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Portrait photograph of Colonel A. Pirie Watson, ADMS, 52nd (Lowland) Division 1933-1937

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

Character certificate of Private Albert Perrior, RAMC, on leaving the colours

Photograph of the armorial bearings of Lord Richardson, MVO, MD, FRCP, formerly Sir John Richardson

Papers and photographs of Private James William Smith of 2nd Field Ambulance, RAMC

Photocopy of translation of letter from the Falkland Islands from an Argentinian soldier (in the medical services?) to his family, June 1982

Letters to accompany the despatch of the warrant granting to Major Ernest L. May (RAMC) the dignity of a Member of the Military Division of the order of the British Empire

Photograph of F. Stevens, late Corporal, RAMC, with a medal

Photocopy of article in Health and Social Services Journal, 5 May 1983, re Renkioi Hospital, a prefabricated hospital designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for use in the Crimean War

Papers and souvenirs of Major Edwin Ashley, RAMC

Photographs of the record of service of Lieutenant Colonel William Macdonald, RAMC, with the 2nd West Lancashire Field Ambulance in the First World War, Aug 1914-Feb 1917, and of testimonials in his Record of Service book, 1919

Menus of Christmas meals at the British Military Hospital, Singapore (1949 and 1950)

Memorabilia of Private C. George Bubb of 27th Field Ambulance, RAMC

Souvenirs of Private Norman Hawken, RAMC

Account of the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong in 1941, by Lieutenant-Colonel Duncan Bennett, Royal Army Pay Corps

Testimonials re the work of Corporal Walter Percy Bray at 57th General Hospital, Marseilles

Newspaper cutting re expedition from Malaca (Melaka) to Pekan, across the Malay peninsula, by six men from the military hospital at Terendak camp, Malaya. With photographs of the team, their canoes and [?] the hospital; and maps used on the expedition.

Page from the Standard, Boston, Lincolnshire, 6 September 1941, with an article re review of Home Guard companies

Certificate of attestation on enlistment of Private Herbert Charles Bills, RAMC. With messages to his mother, Mrs. M. Huggins of Gillingham, Kent, re his death from wounds on 3 September 1917, and a letter, 1922, enclosing the British War and Victory Medals awarded to him posthumously

Photograph collection of Captain Ryrie, RAMC

Miscellaneous photographs

Messages to his father re the death in action of Private Herbert Edward Stedman, RAMC, on 3 September 1916

Memorabilia of Private Stewart Ritchie, RAMC

Warrant of Owen Euryd Lloyd-Jones as Temporary Sergeant Major, RAMC

Photographs of the grave, memorial stone and memorial window of Edward Mason Wrench (1833-1912) "for 50 years, doctor in Baslow" (Derbyshire)

Photographs of Corporal James Webb, RAMC, 1916, and of his medals

Grant of the Freedom of the City of Rinteln to the British Military Hospital, Rinteln, West Germany

Two certificates of mention in despatches, 1915, of Sergeant H.W. Seldon, RAMC

Papers and souvenirs of Sergeant George Edmund Essex, RAMC

Medical instructions to doctors of the Argentine army

Certificate of mention in despatches, 1917, of Major W.F. McAllister-Hewlings, RAMC

Certificate of mention in despatches, 1915, of Sergeant M.H.F. Williams, Wessex Field Ambulance, RAMC

Manuscript account of the experiences of Private J.W. Upton with 137th Field Ambulance, RAMC, on the Western Front, 1916-1918

Manuscript account. of "The war journal of a poultice walloper", by F.J. Aylett, re service with the 133rd Field Ambulance on the Western Front, 1916-1918 and in Germany, 1919

Lieutenant Colonel John H. Plumridge's collection of photographs of casualty evacuation for his book Hospital ships and ambulance trains (London: Seeley, 1975), and notes, correspondence and drafts for other works

Portraits, snapshots and unit photographs of H. Vernon Payne, RAMC

Field Message Book of Captain Arthur Michelson Middleton, RAMC

Photocopies of audit policy documents (1974) from the Supply Division of the Cambridge Military Hospital (initiated by Major J.A. Roberts, RAMC)

Papers and photographs of Regimental Sergeant Major Henry John Coles (1900-1975), RAMC

"The experiences of R.R.S. Martin as a prisoner of war in Germany" (1918), 3 ms volumes by Sergeant R.R.S. Martin, RAMC

No reward but honour: a brief review of the Army Medical Services, Territorial Army, by Colonel W.M. Elder

Diplomas and private papers of Deputy Inspector General George James Guthrie

Souvenirs of Private W. Tant, RAMC

Papers and souvenirs of Private Percy Dare, RAMC

"A time in the sand: a true account of some personal experiences with the RAMC in the Western Desert 1941-1943", by James David Provins Graham, Captain, RAMC

"A medical picture of the forward areas in Korea", the text of a presentation by Lieutenant Colonel R.L. Marks, RAMC, to the Royal Society of Medicine's United Services Section on 10 June 1953

Souvenirs of Major General Jeremiah John Magner, RAMC

"The Great War: the standard history of the all-Europe conflict", serial publication edited by H.W. Wilson: part 132: "How the wounded were bought home"

Lieutenant-Colonel J.G. Bell, RAMC: diary

Souvenirs of the 2nd/3rd East Anglian Field Ambulance

Papers of Lieutenant (Quartermaster) George Davidson Christie, RAMC

"Y" News, the Journal of the 1st/1st East Lancashire Field Ambulance at Gallipoli: manuscript originals of Nos. 2-7, Oct-Nov 1915

"Borneo: Standing instructions (medical) for operations and exercises"

Diary and correspondence of Major R.R. Hughes

Papers and photograph of Warrant Office Kenneth Roland Taylor

Certificate "for services rendered", presented to Private E.F. Kelly by the Territorial Force Association of the County of London

Roll of recruits selected to be the "Commander's Stick orderly" on the weekly inspection parade at the Depot and Training Establishment, RAMC

Miscellaneous memorabilia (of Private Alexander Bell of 95th British General Hospital, RAMC)

"Diary of an RAMC Surgeon at War, 1942-1946", by Lieutenant Colonel George Y. Feggetter, RAMC (photocopy)

Diplomas and obituaries of Colonel Archibald Burns Gemmel, RAMC

Royal Life Saving Society certificate awarded to Private John March, RAMC

Album of photographs and newspaper cuttings re Operation Shoveller, medical aid to victims of the civil war in Jordan

A description of the work of the central fund on behalf of the wounded in the King's Lancashire Military Convalescent Hospital, compiled by Edward Leech

Personal experiences of an N.C.O. in charge of stretcher squads, RAMC Field Ambulance, on the Western Front during World War One, including twelve miracle escapes, manuscript by Sergeant Norman Fermor, RAMC

Newspaper cuttings and translations of reports, etc., re the opening of a new British Military Hospital in West Berlin. With details of the accommodation and equipment of the hospital

Reports of the Military Personnel Research Committee of the Medical Research Council (Sub-Committee on Armoured Fighting Vehicles)

Photograph of Private Bamber (ex RAMC)

Identity discs of Private Charles Burton (RAMC)

Copy photograph of Private Johnston, RAMC

Photocopy of article from The Sphere, March 1908, entitled "The greatest college for army surgeons in the world"

Some medical aspects of L(ong) R(ange) P(atrols), by Captain Harry William Whateley Good, Regimental Medical Officer to the Fourth Battalion, The Border Regiment, when they formed 34 and 55 Columns of "Chindits" in Burma

Reflections of forty years ago-Belsen 1945, by Dr. D.T. Prescott, who was second-in-command of the 11th (British) Light Field Ambulance, which was one of the first units to relieve the inmates of Belsen Concentration Camp, Germany, in April 1945

Photograph of the grave in Rangoon War Cemetery, Burma, of Private Leslie Robert Collins, RAMC, who died 18 April 1942

Probate of the will (1812) of Thomas Wright, Physician to the Forces at Cartagena, Spain

Photocopies of the records made by Captain J.W. Walker, the officer receiving British soldiers at Dover, re names of ships arriving at Dover and number of personnel carried by each one from Dunkirk

Master reel-to-reel audio tape of the first record made by the RAMC bands

Typed instructions to personnel taking part in the monthly ceremony of turning a page in the Book of Remembrance of RAMC personnel who died in the First World War

Photocopied typescript "A short history of 3rd Armoured Field Ambulance, RAMC (amalagamation of 4th Field Ambulance and 30th Field Ambulance)"

Photocopy of manuscript report (1880) by the Principal Medical Officer to the forces in South Africa, re the medical establishment during operations in Zululand

Photocopy of typed anthology of the songs of Major General Eric Barnsley, RAMC, curator of the RAMC Museum, composed c.1912-1958, illustrated

Photocopy of "The forgotten general: Lieutenant General Sir Alfred Keogh, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., C.H.", by Lieutenant Colonel Ralph K. May, from British Army Review, No. 76, April 1984

Diary of Private G.W. Jode, RAMC, in a hospital in Mesopotamia during the First World War

Papers of Major Allen Percival Prior, RAMC, with further material re the liberation of Belsen Concentration Camp, Germany, in 1945, collected by Colonel Ethelwald E. Vella

Manuscript history/scrapbook of 6th Field Ambulance on the Western Front

Papers and photographs of Private Edwin Taylor

History of the 5th London Field Ambulance, 47th (London) Division, Territorial Force, on the Western Front, 1914-1919

Letters to Sergeant William H. Cloud at No. 13 Stationary Hospital and later at No.83 (Dublin) General Hospital, both at Boulogne sur Mer, France

Field Ambulance: some memories of a private soldier in the RAMC, 1940-1946 (Algeria, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy and Greece), typescript by Frank Seabrook

Papers and souvenirs of Private John Edmunds, RAMC

Message from Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (widow of George VI) re ceremony of presentation of the medals of Arthur Martin Leake, VC (to the RAMC Museum?)

Three uncaptioned photographs, from Corporal Starling (RAMC)

Portrait photograph of Colonel A. Pirie Watson, ADMS, 52nd (Lowland) Division 1933-1937

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