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→Royal Army Medical Corps and the earlier British Army Medical Services
The Royal Army Medical Corps was established by Royal Warrant on 23rd June 1898. Prior to this there had been two distinct organisations within the Army Medical Services, the Medical Staff (i.e. the officers), and the Medical Staff Corps , which were combined to form the RAMC.
For [[British Army]] medical personnel, the previously named [https://web.archive.org/web/20160813204714/http://www.ams-museum.org.uk/museum/faqs/#1 Army Medical Services Museum's FAQs] now archived page, advises that the AMSM has some details for officers who held a regular commission with the Army Medical Department and the RAMC until 1960. The museum has a small booklet available with useful advice for researching relatives who served with the AMS. Note: there has been a change of name to [https://museumofmilitarymedicine.org.uk/ The Museum of Military Medicine]. (This Museum is expected to relocate from its current location to Cardiff in the future.) Also refer [[British Army]] for personnel records.
The [[British Library]] has the India Office Records: British Army in India: British Medical Officers serving in India '''IOR/L/MIL/15/20''' 1872-1912.
The book ''Commissioned officers in the medical services of the British Army, 1660-1960'' is available online, see below.
''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'' is now available online from 1903, refer below. "Since its early days the Journal also published “Corps News” which gave details of personal occurences of members of the RAMC including the promotion and postings of officers, honours and awards, qualifications gained by senior NCOs of the Corps, casualties whilst on campaign and obituaries of serving officers" <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20120504015144/http://www.ramcjournal.com/archive.html Archived JRAMC webpage].</ref> Note the "Corps News" appears to be at the back of each monthly edition, and may not be indexed. For some digital volumes, all the "Corps News" (6 editions) appear at the back of the volume. However, the "Corps News" appears to have ceased appearing in the Internet Archive (Archive.org) digitised versions in the early 1920s, although the publication continued, and there are also some digitised editions during WW2.
====First World War====
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:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22Journal+of+the+Royal+Army+Medical+Corps%22%29&sort=date Archive.org editions from July 1914 1904 to 19361962] broken range. Note the "Corps News" only appears in the digitised books on Archive.org until the early 1920s. However the publication continued and later became ''The R.A.M.C., The A.D. Corps, and Q.A.I.M.N.S. News and Gazette''.
==Historical background==
