Corps Headquarters Staff
Commissioner (Rescue) and Corps Commander
Captain the Chevalier Reuben Lanfranco,
OStJ OLJ KJ BA (Crim) MJur (Int Law) LLM (IMLI)
MCILT AFRIN FNI MIM AFM (Retd) StJRC
Staff Officer, Logistics (SO Logs)
Staff Officer Grade III Carmel Sciberras, OStJ StJRC
Staff Officer, Records, Finance and Procurement (SO RFP)
Staff Officer Grade III Andrew Pizzuto, DipCII StJRC
Staff Officer, Training & Development (SO Trg)
Staff Officer Grade III Andrew Grech, BSc StJRC
Staff Officer Grade VI Godfrey Sammut, StJRC
Staff
Officer, Mechanical Transport & Technical (SO MT & T)
Staff Officer Grade IV Christopher Borg Cardona, StJRC
Corps Chaplain
Fr. Colin Apap, StJRC
Staff Officer, Press and Public Relations (SO
PR)
Staff Officer Grade V Chevalier Aaron G P de Giorgio,
EsqStJ OLJ MMLJ GORT StJRC
Staff Officer, Fort Commandant (SO FC)
Staff Officer Grade VI Alexis Inguanez, BE&A A&CE StJRC
Corps Sergeant Major
CSM Martin A. Borg
Active
Divisions
Bravo Division
Corporal Adrian Caruana
Corporal Joseph Cachia
Charlie
Division
Divisional Officer Daren Farrugia, StJRC
Sergeant Gordon Hili
Delta Division
Divisional Officer Jonathan Azzopardi, StJRC
Sergeant Christian Bennetti
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 Esq FCCA
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
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
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.
