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Reflections of forty years ago-Belsen 1945, by Dr. D.T. Prescott, who was second-in-command of the 11th (British) Light Field Ambulance, which was one of the first units to relieve the inmates of Belsen Concentration Camp, Germany, in April 1945

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

Photograph of the grave in Rangoon War Cemetery, Burma, of Private Leslie Robert Collins, RAMC, who died 18 April 1942

Probate of the will (1812) of Thomas Wright, Physician to the Forces at Cartagena, Spain

Photocopies of the records made by Captain J.W. Walker, the officer receiving British soldiers at Dover, re names of ships arriving at Dover and number of personnel carried by each one from Dunkirk

Master reel-to-reel audio tape of the first record made by the RAMC bands

Typed instructions to personnel taking part in the monthly ceremony of turning a page in the Book of Remembrance of RAMC personnel who died in the First World War

Photocopied typescript "A short history of 3rd Armoured Field Ambulance, RAMC (amalagamation of 4th Field Ambulance and 30th Field Ambulance)"

Photocopy of manuscript report (1880) by the Principal Medical Officer to the forces in South Africa, re the medical establishment during operations in Zululand

Photocopy of typed anthology of the songs of Major General Eric Barnsley, RAMC, curator of the RAMC Museum, composed c.1912-1958, illustrated

Photocopy of "The forgotten general: Lieutenant General Sir Alfred Keogh, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., C.H.", by Lieutenant Colonel Ralph K. May, from British Army Review, No. 76, April 1984

Diary of Private G.W. Jode, RAMC, in a hospital in Mesopotamia during the First World War

Papers of Major Allen Percival Prior, RAMC, with further material re the liberation of Belsen Concentration Camp, Germany, in 1945, collected by Colonel Ethelwald E. Vella

Manuscript history/scrapbook of 6th Field Ambulance on the Western Front

Papers and photographs of Private Edwin Taylor

History of the 5th London Field Ambulance, 47th (London) Division, Territorial Force, on the Western Front, 1914-1919

Letters to Sergeant William H. Cloud at No. 13 Stationary Hospital and later at No.83 (Dublin) General Hospital, both at Boulogne sur Mer, France

Field Ambulance: some memories of a private soldier in the RAMC, 1940-1946 (Algeria, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy and Greece), typescript by Frank Seabrook

Papers and souvenirs of Private John Edmunds, RAMC

Message from Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (widow of George VI) re ceremony of presentation of the medals of Arthur Martin Leake, VC (to the RAMC Museum?)

Three uncaptioned photographs, from Corporal Starling (RAMC)

Memorabilia of Major Bounds, RAMC

Typed summary of the history of the medical units of 52 (Lowland) Division, 1902-1961, by Colonel J. Smith, RAMC

The 2/1st London Field Ambulance: an outline of the four-and-a-half years service of a unit of the Fifty-sixth Division at home and abroad (France) during the Great War

Scrapbook of Private Jack Long, RAMC, when prisoner of war in Stalag IXC, Germany

Plans of the British Military Hospital in Berlin

Papers of Brigadier Sir John Knox Smith Boyd, RAMC

Photograph collection of Mr. Bessant (ex RAMC)

Photograph collection of Staff Sergeant E. Howlett, RAMC

Two diaries of Private G. King, RAMC with the 42nd (East Lancs.) Division in the Dardanelles (1915-1916) and on the Western Front (1917)

Papers of Sergeant Ronald Robert Scott Martin, RAMC

Papers of Corporal Alexander Buck, RAMC

Papers and photographs of Sergeant Charles Arthur Lambert, RAMC, and of (his sister?) Essie

Photocopies of papers of Warrant Officer B. Short, RAMC

Portrait photograph of a soldier in pith helmet (Corporal G. McKenzie)

Papers and photographs of Private William James Newbery, RAMC

Typed translation of the citation of the award in 1919 of the Croix de Guerre to Sergeant R.A. Winder, RAMC, of the 1st Wessex Field Ambulance and the 24th Field Ambulance

Message from the officer commanding 6th Division, re distinguished conduct of Private Edward George Brown, RAMC

Brass memorial tablet to Deputy Surgeon General Arthur Guy Elkington, Brigade of Guards. (1832-1922)

RAMC album of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

A trying Chindit, Desmond Whyte's account of the medical backup to Orde Wingate's Special Force in Burma 1943-1944. Photocopied from the British Medical Journal, Vol. 285, Dec 1982

Souvenir book for The War Veterans' Coronation Dinner, Empress Rink, Nottingham, illustrated with photographs from the Crimean War

Visitors book of the Officers' Mess (of a medical establishment)

Album of photographs of the visit of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (consort of George VI), to the RAMC Headquarters Officers' Mess, Millbank, for the final performance of the RAMC Staff Band, on 21 March 1984

Photographs for and of RAMC publicity

Photographic negatives of the final competition for the (RAMC) Territorial Army Shield

Printed Seniority Rolls of Warrant Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers and of Privates qualified for promotion in the RAMC, 1905, 1912 and 1924, and in the RAMC and the (Royal) Army Dental Corps, 1925-1926, 1928-1935, 1938 and 1949

A guide to the literature of the history of medicine, print-out compiled by Gale Moore, University of Toronto Library

Duplicated accounts of the Army Medical Services in the Italian campaign in the Second World War, bound into one volume

Manuscript register and receipt book of medical stores for the Argentine army in the Falkland Islands

Cartoons re service in the RAMC, mounted and stored in ring-binders

Papers and photographs of Acting Lance Sergeant George Alfred Charles Perry, RAMC

Bible belonging to Private J.A. Jarvis, RAMC, who served 1904-1912

Booklet and questionnaire for the Thames Television programme "For Valour: a Victoria Cross Project"

Miscellaneous volumes

A History of the care of the sick and wounded in the Land Armed Forces (2500 B.C. to Suez), ms. by Corporal C. Edmonds, RAMC

Photographs of Cairo and of a military camp there during the First World War. With postcard photographs of Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles (later Countess of Harewood) and her children; and of the Duchess of York (later Queen Elizabeth, consort of King George VI)

Album of photographs taken by T.B. Beach of the funeral procession of King Edward VII

Group photographs of personnel of RAMC Depot at Lytham St. Annes, Lancashire, and one photograph of W. Sandbach, a ventriloquist on the Depot staff

Reports of the events of the Falklands War, April-May 1982, by Major D H Haines, Senior Medical Officer responsible for all the medical services (civilian) in the Falkland Islands

Copies of letters and telegrams re the measures taken by Captain J. Graham Willmore, RAMC, to combat an outbreak of cholera in Akaba (Middle East)

Papers and photographs of Warrant Officer Edward Frederick Doughty, RAMC

Memorabilia donated by Brigadier J. B. M. Milne

Account of the movements of 13th, 14th and 15th Field Ambulances, with the Fifth Division in France, Italy and Belgium, 1914-1919

Memorabilia of 16th Field Ambulance in Penang, Malaysia

Assorted RAMC Memorabilia

Memorabilia of the Depot, Boyce Barracks, Crookham, Hampshire

Memorabilia of 1st Eastern General Hospital, Cambridge

Letter from James Dunlop, former Company Sergeant Major with 159th Field Ambulance and 197th Field Ambulance, requesting an RAMC Christmas card for an RAMC veteran, former Sergeant Edwin Turner, in Erskine Hospital, Glasgow

Colour prints of the Military Museum at the Canadian Forces Base, Borden, Ontario, Canada, and of the museum's displays re the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps

Album of postcard photographs of Lucknow, Ambala, Kasouli and Ranikhet, India, and of Port Said and Ismailia, Egypt; and drawings of Indian people and scenes

Newspaper and journal cuttings and from the First World War, and other documents

Modern copies of nine photographs of Boer War Prisoners of War on St Helena Island

Miscellaneous RAMC reminiscences, etc.

'In Arduis Fidelis: The journal of a para-medic during World War Two', typescript by Frank W. Murkin, M.B.E., 72nd General Hospital in Algeria and Tunisia (1943) and in Italy (1944-1946)

'The Army Medical Services of the Territorial Force, 1908-1919, as recorded in 1912' (with unit members and titles, 1914, added), by Warrant Officer R.L. Barrett-Cross of 221 (Surrey) Field Ambulance, RAMC (Volunteers)

The Fourth: the magazine of the 4th London General Hospital, RAMC (T.F.) Vol. 1, Numbers 5-10, Sep 1916-Feb 1917

Album of photographs of the 2nd/3rd Wessex Field Ambulance at Bedford

Diary of a non-commissioned officer called Baxter, serving with the RAMC during the invasion of Germany, Jan-Apr 1945

Papers and photographs of Sergeant M. Day

Photographs of No. 28 Motor Ambulance Convoy in India and in Afghanistan during the Afghan War of 1919

Printed Order of Service for dedication by the Bishop of St. Albans of a plaque in the Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist, High Cross, in memory of Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Martin Leake, V.C. and Bar, RAMC (1874-1953)

The Tourniquet: official magazine of the 129 Club (129 Field Ambulance), No. 1-4 and 7-11, Sep-Dec 1941, Mar-Aug 1942

Souvenir brochure of the opening of the King Khaled National Guard Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Group photograph of staff at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley

Group photograph of the RAMC Cricket XI

Congratulatory certificate of Private H.W. Greenwood, RAMC, from the Council of the Borough of Stockton on Tees, County Durham, on winning the Military Medal

Photographs of articles in the Derby Evening Telegraph, December 1981, serialising extracts from the diary kept by Private Clarence Whittaker, RAMC, at Gallipoli in 1915

Certificate of the bronze medal for military valour awarded by the Italian government to Private Frederick Whitwood of 34th Field Ambulance, RAMC

Two photographs of the Band of the RAMC

Two photographs of 49th Stationary Hospital at Bralo (Macedonia?)

Reflections of forty years ago-Belsen 1945, by Dr. D.T. Prescott, who was second-in-command of the 11th (British) Light Field Ambulance, which was one of the first units to relieve the inmates of Belsen Concentration Camp, Germany, in April 1945

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