In 1915 she was installed at Abbeville as matron-in-chief of the BEF in France and Flanders, taking charge of the whole area from the Channel to the Mediterranean, wherever British and allied nurses worked; she was directly responsible to General Headquarters.
She was stationed at Abbeville in 1915 as head nurse of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France and Flanders, overseeing a broad area along the Channel to the Mediterranean, where British and allied nursing staff were deployed; she had direct responsibility to General Headquarters.