Good Afternoon Everyone.......
I am looking for the WW1 Trio for Charles Stanley McVicar who's service is shown below.......
I have his QSA to 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles and the Silver Medical Honours Medal as mentioned as well.....
Mike
Life's work of Charles Stanley McVicar
1880 - 1929
From Library and Archives Canada:
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"Charles Stanley McVicar was born April 5, 1880, in MacGillivray township, Middlesex County, Ontario.
He was educated in the public and high schools in Ailsa and Parkhill.
At the age of nineteen he enlisted with the Canadian forces for service in South Africa, and served two years with the 2 nd Canadian Mounted Rifles (listed in the Archives as Strathcona Horse Regiment). On his return to Canada he entered the Western Medical College, London, Ont. where he studied for two years from 1902 to 1904. The last two years of his medical course were taken at Toronto University, where he was graduated as Silver Medalist in 1907. He served eighteen months as intern at the Sick Children's Hospital, New York. On completion of his hospital training he engaged in practice in Toronto and was associated with the teaching staff of his Alma Mater.
During the First World War Dr. McVicar again served with the Canadian Forces, this time in Salonika, Greece, where he was mentioned in dispatches for distinguished service, March 29, 1917, by General Milne. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and served as Chief of Medicine in the Orpington General Hospital, England. From here he was recalled to Toronto to take charge of the Christie Street Orthopedic Hospital which was the central orthopedic institution of the Canadian Army. Dr. McVicar visited The Mayo Clinic during autumn of 1920 at which time he was invited to join the staff of this institution. He came to Rochester with his family in January 1921 and became a member of the medical staff. His interest was largely in the field of gastro-enterology. Owing to his outstanding ability, personality and industry he was soon made head of a section in gastro-enterology and Associate Professor of Medicine, The Mayo Foundation Graduate School of the University of Minnesota. He made several contributions to our knowledge of diseases in the gastro-intestinal tract and liver, in part due to his interest in the borderline between medicine and surgery in these diseases. In 1912, he married Miss Mary Gillies of St. Marys, Ontario, who together with his son George and daughter Jeanette survives him. Dr. Charles Stanley McVicar of the staff of the Mayo Clinic died June 29, 1929 at Winona. Supplement of The Clinic Bulletin, Vol. 10, University of Minnesota, Rochester, Vol. 10, No. 285, July 2, 1929."
TORONTO, June 30.—Word reached here today of the sudden death on the golf links at Rochester, Minn., of Lieut. Col. Charles Stanley MacVicar, veteran of the South African and World wars. He had been a physician at the Mayo Clinic since 1921. He was noted for his military organization abilities, as well as his standing in the Canadian medical profession.[/size]
