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Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection

Papers and photographs of Warrant Officer Edward Frederick Doughty, RAMC

Snapshot of "the three night orderlies and their dogs of the hospital at Khartoum, Sudan"

Certified copy of attestation

Souvenir certificates of crossing the Equator

Identity certificate

Details of substantiation of rank as Warrant Officer, First Class

Copies of orders of the day during the fight for Singapore, Feb 1942, and account of the massacres by Japanese troops of patients and staff at the Alexandra Hospital, Singapore

Doughty's diary

Notebook recording capture and transfer of personnel (of British Military Hospital, Singapore?)

Two nominal rolls, 198 Field Ambulance and (staff of Prisoner of War Hospital, Singapore?)

Notebook recording deaths of British, Australian and Dutch prisoners of war

Orders and circulars re pay and discipline, Changi camp, Singapore

Plans of Kranji Camp, Singapore, and its burial ground

Reports to the Japanese army of treatment of prisoners of war, particularly on the Burma Railway, April-Dec 1943

Programmes and menus of social events and entertainment at Singapore

Special order by Colonel E.B. Holmes, commanding, Prisoners of War, Malaya, on the end of of the war

War Office leaflet re treatment of malaria occurring in individuals returning from service in malarious areas

Information for those on their way home from the Far East and who are stopping at Adabiya, Suez, en route

War Office leaflets re resettlement of returning prisoners of war

Memorabilia of the prisoner of war camps in the Far East, including watercolour of a camp, captioned "Selerang", and articles from the Illustrated London News (1946) re Changi camp and from the British Medical Journal (1946) by Lieutenant Colonel E.E. Dunlop entitled "Medical experiences in Japanese captivity"

Military history sheet on discharge

Copy of attestation and record of service on short-service engagement

Papers, including medical specialist's report, in support of Doughty's application for a commission as Quartermaster

Certificate of service on leaving the colours

Six photographs of social gatherings, including presentation to Doughty on his retirement

Menus and programmes of social events at Colchester Military Hospital, Essex, 1946-1973, one with unit photograph enclosed

Menus of annual dinners of the Royal Army Medical Corps and the Royal Army Dental Corps Warrant Officers and Sergeants (Past and Present)

Group photographs of RAMC units, including No. 9, Company Sergeants' Mess, 1948

Order of service for memorial service at Changi Prisoner of War Camp, Singapore, to Major-General M.B. Beckwith-Smith

Order of service for memorial service at Changi Prisoner of War Camp, Singapore, to Major-General M.B. Beckwith-Smith

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