The 127th Field Ambulance was a Royal Army Medical Corps unit of the British airborne forces during the Second World War.
Ambulance jeep fitted with litters for carrying wounded.
Parachute Field Ambulance troops just before boarding their aircraft.
Patient given a blood transfusion at an Advanced Dressing Station.
The 1st Parachute Brigade, or the Red Devils, was an airborne forces brigade formed by the British Army during the Second World War. As its name indicates, the unit was the first parachute infantry br
127th (Parachute) Field Ambulance
…Minister, Winston Churchill, directed the War Office to investigate the possibility of creating a corps of 5,000 parachute troops. In September 1941 the 1st Parachute Brigade began forming, comprising three parachute infantry battalions. In keeping with British Army practice at the same time as the infantry battalions were…
Men of the 1st Parachute Brigade during the Battle of Arnhem, part of Operation Market Garden, September 1944.
Three of the first British paratroopers, June 1941.
Parachute troops jumping from an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley near Windsor in England.
Men of 'C' Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion returning from the Bruneval raid.