Souvenirs of Lieutenant Colonel Leonard Harold Lerman, RAMC

Date:
1937-1956
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RAMC/1108
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Comprises:

  • RAMC/1108/1: Commission as Lieutenant, RAMC reserve, 1937.
  • RAMC/1108/2: Identity card, British Expeditionary Force, 1940.
  • RAMC/1108/3: Officer's advance book, 1939-1940.
  • RAMC/1108/4: 3 field service postcards to his family, 1940.
  • RAMC/1108/5: 2 menus of celebratory dinners in France, 1940.
  • RAMC/1108/6: Postcard photograph of village (in France), c.1940.
  • RAMC/1108/7: 7 photographs of Lerman and friends with French families, 1940.
  • RAMC/1108/8: 3 photographs of Lerman and Bob Leake (training?), c.1940.
  • RAMC/1108/9: 4 photographs of Lerman and comrades, c.1940.
  • RAMC/1108/10: Curfew permit from Diego Suarez (Antseranana), Madagascar, 1942.
  • RAMC/1108/11: Notes on ancient medicinal practices of Madagascar, 1942.
  • RAMC/1108/12: Photograph and four negatives of Lerman and comrades (in North Africa), c.1942.
  • RAMC/1108/13: Photograph of operating theatre (in North Africa), c.1942.
  • RAMC/1108/14: Report in French on medical examination of a murdered man, January 1943.
  • RAMC/1108/15: Satirical poem on Lerman's conduct in a fire, April 1943.
  • RAMC/1108/16: 4 photographs of Santa Teresa di Rivam, Sicily, including 2 of embarkation for invasion of Italian mainland, Sept 1943.
  • RAMC/1108/17: Pages from a magazine containing illustrations by Ardizzone of the invasion of Italy, 1944.
  • RAMC/1108/18: 3 photographs, postcard and calling card, Italy, 1943.
  • RAMC/1108/19: Copy orders re movement to Messina, 1943.
  • RAMC/1108/20: Issue of The Crusader, Eighth Army Weekly, January 1944.
  • RAMC/1108/21: Joke correspondence re dehydrated dill water, June 1944.
  • RAMC/1108/22: 8 unlabelled group and portrait photographs, c.1940s.
  • RAMC/1108/23: 2 photographs of a bullet and pieces of shell(?), in wrapper addressed to Lerman, dated Sept 1944.
  • RAMC/1108/24: Identity certificate, 1956.
  • RAMC/1108/25: Typescript "Ode to those four-letter words", c.1940s.

    • Publication/Creation

    1937-1956

    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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