Over the years I have read many books on the Canadian Army Medical Corps and its member. These books were not meant to be read like a novel and they are not fast page turner, so sometime they are a little bit hard to read BUT they do hold very valuable information on the Canadian Medical Corps and its members who served during peacetime and wartime period.
This is the list of all the books I have read so far on the subject, if you happen to know a book that is not in this list but related to the Canadian Medical service during a war, please let me know so I can add it to this list.
Some of those are available for free and downloadable from the Internet. I have added the link to those e-book.
CORPS HISTORY
WW1
Official history of the Canadian Forces in the Great War 1914-19 – The Medical Services by Sir Andrew McPhail published in 1925. It can be read online by clicking here
The Canadian Army Medical Corps with the Canadian Corps in the last hundred days of the Great War by Colonel A. E. Snell published in 1924. It can be read online by clicking here
The First Canadians in France by F McKelvey-Bell published in 1917
The War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps 1914-1915 by Colonel J. G. Adami published in 1916. It can be read online by clicking here or here
Politics and the Canadian Army Medical Corps by Colonel Herbert A. Bruce published in 1919. It can be read online by clicking here
WW2
Official History of the Canadian Medical Services 1939-1945 (2 volumes) by W. R. Feasby published in 1953. You can read volume 1 by clicking here and volume 2 by clicking here
Death their enemy: Canadian Medical Practitioners and War by Bill Rawling published in 2001
A History of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps: Seventy Years of Service by Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson published in 1977
Post-WW2
The Myriad Challenges of Peace : Canadian Forces Medical Practitioners Since the Second World War by Bill Rawling published in 2004
UNIT HISTORY
No 1 Canadian General Hospital by Kenneth Cameron published in 1928
No 3 Canadian General Hospital in France (author unknown)
No 3 Canadian General Hospital (McGill) 1914-1919 by R. C. Fetherstonhaugh published in 1928
No 4 Canadian Hospital: The Letters of Professor J. J. McKenzie from the Salonika Front by J. J. Mackenzie published in 1933
A history of no 7 (Queen’s) Canadian General Hospital
Battle for life by A.M. Jack Hyatt and Nancy Geddes Poole published in 2004 (history of 10th Canadian Stationary Hospital in WW1 and 10th Canadian General Hospital in WW2)
Stretcher bearer … at the Double by Frederick W. Noyes (history of the 5th Canadian Field Ambulance)
History records of number 8 Canadian Field Ambulance 1915-1913 by Lieutenant –Colonel J. N. Gunn published in 1929 (history of the 8th Canadian Field Ambulance)
Diary of the Eleventh (history of the 11th Canadian Field Ambulance)
The Military Medical Units of Hamilton, Ontario in Peace and War 1900-1990 by A.R.C. Butson published in 1990
Salute to the Air Force Medical Branch by Harold M. Wright published 1999
NURSING SISTER
Canada’s Nursing Sisters by G.W.L. Nicholson published in 1975
Sister heroines: The Roseate Glow of Wartime Nursing 1914-1918 by Marjorie Barron Norris published in 2002
An Officer and a Lady by Cynthya Toman published in 2007
Canadian Foreign Awards to Nursing Service Mentioned-in-Despatches World War I (1914-1919) edited by Jim Wallace in 2001
PERSONAL ACCOUNT – MEMOIRS – BIOGRAPHY
From a Stretcher Handle: The World War 1 Journal and Poems of Pte. Frank Walker published in 2000
Four Score and Ten – Memoirs of a Canadian Nurse (story of Nursing Sister Maude Wilkinson) published in 2003
Lights Out: A Canadian Nursing Sister’s Tale by Katherine M. Wilson-Simmie published in 1981
Nobody Ever Wins a War by Ella Mae Bongard (edited by Eric Scott) published in 1998
Our Bit: Memories of War Service by a Canadian Nursing Sister by Mabel Clint published in 1934
Agnes Warner and the Nursing Sister of the Great War by Agnes Warner (edited by Swawna M. Quinn) published in 2010
The War Diary of Clare Gass 1915-1918 by Clare Gass (edited by Susan Mann) and published in 2000
Margaret MacDonald Imperial Daughter by Susan Mann published in 2005
Never Leave Your head Uncovered: A Canadian Nursing Sister in World War Two by Doris V. Carter published in 1999
The military Nurses of Canada : Recollections of Canadian Military Nurses (3 volumes) by Edith A. Landells published in 1993
Although it was never published as a book, you can find Nursing Sister Helen L. Fowlds letters and diary on the Trent University website. Her letters can be read by clicking here and her diaries can be read by clicking here.
FRENCH BOOK
Dans la tourmente : Deux hôpitaux militaires canadiens-français (1915-1919) by Michel Litalien published in 2003
Briser les ailes de l’ange : Les infirmières militaires canadiennes (1914-1918) by Mélanie Morin-Pelletier published in 2006
A tribute to some women and men who served in armed conflicts 
Comments
Thanks for posting the list. Going to see how many of these titles I can latch on to! :D
One book I am going through now is called “Army Medical Corps Instructions: General Orders, Militia Orders and Precis of Headquarters Letter : Bearing Upon the Administration of the Canadian Army Medical Service”. It was published in 1917, I think.
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Hello. I am trying to research my father’s experience in WW2. He was an ambulance driver with the Canadian 11th field ambulance and I believe the 18th field ambulance. 2nd Div. I noticed above that you mentioned “Diary if the 11th”. Is this referring to a book or the war diaries in Ottawa? I visited the archives in Ittawa the war diaries of 11th field ambulance in 2015 but would be very interested in finding the “Diary of the 11th “ unit history you mentioned. Could you please give me advice on where I might find that ? I appreciate your help. Thank you.
Diary of the 11th is a book, a rare book, of the WW1 unit, not the WW2