a mobile medical unit that accepts casualties from forward units, treating the lightly wounded and stabilizing the condition of the seriously wounded before evacuating them to a hospital
Examples of 'field ambulance' in a sentence
field ambulance
I later made one that was built into a field ambulance water bottle.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He was mentioned in dispatches for his work with the field ambulance.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Hungary is bleeding in a ditch, waiting for a field ambulance.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
After dark, the horse wagons come up and carry the wounded back to the field ambulance, two or three miles to the rear.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
A man was brought into the field ambulance with a wound in the right groin.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Field ambulances ferry the wounded to the back of the plane which opens down to form a ramp.