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|   image        = [[File:6th_Field_Amb.jpg]]
| caption        = 2 Nov 1915. 6th Field Ambulance hospital at Brighton Beach, Gallipoli AWM P00176.011
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| caption2       = Shoulder patch

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==Brief History==
The 6th Field Ambulance was the Field Ambulance Company of the 6th Brigade, which was based on the 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th Battalions. The 6th Field Ambulance deployed to Gallipoli with the rest of the Division in August 1915, and then to France in 1916.





Fifty Five men died while posted to this unit.

===Patients===
''Egypt''
* [[John Harold Rupert Smith]] 31 Jan - 5 Feb 1916<br>

''France''<br>
'''1916'''
* [[Arthur Percy Thomas Boyle]] 30 May - 5 Jun 1916
* † [[William Barge]] 31 May 1916
* † [[Leonard Butcher]] 12 Dec 1916
* [[Ernest Henry Chisholm]] 14 - 21 Dec 1916

'''1917'''
* † [[Leonard Butcher]] 10 Jan 1917
* † [[Thomas William Kerry]] 26 Jan - 14 Mar 1917
* [[Joseph Clough]] 22 Feb 1917
* [[Alfred James Hansen MM]] 11 Mar 1917
* [[Leo Patrick Kane]] 11 Mar 1917
* † [[Albert Edward See]] 16 Mar 1917
* † [[John Hobbs]] 24 & 25 Apr 1917
* [[Patrick Francis Brennan]] 3 May 1917
* [[Walter Hayward]] 3 May 1917
* † [[Reuben Arnold MM]] 20 - 22 Sep 1917
* † [[David Edward Bromley]] 20 Sep 1917
* [[Ernest Henry Chisholm]] 20 Sep 1917
* [[William Edward McKenna]] 20 Sep 1917
* [[Albert Edward Victor Byfield]] 21 Sep 1917
* [[John Edward Thomson]] 26 Sep 1917

'''1918'''
* † [[John Hobbs]] 24 Apr 1918
* [[Alfred Haddy Pearse]] 24 Apr 1918 (gassed)
* [[Keith Herbert Sloan]] 1 May 1918
* [[John Edward Thomson]] 8 Aug 1918
* [[John Esperance Blair]] 29 Aug 1918
* [[Dugald Thomas Main]] 30 Aug 1918
* [[Thomas Percival (Percy) Hanretty]] 2 Sep 1918

===Individual Honours===
* 1 x Distinguished Service Order
* 3 x Military Cross
* 2 x Distinguished Conduct Medal
* 45 x Military medal
* 4 x Bar to Military Medal
* 6 x Meritorious Service Medal
* 9 x Mentioned in Despatches
* 1 x Romanian Medaille Barbatie si Credinta, Third Class

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