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Articles, correspondence and memorabilia re medical personnel awarded the Victoria Cross

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<li>RAMC/801/14/13: Surgeon Captain Ferdinand Le Quesne, Burma. Photocopy of British Medical Journal account of the presentation of the medal, 1889.</li>
<li>RAMC/801/14/14: Lieutenant Henry E.M. Douglas, Boer War. Photograph of his medals, 1899.</li>
<li>RAMC/801/14/15: Captain Neville Howse, Boer War. Biographical sketch, 1900.</li>
<li>RAMC/801/14/16: Captain Harry Sherwood Ranken, Western Front, First World War. Portrait photograph; postcard depicting Ranken's deed; programme of dedication of Ranken House, Brook General Hospital, Greenwich, 1914.</li>
<li>RAMC/801/14/17: Captain Francis A.C. Scrimger, Canadian Army Medical Corps, Western Front, First World War. Photographs of painting of Scrimger's deed and of the foyer of the National Defence Medical Centre [Canada], 1915.</li>
<li>RAMC/801/14/18: Lieutenant George Maling, Western Front, World War. Newspaper article, 1915.</li>
<li>RAMC/801/14/19: Captain John Alexander Sinton, Indian Medical Service, Mesopotamia, First World War. Biography, 1916.</li>

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Articles, correspondence and memorabilia re medical personnel awarded the Victoria Cross

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