What is it about?
The history of a Quaker Ambulance in the Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1940, in the Norway campaign of 1941 and its capture in Greece, subsequent imprisonment and release in Scandinavia again in 1943
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Why is it important?
An early example of a volunteer ambulance unit and it's engagement on the front line of battle
Perspectives
The Friends Ambulance Unit was composed of people who rejected war as a political solution and yet engaged actively to bring medical aid to the front line of both the First and Second World Wars. Serving in most theatres of war between 1914 and 1918 and between 1939 and 1945 this article describes just one of the many stories that could be told of the FAU
James Chadkirk
Independant Reseracher
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This page is a summary of: The short war of a Quaker Ambulance Unit, Journal of Paramedic Practice, December 2020, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/jpar.2020.12.12.507.
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