Second World War Source List

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Collection/Description	Reference
HOSPITALS
Bangour Emergency Hospital (later known as Bangour General Hospital)
Surgical Neurology Soldier Case Notes, 1939-1944	LHB44/CC/2 Please contact LHSA for more information
Plastic Surgery Case Notes, 1940-1948	LHB44/CC/1 Please contact LHSA for more information
Bangour Village Hospital
Register of Military Patients, 1939	LHB44/25/6
Edinburgh Foot Clinic & School of Chiropody
Mobile Chiropody Unit for the Services, 1939-1948	LHB15/14-18
Gogarburn Emergency Hospital
Patient Case Notes, 1940-1949	LHB32/CC/1-2 Please contact LHSA for more information
Penicillin Distribution
Papers relating to the wartime distribution of penicillin to civilians, 1944-1945	GD1/74
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Emergency Medical Services Admissions, 1939-1948	LHB1/126/117
Register of Military Admissions, 1940-1946	LHB1/159/3
PHOTOGRAPHS (NB. the photographic collection is currently being catalogued and further images may become available)
Edinburgh War Hospital, Bangour (outwith war periods known as Bangour Village Hospital)
Photograph album of Hospital and one photo of 7/9th Royal Scots in Germany	LHB44/26/1 and 21
Paderewski Hospital (Polish hospital and medical school established during the Second World War at Western General Hospital)
55 photographs of staff, exterior and interior of building	LHB13 EFW P117 Please contact LHSA for more information
OBJECTS
Edenhall Hospital
Three leather work items produced by a patient during therapy	Objects O542-544 Please contact LHSA for more information

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