Director General Army Medical Services
Director General Army Medical Services (DGAMS) was the head of the British Army's Army Medical Services. The Director General answers to the Adjutant-General.
The role of the Director General was to promote effective medical, dental and veterinary health services for the Army and provide a policy focus for individual medical training, doctrine and force development.
To Ensure that the Land Component Health and Veterinary Services Provided for Defence Capability are Fully Effective
— DGAMS Mission Statement
The post was disestablished after 2016 [1].
List of Directors General
- Surgeon-General Sir William Alexander Mackinnon (1889 to 1896)[2]
- Surgeon-General Sir William Taylor[3]
- Lieutenant-General Sir Alfred Keogh (1905 to 1910)[4]
- Lieutenant-General Sir William L Gubbins (1910 to ?)[5]
- Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Sloggett (1914)[6]
- Lieutenant-General Sir Alfred Keogh (1914 to 1918);[4] second term
- Lieutenant-General Sir John Goodwin (1918 to 1923)[7]
- Lieutenant-General Sir William Boog Leishman (1923 to 1926)[8]
- Lieutenant General Sir William MacArthur (1938 to 1941)[9]
- Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Hood (August 1941 to 1948)[10]
Post-Second World War
- Lieutenant General Sir Norman Talbot (1969 to 1973)[11]
- Lieutenant-General Sir James Baird (1973 to 1977)[12]
- Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Bradshaw (1977 to 1981)[13]
- Lieutenant General Sir Alan Reay (1981 to 1984)
- Lieutenant General Sir Cameron Moffat (1984 to 1988) First Surgeon General Defence Medical Services
- Major General Anthony Shaw (1988 to 1990)[14]
- Major General (later Lieutenant General) Sir Peter Beale (1990 to 1993)[15]
- Major General Brian Mayes (1993 to 1996)[15]
- Major General Robin Short (1996 to 1999)[16]
- Major General (later Lieutenant General) Robert Menzies (1999 to 2000)
- Major General David Jolliffe (2000 to 2003)[17]
- Major General (later Lieutenant General) Louis Lillywhite (2003 to 2004)
- Major General Alan Hawley (2005 to 2009)
- Major General Michael von Bertele (2009 to 2012)[18]
- Major General Ewan Carmichael (2012 to 2014)[19]
- Major General Jeremy Rowan (2014 to 2016)
References
- Information on the de-establishment of Director Army Medical Services position
- Sir William Alexander Mackinnon. University of Glasgow
- Hart´s army list, 1903
- Harrison, Mark (October 2008). "Keogh, Sir Alfred (1857–1936)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34296. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
- "Reflections" (PDF). British Journal of Nursing. 44: 236. 19 March 1910. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
- "No. 28836". The London Gazette. 2 June 1914. p. 4382.
- Paul D. Wilson, Goodwin, Sir Thomas Herbert John Chapman (1871–1960), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, Melbourne University Press, 1983, pp 49–50.
- "Obituary Notices of Fellows Deceased-William Boog Leishman". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The Royal Society. 102 (720): i–xxvii. 2 April 1928. doi:10.1098/rspb.1928.0019. JSTOR 81250.
- "MACARTHUR, Sir William Porter (1884–1964), Lieutenant General". Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives. King's College Londo. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
- Bennett, John D.C. (2004). "Hood, Sir Alexander (1888–1980)". Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/57375. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
- "No. 44822". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 April 1969. p. 3687.
- "Obituary – Lt Gen Sir James Baird KBE". The Dulwich Society. 11 August 2008. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
- "Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Bradshaw; Memorial service". The Times. 17 November 1999. p. 24.
- "SHAW, Maj.-Gen. Anthony John". Who's Who 2013. A & C Black. November 2012. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
- "BEALE, Lt-Gen. Sir Peter (John)". Who's Who 2012. A & C Black. December 2011. Missing or empty
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- "No. 55756". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 February 2000. p. 1334.
- "von BERTELE, Maj. Gen. Michael James". Who's Who 2012. A & C Black. December 2011. Missing or empty
|url=(help) - "No. 60255". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 September 2012. p. 16942.
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