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The Royal Army Medical Service's cap badge is an amalgamation of elements from the three antecedent corps: [5] Laurel - common to all three corps; Sword blade from the Royal Army Dental Corps; Dannebrog cross from the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps; Serpent from the Royal Army Medical Corps
The Army Medical Services (AMS) is the organisation responsible for administering the corps that deliver medical, veterinary, dental and nursing services in the British Army. It is headquartered at the former Staff College, Camberley , near the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst .
Black: Royal Tank Regiment, Royal Army Chaplains Department, Army Legal Services Branch [35] Navy/corvette blue: Royal Artillery; Dark blue: 94 (Berkshire Yeomanry) Signal Squadron (V) Storm blue v-neck: Queen's Own Yeomanry; Light blue/green fleck: Light Dragoons; Maroon: Royal Army Veterinary Corps; Dull cherry v-neck: Royal Army Medical Service
Medical services in the British armed services date from the formation of the Standing Regular Army after the Restoration of Charles II in 1660. Prior to this, from as early as the 13th century there are records of surgeons and physicians being appointed by the English army to attend in times of war; [2] but this was the first time a career was provided for a Medical Officer (MO), both in ...
34th Field Hospital, Royal Army Medical Corps, at Queen Elizabeth Barracks, Strensall; 201st (Northern) Field Hospital, Royal Army Medical Corps (V), in Newcastle upon Tyne – paired with 34 Field Hospital; 202nd (Midlands) Field Hospital, Royal Army Medical Corps (V), in Birmingham – paired with 22 Field Hospital
A more permanent establishment of General (as opposed to regimental) Hospitals was envisaged by the Army Medical Board (formed in 1793), which opened new purpose-built General Hospitals in Plymouth (1795), Gosport (1796) and Walmer (1797), as well as establishing York Hospital in London (based around the Infirmary of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea ...
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The sign was re-introduced to the Army in mid-1993 with the 211th Field Hospital becoming the first unit to re-use the symbol on their combat jackets. The sign was publicly worn for the first time on 24 October 1993 at the 75th Anniversary commemorations of the awards of the Croix de Guerre to the 24th Field Ambulance. [7] [8]