title: The Bagenal letters.
abstract: In 2006 Mrs John Bagenal made a gift to the British Dental Association archive of part of the correspondence of her late husband John Stuart Bagenal. The 13 letters were written to his family during the spring and summer of 1940, when, having enlisted as a private in Royal Army Medical Corps, he was posted to Colchester for training as a dental clerk-orderly. The letters are an invaluable record of the process by which new units of the Army Dental Corps were staffed by other ranks, and show a young man turning from civilian pleasures to soldierly responsibility.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bishop
mesh_terms: D004739:England; D005202:Asia, Eastern; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D007630:Kenya; D008885:Military Dentistry / Q000266:history*; D047789:World War II