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Material relating to Thomas Alexander, Director-General, Army Medical Services, 1858-1860, collected by Air Vice-Marshal T. McClurkin

Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection

Manuscript copies of letters, mainly to Alexander, 1856-1859; a few from Alexander; and a few dating back to 1830s and 1840s. Correspondents include Sir Thomas Longmore, Sir William Fergusson, Lord Ripon, Doctor R. Christison, and W.H. Russell. With photocopies of some of the letters

Copies of sketches by Alexander and manuscript copies of articles in newspapers and journals re the Herbert Commission to investigate the organisation of the Army Medical Department 1857; Alexander's promotion to be Director-General 1858; and his death 1860, and memorials, 1861

Precis of letters, 1857-1864, mainly from Florence Nightingale to Thomas Alexander, re arrangements for invalids and convalescents at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley

Copy of Alexander's death certificate, and manuscript extracts from biographical references

Photographs of portraits and statues of Alexander, and group photograph, 1859, of General Brown and his staff of the Light Division who served in the Crimea

Air Vice Marshal McClurkin's correspondence re material for biography of Alexander and re deposit

Address delivered at prize-giving at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, by Sir Henry W. Acland, outlining the history of the Army Medical School

The bacteriology of fever in Malta: two papers, both reprinted from the Annales de l'Institut Pasteur, bound into one volume

Ms catalogue of photographs shown in Imp(erial) Med(ical) War Museum, E(gyptian) E(xpeditionary) F(orce) Section

Portfolio of cuttings, mainly from the Illustrated London News, re medical services in the Crimean War and re Florence Nightingale

Ms catalogue of drawings, casts, prints, paintings, etc. (in Fort Pitt, Chatham, Kent), of anatomical details including details of cases

Boer War memories, by Lieutenant Colonel F.A.B. Daly

The breakdown of young soldiers under training explained, by Surgeon Major F. Arthur Davy; three papers originally published separately as

Volume of copy letters, presented to Thomas Keate, Surgeon General to His Majesty's Forces, by Nodes Dickinson, their author

Album of photographs of Directors of the Indian Medical Service, 1858-1947, copies of pictures which hung in the office of the Director of Medical Services in India

Folder of letters, maps and diagrams re Lieutenant Colonel M. Dunning, Commander, 2nd Lowland Field Ambulance, in the campaigns in the Dardanelles, 1915, and the Middle East, 1917

Bound ms of "Introductory lecture on the practice of physic (delivered January 20th 1819)" by Charles Fergusson Forbes, M.D., Deputy Inspector of Hospitals

A field surgery pocket book: memoranda mainly based on experience in the present war

A field surgery pocket book (revised): memoranda mainly based on experience in the 1939-45 War

Lieutenant Colonel J.G. Foster's collection of material re the history of army medical services

On hygiene in Ancient India, by Surgeon General C.A. Gordon

Roll of Commissioned Officers in the medical service of the British Army who served on full pay within the period between the accession of George II and the formation of the RAMC (1727-1898), by Colonel William Johnston

Sir Charles Bell's watercolours of wounds sustained by soldiers at the Battle of Waterloo, June 1815

Description of a series of watercolour drawings executed by the late Sir Charles Bell, illustrative of wounds received at the Battle of Waterloo, by Deputy Inspector General T. Longmore, Professor of Military Surgery

Photographs and memorabilia of Arthur Martin Leake, RAMC

Scrap-book and Manuals

Army Medical School correspondence and bills re the Montefiore Prizes for military surgery, including posed photographs and sketches for the design of the medal

War Office Memoranda on medical diseases in tropical and sub-tropical areas

Papers of Alexander Cushnie Morison

Thomas Murray's certificate of membership of the Royal College of Surgeons

Bound ms case notes written in captivity by Brigadier L.R.S. MacFarlane (RAMC) re treatment of amoebic dysentery among prisoners of war of the Japanese in Thailand

Address by Dr. John Orsborn to the members of the Southampton Medical Society, in memory of Dr. Edmund Alexander Parkes, FRCP, FRS "the founder and best teacher of military hygiene of our day"

The Harveian Oration to the Royal College of Physicians (on Harvey's experiments which led to understanding of blood circulation), written by Dr. Edmund Alexander Parkes, FRCP, FRS, and read after his death

A list of commissioned medical officers of the army, Charles II to accession of George II, 1660-1727, by Colonel Alfred Peterkin

Material re the Centenary of the Army Pathology Service

Manual for Army Medical Services by Surgeon Major William E. Riordan

Material re the golden jubilee of the RAMC

RAMC Training Manuals

Instructions for the regulation of military hospitals and the sick with divisions of the army in the Peninsula .... bound with manuscript forms for scale of diet, return of medical comforts, report of the arrival of sick, diet abstract, "morning state of General Hospital" (a daily census of patients admitted, discharged, etc.) and bed head ticket (patient's details)

Colonel N. J. C. Rutherford's account of his part, with the field hospital, at the Battle of Magersfontein during the Boer War. Written in pencil "on the battlefield"

A collection of orders, regulations and instructions for the Army: on matters of finance and points of discipline immediately connected therewith, published by order of the War Office. (Section VI deals with "Medical Department of the Army, including the Veterinary Branch")

The tale of a field hospital, by Frederick Treves, Medical Officer attached to the column which relieved Ladysmith during the Boer War

Typed transcripts of letters written by Arthur Henry Taylor, an assistant surgeon with the British Army in the Crimea, to his parents, 1854-1856

Papers of Joseph Marmaduke Taylor

Letters from Edmund P. Hewitt, with the RAMC in South Africa, to his brother, Jack Hewitt, Indian Public Works Department

Second World War medical bulletins and memoranda bound into one volume

Menu and seating plan of a dinner on 8th June "in appreciation of the splendid services of the Royal Army Medical Corps and the eminent civilians attached to it during the war," with a report of the speeches made there

Newspaper cuttings scrapbook on the subject of the rank of Army Medical Officers

Newspaper cuttings scrapbooks re the Army Medical Services/Royal Army Medical Corps, 1895-1907 compiled by Lieutenant Colonel William Johnston

Sir Joseph Fayrer's scrap-books

Bound volume of 11 pamphlets and articles by Major General George J.H. Evatt, RAMC 1878-1920

'In Memoriam Dr. Edmund Alexander Parkes' Reprinted from the British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, July 1876

Notes on sanitation for Indian troops by T. F. Paterson, Captain, Indian Medical Service. 2nd edition, edited by Major D.R. Thapar, Malaria Medical Officer

Typescript diary formed of extracts from letters by Surgeon Captain Alfred E. Master, Army Medical Service, re campaigning with the Queens Regiment against the Afridi tribes on the North-West Frontier of India (The Tirah Campaign)

Booklet of photographic reproduction of the 'Memorial Roll ("Golden Book") of the Royal Army Medical Corps', designed by Graily Hewitt, with descriptive notes by the artist

'Medical administration in the South African War, being a report of speeches delivered by Sir William Church, President, R.C.P., London, Sir William MacCormac, President, R.C.S., England, and Surgeon General J. Jameson, late Director General, Army Medical Services, at a complimentary dinner given to the latter by the Medical Profession of Great Britain and Ireland, on the 24 July 1901'

Printed copies of royal warrants re army medicine, bound together

Volume of Pathological Reports, Jan-May 1856, of the Pathological Board at Balaclava in the Crimea

Medical Register, Feb 1855 - March 1856, (of the Royal London militia or of a military hospital in London?)

Pathological registers of surgeons in the camp before Sebastopol during the Crimean War, divided into sections re febrile diseases, cerebro-spinal, thoracic diseases, abdominal diseases, miscellaneous (mostly drunkenness) and gunshot wounds and surgical injuries

Volume of monthly reports, Jan-June 1856, of the Pathological Board in the camp besieging Sebastopol during the Crimean War

Volume of Pathological Reports, Jan-April 1856, of the Pathological Board, Highland Division, in the Crimea

7 volumes (numbered 5-11) of Sir Joseph Fayrer's "notes of interesting cases in the Medical College & Hospital (at Calcutta)", in chronological order

Papers of Surgeon John Francis Smet, 8th Light Dragoons

Miscellaneous papers collected by Dr. H. Morley Fletcher, FRCP

Minute Book of the Committee of the Army Medical Officers Benevolent Fund

Bound committee reports and accounts of the Army Medical Officers Benevolent Fund

5 volumes of correspondence of William Fergusson, Inspector of Army Hospitals in Portugal during the Peninsular War

Album, signed by Colonel David Bruce, Assistant Professor of Pathology, of photographs of groups of medical students at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, with captions giving surname of each student

Papers of Assistant Surgeon Thomas Murray

Papers of Surgeon Colin Paterson

Copy of a report submitted in 1915 to the Director of Medical Services, India, by Lieutenant Colonel Patrick O'Gorman, IMS, describing a stretcher-lifter as an alternative form of casualty transport to the traditional Indian dandy

Three Chinese scrolls re anatomy

Papers of Surgeon Alexander Simpson (1819-1864)

Burgess ticket of the city of Dundee, conferring freedom of the City and Burgh on David Middleton Greig, CM, FRCSE, for his help to the people of Dundee in the hospitals and other institutions

Papers of Surgeons David Greig and David Middleton Greig (father and son?)

Album of T.B.A. Tuckey, Brevet Colonel, RAMC, containing 5 pencil-written Boer passes "taken from Boer Laager after being shelled by the British at Colesberg, 1900

Health memoranda for soldiers by Lieutenant Colonel H.K. Allport, RAMC

Folder of souvenir issues, newspaper cuttings, etc., re Centenary of the institution of the Victoria Cross

Printed syllabus of a course of lectures for 1846-47 and 1849-50 sessions, on the principles and practice of military surgery, by Jolliffe Tufnell, Assistant Surgeon to the Forces in Ireland, and Surgeon to the Military Prison

Case notes re fractured acromion process (right shoulder) of Bombardier Edward Robins, Royal Artillery

Items re Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, donated by Donald Bowie, who had charge of the British Military Hospital in Hong Kong from August 1942 until liberation in 1945

Material re the life of Dr. James Barry, Inspector General of Military Hospitals, "found upon death to have been a woman"

Jelligraph copies of extracts from Medical Staff Corps orders, including memoranda re promotion of private soldiers to rank of First Class Orderly, arms and accoutrements, compilation of reports, etc.

War diary kept by Captain Neil Cantlie, RAMC, with the 6th Division at the Battle of the Somme, Sept - Oct 1916

Papers of John James Young Campbell of Glasgow

Baird and Tatlock (London) Ltd. album of photographs of mobile laboratories manufactured and designed by them for use by the British and Allied Medical Services during the First World War, showing exteriors, interiors and equipment

Transcription of the Book of Remembrance, the roll of honour of the RAMC personnel killed in the Second World War, 1939-1945, with historical notes and statistics

Papers of Colonel Thomas Boswell Beach, RAMC

Photogravure of a portrait by Dyce of Sir James McGrigor

Copy (or draft) of commission, 1657, from Charles II to John Knight, appointing him Surgeon General

Diplomas and commissions of David Middleton Greig

Papers of Surgeon William Lindsay of the 18th Foot

Papers and souvenirs of Arthur Martin Leake

Diary of Anthony Dickson Home, surgeon, 90th Foot, re his voyage to India round the Cape of Good Hope, and the relief and subsequent siege of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny

Letter, 10th Sept 1855, to his parents from Assistant Surgeon T. Egerton Hale, describing the attack on the Redan at Sebastopol during the Crimean War, in the course of which Hale performed deeds of valour for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross when it was instituted in 1856

Letters and papers of Florence Nightingale

19 watercolour illustrations by Mervyn Smart (Grant?) of wounds sustained during the Allied advance on Germany "made for Brigadier Harold Edwards" (Consultant Surgeon, Allied Forces H.Q.)

Professor Edmund Parkes's photograph album of officers at the Army Medical School, Netley, with one photograph of his house in Bitterne

Sir Thomas Longmore's scrap-book of "Illustrations of appliances (and methods) for the transport of wounded soldiers", with extracts from The Ambulance Transport

Scrap-book by Captain G.H. Colt, RAMC, re development of the joined-pole trench-stretcher, including correspondence, 1915, with Captain D'Arcy Power and with Captain J. Ellis Milne, re the development of a stretcher for use in the trenches on the Western Front

Catalogue in 2 ms volumes of specimens in the Pathological Museum at Fort Pitt, Chatham, Kent, with details of case and of preparation of specimen

Catalogue in one ms volume of the library of the Army Medical School, Netley, in alphabetical order of author's name, with some subject entries

Necrological register of all cases admitted to general hospital, Portugal, in 1827, compiled by William M. Ford, Assistant Surgeon to H.M. Forces in Portugal

Volume of pathological (post-mortem) reports from the Army Medical School Hospital at Netley of cases admitted from other Forces hospitals

Necrological registers (reports) from General Hospital at Fort Pitt, Chatham, Kent

Photocopies of obituaries (1978) from the British Medical Journal and the Harrogate Advertiser of Alexander Whyte Davidson, former Lieutenant-Colonel, RAMC, and senior medical officer in the Ministry of Health

Portrait photograph of Major John Lindsay Leckie, RAMC, "Pontypridd, Glamorgan"

Group photograph of No. 18 Field Ambulance, Hong Kong, on disbandment

Eight chirurgical treatises, on these following heads: 1. Of Tumours; 2. Of Ulcers; 3. Of Diseases of the anus; 4. Of the King's evil; 5. Of Wounds; 6. Of Gun-shot Wounds; 7. Of Fractures and Luxations; 8. Of the Lues Venera, by Richard Wiseman, sergeant-chirurgeon to King Charles II

Dr. John Brebner's souvenirs of the army in India

Papers of Private Ernest Clifford Stroud, nursing orderly with No. 66 Casualty Clearing Station

Photocopy of a page of The Lancet, 12 May 1917, containing an obituary notice of Dr. John Edward Squire, consulting physician at Mount Vernon Hospital for Consumption

Warrant of John Edward Fakes to serve as Warrant Officer, Class 1, RAMC

Souvenir programmes of tattoos at Aldershot

Papers, photographs and thesis of Lieutenant Colonel Duncan Coutts, I.M.S.

Papers of Surgeon-Major James Townsend Oswald Johnston

Souvenirs of Private John Cresswell Armstrong, RAMC

War diary of 1st/2nd North Midland Field Ambulance, RAMC, 138th Infantry Brigade, 46th Division, on the Western Front, Aug 1914-Oct 1917

Souvenir magazine of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, 1863-1978

Tallest on the right, the reminiscences of Lieutenant-Colonel John Philip Stewart, RAMC, re service in the Second World War. (Nothing of medical significance)

Scrap-book of Major Clifford Goulty's service as medical orderly and laboratory assistant in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tientsin, and the U.K. 1928-1939, and in North Africa and Italy, 1939-1945, with photographs of sports and social events, 1928-1961

Three volumes of instructions from the Army Medical Board of Ireland

Souvenirs donated by Lieutenant Colonel Howard N. Cole

Millbank from medieval times to the present, by Dr. N.R.H. Burgess. Photocopy of reprint from the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 124, 1978

Memorabilia of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley

Visitors book of the Army Medical Staff Mess, 1865-1898, and Royal Army Medical Corps, 1898-1922 (at the Royal Victoria Hospital)

Photocopy of "Die Sanitätsdienste der deutschen Kontingente im Feldzug von 1815", by Oberfeldarzt Doctor Friedrich Herrmann

Closure of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley

Two accounts of surgery in the American Civil War

Menus of Royal Army Medical Corps annual dinners

Diary of C.C. Okell, with 6th Field Ambulance on the Western Front, Feb-Aug 1915

First day cover envelopes commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Royal New Zealand Army Medical Corps

Group photograph of the officers of the First Northern General Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne

Manual of instructions for the guidance of army surgeons in testing the range and quality of vision of recruits, and in distinguishing the causes of defective vision in soldiers, by Surgeon-General Thomas Longmore

Photographs of Lieutenant Colonel Arthur C. Devereux with 53rd Casualty Clearing Station, Egyptian Expeditionary Force. [Some mounted on sheets of paper, with captions.]

Photographs of Private J.W. Cecil Spencer, RAMC

Text books for Army certificates of education

The Peeko Journal: the organ of "P" Company, RAMC No. 15

"Hospital into hotel". Reel of 16mm black and white film re demolition of Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, Hampshire. With video copy.

Typescript narrative of the 2nd/2nd South Midland Field Ambulance, 61st Division, on the Western Front, Jan 1917-Feb 1919, written by Lieutenant Colonel H.N. Burroughes

Fifth report of the Commissioners of Military Enquiry: Army, Medical Department

Emergency standing orders of No. 4 Company, Royal Army Medical Corps

Visitors book of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley

Minute books of the Warrant Officers' and Sergeants' Mess, 4 Company, RAMC. Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley

Papers of Lieutenant-Colonel David Panton, RAMC

Three photographs of an operation at a Royal Air Force Field Hospital in the Western Desert (Egypt) during which an aircraft winch was used to stretch the spine of the patient into the correct position before the application of the plaster cast

Colour transparencies of the British Military Hospital, Singapore

Film of the Army Medical Services exercise ("D.G. Exercise") for 1953

Typescript report by 153 (Highland) Field Ambulance, RAMC (Territorial Army), on improvised transport for mass casualties

Photographs of loads carried by a "fighting vehicle 432" with a field ambulance

Carbon copy of typescript history of the Staff Band of the Royal Army Medical Corps, by Lieutenant Colonel I.G. Thomas and Professor Ronald H. Girdwood of the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh

Papers and photographs of Private George Yates, RAMC

Audio tape of interviews with Sir Norman Talbot, the DGAMS, Dr. Rousselot, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defence for Health and Environment, and Generals Neel and Hughes, U.S. Army Medical Services, at the Medical-Surgical Conference in Bavaria, 24 May 1971

Cigarette cards depicting army uniforms, 1537-1939, and divisional insignia

Bronze plaque commemorating the death "for freedom and honour" of William Fred West

A Regimental Medical Officer in armour during the breakout south of Caumont, by Captain G.P. Mitchell, RAMC (with Guards Division)

Diaries of Captain M. St. Clair Hamilton, RAMC, with the 1st/5th Gloucesters in France, Jan-Oct 1917; Italy, Oct 1917-Aug 1918; France, Aug 1918-Mar 1919; and Russia, June-Sept 1919

The Hong Kong College of Medicine (1887-1915), by James Kyle

With the 52nd (Lowland) division in three continents, by James Young, RAMC, Lieutenant-Colonel commanding 1/3rd Lowland Field Ambulance in the Dardanelles, Egypt and Palestine during the First World War

251 (Sunderland) Field Ambulance, RAMC(V): unit history 1938-1978, duplicated typescript by Captain Brian Rawson

Standing orders, January 1945, for the medical services of 1st Airborne Division

Two albums of photographs of Egypt and the Middle East

Medical women and the medical services of the First World War, by Ann M. Mitchell. Author's offprint from Festchrift for Kenneth Fitzpatrick Russell

British Legion compilation albums sold in aid of ex-servicemen

The Joy Prong: the official rumour monger (magazine of 84th Field Ambulance), Nov 1918

The V.C. and D.S.O.: a complete record of all those officers, non-commissioned officers and men of His Majesty's Naval, Military and Air Forces who have been awarded these decorations from the time of their institution, with descriptions of the deeds and services which won the distinctions and with many biographical and other details. Vol. 3. Edited by Sir O'Moore Creagh and E. M. Humphris

Cartoon entitled: "At the Royal Army Medical Depôt at Blank"

Henry Dunant, booklet by Pierre Boissier

Programme of the Battle of Hooge Commemoration Service and the dedication of a plaque to the memory of Captain Noel Godfrey Chevasse

Victoria Barracks (Hong Kong) 1842-1979. Edited by Lieutenant Colonel D.H. Oxley

"Dr. Florey's healing bullet" by Lennard Bickel

Papers and souvenirs of Corporal Jarvis Wynne Walker, RAMC

Aerial photograph of the Military Hospital, Colchester, with captions re proposed building work

War Office medical handbooks

Papers and souvenirs of Lieutenant-Colonel John George Eric Vachell, RAMC

Sleeping sickness: the Castellani-Bruce controversy, by Sir John Boyd. Reprinted from Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol 28, No. 1

The surgeon's pocket-book; being an essay on the best treatment of wounded in war, by Surgeon-Major J.H. Porter, Assistant Professor of Military Surgery, Army Medical School, Netley

Warrants of Harry Augustus Ward

History of the design and construction of The Duchess of Kent's Military Hospital at Catterick, Yorkshire

Papers and souvenirs of Major Robert Cox

Plans, photographs and souvenirs of the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich

Newspaper cuttings and photocopies of newspaper articles celebrating the centenary of the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot

Roll of names of men who served with the 2nd/2nd Northumbrian Field Ambulance during the First World War, compiled by Mr. T.W. Hall of Hurstwood Road, Sunderland, Co. Durham

First World War photographs (of 1/1 Welsh Field Ambulance?)

Group photograph of recruits in Class No. 62, Depot RAMC, Aldershot

Minute books of the Army Hygiene Advisory Committee

Two photographs and a page from the Gibraltar Chronicle of 2 April 1963, re the transfer of the Military Hospital in Gibraltar to the control of the Royal Navy

Eight photographs of inspection of RAMC staff and activities of the patients at "Calderstones", Queen Mary's Military Hospital, Whalley, Lancs

Cavalry doctor: letters written from the field, 1900-1901, during the Anglo-Boer War by Colonel A.F. Russell, MB, CMG. Edited by Isobel Robertson

Standing orders for operations and exercises, and quick move instructions of 23 Parachute Field Ambulance, RAMC

Material relating to Thomas Alexander, Director-General, Army Medical Services, 1858-1860, collected by Air Vice-Marshal T. McClurkin

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