Operation in Progress: Frances Ivens (White Coat) and Surgical Staff
Operating Theatre Staff (possibly Frances Ivens far left)
Surgery in Progress (possibly Frances Ivens operating)
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Operating Theatre Staff (possibly Frances Ivens far left)

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Location Royaumont, France
Description Surgeon Frances Ivens was appointed Chief Medical Officer at Royaumont. Prior to the War, she was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Liverpool and only the third women in the United Kingdom to have obtained the degree of Master of Surgery. On the outbreak of War she had volunteered her services to the Women's Unit in Belgium.

Initially, the medical authorities closely supervised surgical operations, and Ivens' reported that while the French were anxious at first about women undertaking operations, the women became favourably viewed. The surgeons at Royaumont focused on saving limbs of patients, contrasting with other hospitals where amputations were amputation was more readily performed.
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