Royal Canadian Army Veterinary Corps

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The Royal Canadian Army Veterinary Corps (RCAVC) was an

The Canadian Army Permanent Veterinary Corps was founded in 1910. The Canadian Army Permanent Veterinary Corps was redesignated the Royal Canadian Army Veterinary Corps on 3 Nov 1919. The Royal Canadian Army Veterinary Corps was redesignated The Royal Canadian Army Veterinary Corps on 17 Jul 1936. The Royal Canadian Army Veterinary Corps was disbanded on 2 Nov 1940.[3]^[4]

The cap badge of the RCAVC was similar to that of Britain's Royal Army Veterinary Corps, but featured a larger figure of Chiron in a wreath of maple leaves surmounted by a Tudor crown, with the letters RCAVC on the ribbon.

History

Until 1910 veterinarians in the Canadian Army were part of the old regimental system. Most veterinarians held a commission in the active militia and left private practice for 10–15 days a year to serve with his regiment. There was only a small number of permanently employed regimental veterinary officers.

In 1910 the Canadian Army Veterinary Service, under the Quartermaster-General of the Canadian Militia, came into existence and had three branches: the Canadian Permanent Army Veterinary Corps (CPAVC), the Canadian Army Veterinary Corps (CAVC) and the Regimental Veterinary Service, which was being phased out. By the outbreak of war in 1914, the Regimental Veterinary Service had ceased to exist, the CPAVC was still incomplete, so the majority of veterinarians and other ranks were found in the CAVC.

The CAVC was organized into seven Sections, though only two,

In 1919 the CPAVC was reconstituted as the Royal Canadian Army Veterinary Corps. In 1940, the RCAVC was disbanded by the Privy Council and the recommendation of the Treasury Board, in order to save $10,334.^[5]

Prominent Members

Captain

Related units

This unit was allied with the following:

• Royal Army Veterinary Corps

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Canadian Army Veterinary Corps.

• The Case for Reactivating the Royal Canadian Army Veterinary Corps (RCAVC)
• History of Veterinary Medicine-The Canadian Encyclopedia
• The Royal Canadian Army Veterinary Corps - canadiansoldiers.com
• The Story of the Real ‘Winnie the Bear’ - History to the People
• Lt. Harry Colebourn And Winnie-the-Bear - THE FORT GARRY HORSE

Further reading

• Shushkewich, V. (2005). The Real Winnie: A One-of-a-Kind Bear. Dundurn.
• Stortz, G. J. (1982). A Canadian Veterinarian Overseas in the First World War. The Canadian Veterinary Journal, 23(6), 183–186.