Function of the 10th Field Ambulance

We were out there to get out onto one of the higher levels. And it was a peninsula with a narrow, a rather narrow neck and they’d made 3 attempts to get onto that. The third attempt, they did get on, and that’s where I joined the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders … were out there, they’d got out to the town of Goes. I was with the 10th Field Ambulance at this time. The purpose, the function of the 10th Field Ambulance was to get casualties back to hospitals. They had a casualty clearing station, and the casualties were brought into the casualty clearing station and were shipped back to hospitals. They were assessed as to which hospitals to go to depending on the severity of their wounds. And soon after I joined, the Padre Tom Davies came back and he was, he insisted on coming back although the padres, his superior officers really wanted him to stay further back because he had already been injured. But he was very loyal to the company. And I was very happy to have him with me because he was a wonderful man.