Miscellaneous reports, correspondence, etc, North Africa campaign, invasion of Sicily

Date:: 1942-1943

Reference:: RAMC/761/3/30-36

Part of:: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection

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Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments CollectionRAMC
- Collection of reports, copy reports and publications re military medicine, from the RAMC Training Centre "presumably made by (then) Brig. F. M. Richardson"RAMC/761
  - Second World WarRAMC/761/3
    - Middle East, North Africa and Central Mediterranean campaigns, mainly from the papers of Major General P.S. Tomlinson, DMS, Middle EastRAMC/761/3/1-41
      - Miscellaneous reports, correspondence, etc, North Africa campaign, invasion of SicilyRAMC/761/3/30-36

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Comprised of the following:

RAMC/761/3/30: Tripoli and after, an appreciation with a view to future medical evacuation, 1943.

RAMC/761/3/31: Questionnaires re prisoners of war and casualties among them (in file marked "Tank casualties"), December 1942-January 1943.

RAMC/761/3/32: Copy of the tour report of Brigadier Ogilvie, Consultant Surgeon, First Army, Eighth Army and Lines of Communication, May 1943.

RAMC/761/3/33: Report by Brigadier E.W. Wade, DDMS, entitled "First Army Medical Lessons, North Africa, Nov 1942-May 1943", with a plan of typical layout of a 200 bed tented hospital, May 1943.

RAMC/761/3/34: File of extracts from Brigadier Wade's report, 1943.

RAMC/761/3/35: File entitled "Combined operations", containing a letter, 4 Nov 1943, from Colonel E.M. Cowell, surgeon, British North Africa Force, to Lieutenant General Sir Percy Tomlinson, re infectious diseases and air evacuation of casualties; and memoranda, April and Oct 1943, re combined operations, 1943.

RAMC/761/3/36: Extracts from letters from the DMS re hospital ships, air evacuation, and preparation of hospitals during the assault on the coast of Sicily, July 1943.

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1942-1943

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1 file

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Open and available by appointment at the Museum of Military Medicine. A digitised copy is available to view via the online catalogue on the Wellcome Collection website.