Souvenirs of Captain Gordon Spencer Shiell, RAMC

Date:
1939-1947
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RAMC/1215
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Souvenirs of Captain Gordon Spencer Shiell, RAMC. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Comprises:

  • RAMC/1215/1: Photograph of graduates at Trinity College, Dublin, 1939.
  • RAMC/1215/2: Portrait of Spencer Shiell, c.1940.
  • RAMC/1215/3: Certificate of mention in despatches, 1940.
  • RAMC/1215/4: Photograph of "The Independent Company, Gibraltar", 1942.
  • RAMC/1215/5: Photograph of (?) Parachute Field Ambulance, signed by General Montgomery, 1944.
  • RAMC/1215/6: Congratulatory letter and telegram re on winning the Military Cross. With supplementary edition of "Volunteers from Eire who have won distinction serving with the British Forces", 1944 and Nov 1944.
  • RAMC/1215/7: Telegram, newspaper cutting and official letter of condolence on the death from wounds of Spencer Shiell, 1945.
  • RAMC/1215/8: Correspondence re posthumous presentation of Spencer Shiell's Military Cross, 1946.
  • RAMC/1215/9: Correspondence re Spencer Shiell's grave. With pamphlet re war graves, 1946-1947.
  • RAMC/1215/10: Page from The Lancet May 1945, and The Book of Remembrance of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1939-1945, both containing notices of Spencer Shiell's death, 1945.

    • Publication/Creation

    1939-1947

    Physical description

    1 file

    Notes

    Piece-level data moved to item record and piece records flagged for deletion in Sep 2025 by GO

    Copyright note

    No information available on copyright: the position will presumably vary from item to item, with copyright in official documents resting with the RAMC or other government department and that in personal memoirs remaining with the creator, his/her heirs or assigns.

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