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5 unusual facts about St. John Ambulance


Clovelly Park, South Australia

The Marion St. John Ambulance station opened its doors on Sturt road in late 1965 to provide ambulance services and first aid services for community events.

Frederick Whyte

Further correspondence suggests that as late as 1958, Sir Frederick still had some association with the Indian Red Cross and St. John Ambulance Association and Brigade.

Graham Gordon

He was a police surgeon for over 30 years, an officer in St. John Ambulance, and an honorary surgeon in the Stratford Volunteer Fire Brigade with whom he set up New Zealand’s first rural GP first-response road trauma service.

Hubert Whittell

Whittell was awarded Life Memberships of the St John Ambulance Association, the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia, and the Western Australian Naturalists' Club.

Terry Mercer

Mercer has been an administrator and fundraiser for numerous charitable organizations such as the Kidney Foundation of Canada, St. John Ambulance, the Nova Scotia Lung Association, the YMCA and the Canadian Diabetes Association and is currently Past Chair of the Association of Fundraising Professionals' Foundation for Philanthropy in Canada.


Hong Kong St. John Ambulance

Cadets will participate in Leadership Training Programmes and receive training in other proficiency subjects such as Fire Fighting, Canoeing, Camping, Life Saving, Rock Climbing, Map Reading, Cookery, etc.

The Hong Kong Island Command headquarters is at 2 Tai Hang Road in a historical building built in 1935, overlooking the Central Library and Victoria Park.

Malcolm McCusker

In his role as governor, McCusker and his wife serve as the patron for a number of organisations and events, including the Perth International Arts Festival, Telethon, and the West Australian Ballet, and the Western Australian branches of Anglicare, the Royal Flying Doctor Service, the Royal Life Saving Society, the RSPCA, and St. John Ambulance.

St John's Gate, Clerkenwell

The Gate was acquired in the 1870s by the revived Order of St. John and was gradually converted to serve as headquarters of both the Order and its subsidiary, St. John Ambulance.


see also

Australian women during World War I

Hundreds of other Australian trained nurses served overseas with organisations including the British nursing services, Red Cross, St John Ambulance and the Australian Voluntary Hospital.

Charles Maier

Charles Robertson Maier (born 1945), Priory Historian for St John Ambulance, The Priory of Canada

Frank Tobin

It was Tobin who collected the necessary funds for the equipment of the hospital, and in his endeavours he was assisted by both the St.John Ambulance Association, and by the Liverpool branch of the British Red Cross.

Gordon Atkinson

1980– ; Knight of Justice, St. Lazarus of Jerusalem, Board of Directors St. John Ambulance and St. John Fdn (1980)

Philip Whistler Street

Sir Philip was also president of the New South Wales division of the Boy Scouts Association, of the Boys' Brigade, the New South Wales Home for Incurables, the St John Ambulance Association, and of the Institute of Public Administration.

SJAC

St. John Ambulance Canada, the Canadian chapter of St. John Ambulance, a first aid training organization