Colonel Harry Merville Jacques DSO, MD (12 November 1873 – 5 March 1956) was the 8th Canadian Surgeon General.

Biography

Jacques joined the Non-Permanent Active Militia as a Lieutenant with the 68th (King's County) Regiment in 1905, and the following year joined the Permanent Active Militia Medical Corps (PAMC).

Harry Merville Jacques

With the outbreak of World War I, he was Taken on Strength of the CEF in 1915, and was sent overseas with 2nd Division, PAMC. The following year, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order "for his conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty." In particular, he was noted as having "supervised the clearing of the front and [controlling] the work of the advanced and main dressing stations with great skill and personal courage."

Harry Merville Jacques

Colonel Jacques died on March 5, 1956, at the age of 83.

Harry Merville Jacques

References

1873 births

1956 deaths

Surgeons General of Canada

Canadian Militia officers

Canadian military personnel of World War I

Companions of the Distinguished Service Order

Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps officers