Minutes, sitreps, correspondence, plans, reports etc re D-Day

Date:: 1943-1944

Reference:: RAMC/761/3/42-49

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
      - Minutes, sitreps, correspondence, plans, reports etc re D-DayRAMC/761/3/42-49

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Minutes, sitreps, correspondence, plans, reports etc re 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/761/3/42: Copy No. 3 of the minutes of 1 Corps Medical Conference at Ayr (preparing for D-Day?), October 1943.

RAMC/761/3/43: Appreciation of medical problems of Operation Overlord (D-Day landings), January-April 1944.

RAMC/761/3/44: Correspondence and plans for evacuation of casualties, Operation Overlord, January 1944.

RAMC/761/3/45: Copies of reports re beach group organisation and evacuation of casualties, with copy of the 1st U.S. Army Operations Plan, c. Jan 1944.

RAMC/761/3/46: Extracts from 2nd Army Medical Plan No.2, April 1944.

RAMC/761/3/47: Short appreciation of the medical arrangements on the British Sector for the first three months of Operation Overlord, by Major General Tomlinson, DMS, 21 Army Group, June 1944.

RAMC/761/3/48: Account of preparations, plan and execution of D-Day landings, and 8 Field Ambulance's part, post June 1944.

RAMC/761/3/49: Letter to Tomlinson re medical situation in the Lines of Communication, including sketch map of hospital layout in R(ear) M(obilisation) A(rea), July 1944.

Publication/Creation

1943-1944

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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.