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RESCUE CORPS
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Captain Reuben Lanfranco - Commissioner (Rescue)

 

 Offices and Appointments

 

Patron St John Ambulance
His Excellency Dr George Abela
President of the Republic of Malta

 

Commander, St. John Ambulance Malta G.C.

Brigadier Carmel Vassallo,

CStJ RCDS AFM

 

 

 

Corps Headquarters Staff

 

Commissioner (Rescue) and Corps Commander

Captain the Chevalier Reuben Lanfranco,

OStJ OLJ KJ BA (Crim) MJur (Int Law) LLM (IMLI)

MIFireE MCILT AFRIN FNI MIM AFM (Retd) StJRC

 

Corps Second-in-Command

Staff Officer Grade II Andrew Grech, SBStJ BSc StJRC

 

Staff Officer, Logistics (SO Logs)

Staff Officer Grade III Carmel Sciberras, OStJ StJRC

Corporal Anthony Buhagiar

 

Staff Officer, Records, Finance and Procurement (SO RFP)

Staff Officer Grade III Andrew Pizzuto, SBStJ DipCII StJRC

 

Staff Officer, Training & Development (SO Trg)

Staff Officer Grade II Andrew Grech, SBStJ BSc StJRC

Staff Officer Grade V Gordon Hili, StJRC

Staff Officer Grade VI Godfrey Sammut, StJRC

 

Staff Officer, Mechanical Transport & Technical (SO MT & T)

Staff Officer Grade III Christopher Borg Cardona, SBStJ StJRC

Staff Officer Grade VI Josef Borg, StJRC

 

Staff Officer Operational Planning (SO Ops)

Staff Officer Grade III Christopher Borg Cardona, SBStJ StJRC

 

Corps Chaplain

Fr. Colin Apap, StJRC

 

Staff Officer, Press and Public Relations (SO PR)

Position currently vacant

 

Staff Officer, Fort Commandant (SO FC)

Staff Officer Grade VI Alexis InguanezBE&A A&CE StJRC

 

Corps Sergeant Major

CSM Martin A. Borg

 

Commander's Aide de Camps (ADC)

Rescue Volunteer James Cilia B.Ed. (Hons.) M.Ed

 

 

Active Divisions

 

Bravo Division

Divisional Officer Adrian Caruana, StJRC

Sergeant Joseph Cachia

 

Charlie Division

Divisional Officer Ivan Azzopardi, StJRC

Sergeant Christopher Bonnici

 

Delta Division

Divisional Officer Jonathan Azzopardi, StJRC

Corporal Simon Debattista

 

 

 

Honorary Appointments

 

 

President St John Rescue Corps
Major-General Michael J H Walsh CB DSO DL KStJ

 

 

Vice President St John Rescue Corps
Anthony The Marquis Buttigieg De Piro,

KStJ GCLJ (J) KMLJ FInstD MIM

 

 

Reserve Division Presidents

Professor Dr Walter G Rödel
Knight Commander of Justice of the Johanniterorden

 

Jürgen Franz Esq
Director of Civil Defence of the City of Mainz

 

 

 

Honorary Officers

 

Raymond Bugeja OStJ FCCA MSI FIoD

 

His Excellency Alfredo Escudero y Díaz-Madroñero, Marquis of Gori

 

Duncan P J Stafford Esq (St. John Ambulance)

 

Jane, Mrs Duncan P J Stafford (St. John Ambulance)

 

Carmel Vella Brincat Esq

 

Mr Tony McGuirk QFSM (CFO - Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service)

 

Mr Bill Evans (ACFO - Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service)

 

Mr Paul Gibson (Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service)

 

Mr John McDonough (Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service)

 

Mr Tom Sefton MBE (Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service)

 

Capt. DM Salvatore Olivari de la Moneda

 

The Noble Pier Felice degli Uberti, Count of Cavaglià

 

His Excellency. Dr. D. Alfonso de Ceballos-Escalera y Gila, Marqués de la Floresta

 

 

In 1986, Anthony The Marquis Buttigieg De Piro KStJ GCLJ (J) KMLJ FInstD MIM, was asked by the late Commander St John Ambulance Malta GC Edwin H W Borg KStJ to raise a Corps of rescue volunteers, which would be part of St John Ambulance, but separate from the St John Ambulance Brigade (First Aid and Nursing).  

Commander Borg’s request to raise a Rescue Corps under the banner of St John was in order to meet the need in Malta of a support civil defence unit consisting of adult volunteers fully trained in rescue and first aid.  

The first rescue courses organised for the new volunteer recruits of the newly-formed St John Rescue Corps – Malta GC, were carried out by the Corps Commander Marquis Buttigieg De Piro who was ably assisted by rescue instructors of the Armed Forces of Malta who were loaned to him by the Commander of the Armed Forces at the time, Brigadier Claude M Gaffiero KStJ, without whose clear thinking and support the Rescue Corps might have never taken off.  

After five months, the Rescue Corps officers and their subordinate leaders were running the rescue courses very professionally and efficiently, to their own divisions and new recruits.  Without exception, all the Commanders of the Armed Forces of Malta always co-operated with, supported and helped the St John Rescue Corps, whenever they could.

Together with the St John Ambulance Association’s Training Branch and the Ambulance Brigade (First Aid and Nursing), the Rescue Corps forms part of the St John Ambulance Malta GC and operates under the auspices of the Order of St John, of which Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is Sovereign Head. 

 

 
St. John Ambulance is a Voluntary Organization
"For the Faith and in the Service of Humanity"
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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