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WW1 Military Motors - 1916 set x 50 cards


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Hi Lf

Thanks for that clarification. As an ex professional photographer I'm quite sensitive on copyright issues. Where I have copied images from publications for the forum I have quoted the source.

Carry on chaps!

John

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This postcard shows an AmbulanceTrain of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company.

This type of train, carried wounded servicemen from the hospital ships to the hospitals.

Between August 1914 and December 1918, over 5,000,000 patients from the Western Front were carried by these Ambulance Trains.

LF

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The train interiors have not changed! The cold war design is roughly the same, I suppose only so much you can do with beds and trains.

Finding this thread absolutely absorbing. Thank you so much for the pictures in the different formats. Plus thank you to I think it's mainly Lancashire Fusiler and Mr C for the information to go with it.

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The train interiors have not changed! The cold war design is roughly the same, I suppose only so much you can do with beds and trains.

Finding this thread absolutely absorbing. Thank you so much for the pictures in the different formats. Plus thank you to I think it's mainly Lancashire Fusiler and Mr C for the information to go with it.

Scalyback,

Very pleased to hear you are enjoying this Thread, and yes, a big thank you to all the posters to this Thread with a particular thank you to centurion for his invaluable contributions, which I hope will continue, along with contributions from other members.

Regards,

LF

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Photo caption :-

" British Red Cross volunteers stand in front of the Number 11 Ambulance Train, this Ambulance Train had been converted from an ordinary French passenger train and was used in France from 1914 until 1919. Over the course of the war, it carried some 141,460 casualties in its 21 coaches."

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Transferring wounded servicemen onto an Ambulance Train.

LF

British Ambulance Trains, which ran on British railway tracks, as opposed to those being used on the French side as in post # 360, would meet the Hospital Ships at the British ports and then transport their patients to the railway terminals for onward transportation by motor ambulance to the hospitals.

Medical care would have already been provided to the patients both at the Front, and on the Hospital Ship, so by the time they reached the Ambulance Train, matters had greatly improved, hence the somewhat sanitized conditions as shown in post # 359.

LF

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British Ambulance Trains, which ran on British railway tracks, as opposed to those being used on the French side as in post # 360, would meet the Hospital Ships at the British ports and then transport their patients to the railway terminals for onward transportation by motor ambulance to the hospitals.

Medical care would have already been provided to the patients both at the Front, and on the Hospital Ship, so by the time they reached the Ambulance Train, matters had greatly improved, hence the somewhat sanitized conditions as shown in post # 359.

LF

Not always. If there was a major battle on and medical facilities in France couldn't cope men could still arrive in Britain in a very rough state. This was more likely in the early part of the war (and there are some harrowing acounts) but it always seems to have been a possibility.

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Interiors of the various coaches on the 1915 GWR ' Continental ' Ambulance Train, including a Ward, the Kitchen and the Treatment Room/Pharmacy Car.

LF

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An army train - Navy trains did not use bunks but hanging cots. These were said to give the wounded a smoother ride and they could be loaded and unloaded already in their cots. The navy cots were designed to be manoeuvred in spaces on board ship that might give stretchers a problem.

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An army train - Navy trains did not use bunks but hanging cots. These were said to give the wounded a smoother ride and they could be loaded and unloaded already in their cots. The navy cots were designed to be manoeuvred in spaces on board ship that might give stretchers a problem.

Photograph of a ward/sick bay in a Navy ambulance train fitted with the hanging cots.

LF

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Not sure the caption is correct. The majority of Naval Ambulance trains were run on the North British system between Port Edgar (where sick and wounded were taken from the ships), Larbert (where there was a naval hospital) and from hospitals in and around Edinburgh to and from Portsmouth, Plymouth and Chatham. Some 1,200 trains were run but I don't think this was organised by the Red Cross.

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LF, great images. Good to see the thread come to life once again. Will add some bit in the near future when time permits. Rod

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Reference post # 132 - Will's WW1 Military Motors - Card No.36 - Motor Operating Theatre.

" An entirely new conception of surgical work is created by the modern methods of warfare, and the huge list of casualties it entails necessitates effective and immediate attention for the wounded. Operating Theatres are taken as closely as possible to the firing line "

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Other forms of ' Ambulance Train ' at the Front -

Dead and wounded being transported on a small gauge railway, and at " The Battle of Flers Courcelette 15 - 22 September, 1916 : Canadian wounded being taken to a Dressing Station on a horse-drawn light railway. "

LF

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" Six Leyland motor lorries built for the Army. The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway's works at Horwich and Newton Heath built munitions and Army vehicles during the First World War. The railway also transported weapons, troops and equipment.

The chassis for these lorries were built at Horwich, and the bodies built at Newton Heath.

After the war, some of the surviving vehicles were returned to the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway by the War Department and converted to delivery lorries. "


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