MILITARY DISPLAY

Waikato Independent, Volume XLI, Issue 3891, 13 August 1941, Page 5

MILITARY DISPLAY

9TH FIELD AMBULANCE IN /ACTION

MANOEUVRES AT CAMBRIDGE

Residents of the Cambridge district will be privileged on Friday to witness an outstanding field display which is being presented in Victoria Square by the 9th Field Ambulance, which has been' in camp at the racecourse for the past two months, under the command of Major T. H. Pettit.

The demonstration will be staged from 12.30 p.m. to 3.30 p.m., and visitors to the Square at any time during that period will be given an insight into the activities of a field ambulance unit. Officers and N.C.O.s will explain the various details, and a loud-speaker system will be operated.

The Square will be transformed with the large amount of equipment necessary, all of which will be camouflaged. The 9th Field Ambulance is the first unit of its kind ever formed in New Zealand for cooperataion with a mounted regiment. It is highly mobilised and is proving very satisfactory.

The demonstration covers the treatment given a wounded soldier from the time he may be injured in the front line until he is in base hospital. Field dressing equipment will be in use and a big marquee will be set up as an operating theatre.

A gas decontamination centre will be established. Men will be seen working in gas respirators, and the special rubber suits used by attendants at the gas decontamination room.

A field kitchen will be established at the Square, where the food which the men will eat in camp that night and next morning will, be cooked. The special containers used keep the food hot for many hours. A large attendance is expected at the Square, particularly the children from Cambridge and district schools. A small admission charge is being made and all of the proceeds will go to the fund to establish a depot for the Cambridge Ladies’ Patriotic Committee. Members of the Ladies’, Committee will serve afternoon tea.