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Description: | Microfilm copy of an ms account (22pp) describing his service as a medical officer with the RAMC in Egypt, the United Kingdom, India and Aden during 1903 - 1926 but especially of his service with the BEF throughout the First World War on the Western Front, including details of his journey to the Aisne via Le Havre and Nantes, trench warfare, the aerial bombing of St Omer, self-inflicted wounds by Indian troops and the effects of gas shelling; with a microfilm copy of an ms diary (90pp) covering his service in the First World War, including involvement in the Battle of Loos (August - September 1915); a microfilm copy of an ms diary (100pp) covering his service as Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services (DADMS) to 33rd Division and then as OC the 101st Field Ambulance RAMC (33rd Division), May 1916 - January 1918, including details of the middle phases of the Battle of the Somme, the establishment of medical arrangements around Fricourt, the St Leger area on the edge of the Arras battlefield, Coxdye on the Flanders coast, and the medical arrangements made for the Third Battle of Ypres; also original copies of various miscellaneous items including German field postcards, an Indian Army Field Postcard, an Allied propaganda leaflet addressed to Germans, a sketch of the traffic control system around Fricourt, maps including the Gandola-Makin-Kanigurama area of Waziristan in India and the British Third Army situation and targets on the Arras front, plus newspaper cuttings relating to HM King George V.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 33rd Division 101st Field Ambulance British Army Royal Army Medical Corps | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hughes, Geoffrey Wallace Grainger | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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