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My memoirs of the Great War, manuscript account by Private John Charles Henry French, RAMC

Account, expanding on diary entries, of his service with the 3rd/4th London Field Ambulance, in training at Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, Dec 1916-Mar 1917, and in Blackpool, Lancashire, March-June 1917; with the 2nd London Sanitary Company in training in Chelsea, London, June-Aug 1917; and with the 114th Sanitary Section in Egypt, Aug 1917-Nov 1919.
Illustrated with photographs, postcards and documents. [Very detailed account of training and work of RAMC personnel].

Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection

Address delivered at prize-giving at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, by Sir Henry W. Acland, outlining the history of the Army Medical School

The bacteriology of fever in Malta: two papers, both reprinted from the Annales de l'Institut Pasteur, bound into one volume

Ms catalogue of photographs shown in Imp(erial) Med(ical) War Museum, E(gyptian) E(xpeditionary) F(orce) Section

Portfolio of cuttings, mainly from the Illustrated London News, re medical services in the Crimean War and re Florence Nightingale

Ms catalogue of drawings, casts, prints, paintings, etc. (in Fort Pitt, Chatham, Kent), of anatomical details including details of cases

Boer War memories, by Lieutenant Colonel F.A.B. Daly

The breakdown of young soldiers under training explained, by Surgeon Major F. Arthur Davy; three papers originally published separately as

Volume of copy letters, presented to Thomas Keate, Surgeon General to His Majesty's Forces, by Nodes Dickinson, their author

Album of photographs of Directors of the Indian Medical Service, 1858-1947, copies of pictures which hung in the office of the Director of Medical Services in India

Folder of letters, maps and diagrams re Lieutenant Colonel M. Dunning, Commander, 2nd Lowland Field Ambulance, in the campaigns in the Dardanelles, 1915, and the Middle East, 1917

Bound ms of "Introductory lecture on the practice of physic (delivered January 20th 1819)" by Charles Fergusson Forbes, M.D., Deputy Inspector of Hospitals

A field surgery pocket book: memoranda mainly based on experience in the present war

A field surgery pocket book (revised): memoranda mainly based on experience in the 1939-45 War

Lieutenant Colonel J.G. Foster's collection of material re the history of army medical services

On hygiene in Ancient India, by Surgeon General C.A. Gordon

Roll of Commissioned Officers in the medical service of the British Army who served on full pay within the period between the accession of George II and the formation of the RAMC (1727-1898), by Colonel William Johnston

Sir Charles Bell's watercolours of wounds sustained by soldiers at the Battle of Waterloo, June 1815

Description of a series of watercolour drawings executed by the late Sir Charles Bell, illustrative of wounds received at the Battle of Waterloo, by Deputy Inspector General T. Longmore, Professor of Military Surgery

Photographs and memorabilia of Arthur Martin Leake, RAMC

Scrap-book and Manuals

Army Medical School correspondence and bills re the Montefiore Prizes for military surgery, including posed photographs and sketches for the design of the medal

War Office Memoranda on medical diseases in tropical and sub-tropical areas

Papers of Alexander Cushnie Morison

Thomas Murray's certificate of membership of the Royal College of Surgeons

Bound ms case notes written in captivity by Brigadier L.R.S. MacFarlane (RAMC) re treatment of amoebic dysentery among prisoners of war of the Japanese in Thailand

Address by Dr. John Orsborn to the members of the Southampton Medical Society, in memory of Dr. Edmund Alexander Parkes, FRCP, FRS "the founder and best teacher of military hygiene of our day"

The Harveian Oration to the Royal College of Physicians (on Harvey's experiments which led to understanding of blood circulation), written by Dr. Edmund Alexander Parkes, FRCP, FRS, and read after his death

A list of commissioned medical officers of the army, Charles II to accession of George II, 1660-1727, by Colonel Alfred Peterkin

Material re the Centenary of the Army Pathology Service

Manual for Army Medical Services by Surgeon Major William E. Riordan

Material re the golden jubilee of the RAMC

RAMC Training Manuals

Instructions for the regulation of military hospitals and the sick with divisions of the army in the Peninsula .... bound with manuscript forms for scale of diet, return of medical comforts, report of the arrival of sick, diet abstract, "morning state of General Hospital" (a daily census of patients admitted, discharged, etc.) and bed head ticket (patient's details)

Colonel N. J. C. Rutherford's account of his part, with the field hospital, at the Battle of Magersfontein during the Boer War. Written in pencil "on the battlefield"

A collection of orders, regulations and instructions for the Army: on matters of finance and points of discipline immediately connected therewith, published by order of the War Office. (Section VI deals with "Medical Department of the Army, including the Veterinary Branch")

The tale of a field hospital, by Frederick Treves, Medical Officer attached to the column which relieved Ladysmith during the Boer War

Typed transcripts of letters written by Arthur Henry Taylor, an assistant surgeon with the British Army in the Crimea, to his parents, 1854-1856

Papers of Joseph Marmaduke Taylor

Letters from Edmund P. Hewitt, with the RAMC in South Africa, to his brother, Jack Hewitt, Indian Public Works Department

Second World War medical bulletins and memoranda bound into one volume

Menu and seating plan of a dinner on 8th June "in appreciation of the splendid services of the Royal Army Medical Corps and the eminent civilians attached to it during the war," with a report of the speeches made there

Newspaper cuttings scrapbook on the subject of the rank of Army Medical Officers

Newspaper cuttings scrapbooks re the Army Medical Services/Royal Army Medical Corps, 1895-1907 compiled by Lieutenant Colonel William Johnston

Sir Joseph Fayrer's scrap-books

Bound volume of 11 pamphlets and articles by Major General George J.H. Evatt, RAMC 1878-1920

'In Memoriam Dr. Edmund Alexander Parkes' Reprinted from the British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, July 1876

Notes on sanitation for Indian troops by T. F. Paterson, Captain, Indian Medical Service. 2nd edition, edited by Major D.R. Thapar, Malaria Medical Officer

Typescript diary formed of extracts from letters by Surgeon Captain Alfred E. Master, Army Medical Service, re campaigning with the Queens Regiment against the Afridi tribes on the North-West Frontier of India (The Tirah Campaign)

Booklet of photographic reproduction of the 'Memorial Roll ("Golden Book") of the Royal Army Medical Corps', designed by Graily Hewitt, with descriptive notes by the artist

'Medical administration in the South African War, being a report of speeches delivered by Sir William Church, President, R.C.P., London, Sir William MacCormac, President, R.C.S., England, and Surgeon General J. Jameson, late Director General, Army Medical Services, at a complimentary dinner given to the latter by the Medical Profession of Great Britain and Ireland, on the 24 July 1901'

Printed copies of royal warrants re army medicine, bound together

Volume of Pathological Reports, Jan-May 1856, of the Pathological Board at Balaclava in the Crimea

Medical Register, Feb 1855 - March 1856, (of the Royal London militia or of a military hospital in London?)

Pathological registers of surgeons in the camp before Sebastopol during the Crimean War, divided into sections re febrile diseases, cerebro-spinal, thoracic diseases, abdominal diseases, miscellaneous (mostly drunkenness) and gunshot wounds and surgical injuries

Volume of monthly reports, Jan-June 1856, of the Pathological Board in the camp besieging Sebastopol during the Crimean War

Volume of Pathological Reports, Jan-April 1856, of the Pathological Board, Highland Division, in the Crimea

7 volumes (numbered 5-11) of Sir Joseph Fayrer's "notes of interesting cases in the Medical College & Hospital (at Calcutta)", in chronological order

Papers of Surgeon John Francis Smet, 8th Light Dragoons

Miscellaneous papers collected by Dr. H. Morley Fletcher, FRCP

Minute Book of the Committee of the Army Medical Officers Benevolent Fund

Bound committee reports and accounts of the Army Medical Officers Benevolent Fund

5 volumes of correspondence of William Fergusson, Inspector of Army Hospitals in Portugal during the Peninsular War

Album, signed by Colonel David Bruce, Assistant Professor of Pathology, of photographs of groups of medical students at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, with captions giving surname of each student

Papers of Assistant Surgeon Thomas Murray

Papers of Surgeon Colin Paterson

Copy of a report submitted in 1915 to the Director of Medical Services, India, by Lieutenant Colonel Patrick O'Gorman, IMS, describing a stretcher-lifter as an alternative form of casualty transport to the traditional Indian dandy

Three Chinese scrolls re anatomy

Papers of Surgeon Alexander Simpson (1819-1864)

Burgess ticket of the city of Dundee, conferring freedom of the City and Burgh on David Middleton Greig, CM, FRCSE, for his help to the people of Dundee in the hospitals and other institutions

Papers of Surgeons David Greig and David Middleton Greig (father and son?)

Album of T.B.A. Tuckey, Brevet Colonel, RAMC, containing 5 pencil-written Boer passes "taken from Boer Laager after being shelled by the British at Colesberg, 1900

Health memoranda for soldiers by Lieutenant Colonel H.K. Allport, RAMC

Folder of souvenir issues, newspaper cuttings, etc., re Centenary of the institution of the Victoria Cross

Printed syllabus of a course of lectures for 1846-47 and 1849-50 sessions, on the principles and practice of military surgery, by Jolliffe Tufnell, Assistant Surgeon to the Forces in Ireland, and Surgeon to the Military Prison

Case notes re fractured acromion process (right shoulder) of Bombardier Edward Robins, Royal Artillery

Items re Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, donated by Donald Bowie, who had charge of the British Military Hospital in Hong Kong from August 1942 until liberation in 1945

Material re the life of Dr. James Barry, Inspector General of Military Hospitals, "found upon death to have been a woman"

Jelligraph copies of extracts from Medical Staff Corps orders, including memoranda re promotion of private soldiers to rank of First Class Orderly, arms and accoutrements, compilation of reports, etc.

War diary kept by Captain Neil Cantlie, RAMC, with the 6th Division at the Battle of the Somme, Sept - Oct 1916

Papers of John James Young Campbell of Glasgow

Baird and Tatlock (London) Ltd. album of photographs of mobile laboratories manufactured and designed by them for use by the British and Allied Medical Services during the First World War, showing exteriors, interiors and equipment

Transcription of the Book of Remembrance, the roll of honour of the RAMC personnel killed in the Second World War, 1939-1945, with historical notes and statistics

Papers of Colonel Thomas Boswell Beach, RAMC

Photogravure of a portrait by Dyce of Sir James McGrigor

Copy (or draft) of commission, 1657, from Charles II to John Knight, appointing him Surgeon General

Diplomas and commissions of David Middleton Greig

Papers of Surgeon William Lindsay of the 18th Foot

Papers and souvenirs of Arthur Martin Leake

Diary of Anthony Dickson Home, surgeon, 90th Foot, re his voyage to India round the Cape of Good Hope, and the relief and subsequent siege of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny

Letter, 10th Sept 1855, to his parents from Assistant Surgeon T. Egerton Hale, describing the attack on the Redan at Sebastopol during the Crimean War, in the course of which Hale performed deeds of valour for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross when it was instituted in 1856

Letters and papers of Florence Nightingale

19 watercolour illustrations by Mervyn Smart (Grant?) of wounds sustained during the Allied advance on Germany "made for Brigadier Harold Edwards" (Consultant Surgeon, Allied Forces H.Q.)

Professor Edmund Parkes's photograph album of officers at the Army Medical School, Netley, with one photograph of his house in Bitterne

Sir Thomas Longmore's scrap-book of "Illustrations of appliances (and methods) for the transport of wounded soldiers", with extracts from The Ambulance Transport

Scrap-book by Captain G.H. Colt, RAMC, re development of the joined-pole trench-stretcher, including correspondence, 1915, with Captain D'Arcy Power and with Captain J. Ellis Milne, re the development of a stretcher for use in the trenches on the Western Front

Catalogue in 2 ms volumes of specimens in the Pathological Museum at Fort Pitt, Chatham, Kent, with details of case and of preparation of specimen

Catalogue in one ms volume of the library of the Army Medical School, Netley, in alphabetical order of author's name, with some subject entries

Necrological register of all cases admitted to general hospital, Portugal, in 1827, compiled by William M. Ford, Assistant Surgeon to H.M. Forces in Portugal

Volume of pathological (post-mortem) reports from the Army Medical School Hospital at Netley of cases admitted from other Forces hospitals

Necrological registers (reports) from General Hospital at Fort Pitt, Chatham, Kent

Biographical memoirs and bibliographies and reprints of articles of Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley

Publicity files containing cuttings re the RAMC and its personnel, from newspapers and magazines

Photographs relating to Central America, 1980, memorials to RAMC personnel, 1950s-1960s, mobile laborator, 1940, and casualty rescue in the mountains.

Typescript history of the RAMC Annual Dinner, with ms. comments (post 1923)

Papers of Lieutenant Colonel Stanley D. Large, RAMC

Report to the Secretary of State for War, descriptive of the Herbert Hospital at Woolwich, by Douglas Galton, (late Captain, Royal Engineers), Assistant Under Secretary of State for War

Two portrait photographs of Colonel J.H.P. Graham, RAMC, one with medal ribbons attached to its mount

Portrait photographs of Principal Medical Officers, Deputy Directors of Medical Services, etc., in India

Negatives of photographs of the competition for the Manchester Volunteer Medical Staff Corps Shield

Material re the Royal Army Medical College at Millbank

Souvenirs of the Argentine army, taken from the Falkland Islands after the War in 1982

Photocopy of the appendix to The South African Campaign of 1879 by Mackinnon and Shadbolt, giving records of service of officers of the Army Medical Department and the Army Hospital Corps, and listing civilian surgeons who served in the war

Order of service of thanksgiving at the Chapel of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London, for the life and work of Robert Alexander Stephen, CB, CBE, MD, ChM, FRCS

Papers of Lieutenant-Colonel J.W. Wayte, RAMC

1 group and 2 portrait photographs of J.T. Chapman and colleagues, Medical Staff Corps

Photocopy of an article from Trains Illustrated (post 1945), re the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway ambulance train, 1916

Five certificates of mention of Colonel (later Major-General) H.N. Thompson, RAMC, in despatches, 1915-1919

Curriculum vitae (c.1986) and two portrait photographs (c.1900) of Colonel Alexander James MacDougall of MacDougall, CMG, RAMC

Parbate magazine, Vol. 11, Nos. 19, 23, 39 and 44 and Vol 12, Nos. 34 and 36, with note "Reminiscences of the Army Chest Centre (Connaught Hospital, Bramshott, Hampshire) in Gurkhali"

Menu of Burns Night supper at the Officers' Mess, Army School of Hygiene, 25 Jan 1945

Photocopies of extract from an official report of the sinking of the Hospital Ship St. David off Anzio Beach, Italy, on 24 Jan 1944, and of the citation for Captain Jenkin Robert Oswald Thompson, RAMC, who went down with the ship

Three sketch maps of British military operations at Souakim (Suakin, Sudan) "probably made by Surgeon Arthur Charles James Rudd Lundy of the Army Medical Department"

Memorabilia of Corporal Percy Ashton, RAMC, 8th Egyptian Field Ambulance, Egypt, during the First World War

Portrait photograph of Lieutenant Colonel John Courtney Haslett, RAMC

Papers of Corporal Thomas Franklin James, RAMC

Postcard photograph of "RAMC picking up wounded in a captured village" on the Western Front during the First World War

Copies of citations for medals for officers and other ranks of medical units in 52nd (Lowland) Division under command of Major General E. Hakewill Smith during the invasion of Germany

Album of photographs and extracts from brochure re the official opening of the RAMC. Training Group Complex and the Sir Alexander Hood Theatre at Mytchett, Surrey

Copies of photographs of the Military Hospital, Munster, Germany, and its Wehrmacht staff

Memorabilia of Private Joseph Patterson, RAMC, with 2nd/1st Northumbrian Field Ambulance in Salonika (Thessaloniki) and Stavros, Greece

Miscellaneous published items and photograph

Admission and discharge registers of No. 1 and 2 South African General Hospitals (in East Africa)

Minute book of the Committee of the North Persian Forces Memorial Fund, meeting to decide on award of annual prize for paper re tropical medicine or tropical hygiene

Souvenir book of photographs of London and of the 3rd London Hospital, Wandsworth, presented to Miss R. Bree for her work in the hospital

Miscellaneous files, etc., from the Army School of Health and the RAMC Depot and Training Centre

Typescript drafts of histories of the Royal Army Medical Corps

Aide memoire for medical officers, Southern Command

Photographs and record of service of Colonel C.H. Reinhold

Assorted photographs of RAMC units

Modern copies of five photographs of ambulances at the British Red Cross Society garage, Boulogne, France, and one of loading casualties onto ambulance wagons from the Mairie at Erquinghem-Lys (Belgium), from photographs in the RAMC Museum, Mytchett, Surrey

Diary of Corporal H. Long with the 130th Field Ambulance in Iraq. Includes photographs of comrades and of local inhabitants

Papers and souvenirs of Lance Corporal John Roberts, RAMC

Typescript of "A history of the School of Army Health, formerly School of Military Hygiene RAMC School of Sanitation..." by Lieutenant R.J. Smart, formerly Sergeant-Major Instructor at School of Army Health

Papers and photographs of Captain William Leslie Kennett, RAMC

Group photograph of the RAMC (Aldershot) Rugby Team, winners of the Army Rugby Union Challenge Cup, with Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein and Brigadier Hugh Llewelyn Glyn Hughes, autographed by Montgomery of Alamein

Papers and photographs of Captain Jack Hoile

Diaries of Private Arthur Boar, RAMC, with 2nd/1st East Anglian Field Ambulance in Egypt

Papers, photographs and autobiographical sketches of Regimental Sergeant Major John A. Cox, RAMC

Seven letters from the Western Front from Captain Noel Chavasse, RAMC, to Misses Margaret and Cecily Twemlow, daughters of his neighbours in Liverpool

Lantern slide portrait of Mary, Lady Bruce

Two photographs of 17th Field Ambulance, RAMC, showing horse-drawn ambulances

Autograph book of Shaftesbury Military Hospital (Dorset)

Typescript account by Colonel Alfred Leonard Craddock, IMS, of the rescue by ambulance train of casualties at Katha, Burma, in April 1942

Photocopy of article "Medical Staff in the (Boer) War" from the Illustrated London News

Certificate of mention of Sergeant W. Hunter of 52nd (Lowland) Casualty Clearing Station, RAMC, in despatches of March 1918

A Concise History, 1886-1986, of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene

Handbook of 224 Field Ambulance, RAMC (Volunteers)

A history of 308 (County of London) Evacuation Hospital (V), RAMC, Territorial Army, by Colonel D. N. Stewart, to celebrate the Unit's Silver Jubilee

Text of the welcoming address of Sir Norman Talbot, Director General, Army Medical Services, to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (widow of George VI), Commander in Chief, RAMC on the occasion of the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital at Woolwich on 9 November 1972

Papers of Lance Corporal George Biddiscombe, RAMC

Autograph book of E. Drathall (a nurse at the Royal Infirmary, Leicester)

Hand-made RAMC Christmas card

Diary and memoirs of Sir Joseph Fayrer

A pictorial history of the Royal Army Medical Corps, an album of photographs compiled by Keith Leonard, Museum Technician of the RAMC Museum

Photocopy of "Stoker through Hukawng, March 1942", typescript account by Dr. A. Desmond Stoker of his escape, as second-in-command of 5th Burma General Hospital, from the Japanese invasion of Burma

Photocopy of typed transcript of the writings of Frederick George Marrable, RAMC

Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Alexander Drummond

Papers and photographs of Colonel George Hankey, commanding officer of 141st (City of London)Field Ambulance, RAMC (T.A.)

Typescript copy of "With the British forces in France", the diary of Private Walter Bentham's service with No.8 Company, RAMC, Aug 1914-March 1916, with a footnote by his grandson, B.M. Bentham

Two photographs of the laying by Sir James Hartigan, DGAMS, of the foundation stone of the Sandhurst Block of Keogh Barracks, Mytchett, Surrey, on 17 February 1938

The diary of 2266489 Kell, G(ordon) T., 1 May 1952-30 April 1954, when serving his period of National Service as a medical orderly on troopships in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Far East

Colonel William O'Brien: lantern slides to illustrate lectures in the Royal Army Medical College Department of Tropical Medicine

25 lantern slides to illustrate lectures (by Colonel William Horrocks, member of the Army Medical Advisory Board) re water purification, hygiene arrangements in trenches, and casualty evacuation, during the First World War

RAMC Band: photographs of the band and of some its members

30 photographs of groups, including sports teams, at the RAMC Apprentices College, Keogh Barracks, Ash Vale, Hampshire

Photographs of the staff of 4th London General Hospital

Eight postcard photographs of 1st Eastern General Hospital, Cambridge

Memorabilia and history of Second World War Airborne Medical Units

Photographs of Major G.H. Davies, RAMC

Photocopy of typescript copy of the diary of Captain D.W.J. Andrews, RAMC, July 1915-March 1916, when he served in 58th Field Ambulance on the Western Front

Medical Staff Corps account book of John Thomas Chapman

Four photographs of the visit in June 1987 by the Dunkirk Veterans Association to war graves (of 141 Field Ambulance?)

Medical support in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, reproducing the paper "Organization of the evacuation and management of casualties during the October 1973 War" by Dr. J. Adler of the Israeli Defence Forces

S.R. Collantine: manuscript articles re the history of the medical services' sergeants' mess, the development of the rank of sergeant, and the development of military barracks

"Medical vehicles past and present": typescript by Private K. Edgar, RAMC

Photocopy of typescript account of the rescue by Captain Ian Patrick Crawford, Regimental Medical Officer of the 1st Battalion, 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles, of Major E.D. Smith, the Battalion's Second in Command, from a crashed helicopter in Borneo on 18 December 1964

Correspondence and information re the history of Mytchett Place, residence of the General Officer Commanding at RAMC Barracks, Ash Vale, Hampshire

Unbound copy (proof?) of the first volume of Sir Neil Cantlie's history of the Army Medical Department

My memoirs of the Great War, manuscript account by Private John Charles Henry French, RAMC

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