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Further wartime correspondence and papers relating to the Army Blood Transfusion Service etc, 1940 - 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/WHI/1/29a

Scope and Contents

Includes: Militaty White Permit for travel to France, 1940; letter thanking the Royal College of Surgeons of England for the award of The John Hunter Medal, 15 March 1940; letter to Dr E. T. C. Spooner at Clare College, Cambridge regarding [the post of Regius Professor of Physic?], 27 June 1945; RAF air passage movement form for North Africa trip, 1943; letter to Dr E. Clayton-Jones of The Lancet re a suggested article, 11 May 1940; letter to the Secretary of The Royal Society of Arts thanking the Society for the award of a Silver Medal for his paper, 12 July 1945; letter to Mrs Wynne-Wilson, mother of his driver for the duration of the war, thanking her for her contribution as a volunteer with the Army Blood Transfusion Service, commenting "I believe that you have supplied us with something approaching one million swabs" and also describing the service of his 'faithful driver', 6 July 1945; letter and extract from British Medical Journal Supplement re an error in reporting Whitby's transfer from the T. A. Reserve of Officers to the Active List, 1941; correspondence with the Secretary of the Royal Society of Medicine, July 1945, in response to a request for copies of Whitby's papers to the Inter-Allied Conferences ('Blood transfusion in the field', 1943, and 'Blood transfusion service: organisation and results', 1945), with copies of the papers submitted.

Dates

  • Creation: 1940 - 1945

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

Generally open.

Extent

1 file(s)

Arrangement

Not in a formal file at the time of transfer and possibly brought together from various sources, but order as received retained.

Repository Details

Part of the Downing College Repository

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