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

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I- ae n. COLONEL JAMES D. GLENNAN, M. C. Commanding Officer, Walter Reed U. S. A. General Hospital 1923 16]

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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]

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fton Colonel James; IB. lennan OLONEL JAMES D. GLEXXAN, Medical Corps, United States Army, was liorn at I ' iochester, Xew ' ork. on March 2, 1862, and in early infancy moved with his parents to the District of Columbia, so that he is truly a W ' ashingtonian. He completed his medical sttidies at Columbian University, now known as Georgfe Washington University, Washing-ton, 1). C. In 1888 he was commissioned in the Medical Corps and served several years at ])osts on the western frontier and with Indians, and was on duty with the Seventh Cavalry in the Sioux Indian Campaign in 1890. In 1898, as a Major and Brigade Surgeon, he saw active service in the Spanish-American War and in the Philipjjine Insurrection, and was Chief Surgeon with the Mexican I ' unitive Expedition in 1916. At the beginning of the World War Colonel (ilennan was assigned to duty in the office of the Surgeon General as officer in charge of hospitalization for domestic service. Early in 1918 he was sent overseas as Chief of Hospitali- zation and Evacuation Division of the Chief Surgeon ' s f ffice. American Ex- peditionary Forces, and while on that duty was promoted to the grade of Urigadier General. ( n returning to the United States Colonel Glennan was assigned to Wal- ter Reed General Hosi)ital, his jtresent station, as commanding officer. During his long . ' rmy career Colonel Glennan has also been conmianding officer of the Division Hospital. Manila. 1 ' . I.; The Letterman General Hosi)ital. San Francisco. Calif. : and the .Sokliers ' Home Hospital. Washington. D. C. Sf . Ss? 1923 I - 1