| Description | Papers consist of handwritten draft report by William Ashley, entitled 'University of Birmingham War Work of the Staff', dated 17 February 1920, with correspondence comprising replies from members of University of Birmingham staff to Alfred Briscoe on behalf of William Ashley in response to his request for information about their activities during the First World War, and letters between William Ashley and the Vice-Chancellor [Gilbert Barling] and from the Universities Bureau of the British Empire, discussing the organisation's request for information from the University of Birmingham and its proposed use in a 'Universities and the War' appendix to a yearbook, and Ashley's work in producing a draft survey. The letters suggest that the information provided in the survey was not submitted for publication, but was used within the University of Birmingham for the institution's own purposes.
The draft report contains summaries of the activities of university staff, including research work for the government or for industry in connection with the war effort, government administration work, research and teaching within the university, service in the armed forces, medical and nursing work both in Birmingham and elsewhere, and other voluntary and relief work. The report is arranged by Faculty, and by department within each Faculty, and entries for each member of staff consist of an edited summary of the information submitted by letter, though there are also some entries which seem to have been compiled without reference to a submitted response
Replies from staff are filed in alphabetical order. There are submissions from:
Dr George Auden, Hygiene and Public Health
Mr Norman A. Austin, Dentistry
W. N. Bailey, Mathematics
Mr Laurence Ball, Pathology
Professor Granville Bantock, Music
Mr Seymour Barling, Anatomy
Dr Guy Barlow, Physics
Mr Frank Barnes, clinical lecturer/tutor
Dr Stanley Barnes, clinical lecturer/tutor
Professor C. Raymond Beazley, History
Mr William Billington, clinical lecturer/tutor
Dr Charles Boulenger, Zoology
Professor W. S. Boulton, Geology
Mr W. Bowater, Dentistry
Mr Ralph A. Broderick, Dentistry
Professor Adrian Brown, Brewing (report compiled by R. Hopkins)
Professor F. W. Burstall, Mechanical Engineering
Professor John Cadman, Mining
Mr G. F. Cale Matthews [incomplete letter]
Mr S. R. Carter, Chemistry
Dr Frederick Challenger, Chemistry
Mr Charles D. Chambers, Greek and Latin
Mr Arthur H. Clark, Mining
Gerard Collins
Dr J. E. Coates, Chemistry
Mr F. De Arteaga, Spanish and Italian
Professor Ernest De Selincourt, English
M. Paul Demey, French
Mr A. E. Donagan, Dentistry
Dr A. Douglas Heath, clinical lecturer/tutor
Dr Jessie S. B. Elliott, Botany
Dr J. G. Emanuel, clinical lecturer
A. J. Field, Metallurgy
Professor F. W. Gamble, Zoology
Professor Leonard Gamgee, Surgery
Dr T. Goodey, Zoology
Mr Bernard G. Goodwin, Anatomy
Dr F. R. Greenwood, Materia Medica
Dr A. J. Grove, Zoology
W. B. Grove
Mr John Harvey, Philosophy
Professor William Haslam, Surgery
Mr Cyril Howkins, Dentistry
Robert Heath
Mr George Heaton, Operative Surgery
Dr John Hewetson, Pathology
Dr R. Beatson Hind, clinical lecturer/tutor
Mr Gordon Hislop, English
Mr R. H. Hopkins, Brewing
George Hughes
Mr William Hulse, Mining
Mr Humphrey. Humphreys, Dentistry
Daisy Ibbs, Physics (later Mrs Daisy Daynes)
Mr Harold Jackson, Zoology
Mr Egbert J. W. Jackson, Commerce
Dr J. Jameson Evans, Ophthalmology
Mr J. L. Jeffery, Mining
Mr R. M. Jones, Metallurgy
Professor Gisbert Kapp, Electrical Engineering
Dr H. B. Keene, Physics
Mr E. J. Kipps, Electrical Engineering
Professor A. W. Kirkaldy, Finance
Mr L. Kirkby Thomas, clinical lecturer/tutor
Professor F. C. Lea, Civil Engineering
Winifred Lee (German)
Professor C. A. Leedham-Green, Surgery
M. Leitch
Professor R. F. C. Leith, Pathology
Mary Lilley (on behalf of training department)
Oliver Lodge
Mr Albert Lucas, clinical lecturer
Dr M. Macmillan, English
Mr W. Thompson Madin, Dentistry
Mr W. J. McCardie, clinical lecturer/tutor, together with offprint of article 'A Method of Anaesthetizing Soldiers' reprinted from the British Medical Journal, April 21 1917
Dr Hamilton McCombie, Chemistry
G. L. Marriott
Mr F. J. Meggitt, Zoology
Mr G. Percival Mills, cinical lecturer/tutor
Jane Milne
Professor J. H. Muirhead, Philosophy
Mr A. J. Nicholson, Zoology
Mr A. W. Nuthall, Pathology
Mr Robert C. Panton, Civil Engineering
Dr Albert Parker, Chemistry
Dr Leonard Parsons, Infant Hygiene
Mr A. H. Parrott, Dentistry
Mr J. E. Parrott, Dentistry
Mr R. C. Porter, Mechanical Engineeing
W. L. Potts
Mr C. T. Preece, Mathematics
Mr Frank Raw, Geology
Mr F. W. Richards, Dentistry
Mr S. H. Roe, Dentistry
Mr Harold Round, Dentistry
Mr Herbert H. Sampson, clinical lecturer/tutor
Professor Francis E. Sandbach, German
Dr James Edward Hill Sawyer, Medicine
Dr. L. Segal, Russian
Dr G. A. Shakespeare, Physics
Dr T. Sydney Short, clinical lecturer/tutor
Professor E. A. Sonnenschein, Greek and Latin
R. E. Stradling
Florence M. Taylor (classical lecturer 'taking the place of a man')
Mr W. Norman Thomas, Civil Engineering
Professor Frank Tillyard, Commercial Law
Professor Thomas Turner, Metallurgy
Eleanor Twigg
Hilda Walker
Dr T. F. Wall, Electrical Engineering
Mr B. J. Ward, clinical lecturer/tutor
Mr William Wardlaw, Chemistry
Professor G. N. Watson, Mathematics
Professor G. S. West, Botany
Mr H. Beckwith Whitehouse, clinical lecturer/tutor
Dr K. Douglas Wilkinson, clinical lecturer/tutor
Mr Leonard J. Wills, Geology
F. P. Wilson
Professor Thomas Wilson, Midwifery
Mr W. Garrick Wishart, Mechanical Engineering
Mr C. E. Wood, Chemistry
Mr E. Musgrave Woodman, clinical lecturer/tutor
There is also an incomplete letter from an unidentified sender, written from the same business address as given on the letter from S. H. Roe, so the writer was possibly also a dentist |