Dr Muriel "Molly" Newhouse (1912-2000), FRCP, FFOM: Memoir of service in the RAMC during World War Two

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60pp typescript memoir by Dr Muriel "Molly" Newhouse of her service during World War II in the RAMC, where she rose to rank of Lt Col. Initially she was posted to various camps and hospitals around the UK, but in 1944 following D-Day she went to Normandy, and after a brief return to Wales was posted to India.
This is a vivid and amusing account, "written Summer 1945", of life in the RAMC for a woman officer during wartime, although it ends rather abruptly with a vignette of the Officers' Mess in Singapore. She notes her thwarted hopes of undertaking research and the military emphasis on the correct completion of large amounts of paperwork. The memoir is illuminating about the relationships between women in the RAMC and other women in the services (ATS, nurses, etc) and attitudes towards women as doctors in the military context.
.With text of (her niece by marriage) Heather Joshi's eulogy of her at her funeral, 2000, provided for biographical information.

Dr Muriel "Molly" Newhouse (1912-2000), FRCP, FFOM: Memoir of service in the RAMC during World War Two

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