work

Galleries and Reading Room

Shop

Library

Café

Our galleries are quietest on weekdays and weekend mornings. At busy times, particularly on Saturdays, you may need to queue for our temporary exhibitions.

We’re undertaking some research with website visitors to learn more about how people find access-related information provided by museums. This survey shouldn't take longer than 10 minutes to complete. Thank you for your time!

Help us organize our website content.

Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection

23 letters, July 1854-May 1855, from Captain William Markham of 2nd Battalion the Rifle Brigade to his friends and family, describing the outbreak of cholera among the troops, the Battles of Alma and Balaclava, and the siege of Sebastopol, including the poor conditions in which the soldiers had to live

Letter, Jan 1855, from "C.H.B.", a sister at the Barrack Hospital, Scutari, describing the treatment of thousands of soldiers suffering from dysentery and exposure

Letter, Jan 1855, from Private G. Winterbourn in the camp before Sebastopol, describing the Battles of Balaklava and Inkerman, and the inadequate supplies and shelter in camp

Patriotic poems, including an early version of Lord Tennyson's "The Charge of the Light Brigade"

Address delivered at prize-giving at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, by Sir Henry W. Acland, outlining the history of the Army Medical School

The bacteriology of fever in Malta: two papers, both reprinted from the Annales de l'Institut Pasteur, bound into one volume

Ms catalogue of photographs shown in Imp(erial) Med(ical) War Museum, E(gyptian) E(xpeditionary) F(orce) Section

Portfolio of cuttings, mainly from the Illustrated London News, re medical services in the Crimean War and re Florence Nightingale

Ms catalogue of drawings, casts, prints, paintings, etc. (in Fort Pitt, Chatham, Kent), of anatomical details including details of cases

Boer War memories, by Lieutenant Colonel F.A.B. Daly

The breakdown of young soldiers under training explained, by Surgeon Major F. Arthur Davy; three papers originally published separately as

Volume of copy letters, presented to Thomas Keate, Surgeon General to His Majesty's Forces, by Nodes Dickinson, their author

Album of photographs of Directors of the Indian Medical Service, 1858-1947, copies of pictures which hung in the office of the Director of Medical Services in India

Folder of letters, maps and diagrams re Lieutenant Colonel M. Dunning, Commander, 2nd Lowland Field Ambulance, in the campaigns in the Dardanelles, 1915, and the Middle East, 1917

Bound ms of "Introductory lecture on the practice of physic (delivered January 20th 1819)" by Charles Fergusson Forbes, M.D., Deputy Inspector of Hospitals

A field surgery pocket book: memoranda mainly based on experience in the present war

A field surgery pocket book (revised): memoranda mainly based on experience in the 1939-45 War

Lieutenant Colonel J.G. Foster's collection of material re the history of army medical services

On hygiene in Ancient India, by Surgeon General C.A. Gordon

Roll of Commissioned Officers in the medical service of the British Army who served on full pay within the period between the accession of George II and the formation of the RAMC (1727-1898), by Colonel William Johnston

Sir Charles Bell's watercolours of wounds sustained by soldiers at the Battle of Waterloo, June 1815

Description of a series of watercolour drawings executed by the late Sir Charles Bell, illustrative of wounds received at the Battle of Waterloo, by Deputy Inspector General T. Longmore, Professor of Military Surgery

Photographs and memorabilia of Arthur Martin Leake, RAMC

Scrap-book and Manuals

Army Medical School correspondence and bills re the Montefiore Prizes for military surgery, including posed photographs and sketches for the design of the medal

War Office Memoranda on medical diseases in tropical and sub-tropical areas

Papers of Alexander Cushnie Morison

Thomas Murray's certificate of membership of the Royal College of Surgeons

Bound ms case notes written in captivity by Brigadier L.R.S. MacFarlane (RAMC) re treatment of amoebic dysentery among prisoners of war of the Japanese in Thailand

Address by Dr. John Orsborn to the members of the Southampton Medical Society, in memory of Dr. Edmund Alexander Parkes, FRCP, FRS "the founder and best teacher of military hygiene of our day"

The Harveian Oration to the Royal College of Physicians (on Harvey's experiments which led to understanding of blood circulation), written by Dr. Edmund Alexander Parkes, FRCP, FRS, and read after his death

A list of commissioned medical officers of the army, Charles II to accession of George II, 1660-1727, by Colonel Alfred Peterkin

Material re the Centenary of the Army Pathology Service

Manual for Army Medical Services by Surgeon Major William E. Riordan

Material re the golden jubilee of the RAMC

RAMC Training Manuals

Instructions for the regulation of military hospitals and the sick with divisions of the army in the Peninsula .... bound with manuscript forms for scale of diet, return of medical comforts, report of the arrival of sick, diet abstract, "morning state of General Hospital" (a daily census of patients admitted, discharged, etc.) and bed head ticket (patient's details)

Colonel N. J. C. Rutherford's account of his part, with the field hospital, at the Battle of Magersfontein during the Boer War. Written in pencil "on the battlefield"

A collection of orders, regulations and instructions for the Army: on matters of finance and points of discipline immediately connected therewith, published by order of the War Office. (Section VI deals with "Medical Department of the Army, including the Veterinary Branch")

The tale of a field hospital, by Frederick Treves, Medical Officer attached to the column which relieved Ladysmith during the Boer War

Typed transcripts of letters written by Arthur Henry Taylor, an assistant surgeon with the British Army in the Crimea, to his parents, 1854-1856

Papers of Joseph Marmaduke Taylor

Letters from Edmund P. Hewitt, with the RAMC in South Africa, to his brother, Jack Hewitt, Indian Public Works Department

Second World War medical bulletins and memoranda bound into one volume

Menu and seating plan of a dinner on 8th June "in appreciation of the splendid services of the Royal Army Medical Corps and the eminent civilians attached to it during the war," with a report of the speeches made there

Newspaper cuttings scrapbook on the subject of the rank of Army Medical Officers

Newspaper cuttings scrapbooks re the Army Medical Services/Royal Army Medical Corps, 1895-1907 compiled by Lieutenant Colonel William Johnston

Sir Joseph Fayrer's scrap-books

Bound volume of 11 pamphlets and articles by Major General George J.H. Evatt, RAMC 1878-1920

'In Memoriam Dr. Edmund Alexander Parkes' Reprinted from the British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, July 1876

Notes on sanitation for Indian troops by T. F. Paterson, Captain, Indian Medical Service. 2nd edition, edited by Major D.R. Thapar, Malaria Medical Officer

Typescript diary formed of extracts from letters by Surgeon Captain Alfred E. Master, Army Medical Service, re campaigning with the Queens Regiment against the Afridi tribes on the North-West Frontier of India (The Tirah Campaign)

Booklet of photographic reproduction of the 'Memorial Roll ("Golden Book") of the Royal Army Medical Corps', designed by Graily Hewitt, with descriptive notes by the artist

'Medical administration in the South African War, being a report of speeches delivered by Sir William Church, President, R.C.P., London, Sir William MacCormac, President, R.C.S., England, and Surgeon General J. Jameson, late Director General, Army Medical Services, at a complimentary dinner given to the latter by the Medical Profession of Great Britain and Ireland, on the 24 July 1901'

Printed copies of royal warrants re army medicine, bound together

Volume of Pathological Reports, Jan-May 1856, of the Pathological Board at Balaclava in the Crimea

Medical Register, Feb 1855 - March 1856, (of the Royal London militia or of a military hospital in London?)

Pathological registers of surgeons in the camp before Sebastopol during the Crimean War, divided into sections re febrile diseases, cerebro-spinal, thoracic diseases, abdominal diseases, miscellaneous (mostly drunkenness) and gunshot wounds and surgical injuries

Volume of monthly reports, Jan-June 1856, of the Pathological Board in the camp besieging Sebastopol during the Crimean War

Volume of Pathological Reports, Jan-April 1856, of the Pathological Board, Highland Division, in the Crimea

7 volumes (numbered 5-11) of Sir Joseph Fayrer's "notes of interesting cases in the Medical College & Hospital (at Calcutta)", in chronological order

Papers of Surgeon John Francis Smet, 8th Light Dragoons

Miscellaneous papers collected by Dr. H. Morley Fletcher, FRCP

Minute Book of the Committee of the Army Medical Officers Benevolent Fund

Bound committee reports and accounts of the Army Medical Officers Benevolent Fund

5 volumes of correspondence of William Fergusson, Inspector of Army Hospitals in Portugal during the Peninsular War

Album, signed by Colonel David Bruce, Assistant Professor of Pathology, of photographs of groups of medical students at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, with captions giving surname of each student

Papers of Assistant Surgeon Thomas Murray

Papers of Surgeon Colin Paterson

Copy of a report submitted in 1915 to the Director of Medical Services, India, by Lieutenant Colonel Patrick O'Gorman, IMS, describing a stretcher-lifter as an alternative form of casualty transport to the traditional Indian dandy

Three Chinese scrolls re anatomy

Papers of Surgeon Alexander Simpson (1819-1864)

Burgess ticket of the city of Dundee, conferring freedom of the City and Burgh on David Middleton Greig, CM, FRCSE, for his help to the people of Dundee in the hospitals and other institutions

Papers of Surgeons David Greig and David Middleton Greig (father and son?)

Album of T.B.A. Tuckey, Brevet Colonel, RAMC, containing 5 pencil-written Boer passes "taken from Boer Laager after being shelled by the British at Colesberg, 1900

Health memoranda for soldiers by Lieutenant Colonel H.K. Allport, RAMC

Folder of souvenir issues, newspaper cuttings, etc., re Centenary of the institution of the Victoria Cross

Printed syllabus of a course of lectures for 1846-47 and 1849-50 sessions, on the principles and practice of military surgery, by Jolliffe Tufnell, Assistant Surgeon to the Forces in Ireland, and Surgeon to the Military Prison

Case notes re fractured acromion process (right shoulder) of Bombardier Edward Robins, Royal Artillery

Items re Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, donated by Donald Bowie, who had charge of the British Military Hospital in Hong Kong from August 1942 until liberation in 1945

Material re the life of Dr. James Barry, Inspector General of Military Hospitals, "found upon death to have been a woman"

Jelligraph copies of extracts from Medical Staff Corps orders, including memoranda re promotion of private soldiers to rank of First Class Orderly, arms and accoutrements, compilation of reports, etc.

War diary kept by Captain Neil Cantlie, RAMC, with the 6th Division at the Battle of the Somme, Sept - Oct 1916

Papers of John James Young Campbell of Glasgow

Baird and Tatlock (London) Ltd. album of photographs of mobile laboratories manufactured and designed by them for use by the British and Allied Medical Services during the First World War, showing exteriors, interiors and equipment

Transcription of the Book of Remembrance, the roll of honour of the RAMC personnel killed in the Second World War, 1939-1945, with historical notes and statistics

Papers of Colonel Thomas Boswell Beach, RAMC

Photogravure of a portrait by Dyce of Sir James McGrigor

Copy (or draft) of commission, 1657, from Charles II to John Knight, appointing him Surgeon General

Diplomas and commissions of David Middleton Greig

Papers of Surgeon William Lindsay of the 18th Foot

Papers and souvenirs of Arthur Martin Leake

Diary of Anthony Dickson Home, surgeon, 90th Foot, re his voyage to India round the Cape of Good Hope, and the relief and subsequent siege of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny

Letter, 10th Sept 1855, to his parents from Assistant Surgeon T. Egerton Hale, describing the attack on the Redan at Sebastopol during the Crimean War, in the course of which Hale performed deeds of valour for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross when it was instituted in 1856

Letters and papers of Florence Nightingale

19 watercolour illustrations by Mervyn Smart (Grant?) of wounds sustained during the Allied advance on Germany "made for Brigadier Harold Edwards" (Consultant Surgeon, Allied Forces H.Q.)

Professor Edmund Parkes's photograph album of officers at the Army Medical School, Netley, with one photograph of his house in Bitterne

Sir Thomas Longmore's scrap-book of "Illustrations of appliances (and methods) for the transport of wounded soldiers", with extracts from The Ambulance Transport

Scrap-book by Captain G.H. Colt, RAMC, re development of the joined-pole trench-stretcher, including correspondence, 1915, with Captain D'Arcy Power and with Captain J. Ellis Milne, re the development of a stretcher for use in the trenches on the Western Front

Catalogue in 2 ms volumes of specimens in the Pathological Museum at Fort Pitt, Chatham, Kent, with details of case and of preparation of specimen

Catalogue in one ms volume of the library of the Army Medical School, Netley, in alphabetical order of author's name, with some subject entries

Necrological register of all cases admitted to general hospital, Portugal, in 1827, compiled by William M. Ford, Assistant Surgeon to H.M. Forces in Portugal

Volume of pathological (post-mortem) reports from the Army Medical School Hospital at Netley of cases admitted from other Forces hospitals

Necrological registers (reports) from General Hospital at Fort Pitt, Chatham, Kent

Boer War diary and photographs of Staff Sergeant J.R. Gibbons, RAMC

Papers of Brigadier Julian Taylor, consulting surgeon, Malaya Command (in Changi Prisoner of War camp, Singapore, 1942-45)

The Medical Times and Gazette

"A Modest Centenarian: some reflections on the origins of the Royal Herbert Hospital": article for the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps by 2nd Lieutenant Peter Godden-Kent, RAMC

Report to the... Secretary of State for War, descriptive of the Herbert Hospital at Woolwich by Douglas Galton, (late Captain, Royal Engineers), Assistant Under Secretary for War

Medicine's debt to the army and "The challenge of tropical medicine", by Major General W.R.M. Drew, late RAMC

Sir Charles Burtchaell's collection of reports, etc., re medical services

The Red Cross as a medical and pharmaceutical symbol before and after the Geneva Convention by Dr. T.D. Whittet

Notes from Dr. McCartney's lectures re amputations performed after the Battle of Fontenoy (1745) and during the Napoleonic Wars, including those by Sir Charles Bell after Waterloo (1815)

Diplomas of Surgeon General Francis Charles Annesley

Article and address

Captain J.P. Lynch's accounts of his experiences in the First World War

Typescript précis of letters, 1855-1883, from the Florence Nightingale Collection in the Department of Nursing, Columbia University, New York, mainly letters from Nightingale to Surgeon General Thomas Alexander, re the Commission enquiring into the medical organisation of the Crimean War, the design of the Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley, the organisation of Fort Pitt Military Hospital, and diets for Field Hospitals

Africana notes and news, Vol. 16, No. 6, containing an article entitled "The Centenary of the death of James Barry, M.D., Inspector General of Hospitals (1795-1865): a re-examination of the facts relating to his physical condition", by Professor P.R. Kirby

Papers of David Middleton Greig, civil surgeon with the British Forces in South Africa, during the Boer War

Papers of Surgeon General George Bent, RAMC

Diary of Lieutenant F.J. Palmer, RAMC, in South Africa during the Boer War, 17 March-32nd Oct (sic) 1900

Commissions

Papers of Lieutenant Colonel William Dick

Lieutenant Colonel William Dick's album of newspaper cuttings, including material re the Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley, impressions of a journey to Japan, theatrical productions in which Mrs. Dick took part, feats for which the Victoria Cross was awarded, and obituaries

Typed transcripts of letters of reminiscence about the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, sent to Colonel J.F.D. Murphy, in response to his letter to the Daily Telegraph about the proposed demolition of the hospital

Papers of Lieutenant General Sir Neil Cantlie

Papers of Major General Sir Ernest Cowell

Album of press cuttings re medical services during the Boer War, compiled by the General Press Cutting Association at the direction of Lieutenant Colonel G. W. Macpherson, War Office

Medical-topographical report on Wei-Hai-Wei (Weihai, Shandong Province, China, leased to the British Government), by Major William Henderson Starr, RAMC, annotated (by the author), including re the capture of Weihai by Japanese forces (in the 1930s)

Photocopy of letter (1885) from Private R.F. Cook to his wife re amputation of his foot after a skirmish during the march to relieve General Gordon in Khartoum

Catalogue of the Canadian Forces Medical Services Museum

Second World War papers of Colonel Robert G. Atkins, RAMC

Typescript copy of The Soldier's Friend or, The means of preserving the health of military men by William Blair, surgeon of the Lock Hospital and Asylum and of the old Finsbury Dispensary

Letters from Charles Darwin to and re Dr. Francis de Chaumont

Professor E.A. Parkes's collection of pamphlets

Pages from letterbook of Robert Sillery, Surgeon on the Staff and in the 35th Fusiliers, in Gibraltar, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and Mauritius, mainly copies of letters requesting promotion, with copies of testimonials from the Emperor of Morocco, Sir James McGrigor and others

Second World War diaries of Colonel Ernest Scott

The Wipers Times, published volume of collected front-line magazines of the First World War, each issue named after the district in which it was printed

Notes and photographs of Colonel Brisbane Warren Somerville-Large, RAMC, re military hospitals in South Africa during the Boer War

Papers of Surgeon General Sir Joseph Jee

2 additional volumes of James G. Elkington's diaries

Netley, by Colonel Kenneth MacLeod

Booklet issued for the clinical meeting of the British Orthopaedic Association, Spring 1967, at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar

Typescript account of the work of the Royal Pioneer Corps at the Battle of Monte Cassino, including the death from exhaustion of Private John Tancred, having rescued a wounded officer

3 letters written by German prisoners of war to their families re their treatment and re the torpedoing of the hospital ship taking them to England

Typed transcripts of obituary notice in the Cheltenham Looker-on of 18 April 1843 of Summers Higgins, Inspector-General of Hospitals

Doctor's bills from the Parish of Hartlebury, Worcestershire

A territorial field ambulance with the 29th Division (The Immortal 29th) at Gallipoli by Henry Harris

Letter from Charles Bracebridge to a friend re conditions at the Military Hospital at Scutari (Uskudar, Turkey) during the Crimean War

Ms. quarterly medical reports prepared illegally by the Senior Medical Officer, Lieutenant Colonel W.G. Harvey, for the Camp Commandant, Lieutenant Colonel A.E. Knights, of the Japanese Prisoner of War camp at Tamuang, Thailand, from the camp's inception on 4 May 1944 until the transfer of the camp to Pratchai, May-June 1945

Album of photograph and souvenirs, produced for the testimonial banquet to Henry Morton Stanley for "heroic achievements in the cause of humanity, science and civilization", containing photographs of Stanley, Lieutenant W.G. Stairs, Surgeon Thomas H. Parke, Captain R.H. Nelson and Mr. A.J. Mounteney-Jephson

Life and death of the solar topi. Protection of the head from the sun: a chapter in the history of sunstroke, by E.T. Renbourn, typescript of Report No. 117 of the War Office Directorate of Physiological and Biological Research

The Civil Hospitals in the Crimea, by John Shepherd, FRCSEd, reprinted from Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vol. 59, No.3

Papers of Colonel Fred Smith

Notes on the chloramine treatment of water, by Major Stanley Elliott, reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps

"The history and development of the medical services of H.M. Dockyard, Chatham, 1625-1966", by David S. Wright

Diary, in 2 volumes, of Robert Badenach, Surgeon in the 15th Foot, 1821-1824, and 8th Dragoons, 1824-1830, in Ireland; and on the staff, 1831-1832, in Glasgow and Edinburgh

Sir Arthur Porritt, Bt., Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of New Zealand, a tribute produced as a supplement to Medicine Today

Father and son: a tale of two cities, 1800-1901, by Sir Ian Fraser, reprinted from the Ulster Medical Journal Vol. XXXVII.

Letter book of Sir John Hall, containing copies of letters, 1827-1843, and memoranda, 1824-1857, including diary entries of tours in Spain, 1838 and 1839, and transcripts of evidence at the court martial of Dr. John Williamson, Apothecary to the Forces, 1824

Papers of Surgeon General Francis Innes

Hygiène pratique du soldat et des blessés, by Dr. Gustave le Bon. 2nd edition

Regulations to regimental surgeons, &c., for the better management of the sick in regimental hospitals

Text of lectures on anatomy and surgery given at Edinburgh Medical School, by Dr. Alexander Monro (Secundus). Vol. 1

James McGrigor's notes on the lectures on anatomy and physiology given at Edinburgh Medical School by Dr. Alexander Monro (Secundus)

Edward Burton's notes on the lectures on anatomy and surgery given at St. George's Hospital (London) by Everard Home. Vol. 2

George Bruce's notes on the lectures on surgery given at Edinburgh Medical School by Dr. Alexander Monro (Secundus)

Pamphlet re presentation in 1910 of a silver medal and a diploma to the Royal Army Medical Corps by the King of Italy for work done after the earthquake on 28 December 1908 in Calabria and Sicily

Ms. diagram of a "Serbian barrel" used during the First World War for drying and delousing clothes

Correspondence and accounts, re collection for a memorial to Professor E.A. Parkes

Field service notes for regimental officers, by E. M. Cowell

Visitors Book of the RAMC Mess, Rawalpindi, India

Photographs (by Lieutenant Colonel F.H.M. Burton?) of Burma, the Burmese Royal Family and the officers of the Burmah Campaign, in three albums

Papers of Colonel Sir William Donovan

Papers of Major General Robert Eric Barnsley

Scrapbooks re surgery and anatomy

Terms of contract and specification for the erection of the Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley, issued by the War Office

Volume of drafts of Sir John Hall's replies to questions by the Army Medical Department re the medical arrangements for the army in the Crimea

The barracks and hospitals of the Cape Corps in Grahamstown in 1826, by Professor P.R. Kirby of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, extracted from the South African Medical Journal

Material re the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital and the Royal Army Medical College, Millbank

Photogravure copy of a painting of Sir George Makins

British Medical Almanac: 2 editions

Ms. account by Sarah Anne Terrot of nursing during the Crimean War, published as Reminiscences of Scutari Hospitals

Mystery and history at Millbank, typescript article by P.F. Duffy, Chief Wardmaster of the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital

Photographs of memorials at the grave of Captain Matthew Louis Hughes, RAMC, killed at the Battle of Colenso, Dec 1899, during the Boer War

Typed letter from Captain Thomas H. Gibbon, RAMC, to his brother, re his service with the King's Own Scottish Borderers in France in the early weeks of the First World War

Typescript copies of 49 letters, 1808-1824, to his parents, brother and cousin from Surgeon William Dent, re his training in London and at Colchester Barracks, and service with the 89th Regiment during the Peninsular War, 1810-1814, in Canada, 1814, with the army of occupation in France, 1815-1818, and in the West Indies, 1819-1824

Album of photographs of 2 Brigade Group Medical Company, RAMC, when stationed in the South Cameroons

Memorabilia of Colonel Robert McKinlay, RAMC

Papers of Major General John Huston

Album of photographs of the Peshawar Valley Field Force in the Afghan War

Papers of Lieutenant Colonel John P. Silver, RAMC

Typed transcripts of and extracts from letters (1854-1855) from the Crimean War

Wellcome uses cookies.

Typed transcripts of and extracts from letters (1854-1855) from the Crimean War

Collection contents

Available online

About this work

Publication/Creation

Physical description

Location of duplicates

Where to find it

Permanent link