A globetrotter women doctor’s experience in WWI Balkan front

Dr Mildred E. Staley (1868–1947) was one of many British female doctors
\nwho partook in the First World War at several fronts, including the Balkan Front.
\nAfter the war had started a significant number of British female medical personnel,
\ndoctors, nurses, as well as unqualified women volunteers arrived in Serbia. Many
\nkept diaries of their unusual adventures and whilst some published the narratives,
\nothers accounts remained in manuscripts and typescripts to this day.
\nDr Staley sets herself apart by her vast professional medical experience
\nconducted in the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
\ncentury, in the decades before the outbreak of the First World War. The paper
\naims to look at how her presence at the Balkan Front and where its description in
\nher autobiography fit within her broad medical experience which she illustrated
\nin a general manner in A Tapestry of Memories.
\nHer views and perceptions will be valued through the prism of
\ncolonialism, the first wave of feminism, indispensably woven with the suffragist
\nmovement in Britain, and the struggle of British female doctors’ experiences
\nwithin it during WWI.