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CANEX has started to put items for the kit shop online. Currently it is very modest but they will add items as they become available. Click here to view / CANEX a commencé à mettre en ligne des articles pour le magasin de matériel. Pour l’instant, c’est très modeste, mais ils ajouteront des articles au fur et a mesure qu’ils seront disponibles. Cliquez ici pour voir
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Departing Directors: Texte français suit A few words for our departing Directors, Steven Pirie, Christine Ludorf and Marc Bilodeau, who have done such an awesome job, that without a doubt, was greatly appreciated. These folks have worked very hard over the tenure of their stay as voluntary Directors and have aided in the advance of the Association in many ways that is truly acknowledged and welcomed. On behalf of the Executive, Board of...
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A tribute to the thousands of Canadian nurses who have carried out official duties with the military during the Northwest Rebellion, the South African War, the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, the Afghanistan Conflict, and numerous humanitarian operations. https://www.royalcdnmedicalsvc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Canadian-Nurses-Album.pdf
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Texte français suit CONGRATULATION TO LCOL ANN ESPENANT. SHE IS HONOURED BY THE DEFENSE MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL (USA). LCOL ESPENANT IS THE COMMANDING OFFICER OF 33 FIELD AMBULANCE (HALIFAX). CANFORGEN 130/19 CMP 070/19 061753Z SEP 19 – HONOURS AND AWARDS ANNOUNCEMENT – COMMONWEALTH AND FOREIGN UNCLASSIFIED 1. ON BEHALF OF THE QUEEN, PERMISSION FOR THE ACCEPTANCE AND UNRESTRICTED WEARING OF COMMONWEALTH AND FOREIGN...
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The RCMSA congratulations Major General Andrew Downes on promotion to his current rank/L’ASSRC félicite le major-général Andrew Downes pour sa promotion à son grade actuel
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Le texte en français suit NOTE: This is a repeat of an article published in the Canadian Journal of Surgery, Vol 61, No 5. 2018. Message in a bottle: the discovery of a young Medical Officer’s map from the 1917 Battle of Hill 70. The map, entitled Loos 36° NW 3’ was drawn by 24-year-old Captain Alexander Edward MacDonald in fall 1917 and was found in his old surgery textbook. MacDonald’s map depicts the positions of the Canadian...
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It is with sadness that we inform you that one of our Medical family has passed away in Guelph, ON on 3 Jul 2020. Major (ret’d) Brenda Fudge, Nursing Officer has left us.
On behalf of The Royal Canadian Medical Service Association, we send our deepest sympathies and condolences to his family and friends.
Rest in Peace Brenda ...
MTF when we receive obituary information.
C'est avec tristesse que nous devons vous informer qu'un membre de notre famille médicale est décédé à Guelph, ON le 3 juillet 20. Major (à la retraite) Brenda Fudge, Soins infirmiers nous a quittés.
Au nom de L' Association du Service de santé royal canadien, nous offrons nos plus sincères sympathies et condoléances à sa famille et ses proches.
Repose en paix Brenda ...
On this day 116 years ago, The Canadian Army Medical Corps was authorized.
Militi Succurrimus - "We hasten to aid the soldier"
Please see below information and history from Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Army_Medical_Corps
The Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps (RCAMC) was an administrative corps of the Canadian Army.[2]
The Militia Medical Service was established in 1898.[3] It consisted of an Army Medical Service (officers) and an Army Medical Corps (other ranks). The Hon. Sir F.W. Borden KCMG was appointed Honorary Colonel of the militia's "Canadian Army Medical Corps" on 1 August 1901.
The regimental medical personnel of the Permanent Active Militia were absorbed into the Corps on 2 July 1904. The regular component was titled the "Permanent Active Militia Medical Corps" (P.A.M.C.) and the militia component was titled the "Army Medical Corps" (A.M.C.).[4] As the origin of a permanent medical corps, this date has since been considered the "birth" of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps for purposes of seniority among the corps of the Canadian Army, coming after the Royal Army Service Corps, 1903. (Though in the militia the medical corps was the first of the support branches to be formed).
Separate titles for permanent and non-permanent components of the medical corps were discarded during the re-organization of 1 May 1909. Thereafter, both permanent (regular) and non-permanent (reserve) components using the title "Canadian Army Medical Corps" (C.A.M.C.). The regular component of the service was redesignated "The Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps" on 3 November 1919; the militia component was granted the same honour on 29 April 1936, becoming the "Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps". These two elements were re-organized for administrative purposes following the Second World War, on 22 March 1948, as "The Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps".[5] The corps suffix "RCAMC" was added to the designation of all corps units from 1944.
The badge of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps consists of the rod of Asclepius (a serpent entwined around a staff) surrounded by a wreath of maple leaves, surmounted by the Royal Crown, with the name "Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps" on a scroll below. The earlier badge of the Canadian Army Medical Corps (1909) was identical, minus the prefix "Royal" on the scroll. The previous badge of the Army Medical Service and Army Medical Corps consisted of a Geneva Cross on a silver maple leaf (1899). The badge of the Royal Army Medical Corps was briefly used by some members during the embryonic period of the service (1898).
After the Second World War, a series of coloured berets were adopted, with other arms and services wearing midnight blue berets, with a large coloured "flash" in corps colours – dull cherry for the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps.[6]
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, was appointed Colonel-in-Chief of the R.C.A.M.C. in 1954, at the time of the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the Corps.
Ladies and Gentlemen of our fine Canadian Military Medical Family "a little bird told me that the old BHosp in Edmonton is being demolished next week" I am sure there are some memorable and historic moments and memories that will be rekindled in seeing this post...
