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35670 Page: 3601</ref> for his escape in 1942 from a Japanese P.O.W. camp, following the fall of Hong Kong in December 1941 His story is told in this [https://web.archive.org/web/20190830130619/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1469554/Colonel-Tony-Hewitt.html obituary of Colonel Tony Hewitt].<ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20190830130619/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1469554/Colonel-Tony-Hewitt.html Obituary of Colonel Tony Hewitt] www.telegraph.co.uk 17 Aug 2004, archived page.</ref>
*Shortt- Henry Edward. Listen to the [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80008523 1985 interview with Henry Edward Shortt] Imperial War Museums. British officer who enlisted at the onset of war and served as Medical Officer with the Indian Medical Service attached to [[33rd Queen Victoria's Own Light Cavalry|33rd Cavalry Regt]] in India and Mesopotamia, 1914-1918.
*Spackman - W.C. Imperial War Museums [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030007535 catalogue entry: Private Papers of Colonel W C Spackman]: Ts memoir (331pp) covering his service as Regimental Medical Officer to the 48th Pioneers, 6th Indian Division in Mesopotamia, 1914 - 1915, at Kut during the siege, December 1915 - April 1916, and as a prisoner of war in Anatolia, 1916 – 1918. An edited version has been published: ''Captured at Kut, Prisoner of the Turks: The Great War Diaries of Colonel William Spackman'', edited by Colonel R.A. Spackman. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01014822005 . [https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/Captured_at_Kut_Prisoner_of_the_Turks/jAbMDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1 Sample pages, Google Books].
===Royal Army Medical Corps and the earlier British Army Medical Services===
