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Souvenirs of Lieutenant Colonel Leonard Harold Lerman, RAMC

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

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