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Typescript thesis for MD (Doctor of Medicine), Dublin University, entitled 'The prevention of malaria in a military cantonment in northern India' [1933]. Correspondence, 1935-1954, mostly personal letters of thanks and congratulations, including letter from Edwina Cynthia Annette Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, following a visit to military hospitals in West Germany, 1950. Typescript 'An account of the first two years with the East African Groundnut Scheme' [1948]. Correspondence, pamphlets and certificates, relating to retirement from the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1961-1962, awards and appointments, 1950-1977, and the Royal Army Medical Corps centenary celebrations, 1960. Typescript minutes of meetings of the Council of Col Commandants, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1964-1969. Correspondence and papers relating to Royal Army Medical Corps Regimental ties, uniform and dress regulations, orders, decorations and medals, 1966-1968. Correspondence relating to visits to military establishments as Col Commandant, Royal Army Medical Corps, Jan-Dec 1967. Correspondence with the War Office, 1961, and the Ministry of Defence, 1969-1970, relating to pay and conditions of retirement as President of the Command Standing Medical Board, Military Hospital, Tidworth, Hampshire.

Papers relating to his service in Italy, 1943-1944, principally comprising 1 Div, 3 Infantry Bde and 3 Field Ambulance operation orders concerning the landings on Pantelleria (Operation CORKSCREW), May-Jun 1943, and at Anzio (Operation SHINGLE), Jan 1944; report on the action at Campoleone, 30 Jan-4 Feb 1944, written by J G James, Commander, 3 Infantry Bde, 12 Feb 1944; 3 Infantry Bde intelligence summary for Operations ANT and APHIS; three aerial photographs of Anzio beaches, 1943, and plan of Blue Beach (North), Anzio, 1944; two parts of 'The First Division in action' covering the Anzio campaign, Jan-Jun 1944, written in Apr and Jul 1944.

Diary, 17 Sep-16 Oct 1944, covering his service at Battle of Arnhem (Operation MARKET GARDEN), with part of 'Suggested medical plan' prepared for Deputy Director of Medical Services, 1 Airborne Corps, 22 Sep 1944, and part of note relating to the strength of medical forces, [1944]. Transcript of part of above diary made by Sir Basil Liddell Hart, with related correspondence, 1949-1951. Bound transcript of above diary made by Lt Col Kenneth Garside, Honorary Keeper of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, with foreword by Warrack, 1979. The diary formed the basis of Warrack's book Travel by dark: after Arnhem (Harvill, London, 1963), and a BBC television production Arnhem: the story of an escape, originally broadcast in 1976. Typescript copy of 'The Airborne Hospital, Willem 111 Kazerne, Apeldoorn, 25th Sept 1944 to 26th Oct 1944. Nominal roll of the wounded' compiled by Peter H Starling, Curator of the Army Medical Services Museums, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1998.

Offprints of articles by Sidney Rosenbaum including: 'Heights and Weights of the Army Intake, 1951', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society , Series A (General), Vol 117, Part III, 1954; 'Head Injuries to Motor-Cyclists', with D T Beeston, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps , Vol 102, 1956; abstract of article 'Changes in Body Weight and Subcutaneous Fat Thickness in Man on a Polar Expedition', with H E Lewis and J P Masterson, Abstracts of the 20th International Physiological Congress , 1956; 'An Epidemiological Study of Rheumatic Fever in the Army in 1953', with J D H Slater, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps , Vol 103, 1957; 'Tuberculosis in the Armed Forces and its Control by BCG Vaccination: A Report to the Research Committee of the British Tuberculosis Association', Tubercle London , 1957; 'Experience of Pulheems in the 1952 Army Intake', British Journal of Industrial Medicine , Vol 14, 1957; 'Army Medical Department Statistics', Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps , Vol 104, 1958; 'Research in Practice', Army Medical Directorate Bulletin , Second Series, No 9, 1958; abstract of 'Review of Morbidity Among Young Soldiers', Proceedings of Royal Society of Medicine , Vol 52, 1959; 'Cross-Sectional Review of Morbidity Among Young Soldiers', British Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine , Vol 13, No 3, Jul 1959; 'Acute Rheumatic Fever in Young Men', with J D H Slater, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases , Vol 18, No 4, December 1959; 'Report of the Royal Sanitary Commission, 1858', Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps , Vol 105, No 4, 1959; 'The Association of Medical Discharges from the Army with Initial Grading', Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps , Vol 106, 1960; 'Body Weight and Skinfold Thickness of Men on a Polar Expedition' with H E Lewis and J P Masterson, Clinical Science , Vol 19, No 4, Nov 1960; 'Home Localities of National Servicemen with Respiratory Disease', British Journal of Preventive and Social Medicine , Vol 15, No 2, Apr 1961; 'Stability of Basal Metabolic Rate on a Polar Expedition', with H E Lewis and J P Masterson, Journal of Applied Physiology , Vol 16, No 3, May 1961; 'Health Assessment of Senior Officers: The Value of Periodic Medical Examinations', with W R M Drew, The Lancet , Nov 17 1962; 'Nomograms for Rates per 1,000', British Medical Journal , Jan 19 1963.

'Tables of Average Weights and Expected Variation for the use of the Services', Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps , Vol 109, No 2 1963; 'Some Aspects of Tuberculosis among National Servicemen', Tubercle London , Vol 44, 1963; 'Special Enlistments', with J L Gordon, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps , Vol 110, No 2, 1964.

'A Survey of Sport Played in the Army', Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps , Vol 113, No 2, 1967; manuscript of 'A Review of Earlier Work on Skinfold Thickness, Particularly Among Army Personnel', 1979; 'Population Estimates of Height and Weight in Great Britain at Ages 11 and 15, 1983 and ages 16-19 inclusive, 1980', Annals of Human Biology , Vol 14, No 4, 1987; '100 Years of Heights and Weights', The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society , Series A (General), Vol 151, Part 2, 1988; 'More Than a Century of Army Medical Statistics', Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine , Vol 83, Jul 1990; 'Casualties in the Two World Wars', The Blue , Vol 120, No 1, Mar 1992; 'British Army Recruits: 100 Years of Heights and Weights', with J P Crowdy, Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps , Vol 138, 1992; Manuscript of 'A Comparison of Casualties in 200 Years of War', nd. Also articles by others: amendment to 'Chapter 16: Medical Statistics' of the Manual of Army Health 1954 , 1958; 'A Survey of Heights and Weights of Adults in Great Britain, 1980', by R K Skinner, I B Knight and J S Garrow, Annals of Human Biology , Vol 12, No 2, 1985.

Papers relating to his life and career, 1935-1982, dated 1911-1982, principally comprising administrative papers relating to his Army career, 1938-1971, including postings in India, Iraq, Persia, Egypt, Cyprus and Singapore; papers relating to his attendance at the 'Buffalo' British nuclear weapons tests, Maralinga, Australia, 1956; course syllabuses, lecture summaries andassociated papers, [1935-1966], notably concerning tropical medicine, entomology, public health, malaria and encephalitis; unsigned report, photographs and other papers relating to flood relief operation, Vientiane, Laos, Sep 1966; photographs, 1942-1961, mainly relating to his service in Malaya, 1958-1961; official War Office and Government of India publications concerning army regulations, training and health and medical services; Bulletins of the Ross Institute, School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, 1956, 1959-1962; personal and family correspondence, 1938-1982.

Papers relating to his service in the Middle East, principally comprising account of his work at No 62 General Hospital, Tobruk, Libya, Oct 1941-Feb 1942; cutting of newspaper article based on this account, written by Patrick Marnham (his son) in 1991; text of his lecture on surgery in the Middle East, 1940-1943, [1943]; photocopy of his printed article 'The Tobruk Plaster', 1945;diary of Col H V Leigh, Commander, No 62 General Hospital, Oct 1941-Jan 1942; Leigh's official report on No 62 General Hospital for the period Oct-Dec 1941, written in Jan 1942.

Photographs relating to the handover of the British Medical Hospital, Tripoli, Libya, c 1970; photographs of an official visit by Ian Gilmour, Permanent Under Secretary of State for Defence, to the British Medical Hospital, Hannover, Germany, 1970; slides relating to Northern Ireland, 1977.

Copies of papers and negatives of photographs relating to his career, 1914-1945, including printed copy of message to officers, non-commissioned officers and men of 8 Corps from Lt Gen Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston, Battle of the Somme, 4 Jul 1916; typescript letter by Jeffries, dated 1930, to the Director, Historical Section, Committee of Imperial Defence, on the attack by 2 Bn, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, 4 Div, 8 Corps, Battle of the Somme, 1 Jul 1916; typescript text of lecture entitled 'Commandant's address to newly commissioned IO's' [Intelligence Officers] [1942]; typescript Directorate of Army Psychiatry Research Memorandum No 11/02/9A, by Lt Col Henry Victor Dicks, Royal Army Medical Corps, entitled 'The psychological foundations of the Wehrmacht', 1944. Papers on the surrender and occupation of Italy, 1943-1945, including typescript drafts, in English, German and Italian, of announcement by FM Hon Sir Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theatre of War, on the surrender of German and Fascist Republican forces in Italy, 1945; typescript memorandum entitled 'Note on documents taken from Mussolini by Italian partisans and handed to Brigadier Jeffries on May 18th 1945'.

Copies of letter to Hargreaves from Maj Gen Bernard Montgomery, thanking him for medical care he received in the British Military Hospital, Haifa in May-Jun 1939, written on 16 July 1939, with covering letter from Hargreaves to the Centre, 1988.

Bound typescript entitled 'Fifty odd years of memoirs', covering his life and career, 1893-1945, notably his work as an engineer in South Africa, 1894-1899, 1901-1904, 1909-1911, his travels in South Africa, 1895, East Africa, 1904, and Canada, 1907, his service as a volunteer stretcher bearer with the Royal Army Medical Corps, South Africa, 1899-1900, including the siege of Ladysmith, 1899-1900, his service with the South African Engineer Corps, German South West Africa, 1914-1915, and with the South African Signal Company, Royal Engineers, France, 1916, including the Battle of the Somme, Jul 1916, and his experiences in the Channel Islands during German occupation, 1940-1945, dated [1945-1967].

Photocopy of privately published memoir, 'The Great War, 1914-1818: a former 'Gunner' of the First World War looks back', a detailed account of his military career, 1913-1919, covering mobilisation in Edinburgh, artillery, gas warfare and veterinary training, service with the Royal Field Artillery on the Western Front, 1915-1918, notably action around Vimy, May-Jun 1917, Lens, June-Oct 1917, and the Somme front, Feb-Oct 1918, and entry into Lille, Oct 1918, and demobilisation in Brussels, Feb 1919, written in [1974]. Includes reproductions of photographs and extracts from his letters home and his diary.

Report to the Director General of Medical Services, Surgeon Gen Sir Arthur Sloggett, on the introduction of steel helmets, 1916.