Major Sir Frederick Grant Banting
M.C., K.B.E., MD, LL.D.
Lest We Forget
World War I
1915
- Enrolled in Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
- Military training camp Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, in the summer
1916
- December 9 – Awarded M B degree, University of Toronto: Accelerated class due to War
- December 10 – Reported for military duty
1917
- March 26 – Lieutenant Banting sails to Britain
- May 6 – Served at Grenvillle Canadian Special Hospital (Orthopedic)
1918
- June – Captain F. G. Banting went to France No. 3 Canadian General Hospital
- August 16 – Moved to 44th Battalion, 4th Canadian Division in Arras
- August 27 – While treating casualties Fred was wounded at the battle of Cambrai
- September – Took over treatment of his own forearm wound to avoid its amputation
- December 4 – Released
1919
- February – Awarded the Military Cross for heroism under fire
- Returned to Canada; posted to the Christie Street Military Hospital in Toronto for 6 months
World War II
1939
- August – Captain Banting re-enlists, joining the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, No. 15 General Hospital as a pathologist and promoted to Major
1940
- May – First aerobatic test of the Franks Flying Suit (championed by Banting)
1941
- February 21 – Major Fred Banting dies in service of his beloved Canada near Musgrave Harbour Newfoundland “on a mission of high national and scientific importance”