Guide to the Collections of the Royal Army Medical Corps (as filmed by the AJCP)

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Created: 2019

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Series RAMC 38. Lieutenant-Colonel M. Dunning, 1915 - 1917

Letters, maps and diagrams re campaigns in Dardanelles, 1915, and the Middle East, 1917...

Plans of trenches, September 1915 - December 1915 (File 38/1)

Shows Australian lines. (4p.)

Dunning to ADMS, 17 December 1915 (File 38/2)

Re position of [stretcher] bearer posts in trenches. (2p.)

Captain C.S. Black (No.3 Road Dressing Station) to Dunning, 16 December 1915 (File)

Re routes of evacuation. Sketch map of trenches, centre section. Includes Australian positions. (3p)

Plan of trenches round Gaza. (1p), 1917 (File 38/3)

Harry Chanvel, G.O.C.A. and NZ Mounted Division HQ, to Major General W.E.B. Smith Comm. 52nd Div, 22 January 1917 (File 38/4)

With thanks for help in transporting casualties.

Typed copy and pencilled note (3p), 1917 (File)

Series RAMC 122. Brigadier L.R.S. Macfarlane, 1943 - 1944

Notes written in captivity re treatment of amoebic dysentery among prisoners of war of the Japanese in Thailand, 1943 - 1944 (File)

Includes soldiers serving with AIF. At back: Thesis on unusual aspects of amoebic dysentery. (200p.)

Series RAMC 408. Major General Sir Percy Tomlinson: Papers, 1939 - 1944

Subseries 408/1. D.D.M.S. Headquarters British Troops in Egypt and later D.M.S. Middle East, 1939 - 1943

Filmed selectively.

Minutes, notes, and transcripts of talk re medical services in Middle East, 1939 - 1940 (File 408/1/1)

Anticipated diseases and conditions. (13p.)...

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...

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.)

Brigadier J. Steingrad Australian Imperial Force HQ to Percy Tomlinson. Thanks for cooperation, 11 November 1942 (File 408/1/15)

Reports and location statements re hospital ships, 1942 - 1943 (File 408/1/18)

Includes: details of Australian and New Zealand hospital ships. (22p.)

Minutes of 58th meeting of Heads of Medical Services in Middle East, 1 January 1943 (File 408/1/19)

Attended by Brigadier J. Steingrad DDMS AIF. (2p.)

Subseries 408/3. DMS 21 Army Group Invasion of NW Europe, 12 September 1944

Filmed selectively.

Consulting Surgeon to British Forces (London) to Percy Tomlinson, 12 September 1944 (File 408/3/10)

Re relations with Brigadier Arthur Porritt and his proposals re rank of consultants. (3p.)

Series RAMC 431. Sir Arthur Porritt. FRCS, 1950 - 1964

'Mars and Aesculapius: a New Zealand memorial oration', 1950 (File)

Reprinted from BMJ, 23 Dec 1950. (7p.)

Sir Arthur Porritt (London) to General Barnsley, 24 March 1964 (File)

Forwarding above reprint of 'Mars and Aesculapius: a New Zealand Memorial oration'

Series RAMC 439. Brigadier Julian Taylor, 1941 - 1964

Papers from Changi Prisoner of War Camp, Singapore.

Subseries 439/1. Technical Memoranda etc., September 1941 - 12 September 1964

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.

Memoranda re operating theatres, surgery and other treatments, September 1941 - January 1942 (File (b))

Issued before surrender of Singapore. (duplicated material, 117p.)

Subseries 439/2. Reports etc., September 1941 - May 1944

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...

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...

Surgical work done (2p), January 1943 - December 1943 (File 3)

Provision of artificial limbs, January 1943 - May 1944 (File 4)

Includes: limbs made and fitted by A.I.F., sketches and list of amputees. (15p.)

Subseries 439/3. Returns, Statistics etc., 1942 - 1944

Returns of rations (3p), 1942 - 1944 (File 1)

Return of admissions and discharge of patients, Ward B. (1p), April 1942 (File 2)

Statistics re admissions and deaths in the Changi POW hospital (2p), 2 March 1942 - 16 April 1942 (File 3)

Subseries 439/4. Miscellaneous, 28 May 1941 - 1954

Report re sinking of Bismark (2p), 28 May 1941 (File 1)

Report from officer in charge of surgical division in Changi POW Hospital, 14 July 1942 (File 2)

Re infection of wounds by gas producing organisms. (1p.)

Taylor's report re interviews with Malaysian Medical Services chiefs in Changi internment camp (2p), 22 July 1943 (File 3)

Correspondence and reports, 1944 (File 4)

Re attempts to repatriate disabled POW's. (11p)

Taylor's chapter 'Surgery in a Japanese Prison Camp on Singapore Island, 1942-1945', for Medical History of WW2, 1946 - 1954 (File 5)

(20p)

Series RAMC 496. Lieutenant Colonel W.G. Harvey RAMC, 1944 - 1967

Quarterly 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.

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)

Quarterly report, May 1944 - July 1944 (File (b))

Includes details of movement of prisoners, diseases, mortality rates, treatments, diet, finance and welfare...

Series RAMC 506. Sir Arthur Porritt, 1967

'A Tribute', produced as supplement to Medicine Today, Vol 1 no. 5 (44p, printed), 1967 (File)

Series RAMC 524. Major General Robert Eric Barnsley, 1863 - 1866

Robert 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).

Subseries 524/14-15. Research Files, 6 September 1863 - 1 January 1866

Subseries 524/14. Sir Thomas Longmore, 6 September 1863 - 1 January 1866

Filmed selectively.

New Zealand Letters, 6 September 1863 - 1 January 1866 (File 524/14/5)

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)

Mackinnon (Auckland) to Thomas Longmore, 1 January 1866 (Item)

New general to have a campaign 'with the view of getting himself a CB than anything else'; troop movements; plans for his future. (12p)

Sir Anthony Home (Auckland) to Thomas Longmore, 21 October 1864 (Item)

Medical cases; dislikes appointment in NZ; comments on war. (8p)

James Paget (London) to Thomas Longman, thanking him for interesting lecture, 29 May 1878 (File)

Series RAMC 559. Gurkha Album, 1951 - 1960

Album of photographs of treatment of Gurkha soldiers for tuberculosis at Army chest centre, Connaught Hospital, Bramshot, Hampshire and at Gurkha Sanitarium, Kinrara, Malaya (87pp), 1951 - 1960 (File)

Includes: newspaper cuttings re campaign to eradicate TB in Malaya, etc.

Series RAMC 614. New Zealand General Hospital. Brockenhurst No. 1, 1918

Annual Report, 1918 (File)

Includes: statistics and photographs. (60p, (carbon typescript)

Series RAMC 725. British Military Hospital. Terendak, Malaya, 1964 - 1970

Visitors book, 1964 - 1970 (File)

Includes: signature of Prince Philip and military and Red Cross personnel from Australia and New Zealand. (30p)

Series RAMC 738. Lieutenant Colonel G.J.S. Archer, 1915

Photograph collections. Filmed selectively.

40th Field Ambulance at Gallipoli, July 1915 - September 1915 (File No. 9)

Includes: photographs of ANZAC, Victoria Gully, Australian Hospital ship; Mudras; Australian despatch rider. (24p)

Series RAMC 840. Colonel W.J. Irwin, 1968

Filmed selectively.

Account of the massacre of patients and staff of British Military Hospital (Alexandra Hospital) on 13-14 February 1942 by invading Japanese soldiers (15p), 1968 (File)

Letters from survivors telling their stories, c. 1968 (File)

Includes: 9 October 1968 G.L. Peet (South Perth), 6 December 1968 Charles Dennistown Wood (Whangarei, NZ) and others from Singapore and Malaysia. (74p)

Series RAMC 844. Royal Army Medical Corps Officers Mess, Singapore, c. 1950

Album of photographs showing interior and exterior of building, c. 1950 (File)

7 photographs.

Series RAMC 846. British Military Maternity Hospital, Penang, 1965 - 1971

Visitors book, 1965 - 1971 (File)

Includes: Signatures of Australian military and medical personnel; signatures and names of staff on 30 June 1971 at closure; photograph of opening by Lt. General Sir Allen Jolly on 7 May 1965. (52p)

Series RAMC 951. L. Rawlings, 1942 - 1972

Painted sketches of prisoners of war suffering from tropical and deficiency diseases [in Changi camp, Singapore] during Japanese occupation of Singapore, 1942 - 1945 (File)

10 Paintings mounted on 2 sheets showing beri beri, ulcers, pellagra etc.

Major R.J. Smith (Antwerp) to curator, Royal Army Medical Corps Museum, 24 January 1972 (File)

Re purchasing drawings in Hong Kong.

Series RAMC 982. Reports re Singapore under Japanese Occupation, 1942 - 1972

Malaya under Japanese occupation, February 1942 - August 1945 (File 982/1)

Documented accounts of various happenings. (19p)

Account of massacres at British Military Hospital, Alexandra, Singapore, February 1942 (Item)

Translation of Japanese communique on occupation, February 1942 (Item)

Account of internment of civilians in Singapore, February 1942 - August 1945 (Item)

Account of torture of 57 internees from 10 October 1943 onwards (Item)

Report on conditions of POW, Thailand, May 1943 - December 1943 (Item)

Texts of leaflets announcing Japanese surrender, August 1945 (Item)

Duplicated typescript, faint in parts.

Account of establishment of civilian internment camps in Singapore and the medical conditions encountered during internment, (8p, typescript) (File 982/2)

Letter re deposit, 25 September 1972 (File)

Series RAMC 1004. Private A. Horrocks, 1914 - 1915

Private A. Horrocks (1891-1956). Papers while with 1/1st East Lancashire Field Ambulance RAMC.

Subseries 1004/2. Diaries, August 1914 - 3 May 1915

Filmed selectively.

Diary (150p), August 1914 - December 1914 (File)

Call up to Royal Army Medical Corps training, embarkation and voyage to Egypt; duties, landing of ANZAC sick (5 December); references and examples of unruliness of ANZAC troops, August 1914 - December 1914 (Item)

Diary (128p), 1 January 1915 - 3 May 1915 (File)

Duties at Alexandria; operations carried out - including Australian who cut his throat (2 March); arrival of more Australian troops; problems with Australian troops in Cairo; sailing on Rangoon, hospital ship, 1 January 1915 - 3 May 1915 (Item)

Series RAMC 1006. Kluang Garrison, Kluang, Malaya, 1962 - 1964

Plan of Kluang Garrison, Kluang, Malaya, 1962 (File RAMC 1006/1)

Medical services, June 1964 (File RAMC 1006/2)

Includes: advice on climate, food and conditions for servants. (7p)

Series RAMC 1016. Reports re POW Camps Under Japanese Control WWII, 1943 - 1945

Filmed selectively.

Subseries Item no. 2. Annual medical reports for POW camp Changi, Singapore, February 1943 - February 1945

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)

Folder B (File 2/43-2/44)

Includes: conditions during second year; diet and nutrition, diseases; list of medical personnel including Australian Army Medical Corps; hospital reports. (99p and Indexes 15p)

Folder C (File 2/44-2/45)

Includes: conditions during third year; diet; diseases-including malaria; hospital reports...

Series RAMC 1048. British Medical Hospital Chapel, Singapore, 1970

Order of service for final annual service, 28 June 1970 (File)

Includes brief history of the hospital. (8p)

Series RAMC 1059. Royal Army Medical Corps Singapore District, 1948

Programme of celebrations, Golden Jubilee, 1948 (File)

Series RAMC 1081. Percy Roberts and Kenneth Roberts, 1915

Subseries 1081/1. Percy Roberts, 1915

Filmed selectively.

Album of photographs, Gallipoli and Malta, 1915 (File 1/8)

Includes: photographs of ANZAC forces; ANZAC patients and Albert F. Pilcher; Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance. 24p and loose photographs, 12p identifications.

Series RAMC 1089. Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Herbert John Chapman Goodwin, 1914 - 1928

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

Subseries L. Personal Correspondence, 15 July 1878

Subseries L 42. From Sir Anthony Dickson Home V. C. (1826-1914), 15 July 1878

Filmed selectively.

Anthony Home (London) to Thomas Longmore that he has decided to go to New Zealand or Tasmania [then offered post in Cyprus], 15 July 1878 (File L42/8)

Series RAMC 1166. Army School of Hygiene. Keogh Barracks, Mytchett, 1948

Report on war office exercise 'Medical Bamboo' set in Siam, Malaya and Burma, November 1948 (File)

Troops involved were taken to include 12th Australian Infantry Division and 8th New Zealand Independent Brigade. (78p)

Series RAMC 1261. Camp Pie, 1943

Magazine of Changi POW Camp Hospital, 1943 (File)

Typescript, coloured drawings, faint in parts. (16p)

Series RAMC 1267. Surgeon F.W. Light, 1935

Photographs. Filmed selectively.

No. 32 Company Royal Army Medical Corps at HQ, Malaya, April 1935 (File 1267/1)

Series RAMC 1309. UK Military Hospital, Singapore, 1974 - 1975

Minutes of General and Committee meetings of officers' mess, 1974 - 1975 (File)

Includes copy of mess rules. (170p)

Series RAMC 1319. W.O.l. Ridout, 1941 - 1945

Papers when prisoner of war at Changi camp.

Lists of casualties amongst members of Medical services, Malayan campaign (11p), 8 December 1941 - 15 February 1942 (File 1319/1)

Orders re pay from IJA to inmates (1p), April 1943 (File 1319/2)

Label from consignment of food from Red Cross for British and Dominion POW, Far East (1p), c. 1943 (File 1319/3)

Text of bulletins re Allied occupation of Japan, September 1945 (File 1319/4)

1p (poor duplicated typescript).

Series RAMC 1422. 1st Day Cover Envelope Commemorating 70th Anniversary of Royal NZ Medical Corps, 23 June 1978

2 copies, one signed by Lord Porritt, and one by Lt Col Cluer, Director of RNZAMC. (File)

Card inside envelope - History of Royal NZ Army Medical Corps.

Series RAMC 1529. Report on Medical Results of Exposure to Radiation, 1954

Filmed selectively.

Report, case notes and photographs re contamination to 23 man crew of fishing boat Fukuryu Maru of Japan after test explosion of hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll (37p), 1954 (File 1529/3)

Series RAMC 1554. Borneo, 1965 - 1966

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...

Series RAMC 1572. Pte Arthur Morgan and Corp Cockfield, 1915 - 1916

Reminiscences of Irish and Australian soldiers at Gallipoli (42p), c. 1915-1916 (File)

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.

Night Scented Stock Poem [by J. King?], c. December 1915 (Item (c))

Inside cover: names of - Anne Greenbank, Grove House Military Hospital, Harrogate, Xmas 1915...

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...

No. 1 Ambulance Train - Malaya 1941 (3p), 1978 (File)

Series RAMC 1766. Lieutenant Colonel John G. Bell, 1901 - 1921

Lieutenant 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)...

Book I, 12 August 1901 - 20 November 1915 (File)

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)

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.

Subseries 1816/8. Miscellaneous medical reports and histories from 2nd World War, 12 October 1945 - April 1946

Subseries 1816/8/3. Files of reports re health of recovered Allied Prisioners of war, 12 October 1945 - April 1946

With some reports, notes for the Medical History of the war re tropical medicine.

File 1, 12 October 1945 (File)

Filmed selectively.

From Brig. Goadby, 12 October 1945 (Item 11A)

[Report on health of POW recovering in Thailand hospitals. Includes experiences of Australian prisoners and report by Major Fisher, Assistant Physician at Sydney Hospital]. (3p)

File 2, April 1946 (File)

Health of Recovered Allied Prisoners of War and Internees (RAPWI) in South East Asia Command by Brigadier M.L. Rosenheim; Major J.M. Walker, and Lt Col R.F. Tredgold, April 1946 (Item)

Includes Australian POWs. (24p, Duplicated typescript)

Series RAMC 1867. W.O. Edward Frederick Doughty, 1923 - 1948

Papers re service in Far East and POW, Singapore...

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)

Diary, 1942 (File 1867/13)

Filmed selectively. Only pages with entries were filmed. (18p, pencil)

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)

Orders and circulars re pay and discipline, Changi camp Singapore (10p), 1943 (File 1867/17)

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.)

Special order of Col. E.B. Holmes, Commanding POW, Malaya, on end of war, 9 September 1945 (File 1867/22)

With instructions for Allied POW in Japanese hands. (2p)

Memorabilia of POW camps (File 1867/26)

Filmed selectively. Only watercolour paintings by W.S. White (Kranji) 'with the AIF in Malaya' were filmed. Shows: map of Malaya and badges of Australian units. (1p)

Series RAMC 1870. 16th Field Ambulance, Penang, Malaysia, 1956 - 1957

Memorabilia.

Group photograph of Queen's Birthday Parade Contingent, 1956 (File 1870/1)

Photographs of football teams, 1956 - 1957 (File 1870/2)

Souvenir Christmas celebrations (5p), 1956 (File 1870/3)

Letter re deposits, n. d. (File 1870/4)

Mr L. Hancock (Nottingham).

Series RAMC 1900. Reports from Thailand after 2nd World War, 1945

Filmed selectively.

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...

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)

Notes by Quartermaster General, Australian Army on visit to Allied Land Forces, South East Asia (9p), 28 November 1945 (File 1900/10)

J.M. Cannoo (Pratchy Camp, Siam) to Col Leaning urging the evacuation of his wife and children to New Zealand after their suffering in Sompok Camp, Semarang, 12 November 1945 (File 1900/11)

Covering note re medical service of Dr Cannoo in Chungkai Camp.

Series RAMC 1907. Brigadier William P. Croker RAMC, 1917

Papers and photographs. Filmed selectively.

Photograph of Australian casualty clearing station, France, 1917 (File 1907/9)

Series RAMC 1920. Army Personnel Research Establishment et al, c. 1973

Reports. Filmed selectively.

Lt. Col. J. Roy Donaldson, RAMC. The silver-leaf monkey of Malaysia, Presbytis cristatus, as a disease model for meloidosis, c. 1973 (File 1920/9)

18p and photographs.

Lt. Col. J. Roy Donaldson. 'Pseudomonas, Pseudomaelli and Chromobacterium violaceum in rice in the growing areas of Malaysia: a reappraisal', c. 1973 (File 1920/10)

37p and photographs.

Series RAMC 1939. Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley, 1966 - 1978

Fairley's entry in Who's Who (2p) (File 1939/1)

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)

Account of investigations into anti-malarial drugs undertaken in Cairns by NHF's team during second World War (7p) (File 1939/6)

And results of field experiment (USA Army) [in New Guinea] on suppressive drug treatment in Malaria, (2p, typescript).

Summaries [by Sir John Boyd] of all NHF's published papers with bibliographic reference (89p) (File 1939/8)

Series RAMC 1985. Captain William Leslie Kennett RAMC, 1942 - 1987

Papers and photographs...

Letters re donation, 1986 - 1987 (File [No no.])

Including letters from Mrs Clare Kennett (Sudbury) re her husband's service career in Malaya. (9p)

'Crossing the line' certificate (1p), 21 June 1942 (File 1985/5)

Souvenirs of HMT Empire Windrush (6p), 1951 (File 1985/6)

Col. W.A.D. Drummond (Kuala Lumpur) to Kennett (Kinrara) appreciating his actions at tea party, 10 December 1951 (File 1985/7)

Menu and signatures of guests at dinner, British Military Hospital, Cameron Highlands, Malaya (2p), 21 July 1954 (File 1985/8)

Propaganda leaflet calling on communists in Malaya to surrender (2p), 1950s (File 1985/9)

3 photographs of staff at British Military Hospital Cameron Highlands, Malaya, 1953 - 1954 (File 1985/10)

8 photographs (by Kennett) of scenes in Malaya, 1950s (File 1985/11)

Includes: Sultan Mosque, Kuala Lumpur and Pagoda of the Goddess of Mercy, Penang.

Series RAMC 1989. Regimental Sergeant Major John A. Cox RAMC, 1939 - 1945

Papers and photographs.

Subseries 1989/1. Typescript accounts of service with Royal Army Medical Corps, 1939 - 1945

Filmed 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...

Series RAMC 2008. Lieutenant General Sir Alec Drummond, Pre 1957

Papers. Filmed selectively.

Report re medical preparations in guerilla war in Malaya, (pre 1957) (File 2008/2)

Military forces included Fijian Regiment Battalion. (8p)

Series RAMC 2012. Gordon T. Kell, 1952 - 1954

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

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.

Series RAMC 2049. Printed Manuals, Handbooks, etc., 1919

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Subseries 2049/2. Organisation of field ambulances and hospitals, 1919

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Field ambulance organisation and administration by Lt. Col. James Hardie Neil NZMC London H. K. Lewis, 1919 (File 2049/2/3)

(125p, printed). On fly leaf: dedication to Sir William Leishman by the author.

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