Danish Army 109 Marshall Ambulance

History

Marshall of Cambridge built the standard military ambulance body on the long-wheelbase Land Rover for the British Army — a tall, square-cornered box on the 109-inch chassis with a curved roof, twin rear doors and room for two or four stretchers according to need — and the same body was supplied to the Netherlands Army and, in one instance, to Denmark. The Danish Army Vehicles Homepage records this vehicle, 51.352, as the only Marshall ambulance the Danish Army purchased, in service at the Oksbøl Training Area in west Jutland from the early 1980s, where a large ranges complex needed a proper field ambulance on hand.

The photograph, by Kim Hartvig Sørensen of Aarhus, shows it on a Series III 109 with the plastic Series III grille, a spare wheel on the bonnet and the Marshall body behind the standard cab: plain olive drab overall rather than the later three-colour camouflage, red crosses on white panels on the body sides and on the front of the roof, small white tactical crosses at the body's corners, the registration stencilled on the wings and carried on a black plate, and a bare steel front bumper with stacked bumperettes at each end. No beacon is fitted. Its engine, the date it was bought and its fate are not stated in the source.

Imagery

Registry record

Manufacturer

Marshall of Cambridge ↗

Land Rover; ambulance body by Marshall of Cambridge

Manufactured

Series III 109 with Marshall body; in Danish service from the early 1980s, build year not recorded

Modifier / coachbuilder

Marshall of Cambridge ↗

Engine type

Not recorded in the source (Series III 2.25 L four, petrol or diesel)

Production run

1 in Danish service (the type was built in numbers for the British and Netherlands armies)

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Operated in

Denmark

Status

unknown

Catalogue data

Record kind

Named model

Model line

Series III

Wheels

4

Nominal wheelbase

109″

Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.

Sources & citations

Researched sources

• Landrover 109 S III Ambulance — bodywork by Marshall of Cambridge, 2/4 stretchers; used at Oksboel Training Area from the early 1980s; the only one purchased by the Danish Army (photograph courtesy Kim Hartvig Sørensen, Aarhus) ↗ — Danish Army Vehicles Homepage (accessed 2026-09-11)

Catalogue references

• https://www.armyvehicles.dk/lr109ambu.htm https://www.armyvehicles.dk/lr109ambu.htm ↗

Development reference notes

• Marshall ambulance family — marshal-ambulance, meteor-works, raf-marshall-rescue · HERITAGE-FLEET-REFERENCES.md

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