Papers re medical arrangements in the Mesopotamia campaign

Date:: 1916-1919

Reference:: RAMC/364/5

Part of:: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection

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- Papers of Sir Matthew Fell (1872-1959)RAMC/364
  - Papers re medical arrangements in the Mesopotamia campaignRAMC/364/5

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RAMC/364/5/1: Signals ordering Fell and Surgeon General Treherne to Egypt, 1916-1918.

RAMC/364/5/2: 2 letters from Treherne to Fell, re military operations in March, personnel, and problems with the Army Commander, with plans of the situation of medical units around Baghdad, 1917.

RAMC/364/5/3: Notes by Fell re evacuation of casualties, 1917.

RAMC/364/5/4: Letter from Surgeon General Treherne re his voyage from Aden to Suez, and re mines around Colombo, Bombay, Karachi and Aden, 1917.

RAMC/364/5/5: Letter from Treherne to Fell's wife re Fell's work in Mesopotamia, 1917.

RAMC/364/5/6: Letter from Fell to his sister, Christina, re a short tour in India, c.1917.

RAMC/364/5/7: Newspaper reports of the Allies' entry into Baghdad, 1917.

RAMC/364/5/8: Orders to return to England. With embarkation cards and ration cards, c.1918.

RAMC/364/5/9: Information for guidance of officers travelling between Suez and England via Taranto (Italy), 1918.

RAMC/364/5/10: Reprints of accounts re medicine and surgery in the Mesopotamia campaign, by Colonel W.H. Willcox and Major G. Grey Turner, 1917-1919.

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1916-1919

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1 file

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Piece-level data moved to item record and piece records flagged for deletion in September 2025 by GO.

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