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Description: | "Medical Victory" (12 files), an unpublished manuscript by the former DDMS Burma in 1942 and DMS ALFSEA and SACSEA in 1944 - 1945 containing numerous contributions from his medical colleagues (some in the form of personal experience accounts) broadly covering the achievements of the Medical Services of the Armed Forces in India with much detail on all branches of their work, especially in relation to anti-malarial measures and the evacuation and treatment of sick and wounded, with particular reference to the Allied campaigns in Burma, 1941 - 1945, but with sections too on Hong Kong and Singapore after the Japanese invasions (1942) and on prisoners of war held in Hong Kong, Burma, Thailand and Japan; also files on the organisation of medical services in Pakistan (1949), the use of a portable steam disinfector and the treatment of sullage water, and personal papers (covering appointments, honours and awards) relating to the author together with a number of his published articles, principally for the JOURNAL OF THE RAMC, 1911 - (?) 1942.
Cataloguer AC
Catalogue date 1997-07 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Thompson, Treffry | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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