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Souvenirs of Captain Gordon Spencer Shiell, RAMC

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Comprises:
<li>RAMC/1215/1: Photograph of graduates at Trinity College, Dublin, 1939.</li>
<li>RAMC/1215/2: Portrait of Spencer Shiell, c.1940.</li>
<li>RAMC/1215/3: Certificate of mention in despatches, 1940.</li>
<li>RAMC/1215/4: Photograph of "The Independent Company, Gibraltar", 1942.</li>
<li>RAMC/1215/5: Photograph of (?) Parachute Field Ambulance, signed by General Montgomery, 1944.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>RAMC/1215/7: Telegram, newspaper cutting and official letter of condolence on the death from wounds of Spencer Shiell, 1945.</li>
<li>RAMC/1215/8: Correspondence re posthumous presentation of Spencer Shiell's Military Cross, 1946.</li>
<li>RAMC/1215/9: Correspondence re Spencer Shiell's grave. With pamphlet re war graves, 1946-1947.</li>
<li>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.</li>

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Souvenirs of Captain Gordon Spencer Shiell, RAMC

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