During the Second World War, wounded soldiers were carried off the battlefield on a stretcher to be treated at a Regimental Aid Post. They would then be transferred by stretcher bearers or a suitable vehicle to a Casualty Clearing Station via motorised ambulance. Then onto hospital via either: motorised transport, train, aircraft or hospital ship.

Used between 1939-1945, the heavy (3100 kgs) K2/y ambulance could accommodate up to 4 injured/sick soldiers as stretcher cases or 10 cases of sitting slightly injured/sick soldiers.

DID YOU KNOW…?

The then Princess Elizabeth, now Queen, was taught how to drive & repair the K2.

SECOND WORLD WAR CONTENTS:

• People Profiles

• Living through Conflict

• A Fight For Freedom

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Stories

• Commemoration and Legacy 

• Artistic Responses to Conflict

• End of Conflict

• Military Medicine

• Activities

• References

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