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Description: | Microfilm copy of 8 letters (all but one ms) forming chapters of a loose anecdotal autobiography covering his service in the two World Wars, written ca 1963, beginning with his posting during the First World War to the hospital ship HMHS ROHILLA (August 1914) as Temporary Surgeon RN, and then in HMS CONQUEROR at Scapa Flow, relating details of life aboard ship, descriptions of his fellow officers and his claim to have invented the new method of mine-sweeping, a short encounter with German battle cruisers, and investigations into homosexual activity aboard the ship; then his service with the RAMC based at the HQ Aldershot and with the Field Ambulance training group, mentioning the difficulties of being mess secretary before embarking for France as second in command of an ambulance convoy in the Ypres Salient; then transferring to the RFC as Medical Officer to the 2nd Brigade, contrasting the bravery of the Roman Catholic padre with the 'cowardly laziness' of the Protestant padres and mentioning an order to stop insulting Portuguese troops; and his medical work during the Second World War as a doctor at St Bartholomew's in London, inventing mobile electro-medical apparatus for use in physiotherapy and providing a description of the apparatus used to bend German radio waves before returning to the RAF as a Medical Consultant and referring to the setting up the Physical Medicine Research Unit at Yatesbury.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-04-25 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Heald, C B | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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