Ambulance

IN AFRICA

BY

EVAN THOMAS

D. APPLETON-CENTURY COMPANY
INCORPORATED

New York London

1943

This book has been manufactured in
accordance with the regulations of the
War Production Board

To:

A.D.R.

 

AUTHOR'S NOTE

The Author has not attempted in this short history to give a composite picture of the American Field Service or of the desert campaigns of the British Eighth Army. The book is the personal story of an American college boy who in the fall of 1941 sailed for the Middle East to serve as an ambulance driver.

E. T.

 

CONTENTS

 PROLOGUE: PRINCETON, 1941

 I. TROOPSHIP

 II. INDIA

 III. TEWFIK TO TOBRUK

 IV. DEFEAT

 V. MINQUAR QUAM

 VI. ALAMEIN LINE

 VII. TEMPORARY GENTLEMAN

 VIII. VICTORY

 IX. GOING HOME

 EPILOGUE: NEW YORK, 1943

 

ABBREVIATIONS

A.C.C. Ambulance Car Company
A.D.M.S. Assistant Director of Medical Services (top medical officer in British divisions)
A.D.S. Advance Dressing Station
A.F.S. American Field Service
C.C.S. Casualty Clearing Station
D.A.D.M.S. Deputy A.D.M.S.
M.A.C. Motor Ambulance Convoy
M.D.S. Main Dressing Station
N.A.A.F.I. Navy, Army, Air Force Institute (a British Forces canteen service)
R.A.P. Regimental Aid Post
R.M.O. Regimental Medical Officer
Kiwi New Zealand soldier
Tommy British soldier

Prologue