Description
Object description
Collection of 15 ms letters and 1 postcard to his family in England and Canada covering his voyage out to West Africa (June 1942) and his service as a junior RAMC officer at the 34th West African General Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone (August 1942 - November 1943) with some references to his duties and fellow officers, but principally descriptions of his social activities and life in Sierra Leone and of his frustration at his separation from his family; 5 letters written to his wife while serving with 113th (British) General Hospital in France and 32nd Casualty Clearing Station in the newly-liberated Belsen concentration camp (1945); together with five picture postcards and two photographs (one a colour photocopy) and ts notes (3pp), probably written shortly afterwards as the basis for a lecture, on the liberation of Belsen (April - May 1945) in which he had been involved; also a photocopy (3pp) of ms notes by his wife, Dr Kathleen Barrington, concerning her evacuation to Canada with Byron House School, Highgate, North London in June 1940 and her subsequent employment as a psychiatrist in Hamilton, Ontario.
Content description
Collection of 15 ms letters and 1 postcard to his family in England and Canada covering his voyage out to West Africa (June 1942) and his service as a junior RAMC officer at the 34th West African General Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone (August 1942 - November 1943) with some references to his duties and fellow officers, but principally descriptions of his social activities and life in Sierra Leone and of his frustration at his separation from his family; 5 letters written to his wife while serving with 113th (British) General Hospital in France and 32nd Casualty Clearing Station in the newly-liberated Belsen concentration camp (1945); together with five picture postcards and two photographs (one a colour photocopy) and ts notes (3pp), probably written shortly afterwards as the basis for a lecture, on the liberation of Belsen (April - May 1945) in which he had been involved; also a photocopy (3pp) of ms notes by his wife, Dr Kathleen Barrington, concerning her evacuation to Canada with Byron House School, Highgate, North London in June 1940 and her subsequent employment as a psychiatrist in Hamilton, Ontario.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1993-09