Thomas Crawford, regimental medical officer in the Crimea, 1855.

John Bathurst Thomson MD 1813-1850. An insight into the times of a regimental medical officer.

Division-based Psychiatry in Intensive War Situations

Definitions The term "division-based psychiatry" as used here includes the consulting function of the division psychiatrist, the psychiatric work performed by the battalion physician or any other professional at the battalion level, and the work of the psychiatric team in the medical battalion of the division. The equivalent in the British Army would be Regimental Medical Officer, Regimental Me...

Regimental Medical Officer Charles McKerrow: saving lives on the Western Front.

Ayrshire general practitioner Charles McKerrow was appointed regimental medical officer (RMO) to the 10th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in 1915. At this time, fundamental restructuring of the military medical service on the Western Front had two main effects: surgical capability was moved forward as close to the front as possible and specialist stretcher bearers were trained to apply emerg...

A Useful Service Book *A Handbook for Officers of the Indian Medical Service in Military Employ. Compiled by Captain H. Boulton, I.M.S., Medical Officer, 31st Punjabis. Printed at the Pioneer Press, Allahabad, 1909.

means more likely to attain the desired end. Oil page 36. " Medical officers should never | sign any letter drafted by a subordinate without | reading it through and correcting it, if necessary "?excellent advice, not only to regimental medical officers, but to all officers, of every service and of every rank. If it were always acted upon, there would be less unnecessary correspondence to worry...

Military Sanitation for Regimental Officers

Now that regimental officers are taught hygiene and that in Field Marshall Sir E. Wood's words the Army doctor is regarded as a " trusted staff officer to advise their chiefs how to guard the troops against the originating and spreading of disease," and when soldiers like Sir H. L. Smith-Dorrien write an introduction to books like this, there is hope that in future wars the British Army may be ...