Jessie Handyside Gellatly (7 December 1882 – 30 June 1935) was one of the UK's first university-qualified female doctors.

She had several siblings, including her eldest brother, John, who died at Ypres serving in the Royal Scots in the First World War.

In 1901, she entered University of Edinburgh[1] studying alongside Agnes Marshall Cowan and others and graduating with and MB ChB in 1906.

She embarked in September 1916 and served at the No.65 Hospital in Malta, working there until July 1917, treating the wounded soldiers from Gallipoli.

HMS Aster hit a mine 1111 mi (18 km) miles off the coast of Malta with the loss of ten lives.

There were eight female doctors in total: Mary Alice Blair (in overall charge), Elizabeth Herdman Lepper, Ida Emilie Fox, Ethne Haigh, Effie Craig, Elizabeth Hurdon, Margaret McEnery, and Jessie Gellatly.

They were classed as civilian surgeons and received the same pay (24 shillings plus a final gratuity of £60) and conditions as their male counterparts (a rarity in those days) but had no uniform until April 1918.