The Friends' Ambulance Unit (FAU) was a volunteer ambulance service, founded by individual members of the British Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), in line with their Peace Testimony. The FAU operated from 1914-1919, 1939-1946 and 1946-1959 in 25 different countries around the world. It was independent of the Quakers' organisation and chiefly staffed by registered conscientious objectors. The Unit was founded as the Anglo-Belgian Ambulance Unit at the start of World War I in 1914 and later renamed as the 'Friends Ambulance Unit'. Members were trained at Jordans, a hamlet in Buckinghamshire, that was (and is) a centre for Quakerism. Altogether it sent over a thousand men to France and Belgium where they worked on ambulance convoys and ambulance trains with the French and British armies. It was dissolved in 1919.
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