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Elsie Inglis
Elsie Inglis was famously told by a Royal Army Medical Corps officer, when she proposed the first-ever female-run war hospitals at the beginning of the Great War, "My good lady, go home and sit still." Fortunately, Dr. Inglis had no intention of doing anything of the sort.
Inglis, who was also an active suffragist, didn't give up after the Royal Army Corps' rejection of her idea. She just asked the French the same thing. The French were a bit brighter and said yes, and the indomitable Inglis set off for France immediately to set up hospitals. Later, she headed to Serbia, where she focussed on curing typhus and maintaining a high standard of care in military hospitals, not an easy thing in those terrible trenches.
She was captured briefly, but U.S. diplomats managed to secure her release only for her to head off to Odessa to set up a Russian arm of the women's medical corps. She died of cancer in 1917, but not before being awarded the Order Of The White Eagle by the Prince of Serbia.
