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Country
  
United Kingdom

Branch
  
Royal Air Force

Allegiance
  
HM The Queen

Role
  
Medicine


Active
  
1 April 1918 - Present (following amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS))

Garrison/HQ
  
Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM) part of University Hospital Birmingham

The Royal Air Force Medical Services is the branch of the Royal Air Force that provides health care at home and on deployed operations to RAF service personnel. Medical officers are the doctors of the RAF and have specialist expertise in aviation medicine to support aircrew and their protective equipment. Medical officers also carry out Aeromedical evacuations, providing vital assistance on search-and-rescue missions or emergency relief flights worldwide.

List of Director-Generals

The head of the medical branch is titled the Director-General of Medical Services (RAF); previously, the Director-General of RAF Medical Services.

  • Major-General Richard Cleveland Munday (1917–1919); first medical director-general of the Royal Flying Corps
  • Major-General M H G Fell (7 January 1919)
  • Air Marshal Sir Geoffrey Dhenin (1974–1978)
  • Air Marshal Sir Charles Soutar (1978–1981)
  • Air Vice-Marshal Frederick Charles Hurrell (1986-1988)
  • Air Vice-Marshal C B Morris
  • Air Vice-Marshal Aroop Mozumder (2012-2015)

    • References

    RAF Medical Services Wikipedia
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