U. S. MEDICAL FIELD SERVICE SCHOOL 
CARLISLE BARRACKS, PENNSYLVANIA 
DEDICATION OF THE MEDICAL DEPT. 
EQUIPMENT LABORATORY MUSEUM OF FIELD 
!EQUIPMENT The Dedication 
OF THE 
Medical Department Equipment Laboratory 
Museum of Field Equipment 
AT 
Carlisle Barracks 
Pennsylvania 
May 17, 1944 
2:00 P. M. ORDER OF EXERCISES 
STARK FIELD 
2:00 P. M. 
Medical Field Service School Band Selection 
Chaplain Invocation 
Colonel Earle D. Quinnel, Director, Medical 
Department Equipment Laboratory , . .Introductory Remarks 
Brig. General Addison D. Davis, Commandant, 
Medical Field Service School Remarks 
Major General George F. Lull 
Deputy Surgeon General Remarks 
Medical Field Service School Band Selection 
Escorted Visit 
to 
Laboratory and Museum 
Parade 4:30 P. M 
Refreshments—Officers’ Club 5:30 P. M HISTORY 
The Medical Department Equipment Laboratory was estab- 
lished in 1920 by The Surgeon General of the U. S. Army, at the 
time of the activation of the Medical Field Service School. For a 
time its status was not definitely determined and was operated 
under the direction of the Department of Equipment and Trans- 
portation as a school activity. The impracticability of such a 
plan was soon realized and The Surgeon General on 10 November 
1921 ordered the Equipment Laboratory to be operated as a 
separate Department of Carlisle Barracks which has been its 
status ever since. 
The Equipment Laboratory since its existence has been 
housed in a building previously converted by the Indian School 
as a wood and iron working shop from one of the old Post stables. 
Since its establishment the Medical Department Equipment Lab- 
oratory has been engaged in the research, development and test- 
ing of equipment for use by the Medical Department in the field. 
Its growth during prewar years, though slow, kept pace with 
the ever increasing scope of its activities. Since the outbreak of 
the present global war with its many Medical Equipment prob- 
lems, the activities of the Laboratory have increased rapidly. To 
meet these, personnel, machinery and other facilities have been 
added so that the present Laboratory presents a well equipped 
and very active establishment. 
Outstanding in its developmental work of many hundreds 
of items of equipment have been individual first aid packets and 
first aid equipment, medical pack equipment, cross-country 
ambulance, disinfector, mobile dental, medical and optical labor- 
atories and mobile dental and surgical operating units. 
The newly created field equipment museum section of the 
Laboratory has been established for display of present items of 
equipment for instructional purposes and as a depository for 
many valuable Historical Models and old items of equipment. LT. COLONEL JOHN P. FLETCHER 
The First Director 
Kf, 
OF THE 
Medical Department Equipment Laboratory MAJOR GENERAL NORMAN T. KIRK 
The Surgeon General of the U. S. Army BRIG. GENERAL ADDISON D. DAVIS 
Commandant of the Medical Field Service School 
and 
Commanding General, Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania COLONEL EARLE D. QUINNELL 
Present Director 
of THE 
Medical Department Equipment Laboratory MUSEUM OF FIELD EQUIPMENT 
Standard Samples Koom 
Experimental Equipment and Model Eoom Carpenter Shop 
Blacksmith and Welding Shops Drafting Eoom 
Machine and Sheet Metal Shops ROSTER—MILITARY AND CIVILIAN PERSONNEL 
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT EQUIPMENT LABORATORY 
Colonel Earle D, Quinnell, M.C. 
Lt. Colonel Alonzo B. Christie, Jr., M.C. 
Major William R. Cattell, Sn.C. 
Captain Oney C. Raines, M.C. 
Captain Richard H. Hronik, Sn.C. 
Captain Glen T. Kellogg, Sn.C. 
M. Sgt. John D. Demuth 
T. Sgt. Wright R. Finley 
S. Sgt. LeRoy R. Beckwith 
T/4th Gr. Robert H. Ramp 
T/4th Gr. Antonio Ribecco 
Cpl. Raymond J. Tilton 
T/5th Gr. Donald A. Ludwig 
Pfc. Leonard V. Burt 
William N. Alexander 
George L. Doyle 
Chester L. Eppley 
Florence M. Florik 
Ethel B. Hart 
Thomas N. Niblett 
Ralph S. Paden 
Kenneth H. Reffner 
William C. Shambaugh 
Jasper D. Shupe 
George R. Snyder 
Harvey Steigelman DIRECTORS 
OF THE 
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT EQUIPMENT LABORATORY 
Lt. Col. John P. Fletcher, M.C. (1920 - 1930) 
Colonel Larry B. McAfee, M.C. (1930- 1933) 
Colonel Garfield L. McKinney, M.C. (1933 - 1939) 
Colonel Albert S. Dabney, M.C. (1939 - 1942) 
Colonel Earle D. Quinnell, M.C. (1942 - )