Description
Object description
An extensive collection of papers recording his career, January 1938 - December 1945, including: ts account (8pp) published in the Journal of the Medical Faculty of Bristol University, December 1939, describing his Food Relief Work with the Society of Friends in Barcelona and Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War, January - July 1938; ts account (103pp) of his experiences with the British Contingent of the International Volunteer Force in Finland, March 1940 - January 1941, and his journey via Sweden, the USSR, and Turkey to Egypt where he enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC); ts diary (56pp) outlining his service in the RAMC, January 1941 - December 1945 as a Medical Officer with 24th Casualty Clearing Station (CCS), 7th Motor Ambulance Convoy (MAC), 200th Field Ambulance, 163rd Field Ambulance and as Assistant Director of Medical Services (ADMS), 5th Division, in Egypt and Greece, 1941, North Africa, 1941 - 1943; Sicily, 1943, the UK, 1943 - 1944, North West Europe (Normandy and Belsen), 1944 - 1945; ts diary (38pp) of his service with 24th CCS in the Greek Campaign, March - May 1941; and ts account (79pp) of his experiences with the Airborne Hospital at Apeldoorn, September - October 1944, evacuating the captured wounded of the 1st Airborne Division from Arnhem.
Content description
An extensive collection of papers recording his career, January 1938 - December 1945, including: ts account (8pp) published in the Journal of the Medical Faculty of Bristol University, December 1939, describing his Food Relief Work with the Society of Friends in Barcelona and Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War, January - July 1938; ts account (103pp) of his experiences with the British Contingent of the International Volunteer Force in Finland, March 1940 - January 1941, and his journey via Sweden, the USSR, and Turkey to Egypt where he enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC); ts diary (56pp) outlining his service in the RAMC, January 1941 - December 1945 as a Medical Officer with 24th Casualty Clearing Station (CCS), 7th Motor Ambulance Convoy (MAC), 200th Field Ambulance, 163rd Field Ambulance and as Assistant Director of Medical Services (ADMS), 5th Division, in Egypt and Greece, 1941, North Africa, 1941 - 1943; Sicily, 1943, the UK, 1943 - 1944, North West Europe (Normandy and Belsen), 1944 - 1945; ts diary (38pp) of his service with 24th CCS in the Greek Campaign, March - May 1941; and ts account (79pp) of his experiences with the Airborne Hospital at Apeldoorn, September - October 1944, evacuating the captured wounded of the 1st Airborne Division from Arnhem.
History note
Cataloguer SNR
History note
Catalogue date 1993-07-30