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Enclosed: photographs [of 33 Indian Corps in the Burma Campaign].

Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection

Account of operations of 33 Indian Corps, April 1944-May 1945. 4 volumes, with a further copy of vol. 1, containing original maps

Illustrated "scrapbook" of 33 Indian Corps in the Burma Campaign

History of the Twelfth Army from its formation on 28th May 1945 to the end of operations, September 1945

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

Typescript memorandum from Colonel J.P. Crowdy, Professor of Army Health, to Major General A. MacLennan, RAM College library, re commemoration of the centenary of the death of Dr. Edmund Alexander Parkes, first Professor of Hygiene at the Army Medical School, 1860-1876

Plans and photographs of the conversion of a German fast train into No. 1 Ambulance Train for R.E. Branch Headquarters, B.A.O.R., Dusseldorf

Diary of Private E. Powell of No. 20 Field Ambulance, RAMC, on the Western Front Aug 1914-April 1915

Sir David Bruce's lantern slides.

Photographs of pre-fabricated buildings in South Africa during the Boer war, mainly hospitals and convalescent camps for the wounded

Dr. Hunter's Gravid uterus'-a bicentenary note, by Robert Ollerenshaw

First Eastern General Hospital Gazette, No. 18, 7 Dec 1915

Group photograph of some of the staff of St. George's Hospital, Malta

Photocopies of two articles from the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Vol. 23, No. 4, 1974

The history of the flannel binder and cholera belt, by E.T. Renbourn

Papers of John Frederick Ford, snr

Photograph albums purchased by the RAMC Museum

Group photographs of exercises, etc., attended by Major-General R.D. Cameron

Camp pie, the magazine of Changi Prisoner of War Camp Hospital, Singapore

Medical Bulletin, bicentennial issue, containing eight articles on the history of medicine in the United States of America

Papers of Surgeon General William Francis Burnett

The June Rose Collection of papers re Dr. James Barry, Inspector General of Hospitals

Two articles

Photographs of RAMC companies in which Sergeant F.W. Light served

Picture postcard of Netley Hospital (Royal Victoria Hospital)

Papers and souvenirs of R.S.M. Charles Edward Lister, RAMC

Pages from an album of photographs of officers of the RAMC at Cairo, and their mess in Mohamed Ali's Palace, The Citadel, Cairo

Souvenirs of Staff Sergeant W. Lowery

Commission of Lawrence Murray Croton as Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps (non-medical section.)

Papers and souvenirs of Edward Louis McSheehy

Papers and photographs of Major-General Oswald William McSheehy, RAMC

Souvenirs of Colonel P. McSheehy

Marylanders defeat Philadelphia: yellow fever updated, by Theodore E. Woodward, William R. Beisel and Roy D. Faulkner

Photocopy of section about military medicine by Robert J. T. Joy, from the Dictionary of American History (1976 edition.)

Cuttings re military medicine, etc.

Medical records of prisoners of war, mainly from 5th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, in Taihoku Camp, Taiwan, kept by Captain George Blair, RAMC

Diaries and souvenirs of Colonel H.M. Morton, RAMC

Souvenirs of Lieutenant Colonel George Thomas Willan

Charles Boutflower, FRCS: Surgeon in Wellington's Army and Hon. Surgeon to the Essex and Colchester Hospital by John B. Penfold

Ms. "My résumé of the 1914-1918 war in the First Casualty Clearing Station, attached to the First Army in France", by Mr. Charles W. Campion, former private, No. 1 Casualty Clearing Station

Five postcard photographs of No. 2 Stationary Hospital, Rouen, France, during the First World War

Photograph of a (Boer War) nurse boarding a horse-drawn RAMC supply wagon. Captioned "Sister Pretty departing"

Souvenirs of Major Harry Russell, RAMC

Group photograph of the officers of RAMC Depot, Crookham, with H.M. Queen Elizabeth, consort of King George VI

Two typescript letters from Queen Victoria's secretary to Mrs. O'Neill, expressing the Queen's sympathy on the death in the Boer War of Surgeon J.T. O'Neill

Records kept secretly by Major Donald Bowie, Medical Officer in Charge, at the British Military Hospital, Hong Kong, under Japanese occupation

Three binders of typescript of The Third Row by Lieutenant Colonel Robert R. Lewis, RAMC. Illustrated with photographs

Duplicated standing orders of No. 72 British General Hospital

Two photographs of the staff of 102 Medical Rehabilitation Unit, RAMC, Richmond Park Camp, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey

Souvenirs of Sergeant George Rowland Baker

Printed report on the work, 1917-1921, of The Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, Kent, for sailors and soldiers suffering from facial and jaw injuries

Souvenirs of the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank, London

Account book of hospitals for the Duke of Marlborough's armies in the Low Countries (Belgium and north-east France)

Album of photographs and cuttings re the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank, London, including photographs of commanding officers, 1909-1967

Pages from an album of photographs of No. 62 General Hospital at Tobruk, Libya, 1941, and No. 8 (South African?) Casualty Clearing Station at Mersa Matruh (Egypt? 1941?)

Standing orders of H.M. Hospital Ship Toscana, by Lieutenant Colonel R.H. Robinson, officer commanding

Papers and photographs of Sergeant John Clinton Dewhurst RAMC

Photocopy of typescript "Essai sur le statut et le rôle du médicin militaire français", by Bernard Ferrier, assistant at the Law Faculty, Toulouse

Album of anatomical drawings of human bones by Sir William Leishman

Volume of particulars of candidates for RAMC commissions

Minutes of the General and Committee Meetings of the Officers' Mess, U.K. Military Hospital, Singapore

Conscript RAMC, typescript by Private Frederick Bratton

14 postcard photographs of No. 64 and No. 66 Casualty Clearing Stations at Old Trafford depot, Manchester

The Gazette of the 3rd London General Hospital (Territorial Force), Wandsworth: monthly, Oct 1915-July 1919

Pharmacopoeia of the London Hospital, compiled by C.H. Sykes, head pharmacist

Souvenirs of Lieutenant Colonel A.W. Mills, RAMC

Souvenirs of the RAMC before the First World War

Newspaper article re "Wanderings (in) France, Belgium, Egypt, Palestine... a diary of the 'original eight' (stretcher-bearers in the 1st Northumbrian Field Ambulance, 1915-1919)"

Souvenirs of W.O.I. Ridout, prisoner of war at Changi camp, Singapore

Papers of Corporal Dennis J.W. Speake

Medical services, Eighth Army: lessons of the Italian campaign, 10 July 1943-2 May 1945

Three photographs of Private Harold Sharp, RAMC, with comrades, one marked "Hut 6, RAMC S.V."

Roll of personnel of No.18 Company, RAMC, taking part in the monthly ceremony of of the Roll of Honour at Westminster Abbey

Instructions for new ceremony for turning the pages of the Roll of Honour at Westminster Abbey

Photograph of a miniature of George Eaton, MRCS, in the uniform of the Cambridgeshire Militia, c.1810. With photocopy of the catalogue description

Papers and souvenirs of Staff Sergeant Edward Wilson, RAMC

Typescript copy of the war diary of Captain John Hare, RAMC, Medical Officer to the 1st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, 17th Infantry Brigade, 6th Division, in the British Expeditionary Force to France, Sept to Dec 1914; and to Sir Ian Hamilton and his staff in the Dardanelles, March to Oct 1915

Photographs of past commandants of the RAMC Depot and Training Centre (formerly the Medical Staff Corps Depot), 1879-1962

Registers of guests in Red Cross Hostel, Shaftesbury, Wiltshire, to comply with Home Office requirements as to an "alien" register

Warrant to allow Mr. (John) Rush, Inspector of Regimental Hospitals, the same rate of pay as the Physician and Surgeon General

Gurkha Sanatorium: B(ritish) M(ilitary) H(ospital), Kinrara

Papers of Staff Sergeant David Herbert Barnard

Major E.T. Bran's photographs of RAMC Depot staff, including sports and social occasions

Typescript of the autobiography of Sir Alexander Hood

The fourth fasciculus of anatomical drawings (re diseases of the heart and blood vessels), selected from the Collection of Morbid Anatomy in the Army Medical Museum at Chatham

Photocopies of letters and photographs of Sir David Bruce

Album of photographs of the 2/1st South Midland Casualty Clearing Station, later called No. 61 Casualty Clearing Station, in training, March 1915-March 1916, and on the Western Front, July 1916-Nov 1918

Register of Courts Martial of personnel and patients at the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, London

Group photograph of RAMC unit, with Captain (then Sergeant) Jagger

Photographs of Major Thomas Stokoe Elliott, RAMC, (c.1916?) and of his grave in Harare, Zimbabwe

Photograph of the occasion of the dining out of the Director General Army Medical Services, Lieutenant General Sir James Baird, on his last night in the army, 29 March 1977, at RAMC Headquarters Officers' Mess

A short history of 207 (Manchester) General Hospital, RAMC (V), typescript by Lieutenant-Colonel W.M. Elder, RAMC (V)

Holy Bible belonging to Surgeon David M(iddleton) Greig of 5th Division Field Hospital, South Africa

Five photographs of Colonel J. Bostock, RAMC, and his family

Accounts of the Burma Campaign, 1944-1945

Accounts of the Burma Campaign, 1944-1945

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