MARNHAM, Brig Sir Ralph (1901-1984)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0099 KCLMA Marnham R |
Held at | : Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma › |
Full title | : MARNHAM, Brig Sir Ralph (1901-1984) |
Date(s) | : Created 1941-1942, 1945, 1991 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 2 files |
Name of creator(s) | : |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born in 1901; 2nd Lt, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1940; Lt Col, 1940; served in Middle East, 1940-1944, and East Africa, 1944; Officer in Charge of Surgical Divs of No 62 General Hospital, Tobruk, Libya, 1941-1942; and Consulting Surgeon, 9 Army, East Africa and Southern Command; Brig, 1944; retired from Army, 1945, and went on to work as surgeon at St George's Hospital, London; Sergeant-Surgeon to the Queen, 1967-1972; died in 1984.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
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.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
2 files
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.
Finding aids:
Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and published in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Placed in the Centre by the family in 1985 and 1991.
Allied Materials
Related material:
National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record
Publication note:
Date of compilation: Feb 1997
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