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Description: | Microfilm copy of 12 ms volumes covering his service with the RAMC in France during the First World War; beginning with his military training in the school Cadet Corp and in the "Bugshooters" at Cambridge (1907 - 1909), he describes the atmosphere of Britain immediately before the war, his work at the London Hospital and the arrival of the first war casualties, RAMC training at Tidworth Park Camp in Hampshire, Paignton, Devon and Bulford near Tidworth, his arrival in France (July 1915) and the medical organisation on the Western Front at this time, trench conditions, medical treatments, casualties and organisation during the Battles of Loos (September 1915), the Somme (July - November 1916), Messines (1917), the German spring offensive (March 1918), and the final Allied Advance, while referring to conditions during the winter of 1915 - 1916 and the problems caused by Trench Foot, the superior state of German trench and medical facilities, his first gas and shell shock cases (January 1917), the prevention of disease in the trenches and immediate post-war conditions. Also included on the microfilm are an incomplete ts account (20pp) of his service with the RAMC Reserve in France during September 1939 and the improvisation of British medical arrangements near Brest, France; official papers regarding the 18th Division in the Battle of the Ancre (1916), operations of the 19th Division south of Arras and Ypres (21 March - 18 April 1918), operations of the 19th Division on the Marne (29 May - 19 June 1918), and 'secret documents' issued by the ADMS 19th Division including copies of medical arrangements for various divisions (1918), a sheet on the transport of casualties (7 April 1918), a report on the prevention of trench foot, and map references of suggested Regimental Aid Posts (13 March 1918).
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-04-16 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Pendered, J H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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