Dr Elizabeth Ross - the Scottish saint of Serbia

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/Dr-Elizabeth-Ross--the.6045806.jp ^ | 2/5/10 | Emma Cowing

[Bokababe]

....It is 95 years since Ross, a doctor from Tain and one of the first women in Scotland to gain a medical degree, died of typhus in a military hospital in Kragujevac, where she had been treating Serb First World War casualties. Yet today, her name in Serbia is a byword for courage and bravery, emblazoned upon street signs, taught to schoolchildren, and celebrated every 14 February – the anniversary of her death – in numerous similar ceremonies across Serbia....

[Bokababe]

Every year Serbs honor the sacrifice of a WWI Scottish nurse and the others who helped them. It's pretty touching.

[Bokababe]

[Clintonfatigued]

She sounds like a Scottish Florence Nightingale.

[john drake]

Aye. A fair, beautiful lass who died too young.

[Bokababe]

"Aye. A fair, beautiful lass who died too young."

Yes, but was not forgotten.

[yarddog]

I honestly think there must be some genetic trait of Scottish girls which make them great.

My Mother’s family came from the Inner Hebrides and to put it succinctly, she was the best person I have ever known and by a wide margin.

[Cacique]

btt

[Ciexyz]

Moving story.

[mrreaganaut]

Balkan-American Ping!