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A British Army doctor examines patients at a casualty clearing station in Tunisia, February 1943. In the British Army and other Commonwealth militaries, a Casualty Clearing Station (CCS) is a military medical facility behind the front lines that is used to treat wounded soldiers.
15 (Edmonton) Field Ambulance's lineage originates with No. 4 Casualty Clearing Station mobilized in December 1939 as one of the medical units of the 1st Canadian Division for service overseas during the second world war. No. 4 CSS departed Halifax on 30 Jan 1940 embarked in the Empress of Britain and disembarked along the Clyde on 8 February 1940.
The operations was supported by the British general and stationary hospitals in Egypt, with casualty clearing stations at Deir el Belah. [1] On 28 October the 4th Light Horse Field Ambulance "stood to" all day doing dressings in the open, before riding out from Tel el Fara at 16:00 towards Beersheba.
The old casualty clearing stations became field hospitals (a term which will disappear in the British Army in 2022), and the old field dressing stations became field ambulances. The new field hospitals were non-mobile units designed to take care of, run, and maintain rear hospitals, with the 211th capable of a 200-bed hospital, this later being ...
1st Australian General Hospital (Queensland) – Heliopolis, Egypt January 1915 to March 1916; Rouen, France to 1918; then Sutton Veny, England [1] 2nd Australian General Hospital (New South Wales) was in Cairo in 1915.
The hospital was formed upon the formation of the TAVR in 1967, from the amalgamation of 146th (West Riding and Midland) Field Ambulance, and 50th (Leeds) Field Dressing Station, as the 212 (Sheffield) Casualty Clearing Station. [2]
In late 1943, with the threat of an Allied invasion of Europe (Operation Overlord) becoming clear, Ho8 was to be converted into a casualty clearing station and emergency hospital. The hospital had 500 beds for patients, with a full heating and air conditioning system (although the rest of the tunnel complex usually maintained a constant ...
5th Casualty Clearing Station, Royal Army Medical Corps 6th Casualty Clearing Station, Royal Army Medical Corps 103rd Provost Company, Royal Military Police 2nd Reception Camp 4th Storage Unit 5th Storage Unit 6th Storage Unit 13th Storage Unit. II Corps Headquarters Troops Intelligence Section, Intelligence Corps