Honorary Appointments for units of the Canadian Forces Health Services (CFHS)

Honorary Colonels / Honorary Lieutenant Colonels

National Level Units

CFHS Training Centre

  • Robert Francis

CF H Svcs Centre (Ottawa)

  • Jack Kitts
  • Alain-Michel Sekula

Canadian Medical Equipment Depot

  • Vacant

1 Canadian Field Hospital

  • Vacant
1 Health Services Group

1 Health Services Group HQ

  • Louis Francescutti

CF H Svcs Centre (Pacific)

  • Ross Brown

1 Field Ambulance

  • Ruth Collins-Nakai

11 (Victoria) Field Ambulance

  • Vacant
  • Vacant

12 (Vancouver) Field Ambulance

  • Robert Watt
  • Vacant

15 (Edmonton) Field Ambulance

  • Vacant
  • Steinke

16 (Regina) Field Ambulance

  • Vacant
  • Vacant

17 (Winnipeg) Field Ambulance

  • Laurencelle
  • Menkis

18 (Thunder Bay) Field Ambulance

  • Edward Meijer
  • Vacant
4 Health Services Group

CF H Svcs Centre (Atlantic)

  • John Haggie

24 CF H Svcs Centre (Trenton)

  • Amber Hayward-Stewart

25 e Centre des SSFC (Bagotville)

  • Luc Vandal

33 CF H Svcs Centre (Kingston)

  • Alice Aiken

5e Ambulance de champagne

  • André Vézina
  • Louis Hébert

23 (Hamilton) Field Ambulance

  • Michael Sanderson
  • Vacant

25 (Toronto) Field Ambulance

  • Virginia McLaughlin
  • Ian Sutherland

28 (Ottawa) Field Ambulance

  • Vacant
  • Anthony Di Monte

33 (Sydney) Field Ambulance

  • Vacant
  • Heather MacKinnon

35 (Halifax) Field Ambulance

  • Ronald Stewart
  • Vacant

51e Ambulance de campagne (Montréal)

  • Markus Martin
  • Robert Boily

52e Ambulance de campagne (Sherbrooke)

  • Michel Carpentier
  • Paul Kaeser
  • 55e Ambulance de campagne (Québec)
  • Jean-Robert Leclerc
  • Frederic Jaques

Updated: November 27, 2018

 

NOTE: Honorary Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels are appointed in accordance with Guidelines for Canadian Forces Health Services Honorary Appointments.

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