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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 ...
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 .
Retiring from the Army in 1976, John McGhie continued work as a consultant psychiatrist to government bodies and was appointed President of the Ministry of Defence Army Medical Board, finally retiring in the year of his death, dying at Lenham, Kent, on 12 September 1985. [1]
Royal Army Medical Corps officers (1 C, 695 P) Royal Army Medical Corps soldiers (178 P) U. Units of the Royal Army Medical Corps (1 C, 25 P) Pages in category "Royal ...
Women in the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex, 1907-1948 (2006) Piggott, Juliet. Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (Pen and Sword, 1990) Piggott, Juliet. Famous Regiments: Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (Leo Cooper Ltd, 1975) Summers, Anne. Angels and Citizens: British Women as Military Nurses 1854-1914 (2000) Taylor, Eric.
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 ...
The depot of the Royal Army Medical Corps arrived from Queen Elizabeth Barracks, Church Crookham in 1964 [7] and the Field Training Centre subsequently became known as the Royal Army Medical Corps Training Centre. [8] By the 1990s, the Royal Army Medical Corps Training Centre had changed its name to the Army Medical Services Training Group. [9]
Major General Jeremy Francis Rowan, CB, OBE, QHS (born 1957) is a British physician and retired senior British Army officer. He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1983 until retiring in 2016, and was deployed abroad for the Gulf War, the Kosovo War and the Iraq War.