Manual for the volunteer medical service : to which are added chapters on the Army Medical Reserve and the Yeomanry Cavalry / by Reginald Sleman.

  • Sleman, Reginald.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Manual for the volunteer medical service : to which are added chapters on the Army Medical Reserve and the Yeomanry Cavalry / by Reginald Sleman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    required of In estimating the number of men proceeding to a camp it is always well to mention a larger number of men than is expected, and to requisition accordingly. The demand must be sent in in duplicate by the Brigade-Major 14 days before the formation of the camp. 71a.—The formation of Brigade-Bearer Companies is Brigade .Bearer a duty which falls to these Officers. This is referred Qompanjes to on page 6. 72, —Steps should be taken to get from each regi- Nominal ment a nominal roll of the following:— 5^JL Number of Medical Officers who are present in Camp. Number of Ambulance Sergeants and rank and file Personnel in possession of the Army Ambulance Certifi- cate, and who are also entitled to wear the Geneva Cross by having conformed to Regula- tions since passing. Also the number of Equipment Surgical Haversacks, Field Medical Companions, Regulation Field Stretchers, Mark IV., Ambulance Wagons, Mark III., in possession of each regiment. 73. —It may be taken that none but the Regulation Ambulance Ambulance Wagon is fit for field service ; when a Brigade ^agon^and marches past with its bearer company the wagon should go by in rear of the Company, and it will probably have to go over rough ground which no ordinary conveyance will stand. The writer saw this only too plainly at Mineheadin August, 1890, where the Ambulance Wagon, which was not of Regulation Pattern, was unable to stand the wear and tear of rough ground and conse- quently parted in halves, causing injuries to some of its occupants. When a Brigade is mobilised at Aldershot an ambulance wagon can be obtained on field days if the brigade major sends in a requisition to the officer commanding the Army Service Corps. Water Cart