Wallace S. Douglas collection

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Military Institute Archives
Preston Library
Virginia Military Institute
345 Letcher Ave.
Lexington, VA 24450-0304
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Jeffrey S. Kozak
Phone: (540) 464-7516
Phone: (540) 464-7566
Fax: (540) 464-7089
Restrictions:

There are no restrictions

Terms of access:

Manuscript collections in the VMI Archives are made available for educational and research use. The VMI Archives should be cited as the source. The user assumes all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any copyright holders. Materials from our collections may not be redistributed, published or reproduced without permission from the VMI Archives. Contact the VMI Archives for additional information.

Preferred citation:

Wallace S. Douglas collection, 1941-1944. MS 0492. VMI Archives, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
1 boxes and 98 Megabytes
Creator:
Douglas, Wallace S. (Wallace Strawn), 1901-1982
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Wallace S. Douglas collection, 1941-1944. MS 0492. VMI Archives, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection consists of photocopied documents and digital images dating from Wallace S. Douglas' service as a physician during World War II with the United States Army Medical Corps. Most items relate to the administration of hospitals in New Zealand and New Caledonia where men wounded in the Pacific Theater were treated.

Biographical / historical:

Wallace Strawn Douglas was born in 1901 and graduated from VMI in 1922. In 1927 he received his M.D from Northwestern University Medical School. Before World War II he was a physician in Lewiston, Idaho. From 1941 to 1946 Douglas was a Colonel in the United States Army serving as a surgeon in New Caledonia. He returned to private practice in Lewiston after the War. He died in 1982 in Lewiston.

Physical location:
Manuscripts stacks