US Army School of Nursing - Taps Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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MAJOR GENERAL MERRITTE W. IRELAND Surgeon General, U. S. Army 1923 [4]

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I Aon, T 1:0 Colonel James; B. lennan tubenW of tije tla i of 1923 of fje rmp cfjool of ur£iins IBttmtt W )ii P00 ©0 Colonel (glcnnan, our tommanbing officer, tne offer tf)tB bolume to txptesi, in part, tfje appreciation toe so feeenlp feel. 1923 13]

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aQ.a Mtvxittt Wthtv Srelanb jERRITTE ' . IRELAND, Sursjeoii General, U. S. Army, was 1)orn at Columbia, Indiana, ? Iay 31st. 1867. He received t he M. D. Degree from Detroit College of Medicine in 1890. and from Jefiferson Medical College in 1891. In that year he was appointed Assistant Surgeon. U. S. Army, with the rank of T ' irst Lieutenant, r roni that time he saw service as Captain, Major, Lieutenant Colonel. Colonel, and I ' .rigadier (.ieneral, and finally was ajjpointed to the grade of Major General in August, 1918. In Octol er of 1918 General Ireland was a])pointed Surgeon General of the Army. In his Army career General Ireland had service at various Western stations, in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. in the Philijjpines twice, once during the Philippine Insurrection, at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and with the Ameri- can E.xpeditionary Forces where he was Assistant to the Chief Surgeon of those forces until May, l ' )18, when he was appointed Chief Surgeon, a position he held until his return to the I ' niled States to become Surgeon General in ( ctober, 1918. General Ireland has received the Distinguished Service Medal, the French Medaille des Epideniies, the French decoration, Commandeur, Legion d ' Honnetir ; the British decoration. Companion. Order of the Bath ; and the Red Cross .Silver ] Iedal from the Serbian Government. He holds the degrees of LL. I), from Jefferson Medical College and Get- t}-sburg College: A. AI. from the I ' niversity of Michigan: is a Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, .Scotland, and a F ' ellow, .American College of .Surgeons, General Ireland is also a member of many scientific, educational, and philan- throjiic organizations. e © Jtl? IKj? V. 1923 I 5]