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Cantlie, Sir James, F.R.C.S. (1851-1926)

Scrapbooks, awards, correspondence and subject files

The Volunteer Medical Staff Corps, Ambulance and First Aid Movement in Britain

Printed page listing names of a deputation from the Volunteer Medical Organisation (including Cantlie)

Letter from Buckingham Chandos, Chairman, Executive Council, International Health Exhibition London 1884, asking Cantlie to write the handbook on 'Accidental Injuries: their prevention and first management'

Memoranda from the Medical Department, War Office, requesting names of persons suitable to command the new Volunteer Medical Staff Corps and appointing Cantlie as Surgeon-Commandant

Print of ink drawings of stretcher bearers of the Volunteer Medical Staff Corps, by "Algy: : Newark"

Ticket admitting "Mr Brown and friends" to inspection by Lord Wolseley, of Charing Cross Hospital Ambulance Co, 5 Jul [no year], at St George's Barracks, Trafalgar Square

Invitation to Mr and Mrs Cantlie to opening ceremony of the New Head Quarters of the London Companies Volunteer Medical Staff Corps, Calthorpe St, Gray's Inn Road

Printed circular to raise money for the Volunter Medical Staff Corps by Sir Guyer Hunter, K.C.M.G., Surgeon-General, Hon. Commandant Volunteer Medical Staff Corps, and James Cantlie, Surgeon-Commandant

Two black and white photographs of a review of the Volunteer Medical Staff Corps

Cantlie's ts./MS. draft account of the history of the Volunteer Medical Service Corps and his role in its raising, dated 1891, Hong Kong. (In a somewhat disordered state.)

Course programme of the Volunteer Ambulance School of Instruction

Programme for an inaugural Smoking Concert given by the members of the Cantlie Club (3rd London (City of London) Field Ambulance)

Annotated ts., probably by Cantlie, on the importance of first aid knowledge and training for the general public

Programme of songs for a reception at Marlborough House.

Programme of British Red Cross Society Surrey Branch, Chertsey Division, Field Display, Brooklands Race Course, Weybridge, (in the presence of H.M. Queen Alexandra and H.I.M. the Empress Marie Feodorovna of Russia) with letters of congratulation from Henry Streatfield, G Locke King and Frederick Treves

Letter from F.E.G. Ponsonby, Privy Purse Office, Buckingham Palace, to Sir Frederick Treves, thanking him for arranging a British Red Cross stretcher party from the railway carriage to ambulance and ambulance to the Palace.

A collection of letters and Christmas cards from the Princess Royal, Princess Mary, including thanks to Cantlie for his lectures on first aid at Buckingham Palace, 1917, for birthday and other gifts, and for an invitation to become President of the College of Ambulance in place of the late Princess Christian, 1923 (turned down due to other commitments)

MS. record of a talk on the War work of the London 110 (V.A.D) and training at the College of Ambulance from 1914, by Mabel Cantlie, Commandant

Appeal for the College of Ambulance in Vere Street to become a national institution: annotated ts., printed proof, and off-print of appeal published in <i>The Times</i>, 21 Qct 1919.

Recruitment notice of the 3rd London (City of London) Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army, 56th (1st London) Division, for a new peace time establishment

College of Ambulance, programme of Classes and Lectures, Spring Term 1922

British Red Cross Society, printed minutes of statutory meeting of council including number of Red Cross training manuals sold to date

Letter from Sir Srthur Stanley, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the British Red Cross Society, thanking Cantlie, on his retirement, for his services as teacher of the Red Cross Ambulance Classes and asking him to remain on the Council and Executive Committee and post as an examiner in ambulance work, with copy of Cantlie's reply, (first page only, end seems missing).

New Year gretting card from Cantlie, asking his friends to "further the cause of First Aid by becoming Good Samaritans during 1926", featuring photograph of a tablet of honour sent from Canton in 1911 thanking Cantlie for helping to secure the liberation of Sun Yat Sen from detention at the Chinese Legation in London.

Letter from British Red Cross Society Vice-Chairman, to Lieutenant General Sir Neil Cantlie, K.C.B., K.B.E., M.C., Ch.B., F.R.C.S., thanking him for loan of a reprint of address by Cantlie to a meeting of the Polytechnic, Regent Street, London, 9 Sept 1914, prior to the Polytechnic's decision to set up a fund for the foundation of the College of Ambulance and Humanitarian Corps to render "First Aid to those in Need" in recognition of Cantlie's life-long devotion to Ambulance work

Illustrations of stretcher-bearing, cart ambulances, operating tents, based on Cantlie's ideas and work

Illustrations of stretcher-bearing, cart ambulances, operating tents, based on Cantlie's ideas and work

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