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field ambulance

British  

noun

  1. military a mobile medical unit that accepts casualties from forward units, treating the lightly wounded and stabilizing the condition of the seriously wounded before evacuating them to a hospital

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Himself a writer, Son Masefield was a member of a field ambulance unit.

From Time Magazine Archive

A 200-man field ambulance unit and the 900-man crew of the destroyer Sioux are the only Canadians left there of some 33,100* who served during and after the war.

From Time Magazine Archive

In World War I he rose to a sergeancy in a field ambulance unit in France.

From Time Magazine Archive

This morning a Red Cross ambulance corps, pulled by bullock-wagons, passed this camp; they were the first to go to Malanovatz to join the first field ambulance, the Bevis unit.

From My Diary in Serbia: April 1, 1915-Nov. 1, 1915 by Stanley, Monica M.

Perhaps it would be well to explain where our work as a field ambulance comes in.

From With our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War by Sellers, William Edward

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