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===Unit Personnel=== | ===Unit Personnel=== | ||
| − | * [[Francis William Singleton]] 15 Jan 1916 - 30 Apr | + | * [[Francis William Singleton]] 15 Jan 1916 - 3 Nov 1916; 13 Nov 1916 - 2 Dec 1916; and 3 May - 24 Dec 1917 |
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| + | ===Patients=== | ||
| + | * [[Josiah James Skinner]] 30 Sep 1917 | ||
| + | * [[Edward Bailey]] 14 Apr 1918 | ||
| + | * [[Clarence Victor Watson]] 22 Apr 1918 | ||
| + | * [[Roslyn Christopher Coulston]] 15 May 1918 | ||
| + | * [[Edwin Lawrence Reed]] 31 May 1918 | ||
| + | * † [[Gordon Bishop]] 29 Aug 1918 | ||
| + | * [[Charles Glyn Firns]] 2 Sep 1918 | ||
===Individual Honours=== | ===Individual Honours=== | ||
Latest revision as of 15:14, 26 September 2021
 14th Field Ambulance Transport Section AWM e02770 | |
 1th FAMB men carrying men with Trench Foot to a hospital transport, December 1916. AWM E00081 | |
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Contents
Brief History
The Field Ambulance was a complete medical unit made up of previously separate and independent entities. These were The Bearer Division [previously working as Bearer Companies]; The Tent Division [previously working as Field Hospitals] and The Transport Division. The Field Ambulance at full strength composed of 10 Officers and 224 men. The Bearer Division had 18 stretcher squads each of 6 men. The Tent Division was comprised of doctors: 9 medical officers and 1 dental officer, as well as 1 Quartermaster of stores, batmen, clerks, cooks, dispensers, nursing orderlies, and the Transport Division, which had 60 men attached from the Army Service Corps. All this made up medical support for one infantry brigade. [Three to every Division].
Unit Personnel
- Francis William Singleton 15 Jan 1916 - 3 Nov 1916; 13 Nov 1916 - 2 Dec 1916; and 3 May - 24 Dec 1917
Patients
- Josiah James Skinner 30 Sep 1917
- Edward Bailey 14 Apr 1918
- Clarence Victor Watson 22 Apr 1918
- Roslyn Christopher Coulston 15 May 1918
- Edwin Lawrence Reed 31 May 1918
- † Gordon Bishop 29 Aug 1918
- Charles Glyn Firns 2 Sep 1918
Individual Honours
Notes