Director General Army Medical Services
Director General Army Medical Services (DGAMS) is the head of the British Army's Army Medical Services. The Director General answers to the Adjutant-General.
The role of the Director General is 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
List of Directors General
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- Surgeon-General Sir William Alexander Mackinnon (1889 to 1896)[1]
- Lieutenant-General Sir Alfred Keogh (1905 to 1910)[2]
- Lieutenant-General Sir William L Gubbins (1910 to ?)[3]
- Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Sloggett (1914)[4]
- Lieutenant-General Sir Alfred Keogh (1914 to 1918)[2]
- Lieutenant-General Sir John Goodwin (1918 to 1923)[5]
- Lieutenant-General Sir William Boog Leishman (1923 to 1926)[6]
- Lieutenant General Sir William MacArthur (1938 to 1941)[7]
Post-Second World War
- Lieutenant General Sir Norman Talbot (1969 to 1973)[8]
- Lieutenant-General Sir James Baird (1973 to 1977)[9]
- Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Bradshaw (1977 to 1981)[10]
- 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)[11]
- Major General (later Lieutenant General) Sir Peter Beale (1990 to 1993)[12]
- Major General Frederick Mayes (1993 to 1996)[12]
- Major General Robin Short (1996 to 1999)[13]
- Major General (later Lieutenant General) Robert Menzies (1999 to 2000)
- Major General David Jolliffe (2000 to 2003)[14]
- 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)[15]
- Major General Ewan Carmichael (2012 to present)[16]
References
- ↑ Sir William Alexander Mackinnon. University of Glasgow
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Harrison, Mark (October 2008). "Keogh, Sir Alfred (1857–1936)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
- ↑ "Reflections". British Journal of Nursing 44: 236. 19 March 1910. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 28836. p. 4382. 2 June 1914. Retrieved 07 February 2014.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 44822. p. 3687. 3 April 1969. Retrieved 2012-10-05.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "BEALE, Lt-Gen. Sir Peter (John)". Who's Who 2012. A & C Black. December 2011.
- ↑ "Major General Robin Short". Biographies. Integrated Medical Systems. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 55756. p. 1334. 8 February 2000. Retrieved 2012-10-15.
- ↑ "von BERTELE, Maj. Gen. Michael James". Who's Who 2012. A & C Black. December 2011.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60255. p. 16942. 4 September 2012. Retrieved 2012-10-17.