181st (Airlanding) Field Ambulance
The 181st (Airlanding) 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.
A jeep being loaded aboard a Waco glider in Tunisia before Operation Ladbroke.
Stretcher bearers and casualty during the Battle of Arnhem.
A field ambulance (FA) is the name used by the British Army and the armies of other Commonwealth nations to describe a mobile medical unit that treats wounded soldiers very close to the combat zone. In the British military medical system that developed during the First World War, the FAs formed an intermediate level in the casualty evacuation chain that stretched from the regimental aid posts near the front line and the casualty clearing stations located outside the range of the enemy's artillery. FAs were often assigned to the brigades of a division.
A field ambulance in France.