The medical services / [Sir Andrew Macphail].

  • Andrew Macphail
Date:
1925
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    his deputy, Major H. A. Chisholm who received a D.S.O. It was during this action that Captain F. A. C. Scrimger earned a V.C. The C.M.G. was conferred on Lieut.- Colonel F. S. L. Ford in command of No, 1 Casualty Clearing Station, which had previously clone good service in the adjoining army and in the present action received the overflow of cases. Captain T. H. McKiilip received the D.S.O., and Captain A. K. Haywood the military cross. The officers commanding the Ambulances, Lieut.- Colonels A. E. Ross, D. W. McPherson, W. L. Watt were mentioned in despatches with Majors J. L. Duval and E. B. Hardy, Captains F. C. Bell, P. G. Brown, A. S. Donaldson, J. J. Fraser, R. H. McGibbon, J. D. McQueen, and E. L. Stone. Lieut.-Colonel A. T. Shillington, Matron E. Campbell, and nursing sister M. P. Richardson of No. 2 Stationary Hospital also received mention. The other ranks were also generously remembered. From that day, of which the story has so often been told, there was perfect confidence in the British Army that the Canadian medical service would adequately perform any duty to which it was assigned. In reality the service came into actual being at Ypres as a living and powerful force. The detail of these operations will be given in proper sequence. Festubert—Givenchy After the battle of Ypres the medical units of the 1st Division began to drift southward; No. 1 Field Ambulance by Watou to Bailleul; No. 2 by Hillhoek; No. 3 to Steen- werck. They were about to take part in the series of engagements that lasted from May 9, to 26, known as the Battle of Festubert. The 3rd Brigade was involved on the 18th, and on the following day the Division formally took over the area. Tent sections of the three ambulances operated as a single unit at Hinges. The arrangement served admirably, and won approval from the Army. The