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Description: | A very extensive collection of ms and ts personal and official letters, the majority written to him from various family members, friends, military colleagues and businesses whilst serving as a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps Special Reserve, 1912 - 1914 and on the Western Front as a Captain, 1914 - 1915, and Lieutenant Colonel, 1917, with the RAMC where he was posted as Regimental Medical Officer, 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers (12th Brigade, 4th Division and later 36th Division 1914-1915), Officer Commanding No.1 Motor Ambulance Convoy, 1915-1916, Deputy Assistant Director Medical Services VIII Corps British Expeditionary Force, 1916, Officer Commanding 76th Field Ambulance, 1917-1918, Assistant Commandant and Officer Commanding the Royal Army Medical Corps School of Instruction, 1918, and seconded as Principal Medical Officer Headquarters Royal Air Force with the Army of Occupation in Germany, 1918, and as the Officer Commanding the RAF "Z" Force Expedition to Somaliland, 1919 - 1920; after transferring to the RAF as a Squadron Leader and receiving promotion to Wing Commander, 1922, Group Captain, 1931, Air Commodore, 1935 and Air Vice Marshal, 1939, whilst serving as Senior Medical Officer, Basrah, 1922 - 1923, Principal Medical Officer, Palestine, 1923 - 1926, Principal Medical Officer, RAF College Cranwell, 1927 - 1931, Principal Medical Officer, Iraq, 1931 - 1932, Principal Medical Officer, Middle East Command, 1932 - 1935 and Principal Medical Officer, Inland Area Training & Technical Training Command, 1935 - 1944; then in civilian life working at Park Prewett Hospital, Basingstoke, 1945, and as Director of Medical Services, British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), 1945 - 1948, and after his retirement, including news about his family in Belfast, information from various places on the Western Front, details of Royal Air Force operations and postings, issues regarding medical services in the military, financial problems and news about his wife and children; together with diaries, notebooks and field message books written by him and others including details of battles and military operations in France; his involvement in the Christmas Truce of 1914; daily routines and duties during Middle East postings and visits to and tours of medical establishments; operational papers relating to his command of various Royal Army Medical Corps units during the First World War; personal papers regarding his career in the Army and the Royal Air Force; reports and memo's relating to operational issues within the Royal Air Force Medical Service; details of his appointment as Medical Director of British Overseas Air Corporation (BOAC); medical reports about physical and psychological illnesses including "shell shock" and their possible prevention, on which subject he was a recognised authority; personal papers belonging or relating to his family; various medical and non medical publications and articles; maps and atlases, some of which show trench positions and proposed attacks during the First World War. Also included are photographs, photograph albums and negatives of his family, friends and colleagues; and various ephemera.
Cataloguer JHK
Catalogue date 2007-10-22 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Tyrrell, William | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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