DEVINE, JAMES ARTHUR, Major, was born
9 November 1869, son of Captain Devine, late Deputy Surveyor-General,
Ontario. He was educated at Cardinal Manning's College, West Kensington,
London, and at Trinity College, Dublin (MA, MB, BCh, BAO, MD). He served in South
Africa with the Canadian Contingents, the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles and the
2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles; was mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 18
July 1902, and on another occasion]; received the Queen's Medal with four
clasps, and was created a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order [London
Gazette, 31 October 1902]: "James Arthur Devine, Surgeon Major, 2nd Canadian
Mounted Rifles. In recognition of services during the operations in South
Africa". He became Temporary Major, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1902. Major
Devine was on the Permanent Army Medical Staff (Canada); was Principal Medical
Officer, Military Districts 10 and 11 (Manitoba, NWT, and British Columbia);
Professor of Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine, Manitoba Medical College;
Member of Council and Examiner in Materia Medica and Therapeutics and Clinical
Medicine, University of Manitoba; Physician to Winnipeg General Hospital;
Senior Physician to the Isolated Wards, St Boniface Hospital. He served in
the European War; became Temporary Major, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1915;
served at various times as OC Troops' Hospital Ships, HMH Ships St George,
Dover and Gloucester Castle. Altogether Major Devine had four years' overseas
service. He married, in 1916, Mary Hilda, eldest daughter of Henry Miles.
