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Papers re service as Director of Medical Services to the British Forces at Constantinople (now Istanbul)

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1-8 Papers re service as Director of Medical Services to the British Forces at Constantinople (now Istanbul) 1922-1923:
1 Letter from the War Office warning Fell to expect orders, 1922
2 Passport and permits to travel from Cologne to Silesia via Berlin, 1922
3 Letter from Fell to C.H. Harrington, General Officer Commanding in Chief, re disposition of medical units around Constantinople, 1922
4 Letter from C.H. Harrington re use of ambulances to rescue the Sultan of Turkey from his palace, 1922
5 Letters of thanks from C.H. Harrington and from Lord Trenchard, Marshal of the RAF, for organisation of the medical services, 1923
6 Two letters from Fell to his sister, Christina, describing the situation around Constantinople in May 1923
7 Photographs of Constantinople, 82nd General Hospital and the Armistice Day Memorial Service at Gallipoli, c.1923
8 Two RAF Christmas cards from Constantinople, 1922
9 is not listed.
10 Letter to Fell re Anglo-American co-operation during the First World War, 1929
11 Letter to Fell on his retirement, 1929

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Papers re service as Director of Medical Services to the British Forces at Constantinople (now Istanbul)

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