51 year old Panel GP 22 Finnart ST., Greenock. Form signed 23/12/15. The Scottish Medical Service Emergency Committee controlled the enrolment of doctors in Scotland during the First World War. It was headquartered at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the College was asked to be custodian of the records in 1920.To gather information, the Committee sent out forms to all medical practitioners across Scotland between December 1915 and 1919. The index contains information transcribed from these forms. Registration Forms were submitted by practitioners not holding Commissions from the Royal Army Medical Corps or the Royal Navy, and Intimation forms were submitted by or on behalf of practitioners on active duty. The registration forms give more information and indicate what work the practitioner was willing to undertake. The intimation forms are often signed by other family members.

At the call of the local War Committee for my area, as instructed by the Scottish Medical Service Emergency Committee, I am prepared to render the service or services marked above(Home Civil Work). This offer is subject to the condition that, in the event.

Doctor Elizabeth Gilchrist was one of the first women to study medicine.  She was the daughter of a local draper.  She studied in Edinburgh and Liverpool before becoming a GP in Greenock.  Elizabeth answered an appeal for women doctors to serve at the front and was drafted to a military hospital in Malta.  She then volunteered to serve in Salonika where she remained until the end of the war.  She returned to Greenock in early 1919, her health was poor and she died of pneumonia on 23 October.  She is remembered on the war memorial in the Lyle Kirk, Union St Church.

Newspaper Clippings relating to Elizabeth Taylor Gilchrist

Elizabeth Gilchrist