Perkins, Edward S.
Biography
Captain Edward S. Perkins qualified as a Doctor in July 1942 with a specialty in Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. He was called up for service in the Royal Army Medical Corp. As a doctor he was given the rank of Lieutenant and ordered to report to the depot in Aldershot in the first week of November, 1942, just after his twenty-third birthday. From there, he was transferred throughout England for several months, and then assigned to a Ugandan medical service where he stayed until 1946. After the war he worked in the Eye Department at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, the Institute of Ophthalmology, and in Ophthalmology at London University, before emigrating to the United States, where he was a Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Iowa.
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Edward S. Perkins World War II Letters
The original letters make up the bulk of this collection. Perkins and his son created a book to preserve some of his letters, which spans a greater period of time than the letters themselves, which go only to 1945. Specific envelopes have been left with their corresponding letter if there was no indication of date anywhere except the envelope, and other envelopes have been collected if their postage, stamps, or other markings are notable. The remainder of the envelopes are preserved at the end of the collection. Perkins also used a series of 3.5 by 5 inch notecards to mark some of his letters as he sorted them for his book; although not every letter has a notecard, the notecards included are dated, and have summaries of what their letters included.