The 16th Field Ambulance was a Royal Army Medical Corps unit of the British airborne forces during the Second World War. The unit was the first parachute field ambulance unit of the British Army. Thei
Ambulance jeep fitted with litters for carrying wounded
Airborne trolley, with a folding stretcher, Don and Sugar packs
Parachute Field Ambulance troops just before boarding their aircraft.
The Simeto river
The 181st Field Ambulance was a Royal Army Medical Corps unit of the British airborne forces during the Second World War.
16th (Parachute) Field Ambulance
…Airborne Field Ambulance was raised on 3 April 1941, at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire. The first arrivals being thirty-three men transferred from the 181st (Airlanding) Field Ambulance. Reaching full strength and having completed their parachute training the unit was re-designated the 16th (P) Field Ambulance which was later changed…
A jeep being loaded aboard a Waco glider in Tunisia before Operation Ladbroke.
Stretcher bearers and casualty during the Battle of Arnhem.