335 Medical Evacuation Regiment

335 Medical Evacuation Regiment is the Army Reserve's specialist medevac unit.

The Regiment trains pre-hospital care clinicians to deploy on operations and exercises around the world. It specialises in forward medevac, providing the focus for all ground based MERT (Medical Emergency Response Team) capability within the Army Reserve. The Regiment also does tactical medevac and this includes high dependency in-transit care. Using various Army ambulance platforms, such as the battlefield ambulance (BFA), protected mobility ambulances (Mastiff and Ridgeback) and tracked ambulances (Samaritan and Bulldog), their clinicians move to the point of wounding to treat and evacuate casualties rearwards.

The Regiment has three Squadrons each compromising of a number of forward and tactical medevac Troops. Each Squadron is paired with one of the Regular Army’s three Armoured Medical Regiments and on operations they provide the ambulance platforms and crews, and 335 Med Evac Regt provide the clinicians.

335 Med Evac Regt recruits qualified and student pre-hospital care doctors, nurses and paramedics as well as non-clinical people who want to train as a combat medical technician, human resources specialist or driver specialist. Although their headquarters is in York, as a specialist unit they recruit Reservists nationally and train throughout the UK and overseas. They do not meet weekly and for that reason the minimum commitment is less at 19 days each year. There is no minimum length of engagement.

The Regiment has a long and interesting history which can be traced back to the ambulance trains of the Boer War of 1899 to 1902. Since its formation in 2005, personnel have deployed on operations in Afghanistan, Cyprus, Iraq and Sierra Leone.