SFOR UN Pulse Ambulance (Bosnia)

History

The Marshall-bodied Pulse ambulance on the Defender 130 chassis was the British Army's battlefield ambulance from the early 1990s, its tall composite box carrying four stretchers behind a standard Defender cab. When British troops served in Bosnia — first with the UN Protection Force and, from December 1996, with the NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR), which operated under a UN Security Council mandate but was not a UN force — some of the medical fleet kept the UN's white livery and simply added SFOR to it.

H115 BAU is one of those: white overall with UN and SFOR lettered on the box front above an AMBULANCE plate and an RAF roundel, big red crosses on the box sides and rear doors with SFOR behind them, UN and the UN emblem on the front doors, a large blue beacon on a plinth at the front of the box roof, two blue lamps low on the bumper and the spare on the bonnet. It survives in preservation and is modelled from a Flickr photograph.

Imagery

Registry record

Manufacturer

Marshall of Cambridge ↗

Land Rover / Marshall of Cambridge (Pulse ambulance body)

Manufactured

H registration

Modifier / coachbuilder

British Army (UN/SFOR livery)

Engine type

Rover 3.5 L V8 petrol (V8 badge on the doors)

Production run

unknown

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Operated in

United Kingdom, Bosnia and Herzegovina, United Nations

Status

preserved

Catalogue data

Record kind

Named model

Model line

Defender

Wheels

4

Nominal wheelbase

130″

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

• Land Rover Defender 130 Pulse ambulance H115 BAU (Flickr photograph) ↗ — Flickr (accessed 2026-09-12)

Catalogue references

• https://www.flickr.com/photos/28439790@N03/15208293513 https://www.flickr.com/photos/28439790@N03/15208293513 ↗

Development reference notes

• MMB Defender 130 St John ambulance · HERITAGE-FLEET-REFERENCES.md

  Tall square medical body; side patient access; ambulance lighting and markings. Reference: https://www.lrheritagecollection.org.uk/the-collection/vehicles/svc-01

• [Land Rover ambulance dimensions](https://www.landrover.es/content/dam/lrdx/pdfs/es/711389_L316_15MY%20AVM_110_130_AMBULANCE%206pp.pdf): 130 chassis-cab ambulance layout and 1,790 mm cab width / 1,486 mm track reference. · DEFENDER-PROPORTIONS.md

  - [Land Rover ambulance dimensions](https://www.landrover.es/content/dam/lrdx/pdfs/es/711389_L316_15MY%20AVM_110_130_AMBULANCE%206pp.pdf): 130 chassis-cab ambulance layout and 1,790 mm cab width / 1,486 mm track reference.