New Year recognition for military medical specialists

on Jan 06 tagged by admin

The 2012 New Year Honours brought yet more recognition for the work of the military and of military medical personnel in particular.

119 military personnel received awards in the New Year Honours List, including a number of military medical specialists.

The Royal Army Medical Corps and Territorial Army medics were particularly well represented in this year’s New Year Honours, with a senior Naval medical officer also featuring prominently in the awards.

Medical personnel who were honoured include Surgeon Rear Admiral Lionel John Jarvis QHS who received the CBE, while OBEs went to Colonel Mark Byers of the Royal Army Medical Corps and Colonel Jane Elizabeth Davis QVRM TD DL of Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps, Territorial Army.

Other recipients include Lieutenant Colonel Richard John Sydney Reid, TD, Royal Army Medical Corps who received the MBE; Major Helen Purvis of Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps, Territorial Army, who received the Royal Red Cross, Second Class, and Lieutenant Colonel Iain David Levack, TD, Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Army, who received the Queen’s Volunteer Reserves Medal.

The recipients will formally receive their awards from the Queen at a presentation ceremony to take place later in the year.