She had a private practice in Oxford but left this three times to serve at hospitals in Belgium, France, Serbia and Corfu during the First World War.

She finished there in 1897 and Maude went up to Somerville College to come top of her class in science, but was denied an Oxford degree because she was a woman.

She went on to study at London’s Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine for Women.

In January 1915 she was in France, later at the first Maude Hospital run by her uncle and before the summer she was back in England.

She was given charge of an of typhoid hospital in October 1916 60 miles north of Salonika in Vodena.