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Williams, Bernard Lewis
Copied from transparencies GC/172/7
Copied from transparencies
Date:
c.1942
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GC/172/7
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Williams, Bernard Lewis
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Williams, Bernard Lewis
GC/172
Copied from transparencies
GC/172/7
Sister Agnes, founder of the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers. L23038
GC/172/7/1
6 Field Surgical Unit Field Ambulance and tent. This shows how the unit was set up, with `EPIP' (European Pattern, Indian Pattern) ridge tent at the back: it had the sterilizing apparatus. L23057
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6 Field Surgical Unit setting up shop. Sterilizing tent in front and roof of EPIP behind. L23059
GC/172/7/3
Neurosurgical Unit in operation with their EPIP. Williams standing on right, Kenneth Eden on left. L23060
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Distant view of ambulance tents and red cross flags. Probably No 10 Casualty Clearing Station. In the build-up to the Battle of El Alamein they were forbidden to put up red crosses anywhere because it would indicate to the Germans where the major part of the battle would be. They were machine gunned, but never hit while Williams was there. L23061
GC/172/7/5
Keith Lucas, Blood Transfusion Officer, standing next to Advanced Blood Bank vampire sign (designed the sign?)
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c.1942
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