Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London - Contemporary Medical Archives Centre - Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) - Miscellaneous Collections, 1863-1978

M 2566-2569

fonds

Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]

432879

Microfilm : M 2566-2569. See contents list (22pp.) at Micro. Ref. Bks. 2.3/277, Vol. 13.

microfilm reels 35 mm

Records kept mainly by medical personnel relating to medical services and conditions particularly during the Second World War, but also during World War I, the Maori War, 1863-1865, and operations in Malaya, 1951-1960, and Borneo, 1965-1966. Most of the records relate to Australian and New Zealand forces. The records include letters, maps, plans of trenches, minutes, reports, statistics, photograpahs, scrapbooks, newspaper cuttings, casualty list and diaries. Sujects include: campaigns in the Dardanelles and the Middle East; conditions in Japanese prisoner of war (POW) camps in Changi and in Thailand; hospital ships; reminiscences of soldiers at Gallipoli; tropical medicine; accounts of massacres and torture by Japanese soldiers in Singapore, and other subjects. (Call No.: AJCP Reels: M 2566-2569)
The copied material includes: (1) Papers, 1915-1917, of Lieut. Col. M. Dunning, relating to campaigns in the Dardanelles and the Middle East. (2) Papers, July - Sept. 1915, of Lieut. Col. G.J.S. Archer, relating to the 40th Field Ambulance at Gallipoli. (3) Reports, 1942-1945, relating to the Japanese occupation of Malaya and Singapore. (4) Medical reports, 1943-1945, concerning Changi POW Camp. (5) Reminiscences of Irish soldier Private Arthur Morgan and Australian soldier Corporal Cockfield while serving at Gallipoli in 1915. (6) Diaries, 1901-1946, of Lieut. Col. John G. Bell, with entries relating to his service at Gallipoli, Singapore and Malaya. (7) Papers 1923-1948, of W.O. Edward F. Doughty, relating to his service in the Far East and imprisonment at Changi.;

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales
National Library of Australia holds microfilm master
Available for reference
Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M2566-2569
Microfilm copy of originals held by the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
Descriptive list available (22 p.)