%0 Journal Article
%T A uniquely Canadian military moment: Sam Hughes and the No. 7 General Hospital, 1915¨C1916
%A Col. Howard G. Coombs
%J Archive of "Canadian Journal of Surgery".
%D 2017
%R 10.1503/cjs.008717
%X Universities across Canada actively supported the call to arms in 1914, and QueenĄŻs University in Kingston, Ontario, was no different. Though a myriad of units composed of QueenĄŻs faculty and students were created, the university perceived the military hospital raised by the schoolĄŻs medical faculty to be among its most vital contributions to the First World War. This commentary describes the engagement of the No. 7 General Hospital with the Minister of Militia, Sam Hughes, which has become an almost unknown footnote to its illustrious story. This commentary has an Appendix, available at canjsurg.ca
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5529152/