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In theBritish Army and other Commonwealth militaries, aCasualty Clearing Station (CCS) is amilitary medical facility behind the front lines that is used to treatwounded soldiers. A CCS would usually be located just beyond the range of enemyartillery and often near transportation facilities (e.g., a railway). The CCS receives battlefieldcasualties fromregimental aid posts located in the combat zone. Casualties that cannot be adequately treated in the CCS are stabilized there before being transported to afield hospital ormilitary hospital.
On 1 March 1970, theRoyal Army Medical Corps went through an internal reorganisation which saw the old medical designations replaced by modern terms. The old casualty clearing stations became field hospitals (a term which later disappeared in 2023), and the old field dressing stations became field ambulances. The new field hospitals were non-mobile units designed to take care of, run, and maintain rear hospitals. The field ambulances meanwhile, as the name would suggest, were mobile units equipped withLand Rover Ambulances which would support units on the battlefield.[1][2][3]