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**"[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/61103/ UK, Roll of the Indian Medical Service, 1615 -1930"]. (Released October 2016). This database consists of Index records and page images from the book of the same name by D.G. Crawford, see below under [[Doctor#Lists of medical officers|Lists of medical officers]]. **[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/61053/ "UK & Ireland, Medical Directories, 1845-1942" ] (Released October 2016). These appear to be commercial publications. “Medical Directories list most practising and retired doctors in Britain and its colonies”. The main publication included is ''The Medical Directory'' (1870- 1942), (published at least some periods by J & A Churchill (or variant names) and sometimes referred to as ''Churchill's Medical Directory'') and earlier publications ''The London Medical Directory'' (1845-1846), ''The London and Provincial Medical Directory'' (1847-1869) ''The Medical Directory for Ireland'' (1852-1860), ''The Medical Directory for Scotland'' (1852-1860). Broken ranges. The 1924 edition includes Dental Surgeons, Dental Surgeons are also included in most/all? other editions.*:The 1861 edition appears to be the first edition which lists doctors resident overseas. As an example of the contents ''The Medical Directory for 1924 80th Annual Issue'' has sections “Abroad”, and “Naval, Military and Indian Services”, see Title page digital page 42 and [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61053/images/43274_263021009496_0647-00042?ssrc=&backlabel=Return Contents page, digital page 43]. "Practitioners Resident Abroad registered under the Medical Acts of Great Britain and Ireland" [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61053/images/43274_263021009496_0647-01713?ssrc=&backlabel=Return digital page 1714/original page 1601]. "Registered Practitioners Resident Abroad. Local List. [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61053/images/43274_263021009496_0647-01895?ssrc=&backlabel=Return Digital page 1896/original page 1783] Grouped according to Continent/Country. To access these links you must be signed into Ancestry.::Available on Archive.org: ''The medical directory for Ireland'' [https://archive.org/details/b28035859_0001 1852], [https://archive.org/details/b28035859_0002 1856], [https://archive.org/details/b28035859_0003/page/n25/mode/2up 1858]; [https://archive.org/details/b28035859_0004/page/n23/mode/2up 1859], including [https://archive.org/details/b28035859_0004/page/270/mode/2up [Regulations and conditions relating to<nowiki>]</nowiki> "Her Majesty's Indian Forces"] page 270. [https://archive.org/details/londonprovincial00unse/page/16/mode/2up ''The London & provincial medical directory for 1861''], including [https://archive.org/details/londonprovincial00unse/page/986/mode/2up "A List of registered Non-Residents"] The 1861 edition appears to be the first edition which lists doctors resident overseas; [https://archive.org/search?query=+title%3A%28%22The+London+and+Provincial+Medical+Directory%22%29&sort=date ''The London and Provincial Medical Directory'' at Archive.org] for 1865, 1866; [https://archive.org/search?query=%28Churchill%29+AND+title%3A%28%22The+Medical+Directory%22%29&sort=date ''The Medical Directory'' at Archive.org] for 1870, 1872, 1873, 1876, 1878, 1884. :* Also available on Ancestry [https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/33538/ "UK Medical Registers, 1859-1959"]. "This database contains annually published books listing all of the names of [UK] doctors who were licensed to practise in the United Kingdom and abroad from 1859-1959. Also included are foreign doctors who qualified in Britain. Although these books were published annually, registers have only been digitised on 4 year intervals".* See the Fibiwiki section [https://wiki.fibis.org/w/British_Army#The_.5BLondon.5D_Gazette The [London<nowiki>]</nowiki> Gazette] on the [[British Army]] page.

*Lists of surgeons, and prior to 1894, Assistant Surgeons may be found in the ''East-India Register and Directory'', published 1803-1860. The ''East-India Register'' was superseded by what was initially called ''The Indian Army and Civil Service List''. Later these were separated, and the ''India Army List'' is the volume which contains the surgeons. Many of the ''East India Register and Directory'' are available online, together with some editions of '' The Indian Army and Civil Service List'' and other directories such as the ''Bengal Directory'', and may be found on '''[[Directories online]]''', which also mentions some earlier publications available on subscription websites. Also see '''[[Indian Army List online]]''', with issues from July 1890. For details of these books and some earlier publications, in libraries or on microfilm or fiche, refer [[Directories reading list]]

*[https://wellcomecollection.org/works/cctcmrg6/items ''The Medical Directory of India, Burma and Ceylon, Part II 1910''] compiled by the editorial staff of the ''Practical Medicine'', published at Delhi. Part II is in respect of doctors in military employment including Royal Army Medical Corps, Indian Medical Service and Indian Subordinate Medical Department. Welcome Collection. [https://archive.org/details/med-directory-india-part2-1910/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].*"God’s Acre in North-West India" by Colonel R. H. Firth ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'' 1914. A record of the names, the careers, and details as to the graves of, or monuments to, all the medical officers buried or memorialized in the Punjab, the North-west Frontier Province, and Kashmir. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/23/3/320.full.pdf Part 1] Volume 23:3 320-333 and [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/23/4/415.full.pdf Part 2] Volume 23:4 415-439 . Archive.org versions [https://archive.org/details/jramc-1914-vol23/page/319/mode/2up page 320], [https://archive.org/details/jramc-1914-vol23/page/415/mode/2up page 415]. :[https://archive.org/details/jramc-1915-vol24/page/287/mode/2up "Some Echoes of the Past"] by Lieutenant-Colonel W A Morris page 288 ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'', Volume 24 1915 Archive.org. Medical officers who lost their lives in N-W P and Oudh Provinces 1788-1860.*[https://archive.org/details/thackers-med-directory-1915/page/n9/mode/2up ''Thacker's Medical Directory of India, Burma, and Ceylon 1915. Third year of publication''] Archive.org. Also includes a list of Nurses and Midwives.

*''The Medical Directory of India, Burma and Ceylon ...'' Compiled by the editorial staff of the ''Practical Medicine'', published at Delhi. The edition for 1910 consists of 4 separate Parts<ref>[https://archive.org/details/texasmedicaljour2519unse/page/n424/mode/1up Advertisement in ''Texas Medical Journal''] circa p 415 1910 Archive.org</ref>. Part II consisting of those in military employment is available online, see above. Available at the British Library Part II 1908 UIN: BLL01000948662; 1910 UIN: BLL01000948663, but the entry does not say whether the holding is one, or more parts. Classified as a Journal, so perhaps there are further editions. 1910 edition Elsewhere <ref>[http://crossasia-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/254/14/M_.pdf Burma/Myanmar Bibliographical Project, Letter M, page 77] crossasia-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de.</ref> it is also available at stated the Wellcome Librarytitle includes ''Including Native States, Straits Settlements, LondonFederated Malay States & British East Africa Protectorate". *''Thacker's Medical Directory of India, Burma and Ceylon'', published 1913-1915. The 1915 edition is available online, see above. The 1914 edition is at the British Library UIN: BLL01000948664 - enquire if there are additional volumes as it is classified as a Journal, perhaps implying more than one edition. 1913 (and 1915 ) editions appear to be available at Oxford and Cambridge University Libraries, and the National Library of Scotland. Also referred to as editions 1-3.:National Archives of India pay service "Digitise on Demand" includes ''Thacker's Medical Directory'' [https://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/handle/123456789/2400020 1914] (Identifier PR_000002709792) and [https://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/handle/123456789/2326441 1915] (Identifier PR_000002614707) abhilekh-patal.in*''Thacker's Indian Medical Directory'', published 1922-1924. Also referred to as editions 4-6. [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1708244/?page=1 Review of the 1924 edition] which indicates contents. Available at Oxford University Library and the National Library of Scotland, but this title is not listed in the British Library catalogue.

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.

''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.

:[https://wellcomecollection.org/works/x6ewbxht u35snta5 ''Commissioned officers in the medical services of the British Army, 1660-1960''] 2 Volumes, Vol.1: 1660-1727 by A. Peterkin; 1727-1898 by William Johnston; Vol. 2 1898-1960 by R. Drew. This publication covers permanent, regular officers. Volume 2 is reached through an option on the Volume 1 book file, top right may be selected left hand corner side of the book reader. There is an index at the back of each volume. Scroll down the digital file. Wellcome Collection Left click on an individual page to reach a page which has size and rotation symbols. [https://wellcomelibraryClose this page to return to main file.org/item/b20086246 Alternative book reader from Wellcome Library], with a Search availableCollection.

*[https://archive.org/details/scalpelswordstre0000unse ''Scalpel, Sword and Stretcher : forty years of work and play''] by Colonel Robert J Blackham [1931] Formerly Hon. Surgeon to the Viceroy of India , and DDMS Ninth Army Corps in France. He joined the Army Medical Staff in 1895, and then was in India c 1897-1903, and 1908-1915. He established St. John’s Ambulance Association in India, which established/became the Red Cross. He was posted to France in 1915 where he was a doctor to fighting troops in battle. He was also posted to Italy and Russia. Archive.org Books to Borrow. Also available [https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/Detail/2R3BF1F070BY4 Digital Collection University of Calgary] Canada. Download may be possible for the latter, see under Actions "Permissions and access"(registration required, fee seems to/perhaps may apply for digital copies- see [https://libanswers.ucalgary.ca/ FAQ]).*[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/by/year ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'']. jramc.bmj.com. An Archive from 1903. The "Corps News" may not be not indexed, but appears may appear as a separate section at the back of each monthly edition, or as a separate section at the back of the book, up until December 1920. Note: the content of the Archive is '''searchable'''. Pdf files to access, by article. From 2020 the title changed to ''BMJ Military Health''. '''Update'''. This Archive now appears to be accessible by Subscription only.

:[https://archive.org/details/journalofroyalar4190grea/page/n5/mode/2up Vol IV 1905 Jan.], [https://archive.org/details/journalofroyalar4190grea/page/840/mode/2up Index]; [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.230949/page/1/mode/2up Vol XI 1908: July], [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.230949/page/650/mode/2up Index]; [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.230947 Vol XII 1909 Jan.], [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.230947/page/707/mode/2up Index]; [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.230945 Vol XV 1910 July], [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.230945/page/767/mode/2up Index]; [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.26537 Vol. XVI 1911 Jan.], [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.26537/page/699/mode/2up Index]; [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.230948/page/1/mode/2up Vol. XVII 1911, July], [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.230948/page/677/mode/2up Index].

[httphttps://jramc.bmjarchive.comorg/contentdetails/jramc-1915-vol25/page/25717/6mode/717.full.pdf 2up Volume 25 Index]

*[https://archive.org/details/b28987913 ''The Indian Medical Service : being a synopsis of the rules and regulations regarding pay, promotion, pension, leave, examination, etc., in the Indian Medical Service, both military and civil''] by Major B G Seton IMS and Major J Gould IMS. 1912 Archive.org *[https://archive.org/details/fiftythousandmil00wall ''Fifty Thousand Miles on a Hospital Ship''] by “The Padre” [Charles Steel Wallis] 1917 Archive.org. The hospital ship that Padre Wallis joined in 1915 was most likely the 'Goorkha'.<ref>frev. [httphttps://1914-1918www.invisionzonegreatwarforum.com/forumsorg/topic/253987-norwegian-matron-on-indian-hospital-ship/?do=findComment&comment=2569706 Norwegian Matron on Indian Hospital Ship] ''Great War Forum'' 3 October 2017. Retrieved 4 October 201721 December 2020.</ref> She was then an Indian Hospital Ship staffed by doctors from the Indian Medical Service, although subsequently became a British Hospital Ship.

*A broken range of editions of half yearly volumes of the ''British Medical Journal'' 1862-1923 , and later, is available at [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22British+Medical+Journal%22+AND+mediatype%3Atexts&page=1 Archive.org] including the [[First World War]] years

*[httphttps://dspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10973/21456 "Growth of the Civil Side of the Indian Medical Service -Since 1885"]. Report written 1 October 1912 by C. P. Lukis, Surgeon General, Director- General, Indian Medical Service. Link to a pdf download, DSpace website of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune.

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20190710144526/http://indiannumismatics.com/proddetail.php?prod=013107 Button: Indian Medical Service] , from the time of George V (1910-) or George VI (1936-). indiannumismatics.com, archived.*[http://www.militarysunhelmets.com/2019/indian-medical-services-named-wolseley#more-19760 "Indian Medical Services Named Wolseley"] [Helmet] by Peter Suciu April 2019 militarysunhelmets.com . With photographs, showing the IMS flash. The helmet belonged to Clifford Llewellyn Ash c late 1930s-WW2.