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'In Arduis Fidelis: The journal of a para-medic during World War Two', typescript by Frank W. Murkin, M.B.E., 72nd General Hospital in Algeria and Tunisia (1943) and in Italy (1944-1946)

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

'The Army Medical Services of the Territorial Force, 1908-1919, as recorded in 1912' (with unit members and titles, 1914, added), by Warrant Officer R.L. Barrett-Cross of 221 (Surrey) Field Ambulance, RAMC (Volunteers)

The Fourth: the magazine of the 4th London General Hospital, RAMC (T.F.) Vol. 1, Numbers 5-10, Sep 1916-Feb 1917

Album of photographs of the 2nd/3rd Wessex Field Ambulance at Bedford

Diary of a non-commissioned officer called Baxter, serving with the RAMC during the invasion of Germany, Jan-Apr 1945

Papers and photographs of Sergeant M. Day

Photographs of No. 28 Motor Ambulance Convoy in India and in Afghanistan during the Afghan War of 1919

Printed Order of Service for dedication by the Bishop of St. Albans of a plaque in the Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist, High Cross, in memory of Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Martin Leake, V.C. and Bar, RAMC (1874-1953)

The Tourniquet: official magazine of the 129 Club (129 Field Ambulance), No. 1-4 and 7-11, Sep-Dec 1941, Mar-Aug 1942

Souvenir brochure of the opening of the King Khaled National Guard Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Group photograph of staff at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley

Group photograph of the RAMC Cricket XI

Congratulatory certificate of Private H.W. Greenwood, RAMC, from the Council of the Borough of Stockton on Tees, County Durham, on winning the Military Medal

Photographs of articles in the Derby Evening Telegraph, December 1981, serialising extracts from the diary kept by Private Clarence Whittaker, RAMC, at Gallipoli in 1915

Certificate of the bronze medal for military valour awarded by the Italian government to Private Frederick Whitwood of 34th Field Ambulance, RAMC

Two photographs of the Band of the RAMC

Two photographs of 49th Stationary Hospital at Bralo (Macedonia?)

Souvenir programmes, papers and supplement to The Times re the celebrations of the tercentenary of the Royal Society of London

Photograph of 6th Field Ambulance, RAMC, marching with fixed bayonets at Tel el Kebir (Egypt)

Medical and administrative reports, etc., from the Far East, mainly from Thailand, after the Second World War

Case book of abdominal penetrating wounds treated by 4th Canadian Casualty Clearing Station (on the Western Front), April-July 1918

Memorabilia of Warrant Officer W.T. Glendinning, RAMC

Royal Army Medical Corps Golfing Society

Three printed reports by the Advisory Board for Army Medical Services, on the treatment of veneral disease and scabies in the army

Diary of Colonel John Boyd, Deputy Director of Pathology, Middle East Force, Aug 1940-March 1943

Photographs of army medical staff, posed for the design of the Montefiore Medal

Papers and photographs of Brigadier William Pennefather Croker, RAMC

Citation for award of Military Medal to Sergeant John Harry Jones of 95th Field Ambulance, RAMC

Papers of Colonel Cuthbert Edward Eccles

Papers and souvenirs of Private William Forsyth, RAMC

Souvenirs of Lieutenant Colonel William Hamilton Scriven, RAMC

Newspaper cutting and magazine with article re union of Airborne troops who fought at Arnhem in 1944

Memorabilia of Private John Atkinson of 95th Field Ambulance, RAMC

Material re Captain Edgar Thomas Inkson, V.C., RAMC

Correspondence and copy correspondence re the claims of Inspector General of Hospitals F. C. Annesley to recognition of his services as Senior Medical Officer during the siege of Delhi, India, 1857

Photographs and newspaper cuttings of Band Sergeant F. C. Page, RAMC

Comprehensive pictorial record of the first five weeks' Sino-Japanese hostilities around Shanghai, August-September 1937, published by the Shanghai Times

Monthly distribution returns, and nominal rolls by station, of No. 27 Company, RAMC, in Hong Kong, Jan-Nov 1941

Reports from the Army Personnel Research Establishment and elsewhere

Album of photographs (of Indian Medical Service officers?) presented to the Army Medical Staff Mess, Rawalpindi, India, by Surgeon Major C. R. Tyrrell, IMS

Volume of newspaper cuttings re male nurses in the armed forces

Album of photographs of 167 (City of London) Field Ambulance in the Italian campaign, 1944, and afterwards with the occupation forces in North Italy, 1945-1946

Papers and memorabilia of Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Mark Prince, RAMC

Souvenirs of Warrant Office Graham Leonard Patterson, RAMC (T.A.)

Programmes, posters and tickets of concerts by the RAMC Staff Band

Memorabilia of Private C. Harris, with 26th Field Ambulance in the Korean War

Souvenirs of Private Percy Leonard Wheeler, RAMC

Instruction booklets of Sergeant H. Copley, RAMC

Pocket-books on pharmacy, formerly property of Staff-Sergeant J. Howlett, RAMC

Miscellaneous leaflets and booklets from the Second World War

Two official war photographs of a visit of King George V to the Western Front during the First World War

Manuscript volumes

Programme of Silver Jubilee procession of King George V, 6 May 1935

Papers of Major Andrew Woodroffe Anderson, RAMC

Certificate from Major General Lambert, commanding 32nd Division, Army of the Rhine, in memory of gallantry and devotion shown by Private J.R. Williams, MM, during the First World War

Six photographs of dinners and Remembrance Day parades of the Isle of Wight Royal Army Medical Corps Association

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

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

'In Arduis Fidelis: The journal of a para-medic during World War Two', typescript by Frank W. Murkin, M.B.E., 72nd General Hospital in Algeria and Tunisia (1943) and in Italy (1944-1946)

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