Supporting herself by working in an insurance firm in London, she then volunteered with the Red Cross, and subsequently worked close to the front lines in Verdun, France, serving food to soldiers and tending the wounded, until she fell ill herself and was sent back to England in 1918 – which was also the year that Britain brought in legislation giving the franchise to women over 30 and Morrell was able to vote for the first time.

[1] Rallies and public meetings of the suffrage movement were organised throughout the 1920s, and the campaigning escalated in the 1930s: every year when Morrell refused to pay her taxes because she was not allowed to vote, her furniture was seized and taken away for auction at Somerset Police Station,[8] where suffragettes gathered and bought it back annually;[9][10] however, it would not be until 1944 that Morrell's efforts succeeded in ensuring voting rights for property-owning women in Bermuda.

[5][10] She married retired Royal Navy officer John Morrell on 20 April 1926, and their daughter Rachel (later Bromby) was born in 1928.

[4] On 1 May 2000, a commemorative pack of postage stamps was issued honouring Gladys Morrell as one of three "Pioneers of Progress" – the others being Sir Henry James Tucker and Dr Edgar Fitzgerald Gordon – who made a significant and lasting contribution to Bermudian society.

[2][15] The Gladys Morrell Nature Reserve in Bermuda's Sandy's Parish was named in her honour,[16] in recognition of her concern about environmental issues.