Title: New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy

Author: Stout, T. Duncan M.

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1956, Wellington

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

This text is the subject of: ‘Something of Them Is Here Recorded’: Official History in New Zealand

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4. Rapid Establishment of Field Ambulances

Fortunately, all the field ambulances had had considerable practice in setting up and dismantling their units and this stood them in good stead in Greece. If proof of the desirability of their training had been required, it was quickly given in Greece. In this connection the tarpaulin shelters attached to the 30-cwt trucks, as designed by 4 Field Ambulance in Egypt, proved to be eminently suited to the conditions in Greece, being readily handled and particularly adaptable to blackout conditions.