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Comprises the following:
<li>RAMC/408/1/1: Minutes, notes and transcript of talk re the medical services in the Middle East, the anticipated diseases and conditions, and arrangements for casualty evacuation. With notes re medical services in Egypt during the First World War and table of distances in the Western Desert. 1939-1940</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/2: Tables of medical units lost in Cyrenaica, Greece and Crete, and notes re personnel deficiencies in Middle East and East Africa and hospitals available. June 1941</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/3: Tables and notes re units and personnel in Middle East Force. 1940-1943</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/4: Copies of reports, etc., re casualty evacuation, hospitals, and the medical base at Asmara, with a diagram of the system of base and convalescent hospitals in Middle East Force, and a short appreciation of the possible situation in the Western Desert. March -Oct 1941</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/5: Tables of casualties in the Western Desert campaign, Nov-Dec 1941, and notes on medical situation in the event of operations "Garment" and "Colonial" coming into force. 1941 Dec</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/6: Details of casualty evacuation during Operation "Crusader",. Nov 1941-Feb 1942</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/7: Notes on "DA and Q.M.G's visit" to Eritera (Ethiopia). January1942</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/8: Comments on medical services in an exercise involving beach landings. February 1942</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/9: Reports re stores. 1941-1942</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/10: Extracts of War Establishments for Forward Medical Organisation. 1943</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/11: Bundle of notes and orders re Operation "Demure". July 1942</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/12: Reports and diagrams re hospitals and convalescent units in the Middle East. August 1942</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/13: Sketch maps of Iran and Iraq. June 1942</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/14: Notes re Tomlinson's tour in the Western Desert. September 1942</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/15: Letter of thanks for co-operation, from the Australian Imperial Force. November 1942</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/16: Reports and letters re personnel, including notes re training and duties in hygiene, selection board reports and recommendations of individuals, and complaints against Major Patley, the DADMS at Durban, South Africa. 1942-1943</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/17: Reports and letters re air ambulances. 1942-1943</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/18: Reports and location statements re hospital ships. 1942-1943</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/19: Copy minutes of the meeting of Heads of the Medical Services in the Middle East. January 1943</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/20: Short medical appreciation by Tomlinson of the first eight months of 1943. With lists of location of medical units, Dec 1942 and March 1943. </li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/21: Summary of medical arrangements during the advance from El Agheila to Tunisia, Dec 1942-Feb 1943. </li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/22: Notes re medical arrangements for Operation "Bigot". March 1943</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/23: Programme of Middle East Medical Conference, April 1943. </li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/24: Statistics and notes re casualty evacuation. 1941-1943</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/25: Diagram of base hospitals and convalescent depots throughout the Middle East. May 1943</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/26: List of special location of consultants in the Middle East. June 1943</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/27/27: Letter from Brigadier R.G. Atkins re Lieutenant Colonel P.B. Ascorft and No. 1 Mobile Transfusion Unit, organisation of Casualty Clearing Stations for mobility, and forward surgery. c.1940s</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/27/28: Summary of duties of Blood Transfusion Units, with statistics. c.1940s</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/27/29: Recommendations for unmarried mothers among the forces in the Middle East. c.1940s</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/27/30: Expressions of appreciation of the medical services. c.1940s</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/31: Notes re hospitals and hospital ships in North Africa. 1943 Jun</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/32: Maps of invasion routes to Sicily. 1905 Apr</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/33: Programme of conference on War Medicine in which Tomlinson spoke on the Sicilian Campaign. November 1943</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/34: Tomlinson's notes on medical reports on Operation Husky, and memorandum on "lessons from Present Operations". 1943 Nov</li>
<li>RAMC/408/1/35: Summaries and notes re the medical services in the Middle East. 1939-1943</li>

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