Jean Dominique Larrey developed which type of vehicle?
Dominique Jean Larrey of army surgery, field hospitals and the system of army ambulance corps. After seeing the speed with which the carriages of the French "flying artillery" maneuvered across the battlefields, Larrey adapted them as "ambulance volantes" ("Flying ambulances") for rapid transport of the wounded and manned them with trained crews of drivers, corpsmen and litterbearers. At the Battle of Metz (1793) Larrey successfully demonstrated the value of field ambulances. The quartermaster-general Jacques-Pierre Orillard de Villemanzy ordered prototypes to be built, after which ambulances would be supplied to all the Republic's armies. The politicians heard of this, and ordered a national contest
Dominique Jean Larrey NATO (COMEDS), which is composed of the Surgeons General of NATO and partner nations. It is awarded in recognition of a significant and lasting contribution to NATO multi-nationality and/or interoperability, or to improvements in the provision of health care in NATO missions in the areas of medical support or healthcare development. Dominique Jean Larrey Dominique Jean Larrey (; 8 July 1766 – 25 July 1842) was a French surgeon in Napoleon's Grande Armée and an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage. He is often considered the first modern military surgeon. Larrey was born in the little village of Beaudéan,