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RAF Medical Branch
The Royal Air Force Medical Services is the branch of the Royal Air Force that provides health care at home and on deployed operations to RAF service personnel. Medical officers are the doctors of the RAF and have specialist expertise in aviation medicine to support aircrew and their protective equipment. Medical officers also carry out Aeromedical evacuations, providing vital assistance on search-and-rescue missions or emergency relief flights worldwide. Personnel and training The Royal Air Force Medical Services employs servicemembers trained only by the RAF, as well as professionals trained by the NHS such as doctors and nurses. Both officers and aircrew are present within the Medical Services. Roles requiring specialist degrees such as Medical Officers (Doctors), Nursing Officers, and Dental Officers (Dentists), as well as roles not requiring specialists degrees such as Medical Support Officers, are all commissioned, with most (except general Medical Support Officer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). Following the Allied victory over the Central Powers in 1918, the RAF emerged as the largest air force in the world at the time. Since its formation, the RAF has taken a significant role in British military history. In particular, it played a large part in the Second World War where it fought its most famous campaign, the Battle of Britain. The RAF's mission is to support the objectives of the British Ministry of Defence (MOD), which are to "provide the capabilities needed to ensure the security and defence of the United Kingdom and overseas territories, including against terrorism; to support the Government's foreign policy objectives particularly in promoting international peace and security". The RAF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aeromedical Evacuation
Aeromedical evacuation (AE) usually refers to the use of military transport aircraft to carry wounded personnel. The first recorded British ambulance flight took place in 1917 in the Sinai peninsula some 30 miles south of El Arish when a Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2c flew out a soldier in the Imperial Camel Corps who had been shot in the ankle during the raid on Bir el Hassana. The flight took 45 minutes; the same journey by land would have taken some 3 days. In the 1920s several aeromedical services, both official and unofficial, started up in various parts of the world. Aircraft were still primitive at the time, with limited capabilities, and the efforts received mixed reviews. Development of the idea continued. France and the United Kingdom used fully organized aeromedical evacuation services during the African and Middle Eastern colonial wars of the 1920s. In 1920, the British, while suppressing the " Mad Mullah" in Somaliland, used an Airco DH.9A fitted out as an air ambul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Baird (RAF Officer)
Air Marshal Sir John Alexander Baird, (25 July 1937 – 12 November 2020) was a British physician and a retired Royal Air Force medical officer who served as Surgeon-General of the British Armed Forces from 1997 to 2000. Baird was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1999 Birthday Honours. He was appointed Commander of the Order of St John (CStJ) in 1997 Honour Ribbons: *: Order of the British Empire (KBE) *: Venerable Order of St John The Order of St John, short for Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (french: l'ordre très vénérable de l'Hôpital de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem) and also known as St John International, is a British royal order of c .... (CStJ) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Baird, John Surgeons-General of the British Armed Forces Royal Air Force air marshals Royal Air Force Medical Service officers Deputy Lieutenants of Cambridgeshire Fellows of the Royal Aeronautical Soci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surgeon-General (United Kingdom)
The Surgeon-General of the United Kingdom Armed Forces is the most senior uniformed medical officer in the British Armed Forces. Army The post of Surgeon-General dates from 1664; there was also, from 1685, a Physician-General appointed; together, they directed the Army's medical services. These offices lapsed following the establishment of the Army Medical Department in 1810; but in 1874, the title of surgeon-general was reinstated as the highest rank for military medical officers. The rank of deputy surgeon-general was also introduced, although it was redesignated surgeon-colonel from 7 August 1891. In 1918, surgeon-general was redesignated as the standard Army rank of major-general, except for the most senior surgeon-general, who was redesignated a lieutenant-general. Defence Medical Services Latterly, the role was described as "professional head of Defence Medical Services and the Defence Authority for end to end Defence healthcare and medical operational capability". It had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Mills (RAF Officer)
Air Marshal Sir Nigel Holroyd Mills, (12 November 1932 – 18 October 1991) was a British military doctor. Career Mills was the son of Air Chief Marshal Sir George Mills. He was educated at Berkhamsted School and Middlesex Hospital Medical School Middlesex Hospital was a teaching hospital located in the Fitzrovia area of London, England. First opened as the Middlesex Infirmary in 1745 on Windmill Street, it was moved in 1757 to Mortimer Street where it remained until it was finally clos .... He was Director General Medical Services (Royal Air Force) from 1987 to 1990 and Surgeon General from 1990 to 1991. References External links RCP London, Lives of the Fellows: Sir Nigel Holroyd Mills {{DEFAULTSORT:Mills, Nigel People educated at Berkhamsted School Royal Air Force air marshals Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal College of General Practitioners 1932 births 1991 deaths Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Charles Hurrell
Air Vice Marshal Frederick "Freddie" Charles Hurrell, (24 April 1928 – 3 October 2008) was a senior medical officer in the Royal Air Force who spent his 35-year military career in aviation medicine and served as Director-General of the RAF Medical Services from 1986 to 1988. Early years Hurrell was born in the Lady Ozanne Maternity Hospital in Guernsey in 1928, the son of Alexander John Hurrell (1884–1933), a British Army officer, and a Spanish mother, Maria Del Carmen Bierma Cordero (1887–1968). His father died in 1933 and from the age of eight Hurrell was educated at the Royal Masonic School for Boys in Bushey in Hertfordshire where he enjoyed various sports and played rugby for England Schoolboys against Scotland and Wales Schoolboys.Obituary for Air Vice-Marshal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Soutar
Air Marshal Sir Charles John Williamson Soutar, (12 June 1920 – 15 July 2016) was a British medical doctor and Royal Air Force officer. He served as Director General of RAF Medical Services from 1978 to 1981. Charles John Williamson Soutar was born on 12 June 1920 in the English town of Ilford in the county of Essex. As a boy he attended the Brentwood School before going on to train to be a doctor at the London Hospital Medical School. Soutar joined the Royal Air Force in May 1946, and was appointed to a commission as a flight lieutenant in the Medical Branch on 6 January 1948. During his service career he was Principal Medical Officer at Middle East Command 1967-68 (seeing active service during the Aden Emergency), Deputy Director of Medical Organisation 1968-70, Officer Commanding hospital at RAF Halton 1970-73, Commandant of the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine The Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine was a Royal Air Force aviation medicine research un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Dhenin
Air Marshal Sir Geoffrey Howard Dhenin, (2 April 1918 – 6 May 2011) was a British physician and senior Royal Air Force officer. From 1974 to 1978, he served as Director General of the RAF Medical Services. Early life and education Dhenin was born on 4 April 1918, three days after the formation of the Royal Air Force, in Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales. He was educated at Hereford Cathedral School, then an all-boys grammar school in Hereford, Herefordshire. Having won a scholarship, he studied Natural Sciences at St John's College, Cambridge. He then continued his studies at Guy's Hospital Medical School, and qualified as a medical doctor. In the 1950s, Dhenin undertook research for a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree at the University of Cambridge. His doctoral thesis was titled "Radiation hazards in aviation", and was completed in 1956. Military career On 11 February 1943, Dhenin was commissioned into the Medical Branch of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve as a flying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Richard Carlyle Nelson
Air marshal, Air Marshal Sir Richard Carlyle Nelson, (November 13, 1907 – November 5, 2001) was a Canadian-born senior Royal Air Force officer who acted as Director-General of the RAF Medical Services from 1962 to 1967 and Honorary Physician to the Queen from 1961 until 1967. Biography Nelson was born in Ponoka, Alberta, Canada, on November 13, 1907 to Marcus Nelson and Jane Amelia Cartwright. He graduated from the University of Alberta with his MD and, In the 1930s, moved to the UK, where in 1934, he joined the Royal Air Force, RAF. When Nelson retired from the royal air force in 1967, he held the rank of air marshal. Military service Nelson joined the RAF in 1934 as a flying officer, Flying Officer. In 1936 he was promoted to the rank of Flight lieutenant, Flight Lieutenant which he held until 1940. When the RAF established a field hospital at Fuka in the Western Desert, he was the senior medical Flight Lieutenant in the Middle East and was appointed to command it. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Livingston (RAF Officer)
Air Marshal Sir Philip Clermont Livingston, (2 March 1893 − 12 February 1982) was a physician, aviator, and a senior officer in the Royal Air Force who served as Director-General RAF Medical Services from 1948 to 1951. Early life and education Livingston was born in Cowichan, Vancouver Island, Canada. He was the son of Clermont Livingston (1850–1907) and his second wife Mary Ann née Jarvis (1854–1935). He went to the United Kingdom after the death of his father and gained his Bachelor of Medicine at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he also gained a rowing blue in 1914. After university he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and served from 1914–19 as a surgeon probationer. In 1919 he joined the Medical Branch of the newly formed Royal Air Force (RAF) and continued his medical qualifications in public health, surgery and ophthalmology. RAF career In 1929 Livingston was posted by the RAF to Iraq as a General Surgeon. He worked at the Baghdad Eye Hospital and gained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Munro (physician)
Air Vice-Marshal Sir David Munro (23 June 18788 November 1952) was a Scottish physician, senior Royal Air Force officer, and later Rector of the University of St Andrews. As Director of the Royal Air Force Medical Service, he pointed out in 1925 that the speed of air travel from countries where infections were endemic to susceptible countries required consideration by public health administration. Prior to this role, he was in the Indian Medical Service. He served as Rector of St Andrews University from 1938 to 1946 the longest to have served in this role due to there being no elections during World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin .... References 1878 births 1952 deaths Alumni of the University of Edinburgh 20th-century British medical doctor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medical Support Officer
{{unsourced, date=December 2021 The term Medical Support Officer is the name given to Commissioned Officers within the British Army The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...'s Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC). General background The main role of the RAMC is to provide healthcare to the British Army in barracks and on operations, however leadership, command and control functions within the Corps are undertaken principally by Medical Support Officers. Professionally Qualified Officers (PQOs) within the RAMC, such as doctors, are in the Army to use their professional skills and as such are critical to the delivery of medical treatment. Leadership functions however rest with those officers who have gained a Commission either from attending the full Commissioning Course at the R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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