Field Ambulance

During the October and November 1917 offensive by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force there were no advanced medical base east of Kantara on the Suez Canal.

The operations was supported by the British general and stationary hospitals in Egypt, with casualty clearing stations at Deir el Belah.

[1] On 28 October the 4th Light Horse Field Ambulance "stood to" all day doing dressings in the open, before riding out from Tel el Fara at 16:00 towards Beersheba.

"[2] Ten days of concentration and approach marches across the difficult and waterless country in "extreme secrecy" successfully culminated on 31 October 1917 with the capture of Beersheba.

The Australian Mounted Division receiving station and the operating car were at Asluj, with some of the light motor ambulance waggons.