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Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection

Papers of Lieutenant Colonel Peter B. Ascroft

Surgical Specialist commanding No. 1 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit, 1941-1942

Material from 1941-1942

Bundle of mobilisation orders and notices of arrangements. With notes entitled "Tropical diseases and how to avoid them"

Notes re desiderata of advanced surgical teams.

Copy of report on a tour of the Western Desert (Egypt) 6-11 Oct 1941, by Douglas McAlpine, Consultant Neurosurgeon. With letter, 14 Oct 1941, from Ascroft to Brigadier Walker

Letter from Major Randell Champion of No. 1 Maxillo-Facial Unit, No. 8 General Hospital, re vitamin "C" in healing wounds

Letter from Ascroft to "Michale" re mobile operating theatre

Letters from Ascroft to General Tomlinson and Brigadier Atkins, to accompany a report

Suggestions by the officer i/c Surgical Division, No. 42 General Hospital, Middle East Force, re treatment of wounded

Jottings on the medical administration of an armoured division during active service, by Major P. Morison (?), DADMS, 7th Armoured Division

Rough case notes and names of wounded Italian prisoners of war at No. 6 General Hospital

Graphs showing cases per day entered in the operations book, Nov (1941)-Jan (1942)

Extract from the text of broadcast entitled "The mobile medical units" (Jan 1942?)

Letters from Ascroft re lack of work for No. 1 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit; operations for serious abdominal wound; use of sulphathiazole as antiseptic

Lists of sites and staff of Middle East Forces hospitals

Statements (registers) of frost-bite and gangrene cases in No. 24 C(anadian) G(eneral) Hospital, contracted around Buqaka and Mosul in Iraq, Jan-Feb 1942

Letter from Ascroft to Colonel Fettes re cases at No. 28 British General Hospital

Tables of casualties in Middle East Forces up to Feb 1942 (lists of casualty patients)

Suggested improvements in staff, equipment, transport and function of No. 1 Neurosurgical Unit

Report (by Ascroft?) re surgical work while under the command of DDMS 13th Corps, Dec 1941-Feb 1942

Memo re vehicle breakdown in Nov 1941

Letter from No. 23 (Scottish) General Hospital, asking for information re brain injuries

Letter from No. 2 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit re transporting the unit (to India)

Letter of gratitude from Pte. J.W. Watson, formerly member of Ascroft's unit

Lists of equipment for a Mobile Surgical Unit in the Middle East

Copies of 3 letters, 19 May 1942, re paper (by Ascroft) on advances in field medicine since 1939

Text of lecture (by Ascroft) entitled "Experiences of a mobile surgical unit in the Western Desert"

Notes for lectures in Baghdad, 23 May 1942

Copies of Ascroft's letters, 10 June 1942, thanking organisers of the lecture tour and explaining his recall to surgical duties

Notes re tour of surgical teams, Western Desert

Correspondence re brain surgery; treatments and training courses; rehabilitation centre; and postings in India of No. 2 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit

Notes re the 1942 Conference of Surgeons, with covering letter from General D.C. Monro, 1 Sept 1942

Recommendations re the selection of patients for operation at Casualty Clearing Stations and Field Surgical Units, with ms. note "Tour of 8th Army, Oct 21-Nov 13 1942, Battle of El Alamein. Lieutenant Colonel C. Donald"

Quarterly report of No. 1 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit, Oct-Dec 1942

Report on frostbite among soldiers from Madras in January 1942

Report on frostbite among soldiers from Madras in January 1942

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