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Originally Posted by CAM
All the drivers would have been RASC. I cannot remember exact numbers but there would have been over 30.
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Hi CAM, I can now confirm that "yes" it was well over 30 men.
The June 1945 War Establishment for a Parachute Field Ambulance included 1 officer and 51 other ranks on attachment from the RASC. See...
https://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/89/5/235.full.pdf
This would officially have been the WE when 5th Parachute Brigade departed for India (and subsequently Malaya and Java/Indonesia) in July 1945.