14th Field Ambulance

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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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