The 195th (Airlanding) Field Ambulance was a Royal Army Medical Corps unit of the British airborne forces during the Second World War.

It accompanied the brigade on operations, seeing service in the Normandy landings in 1944, and the River Rhine crossing in 1945, after which they remained in Germany following the advance until the end of the war.

Impressed by the success of German airborne operations, during the Battle of France, the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, directed the War Office to investigate the possibility of creating a corps of 5,000 parachute troops.

The rest of the headquarters comprised a quartermaster, clerks, cooks, storemen, an Army Physical Training Corps instructor and a barber.

[13] The 6th Airborne Divisions two parachute brigades landed in Normandy in the early hours of 6 June 1944, in Operation Tonga.

[6] To carry the 195th to Normandy they were assigned ten Horsa gliders; on board there were the MDS staff, with the two surgical teams and Nos.

[16] By 22:30 they had cleared the landing zone and stayed the night at Bas de Ranville and the following morning set up the MDS at Mariquet, which was receiving casualties by 11:00.

In the evening the MDS, which had been under mortar fire, received a direct hit and one of the surgical teams was moved into the buildings basement.

[16] On 9 June the MDS was still under intermittent mortar fire but managed to treat 156 wounded and perform eleven operations.

One volunteer was a captured German non-commissioned officer medical orderly, who not only gave blood but assisted at the MDS.

For his conduct during this time the second in command Major Young wrote out a citation for the Iron Cross, which was passed to the German authorities.

[18] From 18 June an exhaustion ward was set up at the MDS; men identified as suffering were sedated for forty-eight hours and then returned to their units.

[19] On 19 August the 6th Airborne Division crossed the River Dives and advanced north along the coast of France.

[21] The division was withdrawn to England in September 1944; during the advance, the 195th had treated 332 casualties, performing nineteen operations.

[25] The gliders carrying the 195th started crossing the River Rhine from 10:30; in the face of prepared German defences the airlanding brigade suffered forty per cent casualties in the landings.

The dropping of the atomic bombs changed the War Office plans and instead the division was sent to Palestine as the Imperial Strategic reserve.