GB 1538 S56 - Sandbostel horror camp, Germany 1945', memoir of Major H C McLaren RAMC

1 volume

This memoir was transferred to the Archives by the College Library in 2001, following the item's withdrawal from the book catalogue. There is no documentation extant as to how it came into the Library's possession.
GB 1538 S56 May 1945 Collection (fonds) 1 volume McLaren , Hugh Cameron McLaren , 1913-1986 , obstetrician
Hugh Cameron McLaren (1913-1986) MD, FRCPGLAS, FRCSED, FRCOG graduated from Glasgow University in 1936. He specialized in obstetrics and gynaecology early in his career and in the years before the war he worked in Glasgow, Aberdeen and, for a short spell, Berlin. During his service with the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War Two, his surgical experience fitted him to work in an army field surgical unit, While campaigning in Germany he came upon the horrors of the concentration camps, including Sandbostel, which he entered in May 1945 as a surgical specialist, 10th (British) Casualty Clearing Station, British Liberation Army. After the war he became first assistant to Hilda Lloyd in Birmingham, succeeding her as Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1952. He also served the RCOG as a member of the Scientific Advisory and Pathology Committee from 1950-1967, the Examination Committee from 1951-1955 and as a Fellows' representative on Council from 1969-1975. An inveterate traveller, he helped to found the gynaecological club The Travellors.

This memoir was transferred to the Archives by the College Library in 2001, following the item's withdrawal from the book catalogue. There is no documentation extant as to how it came into the Library's possession.

The item consists of a typed memoir describing Major McLaren's arrival at Sandbostel concentration camp with other medical staff, his impressions of the medical work carried out and of the further work needed, and physical descriptions of the camp and the condition of the inmates. It is dated May 1945.

No further accruals are expected.

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Copyright: estate of Hugh Cameron McLaren.
English.

A general index to the files listed in the catalogue of the Archives of the RCOG is maintained in the College Archives; refer to the College Archivist.

RCOG Archives holds contemporary notes from Major Hugh Mclaren RAMC, concerning the conditions for patients in Sandbostel camp hospital (ref: A4/5/4); correspondence of the President with Professor Hugh McLaren and others, concerning the abortion bill, 1966-1971 (Ref: A16/6 and A16/9); Professor McLaren delivered the J Y Simpson Oration "Lawson Tait: a mirror image of James Y Simpson" in 1983 (Ref: E10/12); a copy of John Lawson's "The export of British obstetric traditions", the Hugh McLaren Lecture delivered to the Birmingham and Midland Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society in 1991 (Ref; S29).

Compiled by Clare Cowling, Archivist, RCOG. Source: obituary for H C McLaren in the British Medical Journal vol 293 9 August 1986 p.396. National Council on Archives, Rules for Cosntruction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), second Edition, 2000. Apr 2002 Documents Europe Germany Humanitarian law Information sources International conflicts Internment camps Lower Saxony McLaren , Hugh Cameron McLaren , 1913-1986 , obstetrician Medical personnel Medical profession Medical sciences Medical treatment Memoirs Personnel Physicians Sandbostel Surgeons Surgery Therapy War War victims Western Europe World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945) Wars (events) People by occupation People Primary documents

The item consists of a typed memoir describing Major McLaren's arrival at Sandbostel concentration camp with other medical staff, his impressions of the medical work carried out and of the further work needed, and physical descriptions of the camp and the condition of the inmates. It is dated May 1945.

No further accruals are expected.

One item only.

Open.

Copyright: estate of Hugh Cameron McLaren.

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English.

RCOG Archives holds contemporary notes from Major Hugh Mclaren RAMC, concerning the conditions for patients in Sandbostel camp hospital (ref: A4/5/4); correspondence of the President with Professor Hugh McLaren and others, concerning the abortion bill, 1966-1971 (Ref: A16/6 and A16/9); Professor McLaren delivered the J Y Simpson Oration "Lawson Tait: a mirror image of James Y Simpson" in 1983 (Ref: E10/12); a copy of John Lawson's "The export of British obstetric traditions", the Hugh McLaren Lecture delivered to the Birmingham and Midland Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society in 1991 (Ref; S29).

A general index to the files listed in the catalogue of the Archives of the RCOG is maintained in the College Archives; refer to the College Archivist.

National Council on Archives, Rules for Cosntruction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), second Edition, 2000.

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