Director General Army Medical Services

Director General Army Medical Services (DGAMS) is the head of the British Army's Army Medical Services. The Director General answers to the Adjutant-General.

The role of the Director General is to promote effective medical, dental and veterinary health services for the Army and provide a policy focus for individual medical training, doctrine and force development.

To Ensure that the Land Component Health and Veterinary Services Provided for Defence Capability are Fully Effective

— DGAMS Mission Statement

The current DGAMS is Major General Jeremy Rowan.

List of Directors General

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• Surgeon-General Sir William Alexander Mackinnon (1889 to 1896)^[1]
• Lieutenant-General Sir Alfred Keogh (1905 to 1910)^[2]
• Lieutenant-General Sir William L Gubbins (1910 to ?)^[3]
• Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Sloggett (1914)^[4]
• Lieutenant-General Sir Alfred Keogh (1914 to 1918)^[2]
• Lieutenant-General Sir John Goodwin (1918 to 1923)^[5]
• Lieutenant-General Sir William Boog Leishman (1923 to 1926)^[6]
• Lieutenant General Sir William MacArthur (1938 to 1941)^[7]
• Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Hood (August 1941 to 1948)^[8]

Post-Second World War

• Lieutenant General Sir Norman Talbot (1969 to 1973)^[9]
• Lieutenant-General Sir James Baird (1973 to 1977)^[10]
• Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Bradshaw (1977 to 1981)^[11]
• Lieutenant General Sir Alan Reay (1981 to 1984)
• Lieutenant General Sir Cameron Moffat (1984 to 1988) First Surgeon General Defence Medical Services
• Major General Anthony Shaw (1988 to 1990)^[12]
• Major General (later Lieutenant General) Sir Peter Beale (1990 to 1993)^[13]
• Major General Frederick Mayes (1993 to 1996)^[13]
• Major General Robin Short (1996 to 1999)^[14]
• Major General (later Lieutenant General) Robert Menzies (1999 to 2000)
• Major General David Jolliffe (2000 to 2003)^[15]
• Major General (later Lieutenant General) Louis Lillywhite (2003 to 2004)
• Major General Alan Hawley (2005 to 2009)
• Major General Michael von Bertele (2009 to 2012)^[16]
• Major General Ewan Carmichael (2012 to 2014)^[17]
• Major General Jeremy Rowan (2014 to present)

References

1. Sir William Alexander Mackinnon. University of Glasgow
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