ADF Health Vol 3 April 2002NoticesRose Garden Memorial Ceremony
On 3 March 2002, a Remembrance Service was conducted at the Rose Garden in the Kokoda Track Memorial Walkway opposite Concord Hospital in Sydney, NSW, to dedicate 24 memorial plaques for service with the AIF in New Guinea during World War Two. The plaques commemorate the service of personnel of the Royal Australian Navy, Medical, Dental and Nursing Services, the Royal Australian Air Force Medical Service, Nursing Sisters of the Australian Army Nursing Service and the many deployed units of the Australian Army Medical Corps.
Oral and maxillofacial surgery
Congratulations On behalf of the Defence Health Service, the editorial committee of ADF Health sends sincere congratulations to This is a very timely acknowledgment by the State of Victoria of Colonel Rosenfeld's many fine accomplishments Air Vice-Marshal Bruce Short, RFD
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Air Vice-Marshal Bruce Short, Surgeon General ADF, welcomed the guests, including the veterans, their wives and families, and serving ADF personnel. The Honourable Danna Vale MP, Minister for Veterans' Affairs delivered an informative address outlining the vital contribution provided by all ranks within the Medical, Dental and Nursing Services of the three fighting services of this nation during the New Guinea Campaign of 1942-1943.
The Craft Group of Military Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons held a scientific
and clinical meeting on 7 September 2001 as part of the 19th Biennial
Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgery, which took placed at the Sheraton Mirage Resort on
Queensland's Gold Coast. The day's proceedings were chaired by Colonel
Frank Monsour, the Senior ADF Consultant in oral maxillofacial surgery, and
drew both uniformed and civilian members, full-time and reserve officers.
Papers were presented at the meeting from Army, Navy and Air Force
representatives, and covered a wide range of preventive, reconstructive and
research aspects of the specialty.