Manual for the Medical Staff Corps. War Office, 1885.

Date:
1885
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Credit: Manual for the Medical Staff Corps. War Office, 1885. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    The Medical Staff Corps. Part I. the Director-General, and will perform all such duties in connection with the corps as are necessarily required at headquarters. 14. (273.) Quartermasters of the Medical Staff, and war- rant officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of the Medical Staff Corps, will be detailed by him for districts - and stations under orders from the Director-General. 15. (274.) The records of the entire corps, including those of the Reserve, will be kept by him at the office of the Director-General. 16. (275.) He will be furnished with certified extracts on Army Form A 10 of the proceedings of general and district courts-martial held on men of the corps at the several stations, also of field, general, and summary courts- martial on active service ; and with the originals (Army Form B 297) of regimental courts-martial. The officer in command of the detachment will be held responsible for the transmission of these documents to the head- quarters of the corps. 17. (276.) He will have command of the 1st Class Army Reserve of the Medical Staff Corps, as regards absence, discharge, and for all purposes of medical inspection, training, and mobilization. 18. (277.) In accordance with Section XXII, paragraph 1, Queen’s Regulations and Orders for the Army, 1883, the following books will be kept by him at headquarters of the corps :— Permanent order book (A.B. 82). Record of quartermaster’s services (A.B. 83). Portfolios of original attestations (A.B. 234). Casualty book (A.B. 156). Register of furloughs (A.B. 86). Register of marriages and baptisms (A.B. 91). Register of certificates of education (A.B. 13). Seniority rolls of warrant and non-commissioned officers, and of privates qualified for promotion. Register of Privates classified as 1st and 2nd class orderlies. Nominal and descriptive list of men transferred to Army Reserve (A.B. 249). General defaulters’ books (special). III.—PAYMASTER. 19. (278.) The Paymaster of the corps is an officer of the Army Pay Department ; all advances of cash to quarter-