Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps

The Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
Active 1904–1968
Country Canada
Type Corps
Role (Canadian Army) Permanent Active Militia
Motto(s) Latin: In arduis fidelis ("Faithful through Adversity")
Colors dull cherry
March "The Farmer's Boy"[1]
Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps button
A Canadian nurse with 2 soldiers in WWI.
Royal visit to RCAMC, Bramshott, England, 17 March 1941
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

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] The Militia Medical Service was redesignated as a Corps on 2 July 1904; the regular component as "Permanent Active Militia Medical Corps" and the militia component as "Militia Army Medical Corps in 1904.[4] Both components were redesignated "Canadian Army Medical Corps" on 1 May 1909. The regular component was redesignated "The Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps" on 3 November 1919; the militia component "Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps" on 29 April 1936. The two elements were finally united under one name on 22 March 1948 as "The Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps".[5]

The badge of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps consists of a two crossing maple stems and maple leaves with a Kings Crown on top, with the text "Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps" on a ribbon at the bottom. At the centre of the two maple stems is a rod of Asclepius consisting of a serpent entwined around a staff.

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]

Integration and Unification

In 1959 the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps joined with the medical services of the Royal Canadian Navy and Royal Canadian Air Force to form the Canadian Forces Medical Service. Medical personnel continued to wear the uniform of their respective service, but were functionally integrated under the professional direction of the newly-created Surgeon General of the Canadian Forces. Medical administration, personnel development and individual training were standardized within the CFMS in order to facilitate the operation of tri-service hospitals and joint medical headquarters. Fighting units continued to obtain integral medical support from their own uniformed personnel.

When the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army and Royal Canadian Air Force were merged in 1968 to form the Canadian Forces, the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps was deactivated as a personnel branch, succeeded by the re-organized Canadian Forces Medical Service. Reserve units of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps continued to use their R.C.A.M.C. titles until re-organized in 1974, signalling the corps' final disbandment.

The rifle-green uniform of the Canadian Forces was issued to the CFMS in 1969-70. Distinctive Environmental Uniforms were restored to the Canadian Forces in 1986. In 1990, traditional scarlet distinction cloth was restored to the rank insignia of medical officers assigned the navy uniform, while maroon distinction cloth was restored to the naval rank insignia for other officers of the medical service. On October 9, 2013 the Canadian Forces Medical Service was re-designated the Royal Canadian Medical Service.

This unit was allied with the following:

See also

References

  1. ↑ Canadian Forces publication A-AD-200-000/AG-000, "The Honours, Flags and Heritage Structure of the Canadian Forces"
  2. ↑ The Regiments and Corps of The Canadian Army (Queen's Printer, 1964)
  3. ↑ http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/adami/camc/camc.html J. George Adami War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps London: Colour Ltd.; The Rolls House Publishing Co., 1918
  4. ↑ http://www.cmhg.gc.ca/cmh/page-587-eng.asp Canadian Military Life After South Africa
  5. ↑ The Regiments and Corps of The Canadian Army (Queen's Printer, 1964)
  6. ↑ canadiansoldiers.com
  • "The Army Medical organization". Juno Beach Centre.
  • Gerald W. L. Nicholson (1977). Seventy Years of Service: A History of The Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. Borealis Press. ISBN 0-919594-61-1.
  • G. W. L. Nicholson (1975). Canada's Nursing Sisters. Canadian War Museum, Toronto.
  • Andrew Macphail (1925). Official History of the Canadian Forces in the Great War 1914-19 : The Medical Services. F.A. Acland, King's Printer, Ottawa.

Armoury

Site Date(s) Designated Location Description Image
Colonel D. V. Currie VC Armoury, 1215 Main Street North, 1913-14 1998 Register of the Government of Canada Heritage Buildings Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
  • large, low-massed brick structure located in the north end of Moose Jaw in a mixed commercial, recreational and residential neighbourhood.
  • Currently the home of the Saskatchewan Dragoons; it has housed 95th Saskatchewan Rifles, the 60th Rifles, the King’s Own Rifles of Canada, the 77th Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery, the 19th Medical Company, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, and the 142nd Transport Company, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
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