The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
The subject is a Jeep ambulance of the 2/2 Field Ambulance climbing out of a creek bed. Jeeps were adapted for use as ambulances by the addition of a steel frame, which was placed in position after the windscreen had been removed. As is shown they can carry three patients on stretchers, and there is also room for one walking wounded behind the driver. Stretcher frames for jeeps were found most useful over rough jungle tracks where other types of motor vehicle could not pass.
Depicts a jeep in profile with a man working underneath it. In front of the vehicle is a small cylinder-shaped barrel. One of a small fleet of American jeeps kept at Land Headquarters Signals, Alber
There is a detailed study of the man laying on a stretcher bed with his boots to his right and his hat laying on top of the blanket which covers his body to his chest. A further more sketchy study rev
Kumbarum, New Guinea. At a mobile surgical team's headquarters, a tattooed NX55294 Private F. Ellis of D Company, 2/33 Australian Infantry Battalion, and of Marrickville, NSW (top bed), gets a light f
Truck, Ambulance, 3/4 ton Model: four berth ambulance, Landrover Series 2A. Manufacturer: Rover with local bodywork. AMF Markings: ARN 109 645, 3 ton bridge classification sign. The Series 2A Ambula
These pictures were requested by the GOC, Sir Thomas Blamey to be added to a special film made up of Parer's and Bagnall's. Shots taken show Sir Thomas Blamey and an unidentified Brigadier inspecting
A pencil sketch of an ambulance vehicle. The verso of this sheet features two studies; one, a rough sketch of a figure carrying a bucket, and the other recording details of a mobile kitchen vehicle. W