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6 Medical Battalion Group (6 Med Bn Gp or 6 Med) is a Medical Battalion in the South African Military Health Service (SAMHS), part of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.dod.mil.za/documents/acts/new%20defence%20act%2042%20of%202002.pdf )〕 As a reserve unit, it has a status roughly equivalent to that of a British Army Reserve or United States Army National Guard unit. It is based in Kempton Park in Gauteng, South Africa. == Background to Military Medical Support in the Transvaal == During the Second Boer War (1889 – 1902), and prior to that time period, there was no organised military medical units within the Boer structures. Hospitals were established however, and medical duties were performed by personnel from European countries. After the hostilities, it was decided to form a new Transvaal Medical Volunteer Staff Corps, under the leadership of Lt Col D.W. Johnston of Johannesburg. Prior to 1903, the only Military Medical unit on the Witwatersrand was a medical section of the Rand Rifles,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Anglo Boer War website - Rand Rifles )〕 and it is probable that the Transvaal Volunteer Medical Staff Corps arose out of this medical section. The Unit was formally established on 20 March 1903, consisting of 4 companies and totaled 400 men. A further expansion of the Medical Staff Corps to 5 companies, and the establishment of a Nursing Sister’s Reserve consisting of one Matron and 20 Nursing Sisters took place in 1904. These nurses undertook to make themselves available in war and emergency situations to care for the wounded. Members were armed for their own protection and that of their patients. As a result, rifle drills and drill movements similar to those practised by the infantry received a lot of attention. The first Sisters to be appointed were Miss M.N. Carston and Miss E.M. Devenish. This unit served in the Natal Zulu strikes (1906 Natal Native Rebellion), the Johannesburg strikes, South West Africa, East Africa, Madagascar and Italy. In 1907, a mounted section and a cyclist section was authorised and the total strength reduced to 300 men. On 1 July 1907, the unit changed its name to the Transvaal Medical Corps. It became “''Die eerste Veldambulans van die Zuid Afrikaanse Geneeskundige Dienste''” (The first Field Ambulance of the Zuid Afrikaanse Medical Services). In 1908, a Matron, Miss Margaret Patterson, was appointed. The volunteer organisation continued until 1912 when the Union Defence Act came into force, and a Medical Citizen Force was officially recognised and established by publication in the Government Gazette on 9 October 1913, with the Transvaal Medical Corp being disbanded and the new unit being named after embodiment as 1st Field Ambulance (Transvaal) South African Medical Corps.〔http://www.scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/download/618/622〕 In June 1913, 1 Field Ambulance (Tvl) was mobilised to assist with the Civil Disturbances and rendered first aid from the Drill Hall in Johannesburg.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Drill Hall - Historical Snippets (quoting Col D.R. Smitherman OBE ED) )〕 In 1914 it was mobilised again for Civil Disturbances and established a 50 bed hospital in the Wanderers Club building in Johannesburg. The 1 Field Ambulance SAMC (Tvl) (not to be confused with 1 SA Field Ambulance) was under command of Major J. Pratt-Jones, served in the First Great War and took part in the German South-West Africa Campaign, with the forces that operated from Luderitz under Gen Sir Duncan MacKenzie. In 1926, the Government awarded Campaign Honours "The Great War - SW Africa 1914-1915 to 1 Field Ambulance SAMC (Tvl). During World War II, 10 Field Ambulance Unit was established in 1940. This unit served in North Africa during the war in Egypt. Afterwards, 11 Field Ambulance was established and served at El Alamein. This unit was dismantled in 1945 and grouped into two battalions. On 1 July 1979, the South African Medical Corps (SAMC), until that time a Corps of the Army, became the South African Medical Service (SAMS), the fourth arm of the South African Defence Force (SADF). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「6 Medical Battalion Group」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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