page_title: Alice Hutchison
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Alice Hutchison / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Women's Sick and Wounded Convoy Corps Group of the Women's Sick and Wounded Convoy Corps in Camp at Radlett in 1912, previous to their service in Bulgaria. Mrs St Clair Stobart is sixth from left, centre row.
context_page_description: Alice Hutchison was a British doctor who served in the Balkan and First World Wars. She was one of the first women to lead a war-time hospital unit.
context_section_description: She became a doctor after graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 1903. Afterwards, she was the doctor in charge of the John Street Dispensary in Edinburgh, a hospital that provided free medical care. She was in India, serving during a cholera epidemic that hit the country. 
  Hutchison was one of the three women doctors who travelled to Bulgaria as part of the Women's Sick and Wounded Convoy Corps. The Corps, which was set-up by Mabel St Clair Stobart, was almost all women, with the exception of three men. The unit spent five weeks in the country treating the wounded and sick as a result of the war. They left after the armistice was signed.
caption: Group of the Women's Sick and Wounded Convoy Corps in Camp at Radlett in 1912.
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