NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM Royal Hospital Road LONDON SW3 4HT The National Army Museum archives department holds non-public records relating to the British Army from the 16th to the 20th centuries, with particular emphasis on the period from c. 1790 to 1918. There are especially important collections for the history of the Indian Army. In common with most large military collections, data of medical interest can be found throughout the holdings, although for the most part only those papers with particular medical connections are noted here. Records and documents relating to hospitals Chelsea Hospital: royal instructions for the Commissioners, June 1716. 6807-157/7 Imperial Yeomanry Base Hospital, Deelfontein: documents rel to, 1900-01. 6608-43 King Edward VII s Hospital for Officers, London : scrapbooks, 1901-14. 6901-2 Personal papers W E Adams, smith, RA : notes of lectures on horse management, Army Veterinary School, Aldershot, incl notes on anatomy and illnesses of horses, treatment of wounds and injuries, and list of drugs employed, 1895. 7507-2 Anonymous: memoirs of army career incl recollections of service in Walcheren expedition, c.1808-1815. 7912-21 J H Bate, VAD: papers rel to her sevice with 74 General Hospital, Trouville, 1915-20. 9408-12 Henry Walter Bellow (1834-1892), army surgeon: Crimea diary, 1855. 5112-21 Julius M Bernstein, surgeon: letters and scrapbooks from South Africa, 1899-1901. Partly copies. 7706-51, 9406-159 S Bosworth, private, 37th Foot: account of service incl time as an orderly at Netley Hospital, 1846-65. 7912-53 Sir Ernest William Charles (1880-1963), lieut.- general, Indian Medical Service: diaries and other papers, c. 1905-1944. 6409-26 Robert William Campbell (1873-1949), Medical Staff Corps: autobiography giving details of service with MSC in England and South Africa, 1898-1902. 8703-14
G H Carey, Red Cross volunteer: diary, Gallipoli, 1915. 9208-351 Hugh Lyle Carmichael, major-general: letterbook as c-in-c Guadaloupe, incl material on sickness among garrison, 1810-11. 8806-030 T C Catty, Lieut-Col, 69th Punjabis: diary of service in Mesopotamia incl descriptions of medical conditions, 1915-16. 7909-42 Sir William John Codrington (1804-1884), general: papers rel to Crimea incl notes on casualties, 1854-56. 7808-90 Denis Bowes Daly (1831-1867), surgeon, Indian Medical Service: diary of service at General Depot Hospital Allahabad and with 1st Punjab Cavalry, incl during Indian Mutiny, 1857-60. Ts copy. 8410-5 John Denny, army surgeon: misc documents rel to his career, 1795-1809. Ts copies. 8010-16 Howard Henry Congreve Dent, surgeon, RAMC: diaries giving details of service in Boer War, 1899-1900, and on Western Front, 1915. 8606-78/1-3 William Dent (1788-1824), army surgeon: letters (50) to his parents from Colchester, Peninsula, North America, France and West Indies, 1808-24. Ts copies. 7008-11/1. Edward Livesey Dixon (1831-1890), assistant surgeon, Bengal Establishment: diary, 1856-59. 6012-247 Sir George Don (1754-1832), general: order book incl details of troops invalided back to England from Walcheren, 1809. 7508-54. Cuthbert Lindsay Dunn (b.1875), Indian Medical Service: documents incl report on Indian section, Netley Hospital, 1914-15, and papers rel to voyage of Devanha carrying Serbian sick and wounded, 1916. 8302-70 Henry Nason Dunn (b.1864), surgeon, RAMC : diaries, Sudan, Somaliland, Woolwich, 1897-1906. 7409-80 W Furness, private, 11th Field Hospital, RAMC : diary, 1899-1900. Microfilm. 7904-47 C F Goulburn, Major, Royal Artillery : diary, 1900-01, incl time on hospital ship at Durban. Microfilm. 7904-49 Colin Grieve, sergeant, Seaforth Highlanders : letters (8) to family mainly as patient in Netley hospital, 1897-98. 7906-139
W C Harper, private: letters (132) to wife from Western Front incl medical details, 1916-18. 8903-30. D L Harris, NZ nurse: diary, South Africa, mainly rel to nursing cases of enteric fever, 1900-01. 7611-17. Sir Maurice Percy Cue Holt (b. 1862), surgeon, RAMC: papers, 1883-1918, incl Boer War diary. 7603-70. M E Johnston, nurse: lecture on events in hospital near Tehran for Polish POWs in 1942. 8309-49. Sylvia Judge : documents rel to her service with Red Cross, WWI. 7207-14/3 George Jerome Kellie (b. 1854), surgeon, Indian Medical Service: memoirs of service in India and Burma, 1877-1904. 7507-56. T M Lewis, sergeant, RAMC : misc documents, 1903-21. 8204-795 T M Looney, private, Army Hospital Corps : account book, 1881-86. 7506-52 HS Mahon, captain, Indian Medical Service : diaries, 1908-13. 8209-6 Thomas Marsden, deputy assistant commissary general : papers incl material rel to Ordnance hospital, Anzim, nr Valenciennes, 1816-17. 7701-36 John Mills (1821-1913), surgeon, Bombay Establishment: diaries, 1846-59. 6306-25 Katherine Emelia Nisbet, nurse: letters (87) to fiancé from Imperial Yeomonry Hospital, Pretoria, 1901-02. 8412-4-45-132. Lewis Edward Nolan (1820-1854), captain: diary incl description of treatment of casualties after battle of Alma, 1854. 8906-41 Sir George Nugent (1757-1849), field marshal: corresp and papers incl hospital register of 19th Foot, Jamaica, 1789, and casualty records for troops returning from Walcheren, 1809. 6807-173-183. Alger Roy Oram (b.1891), brigadier, RAMC : memoirs, 20th cent. microfilm. 7904-48 J Pennell, VAD ambulance driver: letters (83 pp) describing service on Western Front, 1918-19. Copies. 7912-61. L K Pert, Women s Auxilliary Service : papers incl material on work as volunteer in Indian military hospitals, WWII. 8208-215
Harry Phipps, private, Border Regiment : diary incl record as patient in hospital at Pietermaritzburg, 1900. Ts copy. 8302-15 Chilley Pine (1810-1855), army surgeon: corresp and papers, 1841-54, incl papers rel to 1st China War, 1841-42, and journals of service, 1841-54, ending in the Crimea. 6807-282. Lewis W Reynolds, surgeon: diary, Zululand, 1878-79. Copy. 9309-64 Alfred Roberts, physician : letters to wife (4) from Crimea, 1854. 7808-54 Andrew Robertson, army surgeon: journal as surgeon with 42nd Highlanders, Flanders, 1743-45. Ts copy. 6807-426. Samuel Vernon Robinson, surgeon: Boer War letters (23), 1900. 9101-20. Susan Robinson, corporal cook, RAMC: account of experiences at British hospitals in Belgium, 1944-45. Photocopy. 9112-114 W T Rudd, Medical Staff Corps: letters to family from Aldershot, Netley and Egypt, 1884-93. 7612-84/14-15 Esme Sartorius, VAD: Western Front memoirs, 1914-18. 6710-81 E. Sims, RE : notes on his life as a maintenace man in British military hospital, Hong Kong (under Japanese occupation), 1942-45. 8107-29 George Skinner, sergeant, Medical Staff Corps: diary detailing service in Sudan, Crete and South Africa, 1898-1903. 7909-15 Lord Fitzroy James Henry Somerset (1788-1855), 1st Baron Raglan: Crimean papers incl corresp with Dr John Hall, Inspector General of Hospitals, rel to sick returns, care and accommodation of sick and wounded, etc., with Florence Nightingale at Scutari, and Martha Clough at Balaclava, 1854-55. 6807/279-305 John Edward Squire (1855-1917), physician, papers rel to medical work with the National Aid Society for Sick and Wounded in War during 1st Sudan War, 1885. 7208-66. John Sutherland (1808-1891), physician and sanitary reformer: papers rel to commission on health of the Indian Army, 1859. 8006-6 W Skyes, private, W. Yorks Regiment : diary incl account of service as stretcher-bearer in Natal, 1899-1900. Copy. 7607-48 J G Tait, lieut-col., Bangalore Rifle Volunteers : documents collected incl printed list of supplementary articles required for ward of 10 beds and complete hospital of 100+ beds, c.1914. 7511-21/2
G M Thompson, VAD : misc documents, 1916-18. 8212-54 George Tinling, brevet major: accounts of pay and allowances for staff of Royal Hospital Corps, Martinique, 1795-96. 9207-78 Sir Frederick William Trench (1775-1859), general: diary, 1809-13, incl account of Walcheren expedition. 6807-261 M L Treston, colonel: report on work of civil hospitals, Burma, 1941-42. 8908-105 Sir Richard Hussey Vivian (1775-1842), 1st Baron Vivian : papers incl material rel to supply of hospitals when Vivian master-general of the ordnance, 1835-41. 7709-6 A F Wallace, physician attached to British South Africa Police: letters to fiancée during East African campaign, 1915-18. 9103-43 J A Weir, Ambulance Corps : `with Buller to Ladysmith, text of lecture, 1901. Copy. 8303-29 - Wherry, Women s Sick and Wounded Convoy Corps: misc letters, documents and press cuttings rel to Women s Sick and Wounded Convoy Corps, 1910-12. 8910-14 H D Wright, captain, RAMC: diary, No 58 Combined General Hospital, Persia, 1918-19. Copy. 9206-7 Other records Coldstream Guards nominal return of NCOs, Doctors and Privates who died during the Eastern Campaign from 23rd February 1854-30th June 1856. 7309-49 Crimean War letter book, containing copy letters and memos by commandants of Balaclava rel to troops invalided home and sanitary conditions, 1854-56. 8111-58. Elevations, sections and plans of ambulances and other vehicles used by British Army, 1876-1900. Printed and microfilm copies. 8312-8. John Edward Squire, physician, RAMC: anonymous(?) account of his military service, incl. command of the London companies of the Volunteer Medical Staff Corps (1898-1904), 1875-1917. 7710-52. Medical reports on the 46th Foot, 1848-58. 9409-34 Printed pamphlets held by the Archives department
Description of the `Bucknall portable furnished military or epidemic hospital, 1886. Photocopy. 9412-116 A treatise on the horse and his diseases, 1891. 7205-77 Health memoranda for soldiers, 1906. 8001-1 Health memoranda for soldiers, 1912. 7408-88/8 Weldon s garments and hospital comforts for our soldiers and sailors, temp. WWI (knitting patterns). 7112-24 Eyesight test types, 1915. 7006-16 The Royal Pavilion Military Hospital Brighton, Souvenir 1917. 7801-1 Location of hospitals and casualty clearing stations BEF 1914-1919. Compiled by Ministry of Pensions, 1923. Photocopy. 9507-77 Notes for recruits lectures, 1st Depot and Training Establishment RAMC. 1935. 7706-77/2 Regimental medical pannier, June 1940 (list of contents). 8211-187/1