Colonel Harry Merville Jacques DSO, MD (12 November 1873 – 5 March 1956) was the 8th Canadian Surgeon General.
Biography
editJacques joined the Non-Permanent Active Militia as a Lieutenant with the 68th (King's County) Regiment in 1905, and the following year joined the Permanent Active Militia Medical Corps (PAMC).[1]
With the outbreak of World War I, he was Taken on Strength of the CEF in 1915,[2] and was sent overseas with 2nd Division, PAMC. The following year, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order "for his conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty."[3] In particular, he was noted as having "supervised the clearing of the front and [controlling] the work of the advanced and main dressing stations with great skill and personal courage."[3]
Colonel Jacques died on March 5, 1956, at the age of 83.
References
edit- ^ "Jacques, Harry Merville". ancestry.ca. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
- ^ "Service Files of the First World War: 1914-1918 - CEF". bac-lac.gc.ca/eng. Retrieved 11 May 2015.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b "Supplement to the London Gazette". The London Gazette (29824): 11043. 1916. Retrieved 11 May 2015.