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Commission of John Lewis, gent., as surgeon to the York Chasseurs

Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection

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

Dress regulations for the army

Papers of Warrant Officer Leonard Charles William Baker

Report on the site, etc., of the Royal Victoria Hospital, near Netley Abbey

Photocopies and photographs

Typescript medical history of the campaign of the Fourteenth Army (in Burma), Nov 1944-May 1945

17 photographs of operations during the Khyber and Tirah campaigns on the North-West Frontier of India

Photographs

Photographs and certificate of Colonel Hugh Toye, RAMC

Photographs, copy letter

Pamphlet, photographs

Collection of magazines, leaflets and reprints from the First and Second World Wars

Photocopy of report on Army Physical Development Centres and handbooks for the A.P.T.C. instructors

Register of in-patients, Regimental Hospital, Cape of Good Hope (South Africa), with case notes of many patients, and notes from the post-mortem examination, 1833, on Dr. Charles White

Menus and photographs of the annual dinner of the Royal Army Medical Corps and Royal Army Dental Corps Warrant Officers and Sergeants, with list of official guests and hosts

Photostat copy of the Royal Warrant, 1898, creating the Royal Army Medical Corps

Photograph of the Suez Canal after occupation

7 group photographs of hospital staffs and teams in India and Burma, and one portrait photograph of nurse

Printed message of congratulation to the Guards Division from their commander, Major-General T.G. Matheson, on the cessation of hostilities on Nov 11th

Major-General P.H. Henderson's collection of photographs, etc., re army health

Papers of Sir Thomas Longmore

Album of lithographic views of Aldershot

Field Service Hygiene Notes: India

Correspondence between the RAMC and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, re design of a crest for the Royal Army Medical College

Duplicated copy of secret operation order No. 50 to 5th Division medical teams from the Acting ADMS, 5th Division, re advance (on the Western Front) on 4th Nov 1918

Crockard, Bullet injuries of the brain; Sir Almroth Wright Obituaries

B.B.C. recording of "The British soldier of tomorrow", a talk by General Sir Brian Horrocks

First World War photographs;  article on American Army Medical Services and other items

From the Gulf to the Caspian: being the souvenir booklet of the 33rd Motor Ambulance Convoy, which served in Mesopotamia and North Persia, 1916 to 1919

Letters and diaries of Lieutenant General Sir Matthew Fell

Papers of Lieutenant Colonel Peter B. Ascroft

Text of "RAMC Song", as sung to the 52nd Field Ambulance by Lt. D. Dougal on 3 March 1915

St. John Ambulance Association handbooks

Hymn book with illustrations by Private A.C. Jebbitt, RAMC

Instructions to Regimental Surgeons for regulating the concerns of the sick and of the hospital, with, as prefix, the 1804 warrant "for increasing the advantages, etc., of the Medical Officers of the army"

Regulations for the duties of Inspectors-General and Deputy Inspectors-General of Hospitals; for the duties of staff and regimental medical officers: for the organization of general, regimental, and field hospitals; and for the duties of officers, attendants, and nurses: for sanitary measures, and precautions for preserving health of the troops; for the duties of sanitary officers attached to armies; and for drawing up sanitary and medical statistics and reports

Ms. catalogue of items at the Army Health Museum, RAM College, before the Second World War

Typescript list of "War Office Mss. in Public Record Office pertinent to Army Medical Department 1860-1914"

Projectile trauma: an enquiry into bullet wounds, by Lieutenant Colonel Robert Scott, RAMC, Consultant surgeon at the Trauma Unit, Chemical Defence Establishment, Porton Down

Copies of the records of the Commission on (Army) Medical Establishments in France (during the First World War)

Duplicated report on the War Office exercise "Medical Bamboo", set in Siam (Thailand), Malaya and Burma

Duplicated report on the War Office exercise "Medical Britannia", simulating a nuclear attack on Great Britain

Portrait photographs and engravings of the Professors of Hygiene at the Army Medical School 1860-1953

Portrait photographs of Professors of Pathology, at the Royal Army Medical College

Collection re the history of Fort Pitt, Chatham, and the Army Medical School

Photographs of portraits

Articles by Drew and Posner

Obituary, historical articles, etc

PULHEEMS handbook; Christmas card

Portrait photograph of Sir Thomas Crawford, Director General Army Medical Service, 1882-1889

Regulations of 14 November 1829 for granting pensions to discharged soldiers

Second World War reports and other papers of Major General R.D. Cameron

Order for reception at the County Lunatic Asylum, Fareham, Hampshire, of a "dangerous lunatic", John Parratt of the Royal Engineers, examined at the Military Lunatic Hospital, Netley

Office copies of the war diaries and general reports on medical history of 15th Division and of Colonel Edward W.W. Cochrane, ADMS, with the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force during the First World War

Typescript report by Major-General W.J. Officer, Deputy Director of Medical Services, 2 Corps, to the Director General, Army Medical Services, on Operation Musketeer, 6 Aug-22 Dec 1956, the invasion of Egypt following the nationalisation of the Suez Canal and the invasion of Sinai by Israel

Report on and details of the plans of the Victoria Military Hospital at Netley, on the Southampton Water, and programme of the ceremony of laying the foundation stone

Papers of Colonel Kenneth Comyn

First World War photographs of Sergeant Major Harry Bell, RAMC

Leaflets and reports re army medical services

Album of photographs of the work of the Army School of Hygiene

Album of photographs and newspaper cuttings of the work of RAMC Light Field Hygiene Unit (Army School of Health) after Hurricane Hattie devastated Belize, British Honduras

Material from the Army School of Health

Souvenir booklet, photographs, signed programme

Booklets, article

Dr. H.E. Leigh Canney's memorabilia of his campaign for sterilisation of drinking water for troops in tropical countries

Anecdotes medical, chemical and chirurgical, collected, arranged and transmuted by an adept

3 photographs made into postcards addressed to Mrs. J. Hall of Melton Mowbray (later of Leicester), signed "Jack"

Photograph album of Daniel Litton Harding, including photographs of 21 General Hospital at Deelfontein, Cape Colony, (South Africa) April 1901-Nov 1902, and Station Hospital, Secunderabad, India, 1904-1908

Articles, letter

Papers and souvenirs of Major General Thomas Wykes Gibbard

Typescript memoirs of Sergeant E.T. Renno, RAMC, in Crookham Camp, Hampshire; Connaught Hospital, Aldershot, Hampshire; Spike Island, County Cork, Eire; and Imtarfa, Malta, 1923-1929

Service papers of Surgeon-Major Andrew Moffitt

Souvenirs of Captain Gordon Spencer Shiell, RAMC

Colonel John Mackenzie (late Royal Army Medical Corps), 1932, by Major A. McKenzie Annand

Diaries of Private Herbert Empson of 2/5 London Field Ambulance, with the British Expeditionary Force in France, Aug-Nov 1916, and with Salonica Force in the Balkans, Dec 1916-May 1917

Papers and souvenirs of Brigadier Hugh Glyn-Hughes, RAMC

2 photographs of 6th Denbighsire Home Guard A3 Platoon

Papers of Captain George Abel Collier, RAMC

Photograph of Clement Chesterman and Privates Hardy and Jeffrey inside No. 5 Malaria Diagnosis Station, Damascus, Oct 1918

Reel of film, a War Office production supervised by an officer appointed by the Director General of Army Medical Services, produced for A.K.C. by British Industrial Films Ltd., entitled "Casualty evacuation over water obstacles: improvised methods"

Newspapers for the forces in South-East Asia, Second World War

Papers and photographs of Lieutenant John Frederick Ford, snr., and his son, Major John Frederick Ford, jnr

Group photograph of the staff of No. 27 General Hospital at Cairo, Egypt

Suggestions book of the Officers' Mess, Keogh Barracks, Mytchett, Hants

My dear Cath...: the story of an army doctor's wife in 1818-1819, letters of Anne (née Cairns), the wife of Andrew Anderson, surgeon in the 92nd Regiment (Gordons) in Ireland and Jamaica. Edited by Sheila Scott

Pamphlets re penicillin treatment in the Second World War, bound into a volume

Miss Nightingale's headquarters, by Colonel and Mrs. R.L. Bell

Photographs of portraits and newspaper cuttings re George Pringle Robertson, Bandmaster to the RAMC

An early account of rheumatic heart disease by Joseph Brown (1784-1868), by D. Evan Bedford, William Hartston and Sir Robert Drew

Photocopy of typescript booklet (1974) entitled: "Fort Pitt: some notes on the history of a Napoleonic fort, military hospital and technical school", by John Cooper

Typescript account by George Lumsden re wound caused by sabotaged ammunition at Dunkirk, May 1940

Accounts of the Burma Campaign, 1944-1945

Commission of John Lewis, gent., as surgeon to the York Chasseurs

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