GOVER, W

Description

Typescript recollections 'A young doctor in the Great War'; typescript career synopsis; Photocopy 'Guy's Hospital Gazette' (28 Dec 1918); Photograph Album (Jul 1918-Jul 1919); manuscript notes identifying the photographs (nd); Diary (Oct 1940-Dec 1940); Manual of Seamanship, Vol 1 (1915); Manual of Seamanship, Vol 2 (1909). (Photographs include HMS Argos, HMS Curacoa, HMS Ithurial, HMS Lion, HMS Nairana, HMS Pegasus, HMS Tiger, HMS Victoria and Albert, HMS Victory, HM Submarine K5, SM Submarine Deutschland (U155)).

Biography or history

Gover, W (1893-1989). Served as Temporary Surgeon, RN [Royal Navy], on board HMS Fearless (1917-1919). After the war he practised as a GP, and served in the RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps) in 1943.

Provenance

The papers were placed in the Collection by W Gover in 1980. See Royal Navy Correspondence File.

Access and usage

Reproduction

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