Laura Stewart Sandeman (1862 – 22 February 1929) was a Scottish medical doctor and political activist.
In 1915, she was the first Chief Medical Officer of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service in Troyes, alongside Louise McIlroy.
[2] However, she refused to take up the post on the grounds that her pay would be 60% less than she could earn as a general practitioner, and was less than a man with the same rank.
[5] After the World War I, Sandeman returned to Scotland where for some years she worked at the Dundee workhouse.
[7] Mary H. J. Henderson, administrator of the Scottish Women's Hospitals in Serbia, and a war poet, paid a tribute to Sandeman, along with Dr. Elsie Inglis, founder of Scottish Women's Hospitals, in Magdalene in her 1929 book, Warp and Woof, when saying:'The hands indeed, which minister where there was need; The hands we loved, may not touch ours again, May not alleviate our mortal pain,