Description
Object description
Ms war diary (6pp) for 21 Field Dressing Station (June 1944), which he commanded prior to, during and after its arrival in Normandy, with details of the unit's landing on D-Day, casualties and the effects of enemy shelling, together with an ms war diary (47pp) kept during his subsequent command of No.9 Field Ambulance (June 1944 - May 1945) containing a detailed account of operations by the unit and the higher formations to which it was attached in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, medical plans for specified military assaults including the battles for Caen and the Rhine crossing, references to the number and nature of casualties admitted to the unit, regular ADMS conferences and contact with POW hospitals in Germany, also ms notes (5pp) on Operation Goodwood (July 1944), notes and articles on his service in Normandy and in Malaya as DDMS 17 Division (1964), a memorandum on his service in West Africa as ADMS Gold Coast (1946 - 1948) and DMS Ghana Army (1959 - 1961) including service with the UN in the Belgian Congo (1960), a letter from Lady Mountbatten (1953) and a paper on battlefield stress (1983).
Content description
Ms war diary (6pp) for 21 Field Dressing Station (June 1944), which he commanded prior to, during and after its arrival in Normandy, with details of the unit's landing on D-Day, casualties and the effects of enemy shelling, together with an ms war diary (47pp) kept during his subsequent command of No.9 Field Ambulance (June 1944 - May 1945) containing a detailed account of operations by the unit and the higher formations to which it was attached in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, medical plans for specified military assaults including the battles for Caen and the Rhine crossing, references to the number and nature of casualties admitted to the unit, regular ADMS conferences and contact with POW hospitals in Germany, also ms notes (5pp) on Operation Goodwood (July 1944), notes and articles on his service in Normandy and in Malaya as DDMS 17 Division (1964), a memorandum on his service in West Africa as ADMS Gold Coast (1946 - 1948) and DMS Ghana Army (1959 - 1961) including service with the UN in the Belgian Congo (1960), a letter from Lady Mountbatten (1953) and a paper on battlefield stress (1983).
History note
Cataloguer AC
History note
Catalogue date 2006-04