RASC / Desert Rats Ambulance/lorry drivers

[fiddlerslass]

There is a permanent display of vehicles including some examples of ww2 tanks, lorries and some with desert rat insignia at Duxford IWM, not to mention Monty's caravans.

https://www.iwm.org.uk/events/land-warfare

[Rena]

The only thing I know about my Uncle Jack was that he served in Palestine and returned home to England 1944, when he presented his mother and two of his sisters with a string of glass beads that were fashionable in those days.  He held out a handful of black stones dotted with bits of red & green and said he'd chosen them specially for my mother and would get them stringed.  They were made into a necklace with gold links..

[scrimnet]

I have a couple of ambulance drivers in WWI (not WwII)

Both of them were in the RAMC (Royal Army MEDICAL corps) not the RASC (Royal Army SERVICE Corps).   They both had medical training gained when they were in the territorials 1911-1914.

The RASC drove the ambys, just liek the RLC , their successors do today. Medical Orderly's, or Combat Med Techs do thier med stuff.
I was with 4 GS Med Rgt for 2 years when the unit was operational in Iraq and Afghan.
Drivers drive, med staff do med stuff. Unless the RASC driver has been shot then they might drive...

[Andy J2022]

Unless the RASC driver has been shot then they might drive...

What,  you mean instead of attending to his wounds?

[Rena]

I have a couple of ambulance drivers in WWI (not WwII)

Both of them were in the RAMC (Royal Army MEDICAL corps) not the RASC (Royal Army SERVICE Corps).   They both had medical training gained when they were in the territorials 1911-1914.

The RASC drove the ambys, just liek the RLC , their successors do today. Medical Orderly's, or Combat Med Techs do thier med stuff.
I was with 4 GS Med Rgt for 2 years when the unit was operational in Iraq and Afghan.
Drivers drive, med staff do med stuff. Unless the RASC driver has been shot then they might drive...

I hear what you say, but Iraq was 2003, very much later than 1939-1945.

Whatever the circumstances during the war, after the war he worked for an employer of over 1,000 personnel in the first aid station.

[scrimnet]

I have a couple of ambulance drivers in WWI (not WwII)

Both of them were in the RAMC (Royal Army MEDICAL corps) not the RASC (Royal Army SERVICE Corps).   They both had medical training gained when they were in the territorials 1911-1914.

The RASC drove the ambys, just liek the RLC , their successors do today. Medical Orderly's, or Combat Med Techs do thier med stuff.
I was with 4 GS Med Rgt for 2 years when the unit was operational in Iraq and Afghan.
Drivers drive, med staff do med stuff. Unless the RASC driver has been shot then they might drive...

I hear what you say, but Iraq was 2003, very much later than 1939-1945.

Whatever the circumstances during the war, after the war he worked for an employer of over 1,000 personnel in the first aid station.

I was pointing out that nothing had changed from the formation of the RAMC in 1898.

The ASC, RASC and RLC always provided the drivers for Ambys. Only in WW1 with things like the Friends Ambulance Service and individuals like Elsie and Mairi was it different.

I could get out all the WW2 regulations and photocopy them, but theres a reason why John Mills and Harry Andrews were badged RASC in Ice Cold In Alex.