I AM a student at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, researching the lives of early New Zealand women doctors who trained between 1891 and 1914.

I am particularly interested in information relating to Dr Gladys Montgomery, who enrolled for her medical degree in 1909 at the University of New Zealand and finished her medical degree at Glasgow in 1914.

She completed her Diploma in Public Health at Cambridge and returned to Glasgow to complete her MD thesis in 1931.

She was a medical officer at Stobhill General Hospital, Glasgow and then assistant MO at Rochdale Hospital, then assistant medical officer for the Borough of Stepney.

During the Spanish Civil war she volunteered and served with the anti-Franco forces in a medical capacity. Readers might remember Gladys as she was a colourful character.

Interested persons can contact me by e-mail at trevor.landers@xtra.co.nz, or by phone on 00 64 4 9380709 or by post.

TREVOR LANDERS, 53 Barnard Street, Wadestown 6001, Wellington, New Zealand.

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