work

Galleries and Reading Room

Library

Shop

Café

We’re undertaking some research with website visitors to learn more about how people find access-related information provided by museums. This survey shouldn't take longer than 10 minutes to complete. Thank you for your time!

Help us organize our website content.

This digitised material is free to access, but contains information or visuals that may:<ul><li>include personal details of living individuals</li><li>be upsetting or distressing</li><li>be explicit or graphic</li><li>include objects and images of objects decontextualised in a way that is offensive to the originating culture.</li></ul>By viewing this material, we ask that you use the content lawfully, ethically and responsibly under the conditions set out in our <a href="https://wellcomecollection.cdn.prismic.io/wellcomecollection/d4817da5-c71a-4151-81c4-83e39ad4f5b3_Wellcome+Collection_Access+Policy_Aug+2020.pdf">Access Policy</a>.

You must accept the terms to view the content.

Copy of a letter, 1971, recounting an anecdote about General Thomas Picton at the Battle of Waterloo, from "Recollections of the Mess Table" by Henry Curling (1855)

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

Record of service of Private (later Sergeant) Richard Edward Watson, Medical Staff Corps

Photocopy of the notebook of Private John J. Kershaw, RAMC, (with 29 Infantry Brigade?) containing notes on lectures about physiology, diseases, hygiene, diet, etc., and accounts of his pay

Commission of Neil Cantlie as Lieutenant in the RAMC

"Observations upon the Medical Department of the British army, made in 1891, abridged from an official report", by Alfred A. Woodhull, Major, U.S. Army Medical Department

Visitors book of No. 30 General Hospital in England, Iceland, France, Belgium, Norway and the Middle East

Visitors book of Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Harris, Director General, Army Medical Services

Visitors book of the Royal Army Medical College

Visitors book of RAMC Headquarters Officers Mess

Lithographs of Koulali Hospital (near Scutari Hospital, Uskudar, Turkey), built during the Crimean War

The Waterloo roll call: Army Medical Services, typescript by Alastair MacLennan

"Our rich tropical heritage": text of the presidential address by Lieutenant General Sir Robert Drew at the opening meeting of the 65th session of the Royal Society, of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

"Franco-Prussian war 1870-71: voluntary aid for the wounded and sick", by Valentine A.J. Swain, FRCS

Collection deposited by Lieutenant Colonel Howard N. Cole

Certificate of discharge and certificate of character of Private William Frank Dore, Medical Staff Corps

Minute book of the RAMC Sports Union

"A doctor goes to war": typescript copy of the diary, Jan 1940-June 1945, of Colonel J.R. McDonald, RAMC, commanding the 2nd (1st Northern) Territorial Casualty Clearing Station in the British Expeditionary Force to France, 1940; at the emergency military hospital at Charlton Park, Malmesbury, Wiltshire; and at 19th General Hospital in Fayid, Egypt, 1942-1945

Magazines of the RAMC and of individual units

Trumpet and bugle sounds for the army, with words; also bugle marches, compiled and arranged by C.A. Atherley

Notes, articles and correspondence re the formation of the Royal Air Force Medical Branch in 1918 and the appointment of Colonel Matthew Fell, RAMC, to organise it

Major-General Sir David Bruce, K.C.B., by Colonel E.E. Vella, Royal Army Medical College

10 watercolour sketches by L. Rawlings of prisoners of war suffering from tropical and and deficiency diseases (in Changi camp, Singapore) during the Japanese occupation of Singapore

Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Rollo Gillespie re the whereabouts of the papers and belongings of his two great-great-grandfathers in the medical services, Gillespie of Vellore and George James Guthrie, founder of the Westminster Eye Hospital

Autobiography and memorabilia of Captain William Morrison, who rose from the ranks of the Army Hospital Corps

The Royal Army Medical College and Laboratory, Millbank, London: description, photographs and plans. Extracted from Architect's Review

Bluebeard: a pantomime by members of the 28th Division, produced in Macedonia, Christmas 1917

T.A.B. Vol. Three: scrap-book forming the magazine of the 84th (1st/2nd City of London) Field Ambulance, RAMC, T.F., in Macedonia

The Balkan News, newspaper of the Allied Forces in Thessaloniki, 10th December 1915

Certificates of Private Kenneth Mark Winch

Frank Ernest Morley: certificates and papers

The soldier's pocket-book for field service, by Lieutenant General Sir Garnet J. Wolseley

First aid to the injured and sick: an advanced ambulance handbook, by F.J. Warwick and A.C. Tunstall

Papers of Colonel J.E. Squire, A.M.S. (V)

Diary of Sergeant John Q. Evans of No. 29 Field Ambulance, RAMC (on the Western Front)

Suggestion book from the Officers' Mess, RAMC, Cairo

Plan of the battlefield of Waterloo, 1815

The Buckle, magazine of Craiglockhart College, Edinburgh, used as a shell-shock hospital in the First World War

Worster family papers

2 typescript reports re Singapore under Japanese occupation 1942-1945

Billroth in 1870, by George Rosen, M.D., Ph.D.

Inspector General James Barry's copy of Cicero's Orations

Posters and leaflets appealing to the people of Northern Ireland to reject the Irish Republican Army

"Echoes from the past: a biographical sketch of Sir James McGrigor, Bart., K.C.B., MD, FRCS, late RAMC", by Colonel A.G.D. Whyte

Typescript of souvenir leaflet on the Centenary of the birth of Major-General Sir David Bruce, produced by the David Bruce Laboratories, East Everleigh, near Marlborough, Wiltshire

Photograph of the Home Counties Field Ambulance marching through Lewes

Catalogue of preparations, etc., in morbid anatomy and experimental physiology, contained in the Museum of the Army Medical Department, Fort Pitt, Chatham, edited by George Williamson

Transcription, on the back of a 1957 Edinburgh University dinner invitation, of a note on the front of the M.D. thesis of James Barry, later Inspector General of Hospitals

Benjamin Jesty (1737-1816), by R. K. Pilcher

Royal Army Medical Corps training manual

Army Medical Department file of correspondence re the writing of the Medical History of the Second World War and re individual units' histories

Memorabilia of No. 63 Home Ambulance Train, Second World War

Papers of Private A. Horrocks, 1/1st East Lancashire Field Ambulance, RAMC (T.F.), in Alexandria during the First World War

Typescript booklet re medical services of Kluang Garrison, Kluang, Malaya. With photocopy of plan of the garrison

Major F.J.W. Porter, RAMC. Oct 1899-April 1901, with the 1st Cavalry Brigade in the Boer War

Scrapbooks and diary of Sergeant George Charles Maidment, RAMC

Papers and souvenirs of Alfred Percy Hatt, Regimental Sergeant Major, RAMC, in 1918; Major, RAOC, in 1945

Prefabricated structures for the Crimean War, typescript of thesis by Gilbert Herbert

Papers of Sergeant Leo James Porter, RAMC

Reports re Prisoner-of-War camps under Japanese control during the Second World War

Major Phillip A.P. Webberley's group photographs of RAMC Companies, sports teams, etc., including Sergeants' Mess, RAMC, Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, 1928; 33 Company RAMC Sergeants' Mess, Cairo, 1936; and staff officers of the Depot and Training Establishment, 1946

Commission of Maurice Burnett as Lieutenant in the RAMC. With certificate of mention in despatches, 1915, and an extract from the "Radio Times", 1929, re the Battle of Shaiba, Mesopotamia, in which Burnett was killed

Booklets and miscellanea transferred from the RAM College Library in 1973

Booklets

Copies of papers of William Fergusson, Inspector General of Portuguese hospitals during the Peninsular War

Typescript "Brief history of the early days of Fort Pitt, Chatham", by Lieutenant Colonel G. Thynne

Photocopies of letter from Florence Nightingale to Major (later Colonel) J.S. Young of the National Aid Society

Letter from Lieutenant Colonel J.B. Jarvis, editor of the 1st Royal Greenjackets (43rd and 52nd) Chronicle, giving biographical details of nineteenth Century army medical officers

"The prestige of British army surgeons, 1789-1850", by Richard L. Blanco

Papers of Lieutenant Colonel Basil S. Bartlett, RAMC

R.J. Niven's notes on the entomology lectures of Lieutenant Colonel A.G. Biggam and Mr Smith at the RAM College Junior Officers Course

The evacuation of the sick and wounded on the North-West Frontier of India, by Captain E.B. Marsh

Regimental practice or A short history of deseases common to His Majesties own Royale Regiment of Horse Guards, commonly called the Blews, when abroad, account by Dr. John Buchanan of the Blues, of service at Ghent, Bruges and Antwerp, 1742-1746

Fort Pitt, by M.M. Davies

The Transvaal War Album: the British forces in South Africa, edited by Commander C.N. Robinson

Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Vol. 12. 3, containing a short history of the Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot, by Colonel J.E. Webb, RAMC

Disease among prisoners of war, typescript by Dr. N. Courtney Lendon, late Major, RAMC, re the tasks facing the medics among Allied prisoners of war of the Japanese

2 albums of postcards (annotated by Sergeant Charles Chamberlain)

Medical administration in India, report by Colonel S.G.S. Haughton, ADMS Meerut District

Material on "P" Company, RAMC, during World War One.

Christmas dinner menu, No. 9 General Hospital, Egypt

Order of service for the final annual service at the British Military Hospital Chapel, Singapore

Letter from the Reverend Christopher Chavasse (later Bishop of Rochester) to Corporal Towle, 2/2 West Riding Field Ambulance, RAMC, re his wounding on the Western Front in November 1917

The birth of one, Margaret Sandom, and relevant matters, by Brian Gavorin. (Describes the Garrison Female Hospital at Woolwich, London, in the nineteenth Century.)

Commission of Alfred William Cooper as Quartermaster in the 2nd Home Counties Field Ambulance, RAMC

The Ranger: a Journal for the Connaught Rangers, Final Number, containing an article re James (later Sir James) McGrigor, who was surgeon to the Connaught Rangers (the 88th Regiment), 1794-1804

With the Forty-Fourths, being a record of the doings of the 44th Field Ambulance (14th Division (with the British Expeditionary Force in France, 1915-1918)

Photocopy of a petition (1802) from the managers of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh to the Duke of York, Commander-in-Chief of H.M. Forces, requesting the restoration of a salary to one of the surgeons at the Royal Infirmary, where soldiers were treated

Photocopy of the Church of England sacrament certificate and record of oath of loyalty to King George II (1758) of James Inglis, surgeon to the fifth regiment

Final draft of the Roll of Permanent Commissioned Officers, RAMC 1898-1960, compiled by Major L.C.W. Baker, RAMC ("Drew's Roll, Vol. II")

Programme of celebrations of RAMC Golden Jubilee, Singapore District

"Defeat in 1870: a melancholic Marshal in Metz" by Lieutenant Colonel R.A. Dunbar-Miller and Lieutenant Colonel D. Hamilton

Copy of a letter, 1971, recounting an anecdote about General Thomas Picton at the Battle of Waterloo, from "Recollections of the Mess Table" by Henry Curling (1855)

Collection contents

Available online

About this work

Publication/Creation

Physical description

Where to find it

Permanent link