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Papers of General R.J. Blackham, RAMC, bound into one volume

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Comprises:
<li>RAMC/588/1: Photograph of his medals, c.1918.</li>
<li>RAMC/588/2: The French medical service in the field, pamphlet by Blackham, who had been Deputy Director of Medical Services, Ninth Army Corps, with the British Expeditionary Force to France, post-1918.</li>
<li>RAMC/588/3: Typescript of Blackham's article "With the French army in the second battle of the Aisne", with 9 pages of revised draft, 1916-1918.</li>
<li>RAMC/588/4: Fourth Army wastage returns, Sept-Oct 1916.</li>
<li>RAMC/588/5: Reports of medical arrangements for the 23rd Division, RAMC, Sept 1916-Nov 1917, with intelligence summaries, standing orders, etc.</li>
<li>RAMC/588/6: Reports of medical arrangements for the 50th Division, May 1918.</li>
<li>RAMC/588/7: Handing-over file, DDMS IX Corps, July 1918, containing a report on medical reconnaissance, a map showing disposition of medical formations and routes of evacuation, copy correspondence re ambulance trains to evacuate from the hospital at Conty, and a report on the Cavillon-Horncy-Oisement area water supply, 1918.</li>
<li>RAMC/588/8: Reports of medical arrangements for XI Corps, June 1918, with diagrams showing evacuation systems, and a list of duties of sanitary sections, 1918.</li>
<li>RAMC/588/9: Diet sheets of patients and staff, c.1918.</li>
<li>RAMC/588/10: Ms. map of disposition of medical services, May 1918.</li>

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Papers of General R.J. Blackham, RAMC, bound into one volume

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