Dr C.M. Page, Chief Medical OfficerMrs and Major Doughty-Wylie

Examples in archive newspapers of English nurses working in Turkey. Above image from the ‘Graphic’ Jan 11, 1913 - caption underneath - Our artist writes: “The three Red Cross, or rather Red Crescent, units, financed by Sir Ernest Cassel, and under the directorship of Major Doughty-Wylie, C.M.G., have been divided up. Some are at Beikos with the sick, about a unit and a half are at the Fine Art School by Seraglio Point with the wounded, and there is an advance camp nearer the front. At the Fine Art School, the subject of the illustration, all the casts have been removed, excepting a Nike and Parthenon frieze, that have been swathed in red calico by the Turks to prevent their bothering of the patients. The hospital had at the moment eighty-four wounded, seventy-six arriving together, who had been four days at the front, then six days in trains, without receiving care. Of these, many of whom were otherwise ill, thirty-six died. Mrs. Doughty-Wylie, two Turkish ladies, and two French sisters have been hard at work with the doctors.” Drawn by Reginald Cleaver Below an illustration from the Graphic again, from Sept 29, 1877, showing English ladies working for the Turkish wounded under the Red Crescent [Hilal-i Ahmer].

A postcard view of a red-cross nurse in a Muslim village near the front in one of the Balkan wars. However no indication this nurse was necessarily English.