gellatly's parents were Mary Anne Cordelia Rae and John Stewart Gellatly of 8 Mary's Place, Stockbridge, Edinburgh.
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Jessie Gellatly had several siblings, including her eldest brother, John, who died at Ypres serving in the Royal Scots in the First World War.
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Jessie Gellatly initially worked at Leith Hospital and then worked for three years as a medical officer for Cadbury in Bourneville.
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Jessie Gellatly received her doctorate in 1910 and a Diploma in Public Health the same year.
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Jessie Gellatly embarked in September 1916 and served at the No 65 Hospital in Malta, working there until July 1917, treating the wounded soldiers from Gallipoli.
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Jessie Gellatly returned to work as medical officer of health in Cambridgeshire in the summer of 1919.
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Jessie Gellatly lived at 17 Warkworth Street in Cambridge, a mid-terraced townhouse.
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Jessie Gellatly died aged 52 in a nursing home in Cambridge on 30 June 1935 after a short illness.
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Jessie Gellatly was buried in Grange Cemetery in Edinburgh with her parents.