Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 1 October 2000. Corrected and updated 12.07.2004
 
 

Medical Branch, Canadian Forces
and
The Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps

 
Canada 
 
  Titles & Lineage
  History
  Battle Honours
  Colours, Standards & Guidons
  Uniforms & Badges
  Colonels-in-Chief
  Colonels

  Biography & Gallantry Awards
  Traditions
  Alliances
  Associations, Forums, Re-Enactors
  Museums, Monuments, Memorials
  Bibliography

How to find information about individuals who served in this corps
 
Regular Army
 
Militia
1904.07.02 Permanent Active Militia Army Medical Corps Militia Army Medical Corps
1909.05.01 Canadian Army Medical Corps Canadian Army Medical Corps
1919.11.03 The Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
1936.04.29 Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
1948.03.22 The Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
1974.07.02 Medical Service Branch, Canadian Forces
formed by amalgamation of The Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, and equivalent services of the navy and air force
[no external sites have been found]
   
   
Field Hospitals:
  • 1 Canadian Field Hospital
 
Field Ambulances:
  • 1 Field Ambulance
  • 2 Field Ambulance
  • 5 Field Ambulance
 
Medical Companies:
 
Medical Platoons:
 
Miscellaneous:

Note: battle honours are not awarded to this corps.

 
Note: this corps does not carry Colours.
   
Badges: Armorial Description [to 1967]: Within a wreath of maple leaves, the Rod of Aesculapius (a serpent entwined about a rod); superimposed upon the base of the wreath a plaque inscribed ROYAL CANADIAN and below a scroll inscribed ARMY MEDICAL CORPS; the whole srumounted by the Crown.
Uniform:
   
   
     
   
1953.06.02 HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother [RCAMC, to 1964]
1977.06.11 HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother [CFMS]
Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference)
 
Motto: In arduis fidelis
Nicknames:
Anniversaries:
Marches: Here's a Health Unto His Majesty
Musicians:
Mascot:
Miscellaneous Tradition Links:

Royal Army Medical Corps

-present
[no external sites have been found]
[no external sites have been found]
Regimental Journal:
Full Histories:
 
Short Histories: