With the Royal Army Medical Corps (R. A. M. C.) at the front / by E. Charles Vivian.

  • Vivian, Evelyn Charles, 1882-1947.
Date:
1914
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Credit: With the Royal Army Medical Corps (R. A. M. C.) at the front / by E. Charles Vivian. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and passed as such are known as “ Queen Alexandra’s Staff” men. The total number of matrons, nursing sisters, and staff nurses of the Imperial Military Nursing Service at the outbreak of the war was about 300, dis- tributed among the large military hospitals at home, and in Mediterranean stations, South Africa, and Egypt. Except in the matter of commissioned officers of the R. A. M. C., the Army in India is independent of the British medical service, and must be con- sidered separately. As regards the Queen Alexandra’s staff of nurses, a reserve has been recently formed to supplement the regular service in time of war, in addition to numerous voluntary organisations which work under the control of the Red Cross Society. Although the system of attaching a medical officer to each cavalry regiment, artillery brigade, and infantry battalion in time of peace has been abandoned in favour of a definite hospital staff to each station, in time of war each unit of each arm has a medical officer of the R. A. M. C. attached to it, with a cart carrying full medical equip-