Scope and Contents Bound volume of typescript letters sent from HATF to his wife, Florence Kathleen (nee Ogilvie) for the period 17 January to 1 December 1915. The letters begin on 17 January with HATF leaving for France and end with his arrival in Salonika on 1 December. As the holder of a commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps, HATF was mobilised with the 85th Field Ambulance and spent most of 1915 in the vicinity of Ypres. In October his unit began preparations for moving to Macedonia to serve in...

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Bound volume of typescript letters sent from HATF to his wife, Florence Kathleen (nee Ogilvie). The letters cover the period from 4 December 1915 to 16 December 1916 when HATF served in Salonika.
The letters were transcribed by Florence Fairbank and contain occasional non-contemporaneous notes and comments

Scope and Contents Bound volume of typescript letters sent from HATF to his wife, Florence Kathleen (nee Ogilvie) for the period 15 January 1917 to 26 December 1918. The letters begin on 15 January 1917 with HATF preparing to leave Southampton, England to return to service in Salonika and end with HATF leaving Malta on 26 December 1918 to return home following a three-month period of convalescence. In August 1918 HATF became seriously ill with malaria and was admitted to the 43rd General Hospital in Salonika...

Scope and Contents Letters from Thomas John Fairbank to his parents, Harold Arthur Thomas and Florence Kathleen Fairbank, sent whilst serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War. Particularly evident during his long posting in Gibraltar, the letters frequently contain descriptions of operating cases and sketches of joints and it is understood TJF’s father responded with advice on orthopaedics. The letters have been arranged in chronological order and by year into the following...