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Description: | Diary (25pp ts; 61pp ms), August 1914 - April 1915, written during his service as a medical officer in the RAMC on the Western Front, describing his crossing to France, relations with French civilians and captured German prisoners of war, and his duties in helping to set up No 4 Stationary Hospital, established first in Angers and then St Omer, and the treatment of wounded men there, including German casualties, visits to the hospital from French dignitaries, inter-hospital football games and other elements of social life at the Front, and then his duties in a clearing hospital at Hazebrouck in April 1915; together with 15 photographs of a visit to Brittany in 1914/early 1900s; two newspaper cuttings about a convalescent home at General Headquarters in France, 1915; and a photocopy of part of an undated obituary relating to his First World War service.
Cataloguer KM
Catalogue date 2003-12-22 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Ross Gardner, W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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