This model has been authentically reproduced from a photograph discovered in The British Red Cross Archives at Barnett Hill near Wonersh in Surrey.
The HOME AMBULANCE SERVICE COMMITTEE was formed following the activities of The Joint Councils of The British Red Cross and The Order of St. John during the First World War 1914-1918. It was formed to establish a Motor Ambulance Service in England, Ireland and Wales, which would afford the means for rapidly and easily conveying the sick and disabled especially those in rural areas to the point where curative treatment could be most efficiently applied.
At the date of the Armistice in 1918 (11.11.18) the joint corporations were in possession of a great fleet of motor ambulances provided during the war for the transport of the wounded. The best of these were selected and with these the HOME AMBULANCE SERVICE COMMITTEE began its scheme for a National Ambulance Service, its aims being to effect a distribution of ambulances on such a scale that the largest possible area of the Country should be efficiently supplied.
This can reasonably accurately be recorded as the origins of the National Ambulance Service and the forerunner of the Modern Ambulance Service in the UK.
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