Metadata: Hall-Tomkin, Dr Harry
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Wellcome Collection
- Holding institution (official language):
- Wellcome Collection
- Postal address:
- Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston RoadLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomNW1 2BE
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7611 8722
- Web address:
- https://wellcomecollection.org
- Reference number:
- GC/276
- Title:
- Hall-Tomkin, Dr Harry
- Title (official language):
- Hall-Tomkin, Dr Harry
- Creator/accumulator:
- Tomkin, Harry, Hall-, [1900-1977], physician
- Date(s):
- 1943/1957
- Language:
- English
- French
- German
- Extent:
- 1 box Paper, photographs
- Scope and content:
- Papers of Harry Hall-Tomkin, 1943-1957, including typescript diary and two scrap books compiled by Hall-Tomkin relating to his work as a senior medical officer with the Allied Expeditionary Force in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, Jun 1944-Aug 1945, including photographs, postcards, Allied notices, captured German documents and newspaper cuttings, and a description of Belsen concentration camp. Also papers relating to his invention, the Exeter Nursing Aid for invalid patients, 1957-1959.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Born, [1900]; educated, University College and University Hospital, 1928; retirement general practice in Exeter, 1931; served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1939-1945; invented two devices, designed to make nursing easier: the Exeter Nursing Aid and the Exeter Commode; died, 1977.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Tomkin, Harry Hall-
- Access, restrictions:
- The material is available in the library at Wellcome Collection subject to the usual conditions of access.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://wellcomecollection.org/works/uuv5gqv5
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
- Wellcome Library