Reports, correspondence, sitreps, instructions, following D-Day

Date:: 1944-1945

Reference:: RAMC/761/3/50-56

Part of:: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection

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Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments CollectionRAMC
- Collection of reports, copy reports and publications re military medicine, from the RAMC Training Centre "presumably made by (then) Brig. F. M. Richardson"RAMC/761
  - Second World WarRAMC/761/3
    - North West EuropeRAMC/761/3/42-58
      - Reports, correspondence, sitreps, instructions, following D-DayRAMC/761/3/50-56

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Reports, correspondence, sitreps, instructions, following D-Day. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Comprised of the following:

RAMC/761/3/50: Copies of reports re surgical arrangements of forward units, July-August 1944.

RAMC/761/3/51: Copy correspondence re appointments of consultants and surgical supervisors, 21 Army Group, September 1944.

RAMC/761/3/52: Letter from the Medical Directorate, 21 Army Group, re typhoid and V.D. in Northern Europe, September 1944. With map of the Netherlands ("Extracted from the personal file of the late DMS, 21 Army Group").

RAMC/761/3/53: Copies of 2nd Army Medical situation reports re evacuation from Arnhem, September 1944-October 1944.

RAMC/761/3/54: Copy of Major General P.S. Tomlinson's report to the War Office re unsutably of the hospital system during rapid advances, February 1945.

RAMC/761/3/55: Copy of the instructions to No 8 British Field Ambulance re assault river crossings, February 1945.

RAMC/761/3/56: Copy of the instructions to 194 Field Ambulance re "Operation Torchlight" (Rhine Crossing), and "Operation Enterprise" (Elbe Crossing), April 1945.

Publication/Creation

1944-1945

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1 file

Terms of use

Open and available by appointment at the Museum of Military Medicine. A digitised copy is available to view via the online catalogue on the Wellcome Collection website.