Madge Neill Fraser

In memoriam

NURSING ORDERLY MADGE NEILL FRASER SCOTTISH WOMEN'S HOSPITAL 8TH MARCH 1915

Cenotaph here Margaret Neill Fraser was born on 4 June 1880 the daughter of Margaret (d.1927) and Patrick Neill Fraser FRSE (d.1905), a botanist. The family lived at Rockville on Murrayfield Road in western Edinburgh and ran the company Neill & Co, who ran a printers and HMO Stationery Office, both at Bellevue and at 13 George Street. The company had been established by her father's great uncle, Patrick Neill. Parents: Father: Patrick Neill – Born 5.8.1827 Edinburgh – Died 27.2.1905 Edinburgh Married 8 October 1869 at Glasgow Margaret Watson – Born 1846 Glasgow – Died 26.2.1927 Edinburgh Siblings: James Watson Neill – Borth 12.3.1873 Edinburgh – Died 7.2.1946 West Linton Patrick Neill – Born 1879 Edinburgh – Died 1.7.1916 France An Orderly with the Scottish Women's Hospital. Country of Service United Kingdom. Madge's home golf club was Murrayfield Golf Club. She was runner-up in the 1910 Scottish Ladies Golf Championship and semi-finalist in the 1912 British Championship. A member of the Golfing Gentlewomen and the Ladies' Golf Union. Madge represented Scotland at international level every year from 1905 to 1914. Madge was a member of the St Andrews Ambulance Association and a trained nurse. At the outbreak of the First World War, she volunteered alongside others such as suffragette doctor Elsie Inglis, with Grace Symonds and Dr Elizabeth Ross (1877-1915) to create the Scottish Women's Hospital in Serbia under the overall umbrella of the French Red Cross. It was locally run by Lady Leila Paget who was married to the ambassador. The majority of the group of women were also suffragettes,[5] for example women doctors surveyed in 1908 had been 538 for the vote and only 15 against. At the time high profile women golfers, like Madge were a rarity even being allowed to play on men's courses and wanted to demonstrate responsibility and fair play, thus 'most good women golfers of that time tolerated the Suffragists and abhorred the Suffragettes'. Madge arrived at the hospital in Kragujevac in Serbia early in 1915 in the midst of a typhus epidemic. She contracted typhus and along with 21 other Scottish medical workers, died in Serbia on 8 March 1915. Her remains are buried in Chela Kula Military Cemetery in Niš, northern Serbia. She is memorialised on her parents' grave stone in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh. Her brother, also Patrick Neill Fraser, was a Lieutenant in the Border Regiment and was killed on 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Memorial 56394307. Following her death, Madge was described as 'perhaps the most popular woman's golfer in Great Britain'[10] the Ladies Golf Union collected funds sufficient to provide 200 additional beds in Serbian hospitals in her memory. Her funeral was described as a 'terribly sad affair with the funeral party having to struggle through thick snow and mud.' Madge Neill Fraser is the only woman listed on Murrayfield Golf Club's Roll of Honour.

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