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Object description
Papers relating to his service as Director of the Army Blood Transfusion Service in the UK, North Africa, and Middle East (September 1939 – July 1945), including two ms notebooks relating to Blood Transfusion, notably his tour of various military hospitals in North Africa and the Middle East (June 1943 – July 1943); a register of blood transfusions in the UK (67pp, September 1939 – July 1944) with details of number of donors and remarks; an annotated ts memorandum (4pp, undated) by the Director, Army Blood Transfusion Service on 'Duties after Mobilisation' of the Army Blood Transfusion and Surgical Research Service in Bristol; a bound volume of various editions of 'The Bat' (96pp) about the Army Blood Transfusion Service (1940 – 1945); and the Visitors Book for the Army Blood Supply Depot (120pp, September 1939 – July 1945) with the signatures of officers attending Courses of Instruction and VIPs such as Queen Mary, Professor Sarkisov (Moscow, USSR), General J Magee (US Surgeon General), Lieutenant Generals A E Grassett (VIII Corps) and H C Loyd (GOC Southern Command), Major Generals F Casement (DDMS, Southern Command), L A Hawes (South Midland District), C H Miller (MGA, Southern Command) and R M Wootten (South West District), Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC and a French Medical Mission. Also included are two ts lectures by Lady Whitby (formerly Captain E Whitby) on the history of Blood Transfusion and the Army Blood Transfusion Service to the Wareham Nursing Association (8pp, June 1942) and to the National Council of Women, Cambridge (13pp, March 1946) and a ms letter (1p, September 1939) from their son, David, attending St George's School, Windsor Castle his first school report for Christmas Term, 1939 (2pp) with a reference to the recent bombing of Windsor, and a bill for school fees for Christmas Term, 1941 (1p).
Content description
Papers relating to his service as Director of the Army Blood Transfusion Service in the UK, North Africa, and Middle East (September 1939 – July 1945), including two ms notebooks relating to Blood Transfusion, notably his tour of various military hospitals in North Africa and the Middle East (June 1943 – July 1943); a register of blood transfusions in the UK (67pp, September 1939 – July 1944) with details of number of donors and remarks; an annotated ts memorandum (4pp, undated) by the Director, Army Blood Transfusion Service on 'Duties after Mobilisation' of the Army Blood Transfusion and Surgical Research Service in Bristol; a bound volume of various editions of 'The Bat' (96pp) about the Army Blood Transfusion Service (1940 – 1945); and the Visitors Book for the Army Blood Supply Depot (120pp, September 1939 – July 1945) with the signatures of officers attending Courses of Instruction and VIPs such as Queen Mary, Professor Sarkisov (Moscow, USSR), General J Magee (US Surgeon General), Lieutenant Generals A E Grassett (VIII Corps) and H C Loyd (GOC Southern Command), Major Generals F Casement (DDMS, Southern Command), L A Hawes (South Midland District), C H Miller (MGA, Southern Command) and R M Wootten (South West District), Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC and a French Medical Mission. Also included are two ts lectures by Lady Whitby (formerly Captain E Whitby) on the history of Blood Transfusion and the Army Blood Transfusion Service to the Wareham Nursing Association (8pp, June 1942) and to the National Council of Women, Cambridge (13pp, March 1946) and a ms letter (1p, September 1939) from their son, David, attending St George's School, Windsor Castle his first school report for Christmas Term, 1939 (2pp) with a reference to the recent bombing of Windsor, and a bill for school fees for Christmas Term, 1941 (1p).
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