Editing Somerville College, Oxford (section)

===First World War===
During the [[World War I|First World War]], Somerville College together with the [[Examination Schools]] and other Oxford buildings were requisitioned by the [[War Office]] to create the Third Southern General Hospital, a facility for the [[Royal Army Medical Corps]] to treat military casualties.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/war/military_hospitals/ |title=Military Hospitals |publisher=Oxford History |access-date=22 July 2019 |archive-date=22 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190722205212/http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/war/military_hospitals/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/about-somerville/history/somerville-hospital-then-and-now/ |title=Somerville Hospital – Then and Now |access-date=27 August 2018 |publisher=Somerville College |archive-date=27 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180827174134/https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/about-somerville/history/somerville-hospital-then-and-now/ |url-status=live}}</ref> For the duration of the war, Somerville students relocated to [[Oriel College, Oxford|Oriel College]].{{sfn |Adams |1996 |p=78}} Because many male students had left Oxford to enlist in the military, Somerville was able to rent [[St Mary Hall, Oxford|St Mary Hall Quad]] which they bricked off from the rest of the college to segregate it from Oriel's remaining male students.{{sfn |Adams |1996 |p=89}} Many students and tutors were involved in work in World War I and some of them went to the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] in France.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Somerville and the Great War |date=13 December 2018 |url=https://blogs.some.ox.ac.uk/thegreatwar/ |access-date=8 August 2022 |language=en-US |archive-date=2 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220702084332/https://blogs.some.ox.ac.uk/thegreatwar/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

Notable patients who stayed in Somerville include the war poets [[Robert Graves]], [[Siegfried Sassoon]] and [[R. E. Vernède]]. Sassoon arrived on 2 August 1916. Graves and Sassoon later reminisced about their time at Somerville Hospital: ''How unlike you to crib my idea of going to the Ladies' College at Oxford'', Sassoon wrote to Graves in 1917, and called it ''very much like Paradise''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sassoon |first=Siegfried |author-link=Siegfried Sassoon |year=1945 |title=Siegfried's Journey, 1916-1920 |page=5}}</ref> At Somerville College, Graves met his first love, a nurse and professional pianist called Marjorie. About his time at Somerville, he wrote: ''I enjoyed my stay at Somerville. The sun shone, and the discipline was easy''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Graves |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Graves |year=1929 |title=Goodbye to All That |pages=304–305}}</ref> [[Alfred Mills (flying ace)|Alfred Mills]] was received in the hospital in 1916 and officer [[Llewelyn Davies (RFC officer)|Llewelyn Davies]] died at the college.<ref>Du Ruvigny & Raineval (1922).</ref>

Once the war ended, the return to normality between Oriel and Somerville was delayed, sparking both frustration and an incident in spring 1919 known as the "Oriel raid," in which male students made a hole in the wall dividing the sexes.{{sfn |Adams |1996 |p=99}} In July 1919 the principal (Emily Penrose) and fellows returned to Somerville.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://oxfordsummercourses.com/articles/history-of-somerville-college-oxford/ |title=Somerville College, Oxford During WWII |access-date=3 September 2023 |archive-date=12 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412183304/https://oxfordsummercourses.com/articles/history-of-somerville-college-oxford/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Alumna Vera Brittain wrote about the impact of the war in Oxford and paid tribute to the work of the principal, Miss Penrose, in her memoir ''[[Testament of Youth]]''.