Battlefield casualties were first treated by regimental aid posts such as the City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders), and then carried back via Field Ambulances up to main dressing stations.
From the rear medical facilities they could be transported by ambulance - including motor ambulances by this time - to railhead staging posts, and then by hospital trains to London.
In London, hospital ambulances met trains at stations such as Charing Cross, moving the wounded to places like Charing Cross Hospital.
Charing Cross Hospital was incorporated into the military medical infrastructure, providing hundreds of beds for wounded and sick officers and soldiers.
⚠ Important note: As a Yeomanry cavalry regiment, the Rough Riders themselves were not a medical or ambulance unit but fought primarily as mounted troops and later as machine gunners. Their deployment did not directly involve running ambulances or hospital evacuations, though wounded members would of course travel through the army's medical evacuation system.
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