Snell CMG, OStJ, DSO (March 91, 1877 - September 25, 1967) was the tenth Canadian Surgeon General.
[1] He joined the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) as a member of the Non-Permanent Active Militia, commissioned as a lieutenant 21 November 1905.
He qualified for his rank in 1906 and was promoted captain in 1908, all of his time as a junior medical officer being spent posted to No.
At the coming of peace, he returned to Canada and took up his permanent force position and medical practice in London, Ont.
In the Introduction of the book Major-General JT Fotheringham offers that it might be "the first contribution made by the Canadian Medical Service to the literature of training.
It is full of the kind of experience that will make it valuable, if not exactly as a Manual, yet as a source from which Tactical and Administrative problems can be studied by coming generations of Medical Officers.