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In the British Army, Canadian Forces and other Commonwealth militaries, the Regimental Aid Post (RAP) is a front-line military medical establishment incorporated into an infantry battalion or armoured regiment for the immediate treatment and triage of battlefield casualties. In the US forces, the equivalent is the Battalion Aid Station.
Regimental aid post near Chipilly, 10 August 1918. 58th Division's monument at Chipilly, depicting a wounded horse sculpted by Henri Gauquie. It was paid for from the profits of the divisional entertainment canteen and barber shop. [129]
The aid post of the 1st North Staffordshire was set on fire early in the attack by shell-fire and burnt down. [22] Regimental aid posts were cleared of the first rush of cases by 10:00 a.m., though minor gas casualties trickled in for another 24 hours.
More casualties were suffered when the Regimental Aid Post was shelled by an enemy 88 mm. The medical officer, Captain H. Marantz, and Sergeant G. A. Wilwand were both killed and the remainder of the Aid Post wounded. 10 Field Ambulance put together a composite force and sent it forward to act as the Cameron Regimental Aid Post.
Major-General Sir Edward Phillips KBE CB DSO MC (19 December 1889 – 14 May 1973) was a British military doctor, who served throughout World War I, saw action in Afghanistan/North West Frontier, the Middle East and was then a leading medical officer in the British Army through World War II in Africa, Italy, D-Day, the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and the establishment of the ...
Royal Hampshire Regiment; Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers; Royal Irish Fusiliers; Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) Royal Leicestershire Regiment; Royal Lincolnshire Regiment; Royal Munster Fusiliers; Royal Norfolk Regiment; Royal Northumberland Fusiliers; Royal Scots; Royal Scots Fusiliers; Royal Sussex Regiment; Royal Ulster Rifles; Royal ...
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.
The 4th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers) was a Volunteer unit of Britain's Territorial Army (TA) recruited from East London.During World War I it raised four battalions, which carried out garrison duty in Malta and Egypt, served at Gallipoli and against the Senussi, and saw a great deal of action on the Western Front, notably in the Attack on the Gommecourt Salient ...