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Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection

Papers of Lance Corporal George Biddiscombe, RAMC

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Extract from the Report of the Army Medical Department, 1898, re an attack by Turkish protesters on the "Greek Hospital" at Kandia, Crete, in which Private Biddiscombe was wounded

Newspaper cutting (1899) re award of Distinguished Conduct Medal to Biddiscombe

Certificate of character upon discharge

Copy of letter asking for employment at the War Office

Certificate of discharge

Mobilisation orders

Grant of the dignity of a Member of the Civil Division of the Order of the British Empire

The News and Gazette of the Royal Army Medical Corps, the Army Dental Corps and QAIMNS, Jan 1939, containing an obituary of Biddiscombe

Account book or pocket ledger

Account book or pocket ledger

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