IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Mockler
Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
Title: MOCKLER, Surgeon Capt Eamon Joseph (1902-1983)
Date(s): Created 1908, [1943]-1950
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 boxes or 0.02 cubic metres
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CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1902; studied medicine at National University of Ireland; joined RAF and served in India, 1926-1929; later transferred to the RN and served on HMS RESOLUTION and HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH; served in Singapore, [1939]-1942; Chief Malariologist with the British Pacific Fleet, [1943-1946]; Naval Medical Officer of Health for Hong Kong, 1951-1952; retired, 1960; died in1983.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers relating to his medical career with the RN, 1939-1952, dated 1908, [1943]-1950, principally comprising typescript texts written as Chief Malariologist with the British Pacific Fleet, [1943-1946], including accounts of his work in Singapore, Hong Kong and Pacific Islands; typescript texts by Mockler and others on malaria and its treatment, [1943-1946]; official annual reportsas Naval Medical Officer of Health, Hong Kong, 1951-1952; lecture notes circulated at the RN Medical School, Alverstoke, to accompany a course on radiological defence, [1947]; British, Australian and US military publications on health and medical issues, 1942-1950, mainly malaria and tropical diseases.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Arranged in the following sections: reports as Chief Malariologist; reports by others concerning malaria; reports written while Naval Medical Officer of Health, Hong Kong; lecture notes; printed matter.
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, anddetailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
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Immediate source of acquisition:
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1983.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Date(s) of descriptions: Mar 1997