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Description: | Papers relating to his service in the RAMC as Medical Officer with the 8th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry (63rd Brigade, 37th Division), mostly dated 1916 - 1917 and comprising: four orders and reports (6pp ts/ms) concerning various medical conditions including self-inflicted wounds and trench foot; printed confidential order (1p ts) concerning the discharge of officers ostensibly suffering from nervous breakdown; various operation orders (7pp ts) mainly concerning the Battalion; copy of a Special Order of the Day (1p ts) by General Sir Douglas Haig concerning the courage shown by women in a munitions factory where a shell had exploded; and a few miscellaneous items.
Cataloguer SWW
Catalogue date 1997-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Taunton, T J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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