Winifred Buckley
{{Short description|Indian woman-surgeon from the First World War}}
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|image = An Operation at the Military Hospital, Endell Street - Dr L Garrett, Dr Flora Murray, Dr W Buckley Art.IWMART4084.jpg
|birth_date = {{birth date|1883|10|18||df=y}}
|birth_place = Calcutta, India
|death_date = {{death date and age|1959|4|10|1883|10|18|df=y}}
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|nationality = British
|caption = "An Operation at the Military Hospital, Endell Street - Dr L Garrett, Dr Flora Murray, Dr W Buckley"(1920) by Francis Dodd
|field = surgery, military medicine
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Winifred Finnimore Buckley (18 October 1883 - 10 April 1959) was one of the woman-surgeons working at the famous Endell Street Military Hospital in London during the First World War.[https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-26050708 “World War One: Endell Street hospital's suffragette surgeons”, BBC News online, 28 February 2014].
Life
She was born in Calcutta, India, to Ada Marion Sarah Finnimore and Robert Burton Buckley (1847-1927), a civil engineer then working in Bengal.[https://archive.org/details/memorialsoffamil00phil/page/54/mode/2up?q=%22Winifred+Finnimore%22&view=theater William P. W. Phillimore, Memorials of the family of Fynmore etc., Published by the Author, London 1886, p. 54]
In January 1920, the King appointed her as Officer of the Civil Division of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her “valuable services” rendered in Military Hospitals during the War.[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/13559/page/321/data.pdf The Edinburgh Gazette, 3 February 1920, p. 321].
On the same year, she was registered as a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, London (LRCP) and as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons (MRCS).[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31760/supplement/1238/data.pdf Supplement to The London Gazette, 30 January 1920, p. 1238].
Buckley is portrayed, along with the two leading figures of the Endell Street hospital Louisa Garrett Anderson and Flora Murray, in the oil-on-canvas painting by Francis Dodd “An Operation at the Military Hospital, Endell Street”(1920), now preserved in the collections of the Imperial War Museum.https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/7737
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