In May 1916, all women on the medical register were approached to see if they would be willing to serve in the RAMC and between August 1916 and July 1917 82 did. They had no rank or status but received the same pay, rations and travelling allowances as their male colleagues.
Elizabeth Edwards graduated in 1912 and set sail for Malta in September 1916 having worked as a general practitioner in Mansfield. She was attached to General Hospital no 64 in Malta and is listed as an assistant pathologist. These hospitals received casualties from Gallipoli and Salonica but eventually it became too dangerous to evacuate patients from Salonica and no 64 general hospital moved to the hills north of Salonica in June 1917.
She worked there and at no 49 stationary hospital until October 1918 when she was invalided home with dysentery but continued to work in base hospitals near London. She resigned her contract with the war office in April 1919 and married.
