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Waller, Wathen Ernest (d 1958) and his sister, Waller, Miss Dorothy (d 1986)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/93

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Waller, Wathen Ernest (d 1958) and his sister, Waller, Miss Dorothy (d 1986)

Date(s): 1912-1944

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 box and 1 outsize folder

Name of creator(s): Waller | Wathen Ernest | d 1958
Waller | Dorothy | d 1986

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Wathen Ernest Waller, MD, MRCP Surgeon-Captain Royal Army Medical Corps qualified in medicine 1912 practised in Oxford and then held a resident appointment at St George's Hospital London. Served in the RAMC in the Iraq Campaign, returned to Oxford, and practised there until around 1926, when he moved to Rustington where he remained in practice for the rest of his life; died 1958. Miss Waller was association with the Red Cross and served as a nurse in the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD). She died 1986.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Wathen Ernest Waller and his sister Dorothy, 1912-1944, notably illustrated typescript account of service in Iraq, 1916-1918; inventory for insurance purposes of house, including contents of surgery; materials relating to Miss Waller's work in the Red Cross and the Voluntary Aid Detachment, 1912-1920.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As set out above in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Online catalogue available on Wellcome Library website.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

These items were received from the niece of the above, Miss E. Waller, in September 1986 and October 1987.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Wellcome Medical Diary, 1959, formerly belonging to Miss Waller, now with Glaxo-Wellcome archives.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Entry compiled from Wellcome Library online catalogue by Barbara Ball.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997

Date(s) of descriptions: September 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Community health nursing | Health services
Family practice | Specialties, medical | Medical sciences
First aid | Emergency treatment | Medical treatment | Therapy | Medical sciences
Midwifery | Nursing | Medical sciences
Tropical diseases | Diseases | Pathology
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names
Waller | Wathen Ernest | d 1958 | surgeon

Corporate names
Red Cross
Royal Army Medical Corps
Voluntary Aid Detachment

Places
Iraq | Middle East