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{{Infobox Military Unit|dates=1898 - present day|unit_name=Royal Army Medical Corps|image=|caption=Cap badge of the Royal Army Medical Corps|country=
United Kingdom|motto=In Arduis Fidelis|anniversaries=Corps Day (23 June)|nickname=The Linseed Lancers;|march=Quick: Here's a Health unto His Majesty (arr. J.A. Thornburrow)
Slow: Her bright smile haunts me still (J Campbell)-->The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) is a specialist [corps in the
British Army which provides medical services to all
British Army personnel and their families in war and in peace. Together with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, the
Royal Army Dental Corps and
Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, the RAMC forms the British Army's essential Army Medical Services.
The RAMC does not carry a
Regimental Colour or Queen's Colour, although it has a Regimental Flag. Nor does it have battle honours, as elements of the corps have been present in almost every single war the army has fought. Because it is not a fighting arm, under the Geneva Conventions, members of the RAMC may only use their weapons for self-defence. For this reason, there are two traditions that the RAMC perform when on parade:
- Officers do not draw their swords - instead they hold their scabbard with their left hand while saluting with their right.
- Other Ranks do not fix bayonets.
Unlike medical officers in some other countries, medical officers in the RAMC (and the
Royal Navy and
Royal Air Force) do not use the "Dr" prefix, in parentheses or otherwise, but only their rank, although they may be addressed informally as "Doctor".
Insignia
The RAMC, like every other British regiment, has its own distinctive unit insignia.
- Dark blue beret, the default Army colour worn by units without distinctive coloured berets. The exception is members of 225 Scottish General Support Medical Regiment (previously Field Ambulance), who wear the traditional Scottish Tam O' Shanter headdress with Corps badge on tartan backing, and medical personnel attached to field units with distinctive coloured berets, who usually wear the beret of that unit (e.g. maroon for The Parachute Regiment and sky blue for the Army Air Corps).
- Cap badge depicting the Rod of Asclepius, surmounted by a crown, enclosed within a laurel wreath, with the regimental motto In Arduis Fidelis, translated as "Faithful in Adversity" in a scroll beneath. The cap badge is worn 1 inch above the left eye on the beret. The cap badge of the other ranks must also be backed by an oval patch of dull cherry-red coloured cloth sewn directly to the beret. Officers do not use the backing, but have a sewn-on cloth cap badge instead.
- Silver regimental collar pins (collar dogs), a miniature of the cap badge.
- Stable belt comprising equal horizontal bands of (from top to bottom) dull cherry, royal blue, and old gold, reflecting the old uniform worn in the 1900s (dull cherry and royal blue), the gold depicting the royal in the title.
- Silver belt buckle with engraved regimental badge
History
Medical services in the
United Kingdom military go as far back as the formation of the British Army#The Founding of the Army after the English Restoration of Charles II of England in 1660. This was the first time a career was provided for a Medical Officer (MO), known as the Regimental Surgeon, both in peacetime and in war. The Army was formed entirely on a regimental basis, and a MO with a
Warrant Officer as his Assistant Surgeon was appointed to each regiment, which also provided a hospital. The MO was also for the first time concerned in the continuing health of his troops, and not limited to just
battlefield medicine. This regimental basis of appointment for MOs continued until it was abolished in 1873.
In
1898,
Commissioned officers and soldiers providing medical services were incorporated into one body known by its present name, the Royal Army Medical Corps.
The RAMC began to develop during the Boer War, but it was during the
First World War that it reached its apogee both in size and experience. During Britain's colonial days the RAMC had set up clinics and hospitals in countries where British troops could be found.
In modern times it has once again contracted and its main bases, the Queen Alexandra Hospital Millbank, and the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot, have now closed.
The military medical services are now very much tri-service, with the hospital facilities of Army, Royal Air Force and Royal Navy combined. The main hospital facility is now the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine in Birmingham, a joint military-NHS centre. The former Royal Naval Hospital Haslar in
Gosport, near Portsmouth, became the tri-service Royal Hospital Haslar, however it was decommissioned in March 2007. The majority of injured service personnel are now treated in
Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, despite recent press coverage of poor conditions there.{{cite news| first = Hugh
| last = Muir
| title = Storm over injured troops' care fails to save military hospital
| url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,,2031596,00.html
| work = [The Guardian
| publisher = [Guardian Media Group
| id = {{ISSN|0261-3077-->
| page = 8
| date = [2007-03-12
| accessdate = 2007-03-23
--> [Derriford Hospital in [Plymouth, North Allerton NHS hospital in Yorkshire, and [Frimley Park Hospital (near [Aldershot) also have military wards.
Colonels-in-chief
- Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and StrathearnKG, KT, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO, GBE, VD, TD (1919–1942)
- Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1942–2002)
- Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester KG, GCVO (2003–present)
Order of Precedence
{{order of precedence | before= [Royal Logistic Corps |
title= [British Army Order of Precedence|
after= [Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
-->
Successive changes in title
- Medical Staff Corps (1855–1857) (other ranks only)
- Army Hospital Corps (1857–1884) (other ranks only)
- Army Medical Department (1873–1898) (officers only)
- Medical Staff Corps (1884–1898) (other ranks only)
- Royal Army Medical Corps (1898–present)
Gallantry Awards
Since the Victoria Cross was instituted in 1856 there have been 29 Victoria Crosses and two bars awarded to army medical personnel. A bar, indicating a subsequent award of a second Victoria Cross, has only ever been awarded three times, two of them to medical officers. Twenty-three of these Victoria Crosses are on display in the
Army Medical Services Museum. The corps also has one recipient of both the Victoria Cross and the Iron Cross. One officer was awarded the George Cross in the Second World War. A young female member of the corps, Private Michelle Norris, became the first woman to be awarded the Military Cross following her actions in
Iraq on June 11 2006.{{cite news| first = Lee
| last = Glendinning
| title = Historic award for female private
| url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,,2039749,00.html
| work = [The Guardian
| publisher = [Guardian Media Group
| id = {{ISSN|0261-3077-->
| page = 8
| date = [2007-03-22
| accessdate = 2007-03-22
-->
{| class="wikitable"|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"! Surname! First Name/s! Awarded while serving with|-|Harold Ackroyd||Harold||Royal Army Medical Corps att'd The Royal Berkshire Regiment|-|William Barnsley Allen ||William Barnsley || Royal Army Medical Corps att'd Royal Field Artillery|-|
William Babtie||William || Royal Army Medical Corps|-|
William Bradshaw||William||90th Regiment (The Cameronians)|-|Noel Godfrey Chavasse||Noel Godfrey||Royal Army Medical Corps att'd The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Bar: same|-|
Thomas Joseph Crean|| Thomas Joseph ||1st Imperial Light Horse (Natal)|-|Henry Edward Manning Douglas|| Henry Edward Manning ||Royal Army Medical Corps|-|
Joseph John Farmer|| Joseph John || Army Hospital Corps|-|John Fox-Russell||John|| Royal Army Medical Corpsatt'd The Royal Welch Fusiliers|-|
John Leslie Green|| John Leslie || Royal Army Medical Corps att'd The Sherwood Foresters|-|Thomas Egerton Hale|| Thomas Egerton ||7th Regiment (The Royal Fusiliers)|-|
Henry Eric Harden|| Henry Eric || Royal Army Medical Corpsatt'd 45 Royal Marine Commando|-|Edmund Barron Hartley|| Edmund Barron || Cape Mounted Riflemen, SA Forces|-|Anthony Dickson Home||Anthony Dickson ||90th Perthshire Light Infantry|-|Edgar Thomas Inkson|| Edgar Thomas || Royal Army Medical Corpsatt'd Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers|-|
Joseph Jee||Joseph||78th Regiment (The Seaforth Highlanders)|-|
Ferdinand Simeon Le Quesne||Ferdinand Simeon||Medical Staff Corps|-|
Owen Edward Pennefather Lloyd||Owen Edward Pennefather||Army Medical Department|-|
George Allen Maling||George Allen||Royal Army Medical Corpsatt'd The Rifle Brigade|-|
William George Nicholas Manley||William George Nicholas||Royal Regiment of Artillery
Awarded Iron Cross 1870|-|
Arthur Martin-Leake||Arthur|| VC : South African ConstabularyBar : Royal Army Medical Corps|-|James Mouat||James||6th Dragoons (Inniskilling)|-|William Henry Snyder Nickerson||William Henry Snyder||Royal Army Medical Corps|-|
Harry Sherwood Ranken||Harry Sherwood||Royal Army Medical Corpsatt'd King's Royal Rifle Corps|-|
James Henry Reynolds||James Henry||Army Medical Department|-|
John Alexander Sinton||John Alexander|| Indian Medical Service|-|William Henry Thomas Sylvester||William Henry Thomas||23rd Regiment (The Royal Welch Fusiliers)|}
Trades/Careers In The 21st century
RAMC Officer Careers:
RAMC Soldier Trades:
See also
References
- Blair, J.S.G. Centenary History of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1898–1998. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1998.
- Brereton, F.S. The Great War and the RAMC. London: Constable, 1919.
- Lovegrove, P. Not Least in the Crusade. A Short History of the RAMC. Gale and Polden, 1955.
External links
- Royal Army Medical Corps website
- Army Medical Services Museum Webpage
{{Infobox Military Unit|dates=1898 - present day|unit_name=Royal Army Medical Corps|image=|caption=Cap badge of the Royal Army Medical Corps|country=United Kingdom|motto=In Arduis Fidelis|anniversaries=Corps Day (23 June)|nickname=
The Linseed Lancers;|march=Quick:
Here's a Health unto His Majesty (arr. J.A. Thornburrow)
Slow:
Her bright smile haunts me still (J Campbell)-->The
Royal Army Medical Corps (
RAMC) is a specialist [corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all British Army personnel and their families in war and in peace. Together with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, the
Royal Army Dental Corps and Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, the RAMC forms the British Army's essential Army Medical Services.
The RAMC does not carry a Regimental Colour or Queen's Colour, although it has a Regimental Flag. Nor does it have battle honours, as elements of the corps have been present in almost every single war the army has fought. Because it is not a fighting arm, under the Geneva Conventions, members of the RAMC may only use their weapons for self-defence. For this reason, there are two traditions that the RAMC perform when on parade:
- Officers do not draw their swords - instead they hold their scabbard with their left hand while saluting with their right.
- Other Ranks do not fix bayonets.
Unlike medical officers in some other countries, medical officers in the RAMC (and the
Royal Navy and Royal Air Force) do not use the "Dr" prefix, in parentheses or otherwise, but only their rank, although they may be addressed informally as "Doctor".
Insignia
The RAMC, like every other British regiment, has its own distinctive unit insignia.
- Dark blue beret, the default Army colour worn by units without distinctive coloured berets. The exception is members of 225 Scottish General Support Medical Regiment (previously Field Ambulance), who wear the traditional Scottish Tam O' Shanter headdress with Corps badge on tartan backing, and medical personnel attached to field units with distinctive coloured berets, who usually wear the beret of that unit (e.g. maroon for The Parachute Regiment and sky blue for the Army Air Corps).
- Cap badge depicting the Rod of Asclepius, surmounted by a crown, enclosed within a laurel wreath, with the regimental motto In Arduis Fidelis, translated as "Faithful in Adversity" in a scroll beneath. The cap badge is worn 1 inch above the left eye on the beret. The cap badge of the other ranks must also be backed by an oval patch of dull cherry-red coloured cloth sewn directly to the beret. Officers do not use the backing, but have a sewn-on cloth cap badge instead.
- Silver regimental collar pins (collar dogs), a miniature of the cap badge.
- Stable belt comprising equal horizontal bands of (from top to bottom) dull cherry, royal blue, and old gold, reflecting the old uniform worn in the 1900s (dull cherry and royal blue), the gold depicting the royal in the title.
- Silver belt buckle with engraved regimental badge
History
Medical services in the
United Kingdom military go as far back as the formation of the British Army#The Founding of the Army after the English Restoration of
Charles II of England in
1660. This was the first time a career was provided for a Medical Officer (MO), known as the Regimental Surgeon, both in peacetime and in war. The Army was formed entirely on a regimental basis, and a MO with a Warrant Officer as his Assistant Surgeon was appointed to each regiment, which also provided a hospital. The MO was also for the first time concerned in the continuing health of his troops, and not limited to just battlefield medicine. This regimental basis of appointment for MOs continued until it was abolished in 1873.
In 1898,
Commissioned officers and
soldiers providing medical services were incorporated into one body known by its present name, the Royal Army Medical Corps.
The RAMC began to develop during the Boer War, but it was during the
First World War that it reached its apogee both in size and experience. During Britain's colonial days the RAMC had set up clinics and hospitals in countries where British troops could be found.
In modern times it has once again contracted and its main bases, the Queen Alexandra Hospital Millbank, and the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot, have now closed.
The military medical services are now very much tri-service, with the hospital facilities of Army, Royal Air Force and Royal Navy combined. The main hospital facility is now the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine in Birmingham, a joint military-NHS centre. The former
Royal Naval Hospital Haslar in
Gosport, near Portsmouth, became the tri-service
Royal Hospital Haslar, however it was decommissioned in March 2007. The majority of injured service personnel are now treated in
Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, despite recent press coverage of poor conditions there.{{cite news| first = Hugh
| last = Muir
| title = Storm over injured troops' care fails to save military hospital
| url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,,2031596,00.html
| work = [The Guardian
| publisher = [Guardian Media Group
| id = {{ISSN|0261-3077-->
| page = 8
| date = [2007-03-12
| accessdate = 2007-03-23
--> [Derriford Hospital in [Plymouth, North Allerton NHS hospital in Yorkshire, and [Frimley Park Hospital (near [Aldershot) also have military wards.
Colonels-in-chief
- Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and StrathearnKG, KT, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO, GBE, VD, TD (1919–1942)
- Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon (1942–2002)
- Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester KG, GCVO (2003–present)
Order of Precedence
{{order of precedence | before= [Royal Logistic Corps |
title= [British Army Order of Precedence|
after= [Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
-->
Successive changes in title
- Medical Staff Corps (1855–1857) (other ranks only)
- Army Hospital Corps (1857–1884) (other ranks only)
- Army Medical Department (1873–1898) (officers only)
- Medical Staff Corps (1884–1898) (other ranks only)
- Royal Army Medical Corps (1898–present)
Gallantry Awards
Since the
Victoria Cross was instituted in 1856 there have been 29 Victoria Crosses and two bars awarded to army medical personnel. A bar, indicating a subsequent award of a second Victoria Cross, has only ever been awarded three times, two of them to medical officers. Twenty-three of these Victoria Crosses are on display in the Army Medical Services Museum. The corps also has one recipient of both the Victoria Cross and the
Iron Cross. One officer was awarded the
George Cross in the Second World War. A young female member of the corps, Private Michelle Norris, became the first woman to be awarded the
Military Cross following her actions in Iraq on
June 11 2006.{{cite news| first = Lee
| last = Glendinning
| title = Historic award for female private
| url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,,2039749,00.html
| work = [The Guardian
| publisher = [Guardian Media Group
| id = {{ISSN|0261-3077-->
| page = 8
| date = [2007-03-22
| accessdate = 2007-03-22
-->
{| class="wikitable"|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"! Surname! First Name/s! Awarded while serving with|-|
Harold Ackroyd||Harold||Royal Army Medical Corps att'd The Royal Berkshire Regiment|-|
William Barnsley Allen ||William Barnsley || Royal Army Medical Corps att'd Royal Field Artillery|-|
William Babtie||William || Royal Army Medical Corps|-|
William Bradshaw||William||90th Regiment (The Cameronians)|-|
Noel Godfrey Chavasse||Noel Godfrey||Royal Army Medical Corps att'd The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Bar: same|-|Thomas Joseph Crean|| Thomas Joseph ||1st Imperial Light Horse (Natal)|-|Henry Edward Manning Douglas|| Henry Edward Manning ||Royal Army Medical Corps|-|
Joseph John Farmer|| Joseph John || Army Hospital Corps|-|
John Fox-Russell||John|| Royal Army Medical Corpsatt'd The Royal Welch Fusiliers|-|John Leslie Green|| John Leslie || Royal Army Medical Corps att'd The Sherwood Foresters|-|Thomas Egerton Hale|| Thomas Egerton ||7th Regiment (The Royal Fusiliers)|-|Henry Eric Harden|| Henry Eric || Royal Army Medical Corpsatt'd 45 Royal Marine Commando|-|
Edmund Barron Hartley|| Edmund Barron || Cape Mounted Riflemen, SA Forces|-|
Anthony Dickson Home||Anthony Dickson ||90th Perthshire Light Infantry|-|
Edgar Thomas Inkson|| Edgar Thomas || Royal Army Medical Corpsatt'd Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers|-|
Joseph Jee||Joseph||78th Regiment (The Seaforth Highlanders)|-|Ferdinand Simeon Le Quesne||Ferdinand Simeon||Medical Staff Corps|-|
Owen Edward Pennefather Lloyd||Owen Edward Pennefather||Army Medical Department|-|George Allen Maling||George Allen||Royal Army Medical Corpsatt'd The Rifle Brigade|-|
William George Nicholas Manley||William George Nicholas||Royal Regiment of Artillery
Awarded Iron Cross 1870|-|
Arthur Martin-Leake||Arthur|| VC : South African ConstabularyBar : Royal Army Medical Corps|-|
James Mouat||James||6th Dragoons (Inniskilling)|-|William Henry Snyder Nickerson||William Henry Snyder||Royal Army Medical Corps|-|Harry Sherwood Ranken||Harry Sherwood||Royal Army Medical Corpsatt'd King's Royal Rifle Corps|-|James Henry Reynolds||James Henry||Army Medical Department|-|John Alexander Sinton||John Alexander|| Indian Medical Service|-|
William Henry Thomas Sylvester||William Henry Thomas||23rd Regiment (The Royal Welch Fusiliers)|}
Trades/Careers In The 21st century
RAMC Officer Careers:
- Physician
- Pharmacist
- Physiotherapist
- Medical Support Officer
RAMC Soldier Trades:
- Physiologist
- Combat Medical Technician
- Operating Department Practitioner
- Pharmacy Technician
- Environmental Health Technician
- Laboratory Technician
- Radiographer
See also
References
- Blair, J.S.G. Centenary History of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1898–1998. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1998.
- Brereton, F.S. The Great War and the RAMC. London: Constable, 1919.
- Lovegrove, P. Not Least in the Crusade. A Short History of the RAMC. Gale and Polden, 1955.
External links
- Royal Army Medical Corps website
- Army Medical Services Museum Webpage
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