The Third South Midland Field Ambulance

In the autumn of 1907, while the Volunteers were still in existence and not in a very satisfactory condition as regards numbers and efficiency, the formation of the Territorial Force in their stead was one of the topics of the day. I was then Brigade-Surgeon of the Portland Volunteer Infantry Brigade,, and hearing that the Director-General of Medical Services was about to address the medical men of Birmingham with reference to the raising of R.A.M.C. units in the grouped regimental district in which both Birmingham and Bristol are situated, I urged the claim of Bristol to take its share, and argued that with its excellent hospitals, medical societies, University Collegeand Medical School, to say nothing of the keenness with which