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With memorandum on peripheral nerve injuries.

Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection

Papers of Lieutenant Colonel Peter B. Ascroft

Adviser in Neurosurgery, Central Mediterranean Force, 1944-1945

Material from 1943-1945

Manuscript. tables and lists of statistics re nos. of cases and operations, and typescript report on neurological cases (in 95 General Hospital?)

Case notes of Lieutenant K. of the U.S. Navy, who died of infection of head wound with Neisseria

Memorandum re breakages of syringes

Memorandum re function of Field Surgical Units

War Office instructions re formation of additional Mobile Neurosurgical Units

Hospital record card of Rifleman G. C. with mortar wounds of left arm and leg

Opthalmic, anaesthetics, E.N.T., orthopaedics and blood transfusion reports of 95 General Hospital, Jan-March 1944

Instructions re employment of Mobile Neurosurgical Units

Ms. notes re neuro-surgical service at the Battle of Monte Cassino

Notes on maxillo-facial casualties of Cassino

Manuscript notes re penicillin powder for brain injuries

Correspondence with Brigadier Edwards re staff, evacuation plans, No. 1 Polish General Hospital and work on pathology and histology at 93 General Hospital

Report re No. 4 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit, attached to 6 Polish General Hospital

Open letter from Brigadier H.C. Edwards, Consulting Surgeon, Allied Forces Headquarters, re development of surgical techniques

Correspondence re stores

Correspondence re replacement of an exhausted surgeon at No. 5 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit

Case notes of 3 named neurosurgical cases at No. 5 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit

Orders to No. 5 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit to join No. 58 British General Hospital

Statistics re jaw operations

Memorandum and letter from Major Patrick Clarkson re non-serious burns

Notes on a visit to No. 4 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit, Adriatic side

Statistics of No. 5 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit while with 65th British General Hospital

Commentary by Brigadier H.C. Edwards, Consulting Surgeon, Allied Forces Headquarters, on memo from the DMS re future planning re special surgical centres

Correspondence between Ascroft and Brigadier Edwards re posts and duties of neurosurgeons

Memorandum from the office of the Surgeon, Central Mediterranean Forces, re blood transfusions

Medical history of the war and quarterly report of No. 4 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit and quarterly report of No. 5 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit

Ascroft's accounts of the Neurosurgical Service and of Mobile Neurosurgical Units

Correspondence re medical stores

Ascroft's general correspondence, mainly re personnel and samples of brains

Letters and memoranda re medical supplies

Circular letter from the office of the surgeon, Allied Forces Headquarters, re correspondence between doctors and surgeons throughout the service

Copy of letter from Ascroft to Brigadier Stammers re surgical policies

Medical history of the war and quarterly report of No. 4 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit

Addendum to quarterly report of No. 5 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit

Ascroft's general correspondence, mainly re personnel, including application by Captain R.C. Connolly for regarding

Programmes and photograph of RAMC surgical congress, Rome

Tables to show numbers of cases reported by different types of unit; and summary of paper on the early closure of compound fractures. (For the surgeons' conference at Rome)

Ascroft's general correspondence, including enquiries re pneumococcal meningitis and paraparesis

Circular letter from the Consulting Surgeon, Allied Forces Headquarters re plaster of Paris technique, minor plastic surgery and captured surgical instruments

Ascroft's general correspondence

Report re neurosurgical cases at 65 (British) General Hospital, April-June 1945

Statistical report on the work of No. 4 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit in the Italian campaign, Oct 1943-June 1945

Correspondence with Brigadier J.M. Weddell, mainly re removal of No. 4 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit to No. 71 General Hospital

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Correspondence with Brigadier J.M. Weddell, mainly re removal of No. 4 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit to No. 71 General Hospital

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