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Copy of a letter from HQ, 15th Army Group, to DGAMS in London, re the medical situation during fighting in Sicily

Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection

Papers of Major General Sir Ernest Cowell

Director of Medical Services, Allied Forces, North Africa, and Chief Surgeon under Eisenhower's Command, 1942-1944

War Office report on lessons learned by the medical services during the fighting in Egypt and Libya, and report re medical aspects of Operation Torch

War diaries of Cowell as Director of Medical Services, Allied Forces, North Africa, with memoranda re treatments, reports re casualties and disease, and administrative correspondence

Monthly medical circulars (March 1943-Feb 1944) from Cowell at Allied Forces Headquarters, with medical notes and a report upon the work of 866 Field Dressing Station, Nov 1943

File re U.S. Medical Corps, and notes and correspondence re co-operation between U.S. and British army medical services, with photograph of evacuation of casualties by air

File re evacuation of casualties by land, sea and air, including photographs of evacuation by train, illustration of bombing of a hospital ship, and Cowell's reports (1937) re air ambulances

Report re nursing of war wounds and statistics re distribution of nursing officers

Weekly reports by the ADMS, British Increment, VI Corps, re the medical situation

Photographs of Cowell, of Brigadier General J. Martin, U.S. Medical Corps, of a camouflaged field dressing station at Anzio, of Christmas in 95 General Hospital, Algiers (1943), and of wounded in Italy

File of reports, correspondence, etc., re health care (mainly re typhus epidemics in Naples)

File of reports, correspondence and posters re malaria in Sicily

File of reports, statistics, correspondence and posters re venereal disease amongst Allied troops in Italy

File of reports, notes, correspondence, etc., re psychiatry in the Allied armies, including a report on German national character

File re "casualty analysis"

Copy of a letter from HQ, 15th Army Group, to DGAMS in London, re the medical situation during fighting in Sicily

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