Private Papers of P J Brown

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Description

Object description

Interesting ts memoir (3pp, undated) with no dates recording his service with the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) (September 1940 – 1941), including his service as a medic with the 103rd Field Ambulance on attachment to HMS WASP, the shore establishment at Dover in Kent (Hellfire Corner), serving as a medic on the Air Sea Rescue launches (no dates) owing to the Royal Navy's shortage of Sick Berth Attendants; working in the MI Room treating gunners from the Royal Artillery (no dates) who manned the heavy anti aircraft guns around Dover; and helping the surgeon in the Underground Hospital in the tunnels under Dover Castle (no dates); and commenting on his duties, billets, and off duty entertainment; dogfights between British and German fighter planes over Dover; the floating rescue buoys anchored in the Channel, the Medical Officer (MO), who was a refugee Jewish doctor from Austria and a specialist in back problems; attending the suicide by a soldier in the barracks; the operating theatre of the Underground Hospital; the German shelling of and German air raids on Dover.

Content description

History note

Cataloguer SNR

Object Details

Category: Private papers
Related period: Second World War (content)
Creator: Brown, Patrick John
Dimensions: whole: 1 file
Catalogue number: Documents.18939

Object associations

Associated people and organisations

British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps, 103rd Field Ambulance
Royal Navy, HMS WASP, shore establishment, Dover
Associated items

Interview with Patrick John Brown
Associated subjects

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Private Papers

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