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WW2 Field Ambulances
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| Lalum, Bougainville, 1945-06-12.
Stretcher cases being loaded onto a jeep trailer at 19 field ambulance
main dressing station, for transportation to the hospital ship
Stradbroke. The patients, wounded during the Porton Plantation
evacuation are being moved to enable doctors to give more attention to
those that are dangerously ill. Identified personnel are:- Pte N C.
Taylor, 19 Field Ambulance (1); Pte C. Mischke, 19 Field Ambulance (2);
Pte l. N. Wilcox, 19 Field Ambulance (3); Pte r. Kelso, 19 Field
Ambulance (4); Sgt J B Hanrahan, 19 Field Ambulance (5); Pte F L Stamp,
31/51 Infantry Battalion (6). |
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| Western Desert, Egypt.
1942-07-22.
Walking wounded being helped out of the ambulance on the left at the
2/11th Australian Field Ambulance, with a stretcher case in the
foreground. |
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| Western
Desert, Egypt. 1942-10-06. Dental
mechanics of the 2/8th Australian Field Ambulance at work. |
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| Toko,
Bougainville, Solomon Islands. 1945-03-21.
Natives pitch a roof during the construction of wards for the 11th Field
Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps in preparation for battle
casualties who will be evacuated by barge. |
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| Waitavalo
area, Wide Bay, New Britain. 1945-03-16.
A jeep ambulance assisting to evacuate wounded personnel of the 14/32nd
Infantry Battalion from the dressing station of the 6th Field Ambulance,
Australian Army Medical Corps. |
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| Ravenshoe,
Qld. 1944-12-28.
A jeep stretcher carrying attachment designed by Sergeant A K Sweetman,
(attached Corps of Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers), 2/8
Field Ambulance. |
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