War diary, Dunkirk experiences, Middle East campaign

Date:: 1939-1944

Reference:: RAMC/761/3/1-9

Part of:: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection

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Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments CollectionRAMC
- Collection of reports, copy reports and publications re military medicine, from the RAMC Training Centre "presumably made by (then) Brig. F. M. Richardson"RAMC/761
  - Second World WarRAMC/761/3
    - Middle East, North Africa and Central Mediterranean campaigns, mainly from the papers of Major General P.S. Tomlinson, DMS, Middle EastRAMC/761/3/1-41
      - War diary, Dunkirk experiences, Middle East campaignRAMC/761/3/1-9

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Description

Comprised of the following:

RAMC/761/3/1: War diary of Colonel Percy Tomlinson, ADMS, G.H.Q., 17-19 September, at a conference at Colchester, 1939.

RAMC/761/3/2: Experiences of a Regimental Medical Officer in a retreat, written by the R.M.O. to the 2nd Royal Warwickshire regiment re the retreat to Dunkirk, May 1940, 1940.

RAMC/761/3/3: Files re medical organisation and responsibilities in the services, and re co-operation with other sections, 1940s.

RAMC/761/3/4: Copy report on "Medical problems and preparations in Mid-East", 1940s.

RAMC/761/3/5: Copy report on the medical aspect of the Cyrenaica campaign, Dec 1940-Feb 1941, 1941. With ms sketch maps.

RAMC/761/3/6: Operations in the Western Desert-medical aspects. Copy of a report by Major General Tomlinson, 1941, 1941.

RAMC/761/3/7: File re proposals to reorganise medical services in Middle East, June 1941.

RAMC/761/3/8: Typescript war diary of Major General Tomlinson, July 1941.

RAMC/761/3/9: Reasons for rendering mobile certain C.C.S.'s for work in the western desert: report by Major General Tomlinson, October 1941. With article, "Military surgery in geographical perspective: a Libyan exercise in surgical and tactics", by Ian Aird, late Col. RAMC reprinted from the Edinburgh Medical Journal, 1944.

Publication/Creation

1939-1944

Physical description

1 file

Terms of use

Open and available by appointment at the Museum of Military Medicine. A digitised copy is available to view via the online catalogue on the Wellcome Collection website.