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I have been investigating the combat support arms for the British army in the latter years of the cold war 1985 to 1989. But have come unstuck with the RAMC. Most books from the ...
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Assistance with Royal Army Medical Corps major units, 1985 To 1990
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I have been investigating the combat support arms for the British army in the latter years of the cold war 1985 to 1989. But have come unstuck with the RAMC. Most books from the time period are very vague. Piercing it together from some sources, shows the following regular units:
1st Armoured Division Field Ambulance
2nd Infantry Division Field Ambulance
3rd Armoured Division Field Ambulance
4th Armoured Division Field Ambulance
5th Field Ambulance
16th Field Ambulance
24th Field Ambulance
19 Field Ambulance
23 (Parachute) Field Ambulance
21 Field Hospital
33 Field Hospital
34 Field Hospital
84 Field Medical Equipment Depot
However following the Hansard parlimentary questions archive, reveals that in 1990 there were 22 Major RAMC units
http://hansard.millb...9900726_CWA_977
So what were the names and cold war duties of the missing 11 units?
Many thanks if you can help, apologies if this is not the right forum.Last edited by intrepid861; 23-05-2012 at 14:18.
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quite possibly along with any nationally recruited TA units that existed at the time ...
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Thanks for the replies, but that 22 major units number does not include TA. in addition to those 22 regular units, the army would assisted by 29 major TA RAMC units if the Hansard Site to be believed.
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try this lot:
Home RAMC Association
QARANC - Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
RAMC Reunited
AMS Museum » RAMC History
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85 to 89. 19 Wasn't an Airmobile Brigade it was an Infantry Brigade. So it was just plain old 19 Field Ambulance.
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- 22-05-2012, 15:03 #8Could well be true, in those days the UK and BFG Army hospitals were all designated as field hospitals in war. So from the UK there would have been DKMH Catterick, CMH Aldershot, QEMH Woolwich and from BFG BMHs Berlin, Hannover, Rinteln, Munster and Iserlohn. There would have been an ambulance evacuation train too although I'm not sure if that was a regular ot TA unit or possibly one from each. Originally Posted by Ed Miliband
Edited to add: You could try the Professionally qualified RAMC/QARANC forum on this site and the AMS Vetrans Facebook site too.Last edited by Jacques_Bustard; 22-05-2012 at 15:10.
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I was thinking that, But there were 13 of those in the late 80's. And if they were, would they have been renamed/numbered in wartime? Or did they just provide field surgical teams et-all? Originally Posted by Ed Miliband
85 to 89. 19 Wasn't an Airmobile Brigade it was an Infantry Brigade. So it was just plain old 19 Field Ambulance.
Based in Goojerat Barracks, Colchester.
Thanks. Have fixed it.
You could try the Professionally qualified RAMC/QARANC forum on this site and the AMS Vetrans Facebook site too.
Will do that. Thank you.
- 23-05-2012, 14:38 #10
I served at QEMH 91-92 and BMH Iserlohn 92-93 and I'm fairly certain that on my discharge docs it lists these units along with their designated Field Hopsital numbers. If I can find these docs I'll let you know.
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