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

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<p>Comprised of the following:</p>
<li>RAMC/761/3/30: Tripoli and after, an appreciation with a view to future medical evacuation, 1943.</li>
<li>RAMC/761/3/31: Questionnaires re prisoners of war and casualties among them (in file marked "Tank casualties"), December 1942-January 1943.</li>
<li>RAMC/761/3/32: Copy of the tour report of Brigadier Ogilvie, Consultant Surgeon, First Army, Eighth Army and Lines of Communication, May 1943.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>RAMC/761/3/34: File of extracts from Brigadier Wade's report, 1943.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>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.</li>

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