Simons, John Antoine (1900-1971)

Annual report, handing-over files, etc., Sudan Medical Service, Kordofan Province, 1927-1931; copy of memoir of Second World War service in North Africa and Italy; papers re Parachute Field Ambulance and description of return of GOC, British Troops in Hong Kong after end of Second World War.

1927-c.1960s

1 box

Arranged as follows: A. Papers re Sudan Medical Service B. Memoirs re Second World War service in North Africa and Italy C. Miscellaneous papers, re Parachute Field Ambulance and return of GOC British Troops in Hong Kong after Second World War

03/09/1990

John Simon, OBE, MRCS, LRCP, JP (1900-1971) studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, London, after being invalided out of the Regular Army during the First World War. He qualified in 1925 and spent several years in the Sudan Medical Service,during which time he was Chief Medical Officer, Kordofan Province, retiring in 1931. His subsequent career as an Ear, Nose and Throat surgeon, first at the London ENT Hospital and from 1936 at Crowborough Hospital in Kent, was interrupted by distinguished service in the Second World War, with the Phantom reconnaissance unit and later as senior medical officer, 1 Tank Brigade, and Commanding Officer, 220 Field Ambulance, in North Africa, Italy and Germany.

Simons's grandson, Mr Rowan Simons, gave the file of papers from the Sudan (GC/125/A), in which was enclosed the file about airborne operations (GC/125/C) to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (now Archives and Manuscripts, Wellcome Library) in 1990. At the same time it was agreed that the CMAC could make copies of the memoirs (GC/125/B) and of a piece about the administration of the Sudan Medical Service (GC/125/A/1) which was in a bundle of descriptive works by Simons. The Simons family retained the memoirs and the descriptive writings; the former have also been copied by the Imperial War Museum.