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Papers of Sergeant John Ivor Astley, RAMC

Comprised of the following:
<li>RAMC/1588/1: Service and pay book, 1931-1945.</li>
<li>RAMC/1588/2: Army certificates of education, third and second class, 1931.</li>
<li>RAMC/1588/3: Testimonial from the Military Hospital, Imperial Forces Transhipment Camp, Clairwood, South Africa, 1941.</li>
<li>RAMC/1588/4: Soldier's release book, 1945.</li>
<li>RAMC/1588/5: Record of service, 1945.</li>

Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection

Address delivered at prize-giving at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, by Sir Henry W. Acland, outlining the history of the Army Medical School

The bacteriology of fever in Malta: two papers, both reprinted from the Annales de l'Institut Pasteur, bound into one volume

Ms catalogue of photographs shown in Imp(erial) Med(ical) War Museum, E(gyptian) E(xpeditionary) F(orce) Section

Portfolio of cuttings, mainly from the Illustrated London News, re medical services in the Crimean War and re Florence Nightingale

Ms catalogue of drawings, casts, prints, paintings, etc. (in Fort Pitt, Chatham, Kent), of anatomical details including details of cases

Boer War memories, by Lieutenant Colonel F.A.B. Daly

The breakdown of young soldiers under training explained, by Surgeon Major F. Arthur Davy; three papers originally published separately as

Volume of copy letters, presented to Thomas Keate, Surgeon General to His Majesty's Forces, by Nodes Dickinson, their author

Album of photographs of Directors of the Indian Medical Service, 1858-1947, copies of pictures which hung in the office of the Director of Medical Services in India

Folder of letters, maps and diagrams re Lieutenant Colonel M. Dunning, Commander, 2nd Lowland Field Ambulance, in the campaigns in the Dardanelles, 1915, and the Middle East, 1917

Bound ms of "Introductory lecture on the practice of physic (delivered January 20th 1819)" by Charles Fergusson Forbes, M.D., Deputy Inspector of Hospitals

A field surgery pocket book: memoranda mainly based on experience in the present war

A field surgery pocket book (revised): memoranda mainly based on experience in the 1939-45 War

Lieutenant Colonel J.G. Foster's collection of material re the history of army medical services

On hygiene in Ancient India, by Surgeon General C.A. Gordon

Roll of Commissioned Officers in the medical service of the British Army who served on full pay within the period between the accession of George II and the formation of the RAMC (1727-1898), by Colonel William Johnston

Sir Charles Bell's watercolours of wounds sustained by soldiers at the Battle of Waterloo, June 1815

Description of a series of watercolour drawings executed by the late Sir Charles Bell, illustrative of wounds received at the Battle of Waterloo, by Deputy Inspector General T. Longmore, Professor of Military Surgery

Photographs and memorabilia of Arthur Martin Leake, RAMC

Scrap-book and Manuals

Army Medical School correspondence and bills re the Montefiore Prizes for military surgery, including posed photographs and sketches for the design of the medal

War Office Memoranda on medical diseases in tropical and sub-tropical areas

Papers of Alexander Cushnie Morison

Thomas Murray's certificate of membership of the Royal College of Surgeons

Bound ms case notes written in captivity by Brigadier L.R.S. MacFarlane (RAMC) re treatment of amoebic dysentery among prisoners of war of the Japanese in Thailand

Address by Dr. John Orsborn to the members of the Southampton Medical Society, in memory of Dr. Edmund Alexander Parkes, FRCP, FRS "the founder and best teacher of military hygiene of our day"

The Harveian Oration to the Royal College of Physicians (on Harvey's experiments which led to understanding of blood circulation), written by Dr. Edmund Alexander Parkes, FRCP, FRS, and read after his death

A list of commissioned medical officers of the army, Charles II to accession of George II, 1660-1727, by Colonel Alfred Peterkin

Material re the Centenary of the Army Pathology Service

Manual for Army Medical Services by Surgeon Major William E. Riordan

Material re the golden jubilee of the RAMC

RAMC Training Manuals

Instructions for the regulation of military hospitals and the sick with divisions of the army in the Peninsula .... bound with manuscript forms for scale of diet, return of medical comforts, report of the arrival of sick, diet abstract, "morning state of General Hospital" (a daily census of patients admitted, discharged, etc.) and bed head ticket (patient's details)

Colonel N. J. C. Rutherford's account of his part, with the field hospital, at the Battle of Magersfontein during the Boer War. Written in pencil "on the battlefield"

A collection of orders, regulations and instructions for the Army: on matters of finance and points of discipline immediately connected therewith, published by order of the War Office. (Section VI deals with "Medical Department of the Army, including the Veterinary Branch")

The tale of a field hospital, by Frederick Treves, Medical Officer attached to the column which relieved Ladysmith during the Boer War

Typed transcripts of letters written by Arthur Henry Taylor, an assistant surgeon with the British Army in the Crimea, to his parents, 1854-1856

Papers of Joseph Marmaduke Taylor

Letters from Edmund P. Hewitt, with the RAMC in South Africa, to his brother, Jack Hewitt, Indian Public Works Department

Second World War medical bulletins and memoranda bound into one volume

Menu and seating plan of a dinner on 8th June "in appreciation of the splendid services of the Royal Army Medical Corps and the eminent civilians attached to it during the war," with a report of the speeches made there

Newspaper cuttings scrapbook on the subject of the rank of Army Medical Officers

Newspaper cuttings scrapbooks re the Army Medical Services/Royal Army Medical Corps, 1895-1907 compiled by Lieutenant Colonel William Johnston

Sir Joseph Fayrer's scrap-books

Bound volume of 11 pamphlets and articles by Major General George J.H. Evatt, RAMC 1878-1920

'In Memoriam Dr. Edmund Alexander Parkes' Reprinted from the British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, July 1876

Notes on sanitation for Indian troops by T. F. Paterson, Captain, Indian Medical Service. 2nd edition, edited by Major D.R. Thapar, Malaria Medical Officer

Typescript diary formed of extracts from letters by Surgeon Captain Alfred E. Master, Army Medical Service, re campaigning with the Queens Regiment against the Afridi tribes on the North-West Frontier of India (The Tirah Campaign)

Booklet of photographic reproduction of the 'Memorial Roll ("Golden Book") of the Royal Army Medical Corps', designed by Graily Hewitt, with descriptive notes by the artist

'Medical administration in the South African War, being a report of speeches delivered by Sir William Church, President, R.C.P., London, Sir William MacCormac, President, R.C.S., England, and Surgeon General J. Jameson, late Director General, Army Medical Services, at a complimentary dinner given to the latter by the Medical Profession of Great Britain and Ireland, on the 24 July 1901'

Printed copies of royal warrants re army medicine, bound together

Volume of Pathological Reports, Jan-May 1856, of the Pathological Board at Balaclava in the Crimea

Medical Register, Feb 1855 - March 1856, (of the Royal London militia or of a military hospital in London?)

Pathological registers of surgeons in the camp before Sebastopol during the Crimean War, divided into sections re febrile diseases, cerebro-spinal, thoracic diseases, abdominal diseases, miscellaneous (mostly drunkenness) and gunshot wounds and surgical injuries

Volume of monthly reports, Jan-June 1856, of the Pathological Board in the camp besieging Sebastopol during the Crimean War

Volume of Pathological Reports, Jan-April 1856, of the Pathological Board, Highland Division, in the Crimea

7 volumes (numbered 5-11) of Sir Joseph Fayrer's "notes of interesting cases in the Medical College & Hospital (at Calcutta)", in chronological order

Papers of Surgeon John Francis Smet, 8th Light Dragoons

Miscellaneous papers collected by Dr. H. Morley Fletcher, FRCP

Minute Book of the Committee of the Army Medical Officers Benevolent Fund

Bound committee reports and accounts of the Army Medical Officers Benevolent Fund

5 volumes of correspondence of William Fergusson, Inspector of Army Hospitals in Portugal during the Peninsular War

Album, signed by Colonel David Bruce, Assistant Professor of Pathology, of photographs of groups of medical students at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, with captions giving surname of each student

Papers of Assistant Surgeon Thomas Murray

Papers of Surgeon Colin Paterson

Copy of a report submitted in 1915 to the Director of Medical Services, India, by Lieutenant Colonel Patrick O'Gorman, IMS, describing a stretcher-lifter as an alternative form of casualty transport to the traditional Indian dandy

Three Chinese scrolls re anatomy

Papers of Surgeon Alexander Simpson (1819-1864)

Burgess ticket of the city of Dundee, conferring freedom of the City and Burgh on David Middleton Greig, CM, FRCSE, for his help to the people of Dundee in the hospitals and other institutions

Papers of Surgeons David Greig and David Middleton Greig (father and son?)

Album of T.B.A. Tuckey, Brevet Colonel, RAMC, containing 5 pencil-written Boer passes "taken from Boer Laager after being shelled by the British at Colesberg, 1900

Health memoranda for soldiers by Lieutenant Colonel H.K. Allport, RAMC

Folder of souvenir issues, newspaper cuttings, etc., re Centenary of the institution of the Victoria Cross

Printed syllabus of a course of lectures for 1846-47 and 1849-50 sessions, on the principles and practice of military surgery, by Jolliffe Tufnell, Assistant Surgeon to the Forces in Ireland, and Surgeon to the Military Prison

Case notes re fractured acromion process (right shoulder) of Bombardier Edward Robins, Royal Artillery

Items re Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, donated by Donald Bowie, who had charge of the British Military Hospital in Hong Kong from August 1942 until liberation in 1945

Material re the life of Dr. James Barry, Inspector General of Military Hospitals, "found upon death to have been a woman"

Jelligraph copies of extracts from Medical Staff Corps orders, including memoranda re promotion of private soldiers to rank of First Class Orderly, arms and accoutrements, compilation of reports, etc.

War diary kept by Captain Neil Cantlie, RAMC, with the 6th Division at the Battle of the Somme, Sept - Oct 1916

Papers of John James Young Campbell of Glasgow

Baird and Tatlock (London) Ltd. album of photographs of mobile laboratories manufactured and designed by them for use by the British and Allied Medical Services during the First World War, showing exteriors, interiors and equipment

Transcription of the Book of Remembrance, the roll of honour of the RAMC personnel killed in the Second World War, 1939-1945, with historical notes and statistics

Papers of Colonel Thomas Boswell Beach, RAMC

Photogravure of a portrait by Dyce of Sir James McGrigor

Copy (or draft) of commission, 1657, from Charles II to John Knight, appointing him Surgeon General

Diplomas and commissions of David Middleton Greig

Papers of Surgeon William Lindsay of the 18th Foot

Papers and souvenirs of Arthur Martin Leake

Diary of Anthony Dickson Home, surgeon, 90th Foot, re his voyage to India round the Cape of Good Hope, and the relief and subsequent siege of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny

Letter, 10th Sept 1855, to his parents from Assistant Surgeon T. Egerton Hale, describing the attack on the Redan at Sebastopol during the Crimean War, in the course of which Hale performed deeds of valour for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross when it was instituted in 1856

Letters and papers of Florence Nightingale

19 watercolour illustrations by Mervyn Smart (Grant?) of wounds sustained during the Allied advance on Germany "made for Brigadier Harold Edwards" (Consultant Surgeon, Allied Forces H.Q.)

Professor Edmund Parkes's photograph album of officers at the Army Medical School, Netley, with one photograph of his house in Bitterne

Sir Thomas Longmore's scrap-book of "Illustrations of appliances (and methods) for the transport of wounded soldiers", with extracts from The Ambulance Transport

Scrap-book by Captain G.H. Colt, RAMC, re development of the joined-pole trench-stretcher, including correspondence, 1915, with Captain D'Arcy Power and with Captain J. Ellis Milne, re the development of a stretcher for use in the trenches on the Western Front

Catalogue in 2 ms volumes of specimens in the Pathological Museum at Fort Pitt, Chatham, Kent, with details of case and of preparation of specimen

Catalogue in one ms volume of the library of the Army Medical School, Netley, in alphabetical order of author's name, with some subject entries

Necrological register of all cases admitted to general hospital, Portugal, in 1827, compiled by William M. Ford, Assistant Surgeon to H.M. Forces in Portugal

Volume of pathological (post-mortem) reports from the Army Medical School Hospital at Netley of cases admitted from other Forces hospitals

Necrological registers (reports) from General Hospital at Fort Pitt, Chatham, Kent

Souvenirs of Private Clarence Whittaker, RAMC, and photographs from a newspaper serialisation of his war diary of Gallipoli

Typescript text of the reminiscences of Captain W.C.F. Harland, RAMC re his service with 72nd Field Ambulance, 24 Division, in a field hospital on the Western Front, 1917-(1918)

Diary of Private Clarence Whittaker, RAMC, with 35th Field Ambulance at Gallipoli, 1915, and in Egypt, 1916

Articles, extracts, photocopies, order of memorial service

Typescript copy of the diary of Captain Brett, RAMC, on H.M. Hospital Ship Oxfordshire in the Dardanelles, Nov 1915-Jan 1916, written as a letter to "Katie"

Papers of Private Thomas Higham, RAMC

Souvenir programme of the visit of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, Colonel-in-Chief, to the RAMC Training Centre on 19 July 1968

Three postcard photographs of Meerut Indian General Hospital at Morant Hall, Brockenhurst, Hampshire

Photocopy of typescript of memoirs of Private Charles Cyril Ammons, with the 3rd London Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance in Egypt, Macedonia and Palestine, 1915-1919, with sketch map of Palestine

Album of photographs of India, mainly Lucknow, Bombay, Jalapahar and Calcutta, taken by Private G.E. Sissons, RAMC Dental Staff

Magazines

Supplement to the London Gazette of 19 December 1944, and a page of the Nottingham Guardian, reporting the award to Sergeant Frank Robert Hales, RAMC, of the British Empire Medal

Copy of a damaged photograph of 130th Field Ambulance at Prestatyn, Flint (now Clwyd) with the hostesses with whom they were billeted

Biographical notes and cuttings re medical officers on full pay since 1864

Programmes of the Centenary of the Royal Tournament at Earl's Court, London, and the thanksgiving service for the 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (widow of King George VI) at St. Paul's Cathedral, London

Photographs of Surgeon Alfred Joseph Lumby Hepworth

Album of photographs of official visits to the British Military Hospital, Singapore

Medical supplies book captured from the Argentine Navy in the Falklands War, 1982

Two albums of photographs of the visit of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, to the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich

Album of photographs of the 14th Brigade (Lincoln Regiment) Field Hospital in the Boer War

Reminiscences and obituary

Visitors book of the British Military Hospital, Kinrara, Malaya

Brief history of No. 8. Casualty Clearing Station, RAMC, 1939-1940, concentrating on the retreat from Rouwroy to Dunkirk in May 1940, by Lieutenant-Colonel J.R. McDonald, the officer commanding

Appreciation by Major General M.H.P. Sayers of Hugh Marriott, who was consulting physician to Allied Land Forces, South East Asia, during the Second World War

Souvenirs of the service and death of Captain David James Shirres Stephen, RAMC

Papers and photographs of Captain James Harvey Bounds, RAMC

Commissions and diplomas of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Edward Douglas, RAMC

Contract of Dr. William Edmund Alexander Buchanan of Barnhill Hospital, Springburn, Glasgow, on taking rank of Lieutenant in the army

Twenty-eight photographs (from recruitment exhibitions?), including of exercises at the RAMC Training Centre

Records of nineteenth-century medical orderlies

Records of individuals in the RAMC

Discharge certificates of Private William Dent, RAMC

Papers and souvenirs of individuals in the medical services

Items relating to family and individuals

Assorted personalia, memorabilia, and photographs

Miscellaneous photographs

Miscellaneous memorabilia

Photographs of the graves of RAMC personnel in Stanley Military Cemetery, Hong Kong

Papers and souvenirs of Captain Sidney Stevens, RAMC

Photographs of the visit of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, (widow of King George VI) to Keogh Barracks, Mytchett, Hampshire

Three photographs of Private Peter Robertson, No. 1. Company, RAMC, during the First World War, including one of a ward in a temporary hospital near Aberdeen, and one as a prisoner of war in Germany

Papers and souvenirs of individuals in the RAMC

First and Second World War memorabilia

First World War photographs of military hospitals

Printed plan of the Battle of Waterloo (1815)

Scrapbook of "Harden" House, RAMC Apprentices College, Church Crookham, Hampshire.

Typescript of Lieutenant Colonel Howard N. Cole's history of the RAMC, 1948-1960, entitled "In arduis fidelis"

Papers and souvenirs of Lieutenant Colonel William Hamilton Scriven, RAMC

Scrapbook of programmes and concert arrangements of the RAMC band

Photographs and other souvenirs of Private Austin Tucker, RAMC

Minute book of the British Station Hospital Sergeants' Mess, Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. With group photograph (1983) of the members of the mess, and souvenirs of social events, 1982-1983

Copies of paintings and photographs of participants in the discovery of the cause of and cure for Brucellosis: Surgeon Captain David Bruce, Assistant Surgeon Jeffrey Allen Marston, Surgeon Captain F. Smith, Surgeon Major H. Veale, Professor Almroth Edward Wright, Surgeon Captain Matthew Louis Hughes, Captain James Crawford Kennedy, Major W. H. Horrocks and Surgeon Major D. Semple

Printed message of congratulation from General Rawlinson to Private J.R. Williams of 92nd Field Ambulance, RAMC, on winning the Military Medal

Papers re Private Cecil Henry Carbis of 18 Stationary Hospital, RAMC

Printed souvenir of messages of thanks to the RAMC Disembarkation Staff at Dover for their help to casualties on HMS Vindictive after the Zeebrugge Raid, 23 April 1918

Certificates and photographs relating to Ambulance cars in World War Two and the training of a Northumberland Fusilier in 1920s India.

Autobiographical notes of Major Arthur Dady, RAMC (1885-c.1963)

Account by S. Darling of the Royal Army Medical Corps' aid to the civil authorities during the South African gold-miners strike in 1913

Photocopy of typescript account of the 43rd (Wessex) Division's campaign in Normandy in July 1945, including "The Story of Hill 112" from "The Wyvern in Western Europe"

Roll of Army Medical Department surgeons who served in the Second Afghan War, 1879-1880

Programmes and scripts from RAMC depot shows

Two group photographs of RAMC units in Africa, one marked "D. Osborne, RAMC, Cairo" (c.1910), the other dated July 1909

Draft of history of No. 6 Casualty Clearing Station on the Western Front in the First World War

Photocopy of typed transcript of the diary of Dr. Aitken, Regimental Medical Officer, 24th Lancers, June-July 1944, during the invasion of Normandy

Two warrants (Class I & II) of Warrant Officer Thomas Albert Towers

Photocopy of typescript survey by Lieutenant-Colonel M. MacEwan of the operations of 16 Parachute Field Ambulance, RAMC, together with some comments and recommendations on organisation, equipment and training, North Africa, April 1943

Group photograph of the staff of British Military Hospital, Jhansi, India

Photocopy and typescript of citation (1979) for operational award of Corporal P. Gilfoyle, operating theatre technician at the Military Wing, Musgrave Park Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Papers and souvenirs of Corporal Walter Percy Bray

Memorabilia of Captain Geoffrey Balmano Fleming, RAMC

Colonel Ethelwald E. Vella's copies of papers and photographs re Sir David Bruce and Colonel James Crawford Kennedy

Photocopy of "The military significance of typhoid in the Anglo-Boer War", by J.C. de Villiers, in Jagger Journal, No. 2, 1982

Order of proceedings of the ceremony of the bond of friendship between Ash Parish Council, Hampshire, and the Royal Army Medical Corps

Group photograph of the personnel of No. 13 Ambulance Train at Netley after return from Dunkirk

Papers and souvenirs of Captain Archibald Grainger Bisset, RAMC

Discharge certificate of Private Arthur E. Hurlock, RAMC (T)

Photocopy of typescript account of the death and funeral of Surgeon Lieutenant Colonel Edward Mason Wrench, formerly with the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, Derbyshire Regiment, in the Crimean War, and with the 12th Prince of Wales Royal Lancers in the Indian Mutiny

Photographs and souvenirs of the First World War Service of Reginald Mascall, Royal Engineers, including a group photograph of patients and nurses at a military hospital

Photocopies of two obituaries of Major-General Philip Henry Mitchener

Souvenirs of John Jarvis, RAMC

Enamelled pendant with miniature postcard photograph of the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot, Hampshire

Letter of congratulation to Private J. M. Craze from the Commanding Officer, 8 Corps, on award of Military Medal

Papers and souvenirs of Sergeant O. E. Lloyd-Jones

Captain A.W. Raffan's album of photographs of the work of No. 2 Maxillo-Facial Unit, Middle East Force, attached to No. 9. General Hospital, Heliopolis

Pencil sketch of a landscape (in Macedonia) by E. B. Waggett of 85th Field Ambulance

Photocopy of an extract from the Aldershot Gazette of 25 April 1920, re the retirement of Private Joe Papworth, RAMC, holder of the record number of good conduct badges in the army

Souvenirs of the Samuel family

Papers and souvenirs of Major Erric Richard Stanford, RAMC

Photocopies of the History of 195 Airlanding Field Ambulance on Operation "Overlord" (the invasion of Normandy, 1944), and reports, recommendations and statistics of the Field Ambulance's activities

Papers of Sergeant John Ivor Astley, RAMC

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