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Encyclopedia > Army Medical Services Museum

The Army Medical Services Museum is located in the Defence Medical Services Training Centre, Keogh Barracks, on Mytchett Place Road, Mytchett, Surrey, England. It moved into its present building in 1982. The museum presently houses the collections of the RAMC & QARANC with some of the RAVC. The RADC collection is presently housed in another location in Aldershot and is closed to the public. Surrey is a county in southern England, one of the Home Counties. It is divided into a number of districts - Elmbridge, Epsom and Ewell, Guildford, Mole Valley, Reigate and Banstead, Runnymede, Spelthorne, Surrey Heath, Tandridge, Waverley, Woking, and borders on Hampshire, Berkshire, Greater London, Kent, East Sussex and West Sussex. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion... See also Aldershot, Ontario. ...


The collections on display include uniforms & insignia, medical, dental and veterinary equipment, ambulances, an ambulance train ward coach, a carriage used by Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War and a large medal collection including twenty three of the 29 Victoria Crosses awarded to the Army Medical Services. A young Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale (May 12, 1820 - August 13, 1910), who came to be known as The Lady With the Lamp, was the pioneer of modern nursing. ...


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army: Definition, Synonyms and Much More from Answers.com (1753 words)
A national army is usually the arm of the military service which conducts land-based warfare (for example, the United States Army, or the French Armée de Terre).
A particular army is named or numbered to distinguish it from military land forces in general—for example, the U.S. First Army and the Army of Northern Virginia.
Armies (as well as army groups and theaters) are large formations which vary significantly between armed forces in size, composition, and scope of responsibility.
Royal Army Medical Corps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (817 words)
The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all British Army personnel and their families in war and in peace.
Medical services in the British military go as far back as the formation of the Standing Regular Army after the Restoration of Charles II in 1660.
The Army was formed entirely on a regimental basis, and a MO with a Warrant Officer as his Assistant Surgeon was appointed to each regiment, which also provided a hospital.
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