Description
Object description
Collection of papers relating to his service with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War, comprising: circa 250 letters written to his fiancee, later his wife, between August 1943 - December 1945, containing details of his initial training at Church Crookham, near Aldershot, and subsequent service as Regimental Medical Officer (RMO) with 94th LAA Regiment RA, Guards Armoured Division, initially at Filey, Yorkshire, and from July 1944 in North West Europe, with good descriptions of the fighting in Normandy, observations on the opposing German forces, and the medical work undertaken in the forward areas, civilian conditions in Belgium, Holland and northern Germany, the liberation of Sandbostel concentration camp and the appalling conditions he encountered there, and final posting, after the end of hostilities, as RMO to 2nd Battalion Welsh Guards; together with official and semi-official reports on Sandbostel and Westertimke camps, a notebook kept by him at the time, and other miscellaneous papers concerning Sandbostel and his wartime service.
Content description
Collection of papers relating to his service with the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War, comprising: circa 250 letters written to his fiancee, later his wife, between August 1943 - December 1945, containing details of his initial training at Church Crookham, near Aldershot, and subsequent service as Regimental Medical Officer (RMO) with 94th LAA Regiment RA, Guards Armoured Division, initially at Filey, Yorkshire, and from July 1944 in North West Europe, with good descriptions of the fighting in Normandy, observations on the opposing German forces, and the medical work undertaken in the forward areas, civilian conditions in Belgium, Holland and northern Germany, the liberation of Sandbostel concentration camp and the appalling conditions he encountered there, and final posting, after the end of hostilities, as RMO to 2nd Battalion Welsh Guards; together with official and semi-official reports on Sandbostel and Westertimke camps, a notebook kept by him at the time, and other miscellaneous papers concerning Sandbostel and his wartime service.
History note
Cataloguer SWW
History note
Catalogue date 1996-07