. The Varsity war supplement 1917. tyof Medicine are onactive service ofwhom it is impossi-ble to secure defin-ite information. Inaddition to thesesome two hundredand twenty grad-uates and under-graduates who werein college when Warwas delcared wentoverseas as soon astheir course wascompleted, and dur-ing the last threeyears there hasbeen a steadystream of men leav-ing the college to join various active service units, both combatant and med-ical. In the first academic year many members of theMedical Faculty joined the 25th and 26th Batteries, ;No. 2 Casualty Clearing Station; No. 5 Field
. The Varsity war supplement 1917. tyof Medicine are onactive service ofwhom it is impossi-ble to secure defin-ite information. Inaddition to thesesome two hundredand twenty grad-uates and under-graduates who werein college when Warwas delcared wentoverseas as soon astheir course wascompleted, and dur-ing the last threeyears there hasbeen a steadystream of men leav-ing the college to join various active service units, both combatant and med-ical. In the first academic year many members of theMedical Faculty joined the 25th and 26th Batteries, ;No. 2 Casualty Clearing Station; No. 5 Field Ambulanceand especially No. 4 General Hospital, (University ofToronto.) For the latter unit forty three officers weredrawn from the members of the Faculty of Medicine,under the leadership of Colonel J. A. Roberts. The MedicalFaculty has been closely identified with No. 4 GeneralHospital and the articles on the Hospital and also on theConnaught Laboratories must be read in conjunction with thisbrief account of the Medical played their part, but a few instances must bedetailed: \ General Fotheringham was specially honouredbyTthe King on more than one occasion, and haswon a high place in the Army. Colonel Roberts,Colonel W. B. Hendry, Colonel Amyot andColonel Rudolf have brought glory to the Univer-sity, and Major Duncan Graham has been specially successfulin the field of Science. However so many instances of distinctionhave been reported that the University feels that its medicalsons have lived up to the traditions of their Alma Mater. In an account of the operations of No. 4 General HospitalUniversity of Toronto, are detailed a few of the events ofinterest. Colonel Primrose, Colonel Cameron and ColonelBruce are honoured by being made consultants, the formerin the , and the latter in the It is asimple matter to overlook names when so many are playingtheir part so well—hence a general statement is all that ispossible.
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