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Description: | Photocopied ts report (11pp) giving an account of his experiences as a Medical Officer onboard the battleship HMS BARHAM during the Battle of Jutland (31 May 1916) and on the return journey to Britain, describing how the medical facilities are arranged in a ship of this size, which staff make up the Medical Party, the type of medical supplies onboard and where they are stored, operating and mortuary facilities, how the medical staff coped with dead and wounded after the battle, the types of injuries, both physical and psychological, suffered by the crew and where he thinks improvements in the medical facilities onboard need to be made.
Cataloguer JHK
Catalogue date 2007-11-28 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Penfold, E A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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