Talk:Royal Army Medical Corps

Regimental motto
Some translations give Faithful in Adversity; as a RAMC soldier it was "drummed" into us as recruits while learning Corps history that the motto was "Steadfast in adversity". That came from the depot RSM, whose position made him the senior RSM in the Corps. I've therefore taken his transliteration as being the more reliable.82.10.32.245 10:36, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

VC Holders
More info required please if any wikipedians have it. Dates/campaigns? The list appears incomplete, and I believe it represents only those VCs held by the regimental museum82.10.33.124 11:51, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Have added a couple more, and formatted links to each holder, so no need for campaign details. But I think the list is still missing 2 names. 82.10.32.103 10:53, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
 * ✅ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jim Sweeney (talk • contribs)
 * The confusion comes from the "Netley VC" which the museum holds, which was never gazetted, but is included in their figures. People assume it was awarded to a soldier, it wasn't, it was buried in the foundations of Netley Hospital. Also, I believe that the bars are included in the recipients total, and no list of recipients by unit can be definitive as some units claim recipients who were attached to them. As far as I am aware, and per the source, it now seems to be comprehensive. Woody (talk) 19:41, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
 * From a quick look at TNA's register there are six further medical staff who were awarded the VC but who were members of (British) Indian, Canadian or Australian medical units. Henry John Andrews, Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson, Neville Howse, Arthur Fitzgibbon (for some reason the article is under Andrew Fitzgibbon??), Harry Frederick Whitchurch and John Crimmin.  However the most likely explanation for the discrepancy is the two bars warded to medics.  David Underdown (talk) 09:38, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

It's an impressive list of heroic people, but is this the right place for it? - it does dominate the article. I suggest it be either promoted into an article in its own right, or reformatted to take up just 27 lines of text. Deipnosophista (talk) 09:20, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Other points
I have amended the info on the cap badge backing. Jfbcubed 22:05, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

how are the ranks set up?
Dos a docter in this hold a major rank or a corpal or what? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.71.78.253 (talk) 22:53, 1 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Doctors are always officers, but not all officers are doctors, some are nurses and what could be termed administrators. They progress up the ranks more or less the same as in other branches of the military but also have to progress medically to attain the higher ranks. (registrar, consultant) Jim Sweeney (talk) 06:59, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Badge colours
Are the colours of the badge in the illustration accurate? Have they changed over time? Most WW1 era colour versions I can see online have the snake in green (or perhaps yellow). A red snake rarely appears, though in some cases the badge is given a red background. Are the colours specified? Cyclopaedic (talk) 17:19, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

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