Guide to the Collections of the Royal Army Medical Corps (as filmed by the AJCP)
M2566-M2569
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Royal Army Medical Corps
- Title
- Collections held by the Royal Army Medical Corps (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1863 - 1987
- Collection Number
- M2566-M2569
- Extent
- 125 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Papers 1915-1917 of Lieut. Col. M. Dunning relating to campaigns in Dardanelles and Middle East.
Notes 1943-1945 of Brigadier L.R.S. Macfarlane concerning treatment of amoebic dysentery among prisoners of war in Thailand.
Papers 1940-1944 of Major General Sir Percy Tomlinson, referring to Australian and New Zealand casualties, medical units and hospitals in Middle East and Western Desert.
Papers 1941-1954 of Brigadier Julian Taylor relating to his service as consulting surgeon, Malaya Command, and at the Prisoners-of-War Camp in Changi.
Papers July-September 1915 of Lieut. Col. G.J.S. Archer relating to the 40th Field Ambulance at Gallipoli.
Reports 1942-1945 relating to the Japanese occupation of Malaya and Singapore.
Diaries 1914-1915 of Private A. Horrocks kept while serving in Egypt, referring to problems with Australian troops.
Medical reports 1943-1945 concerning Changi POW Camp.
Papers concerning radioactive contamination of the crew of fishing boat Fukuryu Maru after hydrogen bomb testing at Bikini Atoll in 1954.
Reminiscences of Irish soldier Private Arthur Morgan and Australian soldier Corporal Cockfield while serving at Gallipoli in 1915.
Diaries 1901-1946 of Lieut. Col. John G. Bell with entries relating to his service at Gallipoli, Singapore and Malaya.
Papers 1923-1948 of WO Edward F. Doughty relating to his service in Far East and imprisonment at Changi.
Account by Sgt Major John A. Cox of service with RAMC in 1939-1945, including visits to Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
Permission to publish these papers or any part thereof must be sought from The Contemporary Medical Archives Centre. Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, Euston Road, London.
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
Archival History
Material selectively filmed at the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre, London, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1989 (AJCP Reels: M2566-M2569). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
The Contemporary Medical Archives Centre. Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, Euston Road, London.
Collection Reference: RAMC.
For further information see the Royal Army Medical Corps archive at the Wellcome Library. [https://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/royal-army-medical-corps/]
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2578232] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Related Materials
The AJCP also filmed the following material from the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine:
M2563-M2564 British Medical Association. [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2303232]
M2565 Eugenics Society. [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2303242]
Miscellaneous Collections of Contemporary Medical Archives Centre have been listed separately.
Finding-aid Notes
This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2019. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.
Subjects
Archer, G.J.S., Lieut. Col.; Army and defence; Army officers; Auckland, New Zealand: visits to; Bell, John G., Lieut. Col.; Bikini Atoll; Changi, Singapore; Cockfield, Cpl; Cox, John A.; Doughty, W.O. Edward; Dunning, M., Lieut. Col.; Egypt; Fukuryu Maru, fishing boat; Gallipoli, Turkey; Horrocks, A.; Hydrogen bomb; Japanese in Malaya; Japanese in Singapore; Macfarlane, L.R.S.; Malaya; Melbourne: visits to; Middle East; Morgan, Arthur; Nuclear testing; Royal Army Medical Corps; Singapore; Surgeons; Sydney, New Zealand: visits to; Taylor, Julian, Brig.; Thailand; Tomlinson, Sir Percy, Maj. Gen.; World War I; World War II
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 392, p149. [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-397322928]
Biographical / Historical
Following the formation of the Standing Regular Army in 1660, each regiment of infantry and cavalry had a regimental surgeon and his assistant. The office of surgeon-general was created in 1664, but it was not until the Peninsular Campaign of 1808-14 that medical services were organised on a more formal basis. Sir James McGrigor, who was director-general of the medical department from 1815 to 1851, instituted a number of reforms, including the inauguration of medical reports from all medical stations, assistance to widows and orphans of medical officers, research into all aspects of army health, and an improved system of selecting men seeking commissions into the medical services.
Despite these reforms, the Crimean War showed that the medical organisation was unsuited to a modern war. Regimental surgeons held no military rank and had no trained staff. There was public outrage over the deaths through disease of thousands of soldiers in the Crimean War. In response, the War Office established a Medical Staff Corps in 1855. The regimental basis of appointment of surgeons ended in 1873 and an Army medical school was set up in 1863. However, medical officers still lacked the advantages that came with military rank, including inferior pay in India, a limited choice of quarters, rates, and less recognition in honours and awards. Recruiting to the medical department dwindled and there was strong criticism by the British Medical Association, the Royal College of Physicians and a parliamentary inquiry in 1890. The War office resisted change, but finally in 1898 the Medical Staff (officers) and the Medical Staff Corps (non-commissioned officers and soldiers) were amalgamated into the Royal Army Medical Corps. Medical officers were granted the same rank structure as the rest of the Army and assumed full administrative responsibility.
The Royal Army Medical Corps was headed by a director-general with the rank of lieutenant-general. The Army Medical Directorate, established in 1904, had departments dealing with (i) the recruitment, training and placement of medical personnel (ii) medical and surgical treatment, hospital organisation and hygiene and sanitation (iii) medical supplies and medical boards (iv) nursing service. In 1919 separate directorates were set up for hygiene and pathology.
The Corps expanded greatly during World War I: by 1918 there were 13,000 officers and 154,000 other ranks. In World War II, many medical personnel were taken prisoner, as they remained with wounded soldiers, including doctors and assistants captured after the fall of Singapore in 1942.
Reference: R. Drew. Roll of officers in the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1898-1960, London, 1968.
Item Descriptions
Series RAMC 38. Lieutenant-Colonel M. Dunning, 1915 - 1917
6 itemsLetters, maps and diagrams re campaigns in Dardanelles, 1915, and the Middle East, 1917.
Filmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2566.
Biographical / Historical
Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Dunning was Commander of the 2nd Lowland Field Ambulance.
Series RAMC 122. Brigadier L.R.S. Macfarlane, 1943 - 1944
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2566.
Biographical / Historical
Lennox Ross Selby Macfarlane (b. 1904) was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Service in 1927. He was promoted to the rank of major in 1937, lieutenant-colonel in 1946, colonel in 1950 and brigadier in 1958. He served in India (1929-34), Malaya (1938-42) and North Africa (1948-52). He was a prisoner-of-war in Singapore (1942-45) and later was appointed Professor of Pathology at the Royal Army Medical College from 1952 to 1960.
Series RAMC 408. Major General Sir Percy Tomlinson: Papers, 1939 - 1944
11 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2566.
Biographical / Historical
Sir Percy Tomlinson (1884-1951) was educated at Clifton School and Bristol University. He joined the Royal Army Medical Service in 1909 and was promoted to the rank of major (1921), lieutenant-colonel (1934), colonel (1937) and major-general (1940). During World War I he served in France, Macedonia and Bulgaria and he subsequently served in China (1921-24) and India (1932-36). He was director of medical services in the Middle East from 1940 to 1943.
Subseries 408/1. D.D.M.S. Headquarters British Troops in Egypt and later D.M.S. Middle East, 1939 - 1943
9 itemsFilmed selectively.
Minutes, notes, and transcripts of talk re medical services in Middle East, 1939 - 1940 (File 408/1/1)
Anticipated diseases and conditions. (13p.)
Includes: Remarks at G.O.C. Conference (COS and MOS) re sick rate amongst New Zealand troops in Egypt.
Minutes of meeting held Room 104 QMG House, 12 November 1940 attended by Lt. Col. Anderson (Australia House) and Lt. Col. R.S. Park (NZ House) re arrangements to evacuate casualities from Middle East.
Tables of medical units lost in Cyrenaica, Greece and Crete and notes, June 1941 (File 408/1/2)
Re personnel deficiencies in Middle East and East Africa and hospitals available. (4p.) Includes: details of Australian and New Zealand losses and hospitals.
Tables and notes re units and personnel in Middle East Force, 1940 - 1943 (File 408/1/3)
Includes: Australian and New Zealand Medical Units.
5p and 35p of tables.
Copies of reports etc re casualty, evacuation, hospitals and medical base at Asmara, March 1941 - October 1941 (File 408/1/4)
Includes: Diagram of system of base and convalescent hospitals and short appreciation of possible situation in Western desert, by DMS MEF and details of New Zealand forces. (10p.)
Tables of casualities in Western Desert Campaign Nov-Dec 1941 and notes on medical situation in the event of operations 'Garment' and 'Colonial' coming into force, December 1941 (File 408/1/5)
Includes: details of New Zealand forces. (12p.)
Comments on medical services in an exercise including beach landings, February 1942 (File 408/1/8)
Ref to 5 New Zealand Infantry Brigade Group Combined Training exercise No. 2. (blurred carbon). (2p.)
Series RAMC 431. Sir Arthur Porritt. FRCS, 1950 - 1964
2 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2566.
Biographical / Historical
Sir Arthur Espie Porritt (1900-1994), Baron Porritt (created 1973), was born at Wanganui and educated at the University of Otago and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied medicine. In 1940 he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps and served in France and North Africa. He was promoted to the rank of major in 1943 and lieutenant-colonel in 1945. He was King's Surgeon to George VI (1946-52) and He was the first New Zealand-born governor-general of New Zealand (1967-72).
Series RAMC 439. Brigadier Julian Taylor, 1941 - 1964
14 itemsPapers from Changi Prisoner of War Camp, Singapore.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2566.
Biographical / Historical
Julian Taylor (1889-1961) was educated at University College School and University College, London, graduating in medicine in 1912. During World War I he served in France with the Territorial 3rd Field Ambulance. He returned to University College Hospital after the War, becoming Registrar in 1922, Associate Surgeon in 1927 and Surgeon in 1936. In 1941 he re-joined the Army and was appointed Consulting Surgeon, Malaya Command. He was a prisoner-of-war in Singapore from 1942 to 1945. He returned to his practice and hospitals in London until 1956, when he was made professor of surgery in the University of Khartoum.
Subseries 439/1. Technical Memoranda etc., September 1941 - 12 September 1964
2 items
Correspondence re the deposit and memories of Julian Taylor, 3 June 1961 - 12 September 1964 (File (a))
Between Bernard Harries (UCH, London), Major-General R.E. Barnsley (RAMC, Crookham, Hants) and John Watts (RAMC, London). Includes: obituary of Julian Taylor UCH Magazine Vol XLV, no. 2, pp.35-38.
Subseries 439/2. Reports etc., September 1941 - May 1944
4 items
Surgical work done, September 1941 - February 1942 (File 1)
(First 2 sheets destroyed when Singapore fell 15 February 1942). Annexed regulations 19 December 1941 re primary suture.
Includes: details of cooperation with Australian Forces. (7p.)
Surgical work done, 15 February 1942 - March 1943 (wound patients) up to December 1942 (all other patients) (File 2)
Pt 1 and 3 facilities available; disposal of patients; opening of hospital in Roberts Barracks, Changi and descriptive report of surgical work.
Pt 2 (index of injuries and diseases) missing.
Includes: Australian and Malayan hospitals.
(Damaged, poor carbon copy). (87p.)
Series RAMC 496. Lieutenant Colonel W.G. Harvey RAMC, 1944 - 1967
2 itemsQuarterly medical reports (kept illegally) for Camp Commander Lt Col. A.E. Knights by W.G. Harvey at Japanese Prisoner of War camp at Tamuang, Thailand, 1944-1945.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2566.
Biographical / Historical
William Gourlay Harvey (b. 1904) was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Military Corps in 1928. He was promoted to the rank of major in 1938 and lieutenant-colonel in 1946. He served in India (1933-35), Hong Kong (1937-41) and Malaya (1941-42) and was a prisoner-of-war in Singapore (1942-45).
Correspondence re deposit, 5 September 1967 - 27 November 1967 (File (a))
Between Major General John Huston (Germany); Lt. Col. A.E. Knights (London); Major General R.E. Barnsley (RAMC, Ash Vale); W.G. Harvey (Dalkeith, W A). Letter from Harvey (27 November 1967) includes reasons for decision to live in Perth. (8p)
Series RAMC 506. Sir Arthur Porritt, 1967
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2566.
Biographical / Historical
Sir Arthur Espie Porritt (1900-1994), Baron Porritt (created 1973), was born at Wanganui and educated at the University of Otago and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied medicine. In 1940 he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps and served in France and North Africa. He was promoted to the rank of major in 1943 and lieutenant-colonel in 1945. He was King's Surgeon to George VI (1946-52) and became the first New Zealand-born governor-general of New Zealand (1967-72).
Series RAMC 524. Major General Robert Eric Barnsley, 1863 - 1866
1 itemRobert Eric Barnsley (1886-1968) served in France, Greece, Serbia and Bulgaria during World War I. He joined the Royal Army Medical Service as a lieutenant in 1917 and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1926, colonel in 1939 and major-general in 1941. He held various medical posts in England and East Africa between 1937 and 1946, retiring from the R.A.M.C. in 1948. He was the author of The story of the R.A.M.C. (1964).
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2566.
Subseries 524/14-15. Research Files, 6 September 1863 - 1 January 1866
1 itemSubseries 524/14. Sir Thomas Longmore, 6 September 1863 - 1 January 1866
1 itemFilmed selectively.
New Zealand Letters, 6 September 1863 - 1 January 1866 (File 524/14/5)
6 items
Sir William Mackinnon (New Plymouth) to Thomas Longmore, 6 September 1863 (Item)
Has been busy righting affairs in the colony; the Maori war; 'a glorious country'; his medical practice. (16p)
Mackinnon (Auckland) to Thomas Longmore, 28 April 1864 (Item)
Re medical cases resulting from battle of Rangiriri. (6p)
Mackinnon (Waihanghororo) to Thomas Longmore, 1 April 1865 (Item)
Re jealousy on part of other medical officers at award of CB; medical cases he has treated; hope Parliament will put a stop to the war. (10p)
Mackinnon (Auckland) to Thomas Longmore, 30 August 1865 (Item)
That 65th Regiment is returning; sees no chance of peace; pleased Home is leaving for India; cases he is sending to England. (8p)
Series RAMC 559. Gurkha Album, 1951 - 1960
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2566.
Series RAMC 614. New Zealand General Hospital. Brockenhurst No. 1, 1918
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2566.
Series RAMC 725. British Military Hospital. Terendak, Malaya, 1964 - 1970
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2566.
Series RAMC 738. Lieutenant Colonel G.J.S. Archer, 1915
1 itemPhotograph collections. Filmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2567.
Series RAMC 840. Colonel W.J. Irwin, 1968
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2567.
Biographical / Historical
William John Irwin (b. 1916) was commissioned as a lieutenant in the RAMC in 1944. He was promoted to the rank of major in 1952, lieutenant-colonel in 1961 and colonel in 1967. He served in Hong Kong (1949-52), Malta (1957-61) and West Germany (1961-65).
Series RAMC 844. Royal Army Medical Corps Officers Mess, Singapore, c. 1950
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2567.
Series RAMC 846. British Military Maternity Hospital, Penang, 1965 - 1971
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2567.
Series RAMC 951. L. Rawlings, 1942 - 1972
2 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2567.
Biographical / Historical
Leo Rawlings (1918-1984) was born in Birmingham and attended the Mosely School of Arts and Crafts. He enlisted in the 137th Field Regiment (Blackpool), Royal Artillery where he became regimental artist. He was sent to Singapore in September 1941, being taken prisoner by the Japanese in February 1942. General Sir Louis Heath commissioned him to make an accurate record of the experiences of prisoners at Changi. He had no paper, paint or brushes and was forced to use plant and clay pigment, scavenged paper and his own hair. The sketches were stored in an old stove pipe.
Series RAMC 982. Reports re Singapore under Japanese Occupation, 1942 - 1972
3 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2567.
Series RAMC 1004. Private A. Horrocks, 1914 - 1915
2 itemsPrivate A. Horrocks (1891-1956). Papers while with 1/1st East Lancashire Field Ambulance RAMC.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2567.
Series RAMC 1006. Kluang Garrison, Kluang, Malaya, 1962 - 1964
2 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2567.
Series RAMC 1016. Reports re POW Camps Under Japanese Control WWII, 1943 - 1945
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2567.
Subseries Item no. 2. Annual medical reports for POW camp Changi, Singapore, February 1943 - February 1945
3 items
Folder A (File 2/42-2/43)
Includes: description of Changi camp, conditions, diet, deficiency deseases, administration and organisation of the camp and hospital, control of malaria (includes Australian deaths). (117p and Index 6p)
Series RAMC 1048. British Medical Hospital Chapel, Singapore, 1970
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2567.
Series RAMC 1059. Royal Army Medical Corps Singapore District, 1948
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2567.
Series RAMC 1081. Percy Roberts and Kenneth Roberts, 1915
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2567.
Series RAMC 1089. Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Herbert John Chapman Goodwin, 1914 - 1928
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2567.
Biographical / Historical
Sir Thomas Herbert John Chapman Goodwin (1871-1960) was born in Kandy, Ceylon, and educated at Newton College, Devon, and St Mary's Hospital, London. He was commissioned in the British Army Medical Service in 1893 and served in Britain, India and France. He was appointed director-general, Army Medical Services, in 1918 and retired with the rank of lieutenant-general in 1923, becoming Governor of Queensland from 1927 to 1932.
Scrapbook containing newspaper cuttings about Royal Army Medical Corps, hunting, shooting, fishing and family events, drawings, and poems and limericks, 1914 - 1928 (File)
Includes: Printed Christmas message from New Zealand High Commissioner, 1916; menu for dinner to welcome Sir John Goodwin by Brisbane branch of BMA, 16 June 1927; press cuttings re appointment as Governor of Queensland, 1927; menus for welcome dinners, June 1927. Christmas card from Prime Minister, 1927. (114p)
Series RAMC 1139. Sir Thomas Longmore, 1878
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2568.
Biographical / Historical
Sir Thomas Longmore (1816-1895) was born in London and educated at Merchant Taylors School and Guy's Hospital. He was appointed an assistant surgeon with the 19th Regiment in 1843 and served with the Regiment in the Crimean War (1853-56). In 1860 he was appointed professor of military surgery at the Army Medical School and in 1872 he became Surgeon General of the British Army.
Series RAMC 1166. Army School of Hygiene. Keogh Barracks, Mytchett, 1948
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2568.
Series RAMC 1267. Surgeon F.W. Light, 1935
1 itemPhotographs. Filmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2568.
Series RAMC 1309. UK Military Hospital, Singapore, 1974 - 1975
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2568.
Series RAMC 1319. W.O.l. Ridout, 1941 - 1945
4 itemsPapers when prisoner of war at Changi camp.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2568.
Series RAMC 1422. 1st Day Cover Envelope Commemorating 70th Anniversary of Royal NZ Medical Corps, 23 June 1978
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2568.
Series RAMC 1529. Report on Medical Results of Exposure to Radiation, 1954
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2568.
Series RAMC 1554. Borneo, 1965 - 1966
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2568.
Standing instructions (Medical) for operations and exercises, 1965 - 1966 (File)
Instructions on preparations of personnel and equipment and on measures to be taken (for prevention of malaria, skin disease, effects of heat etc.) during operations and exercises in Borneo.
Includes: Leptospirosis in Malaria report by Col H.J. Baker, Commanding Officer US Army Research Unit Malaysia.
Duplicated typescript, faint in parts. (57p)
Series RAMC 1572. Pte Arthur Morgan and Corp Cockfield, 1915 - 1916
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2568.
Reminiscences of Irish and Australian soldiers at Gallipoli (42p), c. 1915-1916 (File)
3 items
Pt Arthur Morgan 1st Bat. Royal Munster Fusiliers, c. 1916 (Item (a))
Enlisted 28 August 1914 at Southend on Sea, Essex into 12th Lancers; training at Warley Barracks; sent to Dublin for musketry training at Wicklow; transfer to Royal Munster Fusiliers; July 1915 sent to Dardanelles via Gibraltar, to Suvla Bay; entrenched; attack on Hill 971; injured by sniper; sent to Lemnos and under care of Australian Medical Corps; voyage home - 36 died on voyage from dysentery; recuperation at Grove House, Harrogate.
Corp. Cockfield 4th Battalion, 1st Brigade AIF, c. 1916 (Item (b))
Enlisted at Sydney 17 August 1914; voyage on SS Euripides; rendevous at Albany of whole First Division sent by Australia and New Zealand; sinking of Emden; crossing the line ceremonies; disembarking at Alexandria; training at Mina Camp; embarkation on SS Lake Michigan to Gallipoli on April 25th; 'snipers', difficult to get water; Turkish attack in mid May - his pal Corporal McArthur shot; truce for burial of Turkish dead; flies and dysentery in heat of summer; August 6th advance on Lone Pine Plateau; scarcity of bombs - Turkish bombs thrown back; well built Turkish trenches enabled Australians to sit out bombardment; utilising part of the trench for burials; 11th relieved; out of 1000 men in the battalion 240 survived; embarked on hospital ship Neuralian to Lemnos; all hospitals in Egypt full, sent to England, Grove House, Harrogate.
Series RAMC 1613. David Jones, 1978
Typescript text of reminiscenses written for Tresham College Magazine Headline re experiences as staff sergeant in No.1 Ambulance Train, Malaya 1941, and POW in Singapore and on Burma Railway etc 1978-1981.
Filmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2568.
Series RAMC 1766. Lieutenant Colonel John G. Bell, 1901 - 1921
2 itemsLieutenant Colonel John G. Bell (1875-). Diaries of his service with RAMC in Boer War (1900-1901), India (1904-1909), Seaforth Military Hospital (1909-1913), Singapore (1913-1914), Gallipoli (1915), Western Front (1916-1917), Catterick Military Hospital (1928-1930), Casualty evacuation train, Sevenoaks, Kent (1939-1944).
Filmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2568.
Biographical / Historical
John Grenville Bell (1875-1946) was born at Mount Mercer, Victoria, and was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and Geelong College. He qualified as a medical practitioner in England and served in the South African War and India. During World War I he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps at Gallipoli and in France. He lived in England after the War.
Book I, 12 August 1901 - 20 November 1915 (File)
3 items
Notes on trip to Australia on Harlech Castle carrying NSW Battery and Australian details for different colonies, 12 August 1901 - 29 October 1906 (Item)
Includes: reception at Melbourne; India; voyage to Sydney on Magnolia; Japan, India. (5p)
Notes on posting to Straits Settlements, 13 July 1913 - 4 October 1914 (Item)
Includes voyage on Soudan; life in Singapore; duty at Military Hospital, Tanglin; visit to Jonore; mobilisation of Singapore garrison on declaration of war; embarkation on Carnarvonshire for Columbo and England. (11p)
Embarkation for Dardanelles, 16 March 1915 - 20 November 1915 (Item)
Includes: landings at Gallipoli; fighting, casualties; (various references to ANZAC troops and casualties); visit to Australian camp at Krithia Bridge; Regimental M.O.'s of New Zealand Brigade lacking equipment; problems of water supply; trench sanitation; casualty figures attack of 6-7 August; visit to camp at Chocolate Hill; evacuation to Mudros. (117p)
Book II, 1 July 1919 - 25 March 1921 (File)
1 item
Voyage on Antilochus to Singapore, 1 July 1919 - 25 March 1921 (Item)
In charge of Military Hospital, Tanglin; social life in Singapore fire in mess (1 October 1918); visit to Trengganu: landing of Captain Ross Smith and brother; Australian airmen enroute from England to Australia (4 December 1919); voyage to England for leave; return voyage on Mentor; visit to Port Swetenham; visit to Batu Gajah; return to England on HMT Himalaya. (7p)
Series RAMC 1816. Brigadier Sir John Knox Smith Boyd RAMC FRS, 1945 - 1946
Filmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2568.
Biographical / Historical
Sir John Knox Smith Boyd (1891-1981) was born in Largs, Scotland, and studied medicine at Glasgow University. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1914 and served in France and Salonika. He remained with the RAMC until 1946 and was promoted to the rank of major in 1929, lieutenant-colonel in 1938 and brigadier in 1945. He was in charge of laboratories in India and England and ran the vaccine laboratory at Millbank from 1936 to 1940 and was director of the Wellcome Laboratories of Tropical Medicine from 1946 to 1955.
Subseries 1816/8. Miscellaneous medical reports and histories from 2nd World War, 12 October 1945 - April 1946
2 itemsSeries RAMC 1867. W.O. Edward Frederick Doughty, 1923 - 1948
13 itemsPapers re service in Far East and POW, Singapore.
Filmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2568.
Biographical / Historical
W.O. Edward Frederick Doughty (1903- ).
Certificate of service, 1923 - 1948 (File 1867/4)
Gives details of service in Malaya and as POW. (8p)
Carbon copies of orders of the day during fight for Singapore, February 1942 and account of massacre by Japanese troops of patients and staff at Alexandra Hospital, Singapore (File 1867/12)
Includes: letter, 25 September 1968 'Paddy' (British Military Hospital, Singapore) to 'Ted' re tracing the history of Japanese occupation. (6p)
Notebook recording capture and transfer of personnel [of British Military Hospital, Singapore?], 1941 - 1942 (File 1867/14)
Includes: names and addresses at back (some Australian entries). (11p)
Two volumes of names of 198 Field Ambulance (28p) and [staff of Prisoner of War Hospital, Singapore?] (21p), 1941 - 1945 (File 1867/15)
Includes: names and statistics of Australians.
Note book recording deaths of British, Australian and Dutch prisoners of war (8p), 1944 - 1945 (File 1867/16)
Plans showing layout of mixed (British, Australian, Dutch and Indian) cemetary for POW Hospital camp, Kranji, Singapore and of the camp (3p), 1945 (File 1867/18)
Reports on treatment of prisoners of war, May 1943 - December 1943 (File 1867/19)
Includes: report on 'F' Force of Malaya POW in Thailand, composed of 3600 Australian POW's. (17p)
Programmes and menus of social events and entertainment at Singapore (11p), 1942 - 1943 (File 1867/20)
Order of service for memorial service at Changi POW camp, Singapore tor Major General M.B. Beckwith-Smith, 22 November 1942 (File 1867/21)
(2p, Faint duplicated typescript.)
Series RAMC 1870. 16th Field Ambulance, Penang, Malaysia, 1956 - 1957
4 itemsMemorabilia.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2569.
Series RAMC 1900. Reports from Thailand after 2nd World War, 1945
5 itemsFilmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2569.
File [British ADMS Allied Land Forces, Siam] of reports and orders, August 1945 - September 1945 (File 1900/5)
Including some reports on POW camps and on evacuation of the sick.
Includes: details of Australian POW's
medical report of 800 POW's, March from Nakon Naiyobe to Pitsanloke. Included 100 Australian POW's
Some faint and blurred carbon typescripts. (107p)
Reports on medical conditions in POW camps, August 1945 - September 1945 (File 1900/6)
(some faint and blurred carbon typescripts). (24p)
Medical appreciation of situation of RAPWIS in Thailand by Lt. Col. E.D. Mackworth, September 1945 (File 1900/8)
Advises 'flying [in] of some Australian women to run canteens and tell them of home'. (7p)
Series RAMC 1907. Brigadier William P. Croker RAMC, 1917
1 itemPapers and photographs. Filmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2569.
Series RAMC 1920. Army Personnel Research Establishment et al, c. 1973
2 itemsReports. Filmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2569.
Series RAMC 1939. Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley, 1966 - 1978
7 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2569.
Biographical / Historical
Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley KBE FRS (1891-1966) was born at Inglewood, Victoria, and educated at Scotch College and the University of Melbourne. In 1916 he was appointed a captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps and he served at the 14th Australian General Field Hospital in the Middle East. After the War he worked at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne and the Bombay Bacteriological Laboratory. In 1929 he took up private practice in tropical medicine in London and he was a lecturer in the London School of hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He was appointed a colonel in the AIF in 1940 and again served in the Middle East, where he carried out research on dysenteries and malaria. In 1943 he became director of the Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit at Cairns. He returned to Britain after the War.
Biographical memoir by Sir John Boyd (File 1939/2 (a))
Including details of his World War II service with Australian Forces, (8p). With covering letter from Sir John Boyd to Dr C. J. Hackett, 3 October 1966.
Neil Hamilton Fairley (1891-1966) by Sir John Boyd, November 1966 (File 1939/2 (b))
With bibliography of Neil Hamilton Fairley, (24p). Reprint from Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society Vol 12.
Neil Hamilton Fairley (1891-1966) by Sir Edward Ford, 1969 (File 1939/2 (c))
With covering letter to Sir John from Lady Fairley (Sonning), 6 April 1970. (19p)Reprint from Medical Journal of Australia Vol 2 1969, with autographed dedication to Sir John Boyd by Sir Edward Ford.
Articles on tropical medicine by Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley. Reading Pathological Society, 1978 (File 1939/3)
With covering letter from A. Marshall Barr (Medical Library, Royal Berkshire Hospital) to Sir Jonn Boyd, 20 July 1978. (16p)
Series RAMC 1985. Captain William Leslie Kennett RAMC, 1942 - 1987
8 itemsPapers and photographs.
Filmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2569.
Biographical / Historical
Captain William Leslie Kennett ( - 1986).
Letters re donation, 1986 - 1987 (File [No no.])
Including letters from Mrs Clare Kennett (Sudbury) re her husband's service career in Malaya. (9p)
Menu and signatures of guests at dinner, British Military Hospital, Cameron Highlands, Malaya (2p), 21 July 1954 (File 1985/8)
Series RAMC 1989. Regimental Sergeant Major John A. Cox RAMC, 1939 - 1945
1 itemPapers and photographs.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2569.
Subseries 1989/1. Typescript accounts of service with Royal Army Medical Corps, 1939 - 1945
1 itemFilmed selectively.
Around the world, 1939 - 1945 (File 1989/1/3)
Service on troop ship Orion; among troops boarding at Bristol contigent of Australian Royal Engineers; joining convoy; entertainment on board ('two up'); sick parade and minor surgery; Freetown; collision with Revenge; Cape Town - Australian's unkempt image; Bombay; Colombo; Singapore - tour of city, duty at Queen Alexandra Hospital; Orion repaired; tension in city among Malays and Chinese; Japanese bombing raids (8 December 1941); sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse; hospital on war footing; Japanese landings in Malay peninsula; loaded with evacuees bound for Australia (31 December 1941); Fremantle 'a dump of a place'; Perth; Melbourne 'clean and neat'; Sydney - doing the sights; billeted at Sydney showground; Kuringi; voyage to Auckland; Australian air crews on board; better reception by the New Zealanders than received in Australia; comparative treatment of Aboriginals/Maoris; voyage across Pacific via Panama; wireless blackout; voyage to Halifax to take on Canadian troops; Canadians take over command of the ship; docking at Gourock.
114p and p81 (miscellaneous) (typescript).
Series RAMC 2008. Lieutenant General Sir Alec Drummond, Pre 1957
1 itemPapers. Filmed selectively.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2569.
Biographical / Historical
William Alexander Duncan Drummond (1901-1988) was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Service in 1925. He was promoted to the rank of major in 1935, colonel in 1949, brigadier in 1953 and lieutenant-general in 1956. He served in India (1926-31, 1935-39), the Middle East (1939-44) and Greece (1945-46). He was Director-General, Army Medical Services from 1956 to 1961 and Colonel Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1961 to 1966.
Series RAMC 2012. Gordon T. Kell, 1952 - 1954
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2569.
Diary of 2266489 Kell G. T., 1952 - 1954 (File)
Call up for National Service, 1952. Early training at Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley; posting to troopship Empire Windrush; description of ship and hospital routine; voyage through Suez canal, Egypt; Aden; Ceylon; landing national servicemen in Malaya; docking at Singapore; boarding troops; voyage to Hong Kong; return to Southampton; 2nd voyage to Singapore and Japan to board Commonwealth troops serving in Korea (including Australian and New Zealand forces); anomalies and problems of serving in multi-national force; fire on board, abandoning ship; flying home from Gibraltar. (104p, illustrated)
Series RAMC 2027. Capt. Ian Patrick Crawford GM RAMC, 1964
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP Reel M2569.
Account of rescue by Captain Ian Patrick Crawford. (File)
Regimental MO of 1st Battalion ; 7th Duke of Edinburgh own Gurkha Rifles of Major E.D. Smith, the Battalion's 2nd in command from crashed helicopter in Borneo, 18 December 1964 for which ne was awarded the George Medal. Account from Regimental diary (2p) and 10 photographs.