The Great War diaries and associated ephemera of Captain E.W.H. Cruickshank

The Great War diaries and associated ephemera of Captain E.W.H. Cruickshank, Royal Army Medical Corps, comprising: eight volumes of manuscript (numbered 2-9) commencing 11th May 1916 with No XI Ambulance Train B.E.F., and progressing through attachments to various units until 1919, where we find him as Medical Officer to the 41st Battalion Machine Gun Corps; together with typed transcripts of parts of his diaries, items of official correspondence, photographs and press cuttings; also a photograph album including studies of RAF personnel and Aircraft and of the Turkish Army, as well as tourist views of the Middle East. Part of the typed record recounts the experiences of a Doctor interned in Germany in the early part of the war, and subsequently released to return to England. The subject is not identified in the text but it appears that this is also part of Cruickshank's story. This archive offers a scarce and fascinating insight into the war as seen by a medical officer, and it includes narratives of front line activities, as well as duty in the rear echelons.