The domain of military medicine has traditionally encompassed the disciplines of high-energy trauma management, tropical medicine, the management of the epidemic diseases of the Army and Navy and the ethos of preventive medicine. In the Australian Defence Force, unlike responsibilities undertaken by Service doctors in the United States, paediatrics and child care has not held… Read more »
ABSTRACT THE ICONOGRAPHY OF JOHN KIRKPATRICK (1892-1915), Private John Simpson (No. 202 of the Australian Army Medical Corps) and “Simpson” of the Australian Nation, continues to expand. Australia’s most famous soldier, he is one of only two servicemen to have been commemorated both on the Nation’s coins and stamps. Colonel Edward “Weary” Dunlop was the… Read more »
ABSTRACT In the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915, doctor-soldiers, stretcher-bearers and medical corpsmen of both the Allied and the Turkish armies scrupulously followed both the letter and the spirit of the Geneva Conventions. In spite of their non-combatant roles within the imposts of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, under whose emblems they serviced, medical… Read more »
