James Berry (surgeon)

Sir James Berry FRCS FSA (1860-17 March 1946) was a Canadian-born British surgeon.

[1] He then served as house surgeon at St Bartholomew's to Sir Thomas Smith, and was demonstrator of anatomy.

During the First World War he and his wife Frances established six hospitals in Serbia for the treatment of wounded soldiers and refugees.

She studied at Bedford College, University of London and worked alongside James in a Red Cross hospital in Serbia in World War I.

She later became anaesthetist at the Royal Free Hospital as well as Assistant Medical Officer of the London County Council, President of the Association of Registered Medical Women, and Honorary Secretary of the Anaesthesia Section of the Royal Society of Medicine.