Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps

Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
File:CanadianForcesMedicalService.jpg Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps Badge
Active	1904-Disbanded/Decommissioned/Inactive
Country	Canada
Type	Corps
Role	(Canadian Army) Permanent Active Militia
Motto(s)	In arduis fidelis (Latin, "Faithful through Adversity")
Colors	dull cherry
March	"The Farmer's Boy"

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Royal Visit to Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps (R.C.A.M.C.), Bramshott, England, 17 March 1941

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The Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps (RCAMC) was an administrative corps of the Canadian Army.

The Militia Medical Service was established in 1899. The Militia Medical Service was redesignated the Canadian Army Medical Corps in 1904. The Canadian Army Medical Corps was redesignated The Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps on 3 Nov 1919. The crest 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.

The Canadian Army Medical Corps was redesignated the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps on 29 Apr 1936. The Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps was redesignated The Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps on 22 Mar 1948. The Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps reverted to Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps on 18 Apr 1955.

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.

Unification

When the Army, Royal Canadian Navy, and Royal Canadian Air Force were merged in 1968 to form the Canadian Forces, the Royal Canadian Dental Corps and Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps were deactivated and merged with their Naval and Air Force counterparts to form the Dental Branch (Canadian Forces) and the Canadian Forces Medical Service of the Canadian Forces Health Services Group (CF H Svcs Gp). When the Canadian Forces unified on 1 February 1968, the rifle green beret was adopted as the CF standard.

Related units

This unit was allied with the following:

• Royal Army Medical Corps

See also

• List of armouries in Canada
• Military history of Canada
• History of the Canadian Army
• Canadian Forces

References

• "The Army Medical organization". Juno Beach Centre. http://www.junobeach.org/e/4/can-tac-med-org-e.htm. 
• 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. 

External links

• War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps by J. George Adami. London: Colour Ltd.; The Rolls House Publishing Co., 1918, online edition at A Celebration of Women Writers
• Canadian Forces Medical Service—Introduction to its History and Heritage
• Critical Care On the Battlefield and Around the World: The Story of the Canadian Forces Health Services—Canadian War Museum
• Canadian Forces Health Services Heritage Trust

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