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The surgeon's pocket-book; being an essay on the best treatment of wounded in war, by Surgeon-Major J.H. Porter, Assistant Professor of Military Surgery, Army Medical School, Netley

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

Warrants of Harry Augustus Ward

History of the design and construction of The Duchess of Kent's Military Hospital at Catterick, Yorkshire

Papers and souvenirs of Major Robert Cox

Plans, photographs and souvenirs of the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich

Newspaper cuttings and photocopies of newspaper articles celebrating the centenary of the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot

Roll of names of men who served with the 2nd/2nd Northumbrian Field Ambulance during the First World War, compiled by Mr. T.W. Hall of Hurstwood Road, Sunderland, Co. Durham

First World War photographs (of 1/1 Welsh Field Ambulance?)

Group photograph of recruits in Class No. 62, Depot RAMC, Aldershot

Minute books of the Army Hygiene Advisory Committee

Two photographs and a page from the Gibraltar Chronicle of 2 April 1963, re the transfer of the Military Hospital in Gibraltar to the control of the Royal Navy

Eight photographs of inspection of RAMC staff and activities of the patients at "Calderstones", Queen Mary's Military Hospital, Whalley, Lancs

Cavalry doctor: letters written from the field, 1900-1901, during the Anglo-Boer War by Colonel A.F. Russell, MB, CMG. Edited by Isobel Robertson

Standing orders for operations and exercises, and quick move instructions of 23 Parachute Field Ambulance, RAMC

Record of transfusions at RAMC Blood Transfusion Centre (in Egypt?)

Photographs of Private S.J.G. Stevens and of hospitals and hospital ships in Palestine, the Dardanelles and Salonica (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Group photograph of the officers and non-commissioned officers of the 131st Field Ambulance, RAMC, 38th (Welsh) Division

Account and history of the Louise Margaret Maternity Hospital, Aldershot (by Sir Norman Talbot?)

Papers of Colonel Alfred Leopold Robertson, RAMC

Papers of General Sir Norman Talbot, RAMC

Two volumes donated by Captain C. Combe

Album of photographs of visit by Colonel T.C. Ticehurst and Colonel A.B. Dick of the Armed Forces Medical Services to Nigeria

Album of photographs of Sergeant C.P.E. Fuller, RAMC, with 26 British Field Ambulance (Indian Medical Service) in German East Africa (now part of Tanzania) 1917-1918, and with 37th British Stationary Hospital, Lumbo, Mozambique, 1918-1919

Papers and souvenirs of Surgeon Alexander Fraser Russell

List of British Army, Red Cross, etc., units at Belsen Concentration Camp, May 1945, with an account of achievements in clearing the camp and nursing its inmates, produced for the benefit of newly-arrived British army personnel

Special order to 16 Parachute Brigade re the amalgamation of 23rd Parachute Field Ambulance with 15th Field Ambulance to form 6th Field Ambulance as part of 6th Field Force

Copy of a photograph (c.1903) of Surgeon-General Sir Edmond Townsend, KCB, CMG

Warrant Officer George Cozens's certificates from the Freemasons Lodge, Gibraltar

Papers of Major Ernest Leslie May, RAMC

Private Arthur Walter Cave Pucknell's photographs of RAMC camps, equipment and wards, and of life in Peshawar and Rawalpindi, India (now Pakistan)

Photocopy of typescript notes by Warrant Officer E. Sims, giving his own account of some incidents mentioned in Brigadier D.C. Bowie's book Captive surgeon in Hong Kong, re Japanese occupation of the British Military Hospital in Hong Kong, 1940-1945

Identity papers of Stephan Westerhove, a former prisoner of war employed in 25 (British) Military Hospital in Münster, Germany

Souvenir book of the 6th British Field Ambulance 1939-1945, in France, India and Burma

The Silver Lining, or Sister's Smile: a journal for the patients of the 42nd C(asualty) C(learing) S(tation). No. 1, Aug 1916

Thomas Young of Rosetta, pamphlet by Sheila Scott

Group photograph of the staff of the 2nd Northern General Hospital, Leeds

The story of the 18th General Hospital, 1939-1945, by T.D. Pratt and G.A. Bramley

Registers of operations at the Military Hospital, Edinburgh

Photograph of memorial in South Africa to the nursing sister and men of the 6th General Hospital, Royal Army Medical Corps, who died during the South African War, 1900

Two army service books of Sergeant Edward William Clear, RAMC

Papers and photographs of Private William Douglas Walford, RAMC

"The Victorian medical profession and military practice: army doctors and national origins", by Nelson D. Lankford

Experiments to ascertain whether mepacrine is a true causel (sic) prophylactic of malignant tertian malaria, typescript by Colonel S.P. James, RAMC

Postcard photographs of medical personnel including "B" section, London Field Ambulance, 1914, and of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, during the First World War

Some reminiscences of Operation Overlord-the D" Day landings", typescript by Lieutenant A. C. Holliday, RAMC (retired), formerly Quartermaster of No. 20 Field Dressing Station

Adler Museum Bulletin, from the Adler Museum of the History of the Medicine, South Africa, containing articles on proctology, medical symbolism, Captain Matthew Louis Hughes's typhoid research and Waldemar Haffkine's plague research in India

Biographical notes re Lieutenant Colonel Robert Black Purves, D.S.O. compiled by Michael Ingham, Senior Administrator, Lincoln County Hospital

Army Pathology Advisory Committee report on the investigation in 1951 into the prevention of tetanus in the British army, by Miss M. Barr and Major-General A. Sachs

Reports on medical results of exposure to radiation

Photographs of RAMC personnel, and of the Boer War

Photograph album and record of personnel of 28 Field Ambulance

Account book for provisions, forage and transport, Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley

Photograph albums of Cyril Howkins

Photographs and other souvenirs of Sergeant Frank Wheatley, RAMC

Service book of Albert Edward Wilkinson, RAMC

Visitors book of the Officers' Mess, 23rd Parachute Field Ambulance

Ministry of Labour and National Service 'Guide to the resettlement in civilian employment of men and women discharged from H.M. Forces at the end of regular engagements'. Volume Two: Army (including Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps and the Women's Royal Army Corps)

Album of photographs and newspaper reports of an exhibition of care of casualties by the Army Medical Service and the Red Cross and St. John Ambulance Service, entitled "Out from the battle", held in the grounds of Clarence House, The Mall, London

Scrap book of souvenirs and photographs of Sergeant-Major James Ernest Hart's service with the RAMC, 1914-1918, and with the British Red Cross Society

Certificates of awards of medals to Brigadier Hugh Llewelyn Glyn Hughes, RAMC

Catalogue of sale at the Field Stores, Aldershot, of two hundred and fifty horse-drawn vehicles, including Studebaker wagons, general service and ambulance wagons, tip carts, forage carts, Bristol hay wagons, travelling kitchens and field tank water carts

Photocopies of posters drawn by Abram Games to recruit personnel to the armed forces and their medical services, and to promote hygiene among armed forces personnel, during the Second World War

Souvenir booklet of the presentation of the honorary freedom of the Borough of rushmoor to the Corps of Royal Engineers, the Royal Hampshire Regiment, the Parachute Regiment, the Royal Corps of Transport, the Army Medical Services and the Army Catering Corps, on 29 May 1981

Papers and souvenirs of Private Edward Jack Underwood, RAMC

Six photographs of delegates at the Anglo-Canadian Medical Conference

Commission of John Wotherspoon as Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps

Minutes of committee and general meetings of the RAMC Warrant Officers' and Sergeants' (past and present) Annual Dinner Club

Certificates of awards of medals, etc., to Major-General John Galbraith Gill, RAMC

Papers of Captain Leonard Leigh Hadley, RAMC, and photographs of his anti-malarial and hygiene work

Papers and photographs of Private Cecil Walter Joseph Branch, RAMC

Photocopies of pages from (unknown) books, bearing photographs, some captioned, of ambulances and temporary hospitals in Britain during the First World War, and of units, one captioned "Indian Hospital Corps 1916"

Papers and souvenirs of Sergeant James George Gore and Private L. Francis, RAMC

Certificate of nursing orderly, third class, awarded to Private C. Sharp, RAMC

Typed extracts from war diaries of No. 21 Motor Ambulance Convoy (March 1916-Sept 1919) and No. 24 Motor Ambulance Convoy (Jan 1916-May 1919), on the Western Front

The convoy, the monthly journal of the 28th Motor Ambulance Convoy, 30 September 1918

The wit, the organ of the RAMC Training Centre, Ripon, incorporating the 'Peeko' Journal, 14 July 1916

Six group photographs of sports teams from Headquarters Company, RAMC

Der truppenärtzliche Dienst der verbündeten Armeen in den Schlachten vom 16-18 Juni 1815 in den Niederlanden, by Dr. F. Hermann

Photocopy of record of service, 1914-1942, of Colonel Sidney Martin Hattersley, RAMC

Two albums of Major A.H. Safford's photographs of South Africa (1900), Calcutta and Barrackpore, India (c.1901), RAMC Training Centre at Twezeldown Camp, Farnham, Surrey (1914), and the first British troops to enter Theux, Belgium, at the end of the First World War, 1918

(Malta's) War Museum souvenir handbook, with an account of Malta in the Second World War

Duplicated "Summary of information", 2nd Cavalry Division news-sheet, Christmas 1914, including an account of the Division's activities, Aug-Dec 1914, in France

Duplicated copy of private log book of during life on board H.M. Hospital Ship Soudan, 11 Aug 1914-2 Sept [actually 21 May] 1915, including Dardanelles campaign

Papers of Major C.J. Longland, surgeon in 16th Parachute Field Ambulance in North Africa, Sicily and Italy

Papers of Major S. Glaser, RAMC

Reminiscences of Private Arthur Morgan of First Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers and Corporal (?) Cockfield, Fourth Battalion, First Brigade, Australian Volunteer Force, re the Gallipoli Campaign, 1915, and their treatment after wounding

Programme, seating plan and newspaper cutting re the grant of the Freedom of Keynsham, Avon, to 219 (Wessex) General Hospital, RAMC (Volunteers), 27 March 1982

Menu of luncheon, 24 March 1982, to mark the 40th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother's appointment as Colonel-in-Chief, Royal Army Medical Corps

Photocopy of article by Richard Turner entitled "Metal detectors in medicine", in Radio and Electronics World Volume 1, No. 7, April 1982

Five photographs of graves in Berlin of RAMC personnel killed in the First World War, 1914-1918

The surgeon's pocket-book; being an essay on the best treatment of wounded in war, by Surgeon-Major J.H. Porter, Assistant Professor of Military Surgery, Army Medical School, Netley

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