Souvenirs of Captain Gordon Spencer Shiell, RAMC

Date:
1939-1947
Reference:
RAMC/1215
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Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection
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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

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