Reports, correspondence, notes, and newspaper cuttings

Date:: 1940-1946

Reference:: RAMC/524/6/3-12

Part of:: Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection

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Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments CollectionRAMC
- Papers of Major General Robert Eric BarnsleyRAMC/524
  - Records of activity as ADMS, Headquarters, East Africa Force, 1940-1941RAMC/524/6/1-12
    - Reports, correspondence, notes, and newspaper cuttingsRAMC/524/6/3-12

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Reports, correspondence, notes, and newspaper cuttings. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Comprises:

RAMC/524/6/3: Copy report on medical establishment in East Africa, 1940.

RAMC/524/6/4: Correspondence re transport for Field Ambulances, August 1940.

RAMC/524/6/5: Copy of a report re operations on 28 March 1941.

RAMC/524/6/6: Copy of part of a report re the situation after 28 March 1941 (?).

RAMC/524/6/7: Sketch map of Kenya showing lines of evacuation to Mombasa, 1941.

RAMC/524/6/8: Newspaper cutting giving details of the area covered by East Africa Force, 1941.

RAMC/524/6/9: Statistics of casualties in East Africa Force, June 1940-May 1941.

RAMC/524/6/10: Notes on the working of medical services in the East African Campaign, Feb-April 1941.

RAMC/524/6/11: Supplement to The London Gazette of 9 July 1946, reproducing despatch dated 21 May 1942 from Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander in Chief in the Middle East, giving a resumé of the East Africa Campaign.

RAMC/524/6/12: Notes, drafts and transcripts of Barnsley's lectures re the East African Campaign, c.1946.

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1940-1946

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1 file

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Open and available by appointment at the Museum of Military Medicine. A digitised copy is available to view via the online catalogue on the Wellcome Collection website.