3-052-418 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Drill of volunteer ambulance corps at Guildhall, [City of London], 1880. Display by '...members of the ambulance classes lately under the charge of Surgeon Farris, Army Medical Department; Dr. Norton, 4th Middlesex Rifles ; Surgeon Egan, 2nd Middlesex Rifles: Surgeon Daniels, 2nd Middlesex Artillery; and Surgeon Shepherd, Victoria Rifles...a number of volunteers were laid upon the ground, bearing labels stating the fictitious wounds from which they were supposed to be suffering, comprising compound fractures and wounds of the upper and lower extremities from either lance, shell, or bullet. To each of these a stretcher party of four men were then marched, who, without loss of time, bandaged the unfortunate in the way possible on a field of battle, a rifle being in one case improvised as a splint for compound fractures of the leg...Surgeon-General Munro, C.B., the president of the Volunteer Ambulance Department, addressed the members of the ambulance corps, to express his opinion of their drill and of their efficiency in technical knowledge. He also referred to the work in the same direction done by the St. John's Ambulance Association...The Volunteer Ambulance Corps...has no assistance from Government, and is very deserving of public support'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.