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A Canadian nurse with two soldiers in WWI. Royal visit to RCAMC, Bramshott, England, 17 March 1941 Floor Plan of No. 1 Canadian Stationary Hospital, West Mudros, World War I A jeep ambulance of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps (R.C.A.M.C.) bringing in two wounded Canadian soldiers on the Moro River front, south of San Leonardo di Ortona, Italy, December 10, 1943
Canadian Army Medical Corps: 45 May 30, 1919: Ontario, Canada [5] 4 Miriam Eastman Baker: Canadian Army Medical Corps: 15 General Hospital 32 October 17, 1918: UK [6] 5 Christina Campbell: Canadian Army Medical Corps: 5 General Hospital 40 June 27, 1918: Drowning Hospital Ship HMHS Llandovery Castle [2] 6 Bertha Bartlett: Newfoundland Voluntary ...
Major Margaret Clothilde MacDonald, RRC (26 February 1873 – 7 September 1948) was a Canadian military nurse, serving in the Second Boer War and the First World War. MacDonald held the title of Matron-in-Chief of the Canadian Army Medical Corps Nursing Service, the first woman promoted to the rank of major in the British Empire and was awarded ...
12 Field Ambulance made Canadian medical corps history becoming the only field ambulance to engage the enemy in combat. This occurred one morning in April 1945 in the German town of Sogel . German soldiers approached, and fired upon the casualty treatment facility under cover of darkness.
Type of uniform worn by Canadian Army Medical Corps Nursing Service and Mess Uniform during the First World War. In total, 3,141 Canadian nurses volunteered their services for the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. Canadian nurses were the only nurses in the allied armies with the rank of officers and the resemblance of a hierarchical work ...
The Canadian Corps was supported to the north by the 24th British Division of I Corps which advanced north of the Souchez river and by the advancing XVII Corps to the south. [38] The attack began at 5:43 a.m. on Easter Monday, 9 April 1917 whereupon every artillery piece at the disposal of the Canadian Corps began firing. Light field guns laid ...
Major Thomas Lyon, surgeon with the Canadian Army Medical Corps, was a survivor of the Llandovery Castle bombing and massacre on June 27, 1918. Photo Credit: LAC. HMHS Llandovery Castle, built in 1914 in Glasgow as RMS Llandovery Castle for the Union-Castle Line, was one of five Canadian hospital ships that served in
A Canadian recruiting poster Painting:"Ghosts of Vimy Ridge". Although the corps was within and under the command of the British Expeditionary Force, understandably there was considerable political pressure in Canada, especially following the Battle of the Somme, in 1916, to have the corps fight as a single unit rather than have the divisions dissipated through the whole army. [3]