| Description Of Item | The correspondence concerns the calling up of individual doctors and their appeals. German submarines had been targeting hospital ships, with two sunk in April 1917, so the War Office realised that they would have to establish more hospitals on the continent. In order to staff these hospitals a general call up was issued on 18th April to all medical practitioners of military age to report within seven days with any exemptions no longer applying unless the individual had written to the Committee to appeal and not yet received a reply (see p111 Currie). The convener of the Committee met with the Director General of Army Medical Services, Sir Alfred Keogh, to point out the potential risks in the general call up and managed instead to limit the number required from Scotland to 200 doctors. |