Catherine Anderson was born in Ceylon and qualified from Aberdeen in 1904, being the sixth woman doctor to graduate. Following a diploma in tropical medicine she went to work in Ceylon but travelled with a Scottish Women’s Hospital unit which arrived in Salonica in 1915. Finding another SWHl unit there it was then decided that they would travel at the expense of the French with 300 refugees from Serbia to Corsica. Here the refugees were looked after for the duration of the war and a hospital was opened.
