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WARRACK, Col Graeme Matthew (1913-1985)

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Title WARRACK, Col Graeme Matthew (1913-1985)
 
Subject Airborne warfare
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Casualties
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Health services
Hospitals
Information sources
International conflicts
International relations
Literary forms and genres
Literature
Medical institutions
Medical sciences
Military engineering
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Operation Market Garden (1944)
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Social sciences
Social welfare
State security
Surgery
War
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World wars (events)
World War Two (1939-1945)
Wars (events)
 
Description

Diary, 17 Sep-16 Oct 1944, covering his service at Battle of Arnhem (Operation MARKET GARDEN), with part of 'Suggested medical plan' prepared for Deputy Director of Medical Services, 1 Airborne Corps, 22 Sep 1944, and part of note relating to the strength of medical forces, [1944]. Transcript of part of above diary made by Sir Basil Liddell Hart, with related correspondence, 1949-1951. Bound transcript of above diary made by Lt Col Kenneth Garside, Honorary Keeper of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, with foreword by Warrack, 1979. The diary formed the basis of Warrack's book Travel by dark: after Arnhem (Harvill, London, 1963), and a BBC television production Arnhem: the story of an escape, originally broadcast in 1976. Typescript copy of 'The Airborne Hospital, Willem 111 Kazerne, Apeldoorn, 25th Sept 1944 to 26th Oct 1944. Nominal roll of the wounded' compiled by Peter H Starling, Curator of the Army Medical Services Museums, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1998.


 
Publisher Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London
 
Date 2000-07-24
 
Type text
 
Format text/html
 
Identifier http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=224&inst_id=21
 
Rights

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

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.