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Memorabilia and history of Second World War Airborne Medical Units

Comprises:
<li>RAMC/2019/1: Training pamphlet No. 1 of 44th Indian Airborne Division: "The Medical Services in the Division", 1944.</li>
<li>RAMC/2019/2: With Pegasus in India: the story of 153 Gurkha Parachute Battalion, by Eric Neild. The item is not dated, but must be from after 1947, mid 20th century.</li>
<li>RAMC/2019/3: Order of Memorial Service for the men of the British Airborne Division, R.A.F., and other Allied Forces, who died at Arnhem and Oosterbeek in September 1944, 1956.</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

Photographs of Major G.H. Davies, RAMC

Photocopy of typescript copy of the diary of Captain D.W.J. Andrews, RAMC, July 1915-March 1916, when he served in 58th Field Ambulance on the Western Front

Medical Staff Corps account book of John Thomas Chapman

Four photographs of the visit in June 1987 by the Dunkirk Veterans Association to war graves (of 141 Field Ambulance?)

Medical support in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, reproducing the paper "Organization of the evacuation and management of casualties during the October 1973 War" by Dr. J. Adler of the Israeli Defence Forces

S.R. Collantine: manuscript articles re the history of the medical services' sergeants' mess, the development of the rank of sergeant, and the development of military barracks

"Medical vehicles past and present": typescript by Private K. Edgar, RAMC

Photocopy of typescript account of the rescue by Captain Ian Patrick Crawford, Regimental Medical Officer of the 1st Battalion, 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles, of Major E.D. Smith, the Battalion's Second in Command, from a crashed helicopter in Borneo on 18 December 1964

Correspondence and information re the history of Mytchett Place, residence of the General Officer Commanding at RAMC Barracks, Ash Vale, Hampshire

Unbound copy (proof?) of the first volume of Sir Neil Cantlie's history of the Army Medical Department

Printed instructions by Colonel S.G.S. Haughton, ADMS, Meerut District, India, re prevention, diagnosis and treatment of tropical diseases

War experiences of a Territorial Medical Officer (ADMS, 2nd Mounted Division, Egypt, 1915-1919) by Major General Sir Richard Luce, RAMC(T), extracted from the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1936-1937, with photographs stuck in

The history of 19th Company, RAMC, during the war, compiled by Major S.T. Beggs

Some episodes in the life of James Goodall Elkington, an army surgeon in the Peninsula Days, together with extracts from his Journal, by Lieutenant Colonel H.P. Elkington, RAMC

Ella: An Historical Tragedy in Five Acts, by John Morrison, late Assistant Surgeon, 1st Dragoons

20 reports re chemical warfare from the Medical Research Committee Chemical Warfare Medical Committee, bound into a volume

Report on the medical topography and statistics of the Presidency Division of the Madras (India) Army, including Fort St. George and its dependencies, within the limits of the Supreme Court

Letter-book of No. 1 Bearer Company, Army Hospital Corps, in South Africa, under the command of Surgeon Major William Johnstone

Second World War hygiene reports

Collection of printed manuals, handbooks, etc., for medical officers

Duplicated typescript directives re prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, including re sanitation and insecticide

Minutes of the meetings of 3rd Corps Medical Society (on the Western Front)

Printed booklet of advice by Colonel S.G.S. Haughton, ADMS, Meerut District, re hospital admininistration in India, duties of the Senior Executive Medical Officer, and administration of medical services in the field

Ministry of Defence publications transferred from Regimental Headquarters

Report (by the Chief Government Medical Officer, Malta), on the health conditions of the Maltese Islands and on the work of the medical and health department for the year 1952

Reminiscences and photographs

Two booklets published by the RAMC Historical Museum

Pamphlets and publications from the League of Nations, Medical Research Council and other bodies

Group photographs of those attending courses at the Royal Army Medical College, Millbank, London

Studies on the pharmacology of mepacrine, by Major J. Reid, RAMC, duplicated typescript submitted to the Chemical and Pharmacological Sub-Committee of the Malaria Committee of the Medical Research Council

Before and after Morton: a historical survey of anaesthesia by E. Ashworth Underwood, Director of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum

Typescript proceedings of a symposium on chest disease and allied disorders held at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar

Album of photographs of the British Military Hospital, Trieste, Italy, on completion of re-organisation

Grocott and Sherry's souvenir (photograph album) of Johannesburg (South Africa)

Album, entitled "Fishing in Kashmir", of photographs of scenes and people of Srinagar and the Bringhi River, Kashmir

Private H.W. Sexton's certificate of training as a nurse

Biographical reprints

Rag Time: a collection of military poems suitable for recitation, by Lieutenant Colonel J.D.F. Donegan, RAMC

RAMC Association Monthly Bulletins, No. 1-6

Duplicated typescript Standing Medical Instructions, (Suez) Canal South District, Egypt

The War Department drainage manual (including sewerage). Third edition

Visitors book of the Elizabeth Club (RAMC Women's Club)

Lectures on the history of nursing, with descriptive list of lantern slides. Part 1, by Maude E. Seymour Abbott, Lecturer on the History of Nursing and Curator of the Medical Museum, McGill University

Copies of The Victor magazine

Album of photographs of Lieutenant Colonel H. T. Minden Wilson, RAMC, mainly of No. 6 Casualty Clearing Station groups and recreation activities

Album of photographs of service (on hospital ships?) in Iraq, First World War

Album of photographs of the Boer War, including pictures of Boers' stretchers, casualty evacuation, etc

Album of photographs (of Captain St. Clair Hamilton), mainly of the Indian Medical Service Hospital Ship Guildford Castle, working between Boulogne, France, and the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, Hampshire, in 1914

Album of family photographs and scenes of Egypt, taken by Private Edward George Chessun of No. 33 Company, RAMC

Books transferred from the Royal Army Medical College

Elements of pharmacy, materia medica and therapeutics, by William Whitla

Photographs of five drawings (in the style of Sir Charles Bell), published in 1820 as plates illustrating surgery of the bowel, scrotum, etc

Files of case notes, with graphs, x-rays, photographs, etc., from Gogarburn Emergency Hospital, Corstorphine, Edinburgh

Albums and photographs of parades and visits at the RAMC Depot, Church Crookham, Hampshire

Portrait photographs and biographical details of officers whose swords are displayed in the RAMC Museum

Three oriental manuscripts

Set of bound copies of Navy and Army Illustrated

Volume of printed copies of the diary reports of Surgeon General Sir W. D. Wilson, Principal Medical Officer of the Field Force in South Africa, to the Under Secretary of State for War, Nov 1899-June 1900, and typescript copies of the diary reports, July 1900-April 1901.

Order book of No. 1 Bearer Company, Army Hospital Corps, in South Africa, under the command of Surgeon Major William Johnston.

Scrap-book of photographs, correspondence and newspaper cuttings of the visit of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (widow of George VI) to the Royal Army Medical Corps Training Centre at Ash Vale, Hampshire.

Scrap-books of photographs, newspaper cuttings, orders of services and letters of congratulations, on RAMC Jubilees.

Scrap-book of newspaper cuttings, descriptions and records of meetings, etc. re the Chapel in the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank, London

Memorabilia and history of Second World War Airborne Medical Units

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