Isabel Emslie Hutton

Isabel Galloway Emslie, Lady Hutton CBE (11 September 1887 – 11 January 1960) was a Scottish physician who specialised in mental health and social work.

[1] She served leading units in Dr Elsie Inglis's Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service in the front line in World War I and won awards[2] from the British, Serbian, Russian and French.

Emslie married British military officer Lt General Sir Thomas Jacomb Hutton.

In 1915, she joined the Scottish Women's Hospitals Organisation and served in France at the Domaine de Chanteloup, Sainte-Savine, near Troyes, then with the French Army’s Armee d'Orient in Salonika, distinguishing herself by leading the unit which accompanied the Serbian army during the First World War.

[8] During the Second World War, she joined her husband in India and took up the post of director of the Indian Red Cross welfare service, also undertaking charity work, broadcasting, and dispatches for the external affairs department.

The grave of Isabel Emslie Hutton, Grange Cemetery
Hutton on a 2015 stamp of Serbia from the series "British Heroines of the First World War in Serbia".