Harry Merville Jacques

Colonel H.M. Jacques DSO, MD (12 November 1873 – 5 March 1956) was the 8th Canadian Surgeon General.

Jacques joined the Non-Permanent 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 WWI, he was Taken on Strength 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 5 March 1956 at the age of 83.

References

  1. ↑ "Jacques, Harry Merville". ancestry.ca. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
  2. ↑ "Service Files of the First World War: 1914-1918 - CEF". http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng''. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Supplement to the London Gazette". The London Gazette (29824): 11043. 1916. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
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