Previously met with hostility by officials, Doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson decided to bypass the British government by going directly to the French Embassy with their offer to run a military hospital in Wimereux, France.

In less than two weeks, Murray and Anderson were able to recruit enough medically trained women to staff an entire hospital; doctors, nurses, orderlies, and clerks.

[4] It was constructed in the former St Giles Union Workhouse on Endell Street in Covent Garden, Central London.

[4] The hospital was close to London's main railway stations, allowing a great influx of patients when ambulance convoys arrived.

[6] Of the twenty-six thousand patients who passed through the wards of Endell Street Military Hospital, the largest number were British with a fair proportion of Dominion and Colonial troops.

There were more than two thousand Australian and New Zealand patients, including those wounded in the Gallipoli campaign that began arriving in August 1915.

Gardeners helped in the courtyard and people without family or friends at the hospital came to spend time with a lonely patient.

The staff's involvement in the suffrage movement also added to the RAMC's scepticism of the women's ability perform in a professional manner.

[4] The papers were in written in collaboration with the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service and included an analysis of a series of cases of anaerobic infection.

They collaborated with the Pasteur Institute in trials of gas gangrene antiserum by Frances Ivens from the Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont.

Endell Street and Royaumont together produced the first hospital-based research papers published by female British doctors.

[14][15] The hospital was subsequently demolished and the site now forms part of the area occupied by the Oasis Sports Centre.

[16] In November 2017 the Imperial War Museum made an award to Alison Ramsey of Digital Drama for "Deeds Not Words; Suffragette Surgeons of WWI", a film about the hospital.