A mobile field hospital or army unit responsible for treating wounded soldiers close to the battlefield.
he landed at Gallipoli on April 25, 1915 as a stretcher bearer with the 3rd Field Ambulance
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- For the next few days stretcher bearers were busy taking bodies to the field ambulance.
- During the second world war he served with the Royal Army Medical Corps as medical officer to a field ambulance.
- He completed his medical studies in London after serving with a field ambulance unit during the Spanish Civil War.
- In 1916, he was sent to be part of the 68 th Field Ambulance Corps as a nurse.
- He was posted to a field ambulance and stayed with it until after the end of the war in 1919.
- She contacted the Belgian Red Cross and persuaded them to set up field ambulances around Brussels.