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Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection

Papers of Lieutenant Colonel Peter B. Ascroft

Surgical Specialist, British North Africa Force

Material from 1942-1944

Script of a film re advances in treatment of head injuries due to experience gained in the war

Report from No. 5 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit

Report on the work of No. 4 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit in the 8th Army Campaign in Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Tunisia, Dec 19th 1942-May 24th 1943

Information and instructions re Ascroft's proposed departure for the United States of America

Correspondence with Brigadier Fred Stammers re surgical operations under unfavourable conditions

Consolidated report re the surgical division of 95 General Hospital by Lieutenant Colonel J.C. Nicholson

Report by Major Kenneth Eden to the Consultant Neurosurgeon re No. 4 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit in the Sicilian Campaign

Ascroft's general correspondence with colleagues, including news of the death from polio-encephalitis of Major Kenneth Eden, and notes on evacuation of neurosurgical casualties

List of equipment issued to Mobile Neurosurgical Unit

List of statistics re operations and disposal of cases, 95 General Hospital

Table of statistics re wounds of abdomen, chest and head, from the four General Hospitals 94, 95, 96, & 99) in the Algiers area, Nov 1942-Sept 1943

Table of statistics re deaths in surgical division, Oct-Dec 1943 (list of cases)

Statistical report for medical division, 95 General Hospital, Oct-Dec 1943. With appendices giving details of cases

Memorandum to 95 General Hospital re premature assessment of patients as unfit for duty, with example of individual case

List of statistics re patients in No. 1 Neurosurgical Unit and in 95 General Hospital Orthopaedic Centre

Quarterly reports, notes and statistics of No. 4 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit

Rough notes re cases, "Algiers: H.I.M.(?) case summaries"

Notes on "The feeding of surgical patients in forward areas"

Sheet of questions re patients' injuries, "History sheet for interpreters"

Outline of a scheme for a resuscitation service for 10th Army

Notes re the constitution of mobile surgical units (single team and double team) and the working capacity of double team mobile surgical units

Report on site for mobile surgical unit in Mersa Matruh (Egypt)

Memoranda re electrosurgical apparatus and bulk sterilisation

List of lectures for senior (medical) personnel

Nominal roll of officers at 95 General Hospital

Instructions for compilation of quarterly returns by General Hospital

Notes on the care of patients recovering from general anaesthesia

Mobile surgical units and the early treatment of battle casualties in the Western Desert

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Mobile surgical units and the early treatment of battle casualties in the Western Desert

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