Charles Webster as a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), Japan and South Korea, 1951-1953, interviewed by Jan Bassett

Places	Asia: Japan, Kure Asia: Korea, Seoul
Accession Number	S01821
Collection type	Sound
Measurement	30 min
Object type	Oral history
Physical description	1/4 inch sound tape reel; BASF LP 35; 3 3/4 ips/9.5 cm.s; stereo; 5 inch
Maker	Bassett, Jan Webster, Charles U.
Place made	Australia: New South Wales, Port Macquarie
Date made	3 November 1986
Access	Open
Conflict	Korea, 1950-1953
Copyright	Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Copying Provisions	Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction.
Source credit to	AWM Special Project Fellowship Award

Description

Called up as a National Serviceman in the British Army on 24 October 1951, discharged on 23 October 1953, served as a doctor with the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC); posted to 29th British Commonwealth Hospital at Kure in Japan and also served in the British Commonwealth Communications Zone Medical Unit in Seoul, South Korea; discusses early life; medical training; troopship to Japan; describes hospital in Kure, Japan; describes wounds and illnesses treated; professional relationships between staff and nationalities; recreation leave; Hiroshima; posted to Korea in 1952; describes living and hospital conditions in Korea; effects of war service on subsequent civilian medical career; advances in medical treatments as a consequence of war; returned to Britain on troopship containing British prisoners of war (POW) released after the armistice; operating on a POW with appendicitis during the voyage; evacuation procedures should the North Koreans break through. END OF INTERVIEW
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