PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Maj-Gen Jean-Robert Bernier AU - Vivian C. McAlister TI - The Canadian Army Medical Corps affair of 1916 and Surgeon General Guy Carleton Jones AID - 10.1503/cjs.003818 DP - 2018 Apr 01 TA - Canadian Journal of Surgery PG - 85--87 VI - 61 IP - 2 4099 - http://canjsurg.ca/content/61/2/85.short 4100 - http://canjsurg.ca/content/61/2/85.full SO - CAN J SURG2018 Apr 01; 61 AB - The rapid expansion of military medical service in the First World War, successfully completed under the direction of Surgeon General Guy Carleton Jones, remains an extraordinary achievement in Canada’s history. In 1916, a conflict of personalities threatened confidence in the service. Eventually Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden’s intervention restored the status quo, but the affair eclipsed Jones’s outstanding career.