The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Example of an early ambulance used in the Middle East. It is a 1939 Ford 4x2 4-berth ambulance with an Indian Army Pattern body. The body is open at the rear and equipped with a canvas flap and canvas tilt. The vehicle is powered by an 85 hp, 221-cubic inch, conventially aspirated side valve V8 petrol engine. The vehicle is equipped with four forward speed crash type gear box. Both Ford and Chevrolet provided ambulances to the Australian Army that follow this same basic design.
An officer and two soldiers, all unidentified, probably of the 9th Australian Division Cavalry Regiment (9 Aust Div Cav Regt), with a British manufactured 'Carrier Machine Gun'. This was a small armou
Australian Machine Gun Carrier, Local Pattern 2A, of welded steel construction. The vehicle has a double front bogie and a single rear bogie, in a system known as the Horstmann slow motion suspension
An English soldier and local people in front of the three means of transport which were used to move patients from Sinai. The motor ambulance is a T Model Ford; 'PROUD' is written on the side of the
An Australian Army Ford 4x4 artillery tractor towing a No 27 Mk I limber and an 18 pounder Mk IV field gun, which has just negotiated a stone bridge through the winding and steep Verroia Pass, Greece.
A RAAF 4x2 Chevrolet truck with Wireless Telegraph tender. The ‘POW' [petrol oil water] racks can be seen either side of the rear wheel arch and the 2 Gallon cans, used to store petrol, oil and water,
Informal portrait of SF113354 Driver Valda Olive (Val) Carroll AAMWS an ambulance driver with 5 Ambulance Car Company and two unidentified men. The Truck Ambulance (Aust) No 1 Chevrolet ambulance is o
