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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

He is thoroughly conversant with the technique of his profession and has in previous wars had large experience with field ambulance service.

From The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone by Wood, Eric Fisher

Woman in a field ambulance he despises and abhors.

From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by Sinclair, May

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