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Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection

Souvenirs of Lieutenant Colonel Leonard Harold Lerman, RAMC

Commission as Lieutenant, RAMC reserve

Identity card, British Expeditionary Force

Officer's advance book

3 field service postcards to his family

2 menus of celebratory dinners in France

7 photographs of Lerman and friends with French families

3 photographs of Lerman and Bob Leake (training?)

4 photographs of Lerman and comrades

Curfew permit from Diego Suarez (Antseranana), Madagascar

Notes on ancient medicinal practices of Madagascar

Photograph and four negatives of Lerman and comrades (in North Africa)

Photograph of operating theatre (in North Africa)

Report in French on medical examination of a murdered man

Satirical poem on Lerman's conduct in a fire

4 photographs of Santa Teresa di Rivam, Sicily, including 2 of embarkation for invasion of Italian mainland, Sept 1943

Pages from a magazine containing illustrations by Ardizzone of the invasion of Italy

3 photographs, postcard and calling card, Italy

Copy orders re movement to Messina

Issue of The Crusader, Eighth Army Weekly

Joke correspondence re dehydrated dill water

8 unlabelled group and portrait photographs

2 photographs of a bullet and pieces of shell(?), in wrapper addressed to Lerman, dated Sept 1944

Identity certificate

Typescript "Ode to those four-letter words"

Postcard photograph of village (in France)

Postcard photograph of village (in France)

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